Deaf children learn abstract words with visual symbols
At NMSU, Dr Edgar Garrett and associates develop a program to teach deaf students abstract prepositions like over under by linking pictures to words. A large teaching machine shows signals with shapes above or below a bar, advancing to reading concepts such as freedom of speech through the same visual technique and an electronic recording box.
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Jim
Edgar Garrett
NMSU
Kay Rigg
James Boehm
Garrett
Black Man and His Works exhibited across country
John H. Howe, an NMSU art graduate and former postal academy head, hung A Black Man and His Works at the University of Colorado Memorial Center in Boulder. His paintings are in MGM’s Up in the Cellar, and his career spans NMSU teaching, New York displays, and film work with Patrick Barker.
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John Howe
Nmsu Fine Arts
Colorado State University
Boulders
Stowall
John H. Howe
NMSU
University of Colorado Memorial Center
Boulder
Howe
Postal Academy
High School of Art and Design
1 + Art Students’ League
New York City
City College of New York
Colorado University
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Patrick Barker
Alexanders
New York
el Paso
Tex
Mesilla
Old Mesilla, N.M
Women of Achievement Banquet honors NMSU alumni
At the 18th annual Women of Achievement Banquet on March 28 at NMSA, Mrs. Minnie Newberry Sutherland and Miss Barbara Kerr Page were named outstanding women. Sutherland won community woman of achievement, received roses, and a special alumni award. Page was named senior woman of achievement. Dr. George Lucky of electrical engineering was named Teacher of the Year by Las Campanas, junior women's honorary. The Associated Women Students at NMSU sponsored the event.
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Minnie Newberry Sutherland
Barbara Kerr Page
NMSA
Sutherland
NMSU
Miss Page
George Lucky
Las Campanas
Chemistry department seeks new head at NMSU
The chemistry department at New Mexico State University begins the search for a new department head. Voting members include Drs. Lynford Ames, Dennis Darnall, Robert Rowan, John Monagle from chemistry and Dr. Robert Wisner from mathematics. Basil Anex will resign this summer to join Louisiana State University at New Orleans after arriving at NMSU from Yale in 1967.
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NMSU
Lynford Ames
Dennis Darnall
Robert Rowan
John Monagle
Robert Wisner
Basil Anex
Louisiana State University
New Orleans
Anex
Yale University
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Aggie
Black Man
Grad
Las Cruces
New Mexico
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