In Memoriam NMSU Alumni Honored for Service and Athletics
Obituary notices recall Justin R. Weddell and several NMSU alumni. Weddell, BS 1908, died May 24 in Pensacola, honors include a street named for him and a 1969 distinguished alumnus award. Other obituaries note Col Crosby, Tom Tudor, Marcus Marricle, George Quesenberry, El Ray Fort, John Miller and others with military service, public work, or athletic ties to NMSU.
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Justin R. Weddell
Pensacola
Fla
Christ Church
NMSU
St. Regis Paper Co
Florida
Glen Mallison
Watertown
N.Y
Nmsa Alumni Association
Las Cruces
N.M
Charles Pelman Crosby
Business Administration
Scottsdale
Ariz
Arlington National Cemetery
Korea
Crosby
County Civil Defense Joint Council
Maricopa County
Tom G. Tudor
Ft. Sumner
Marcus Edward Marricle
Fora Lee
George Quesenberry
Masonic Cemetery
New Mexico
Johnson EE wins 1919 Class of 1919 Award at NMSU
Russell Alan Johnson of Las Cruces earned the Class of 1919 Award as the top graduating senior at New Mexico State University with a 3.991 GPA. An electrical engineering major, he held multiple honor society roles and student government posts. He will join Bell Telephone System in Albuquerque as a management trainee in June.
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Russell Alan Johnson
W. T. Johnson
Las Cruces
NMSU
Johnson
Phi Kappa Phi
NMS
Blue Key
Signa Tau
Ava Kappa Nu
College of Engineering
Associated Students
Albuquerque
Bell Telephone System
Alumni Reception Honors Dr Cooper at NMSU
May 15 reception in Corbett Center honored Dr John A D Cooper president of the Association of American Medical Colleges. More than 200 invitations were sent to university personnel and friends of Cooper and his Las Cruces mother. Cooper a 1939 NMSU chemistry graduate later earned a Northwestern PhD in biochemistry and held multiple posts at the medical school before becoming AAMC president in 1969.
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John A.D. Cooper
Association of American Medical Colleges
AAMC
Corbett Center
Alumni Association
Cooper
Cora W. Cooper
Las Cruces
NMSU
el Paso
Northwestern University
Beaty traces NMSU home economics history to 1900
Mrs Opal Beaty, NMSU professor emeritus, released a 50 page history The Pattern of the Years detailing the department from Minnesota to California, from early kitchen labs to modern curricula. She spent four years researching through college catalogs, alumni notes, and department records, interviewing former faculty and students. The volume notes De Gaulle’s campus visit, early classes, and the program’s growth to 10 faculty teaching 181 majors across six labs on the third floor of the agriculture building.
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Opal Beaty
NMSU
Minnesota
California
Home Ec
Beaty
Hadley Hall
Charles DeGaulle
France
Chile
Survey contrasts NMSU freshmen backgrounds and views
The American Council on Education surveyed freshmen at 275 colleges, finding NMSU entrants in fall 1970 were older, poorer, and more rural. At NMSU 57.6 percent of parents earned over 10 000, 88 percent grew up on farms or in small towns, and 23.2 percent favored marijuana legalization. National figures show 41.9 percent middle of the road, 41 percent liberal, 17.2 percent conservative. Volunteering for an all volunteer army: 58 percent at NMSU vs 70 percent nationally. Firearm control support: 23 percent at NMSU vs 48.9 percent nationally.
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NMSU
American Council On Education
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Aggie
Memoriam
New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts
el Ray Fort
BS General Business
Anchorage
Ala
Air Corps
John George Miller
West Covina
Calif
Justin A. Weddell With
Minnis N. Sutharland
Dr. Cooper
The
Cruz Alvarez
Frank Brito
Monroe Billington
Alice
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