ENMUSA Roast Honors Longtime Welding Instructor Dick Wright
Dick O. Wright, retiring welding instructor and head of the Roswell welding program for 11 years, was roasted at a luncheon at Eastern New Mexico University Roswell. He and his wife Avis were honored by fellow instructors and staff ahead of his planned retirement at month’s end. Wright was born in 1913 in Onalaska Texas.
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Wright welding program roasts honor longtime educator
The article recalls a 1941 marriage of Avis Wright and Dick Wright in Roswell with a large campus-style roast honoring Wright. Elvis Fleming led ceremonies and performed a song while colleagues presented gifts including a wall clock and barrow-loads of tokens referencing his pride of workmanship.
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Woman Defends Medicaid Abortions at New Mexico Hearing
Roswell resident Carol Hand Selleck urged repeal of rules she calls discriminatory against poor women seeking abortion funding. She argued reproductive rights defended by Supreme Court rulings must not be eroded by state regulations.
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