Taos Pueblo Girl Enters Indian Miss America Contest
Wahlah Lujan, a 19 year old Taos Pueblo student at Fort Lewis College Durango, will compete as an honor attendant in the July Miss Indian America pageant in Sheridan Wyoming. She blends Taos traditions with art studies, aims to educate and preserve her tribe while pursuing a social science degree and plans to return home.
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Linday
Frisby
Durango
Colo
Wahlah Lujan
Taos
Ife
Susan
Fort Lewis College
Taos Pueblo
Marcelo Sharron Ahtone
Kenneth George
Fort Lewis
Wahleah
Sheridan
Wyo
America
Lujan
St. Catherine's Indian School
Santa Fe
N. M
New York
Europe
St. Catherine's School
Wahlah
Santa Fe Art Museum
Blue Lake
Washington
Newman Club
Shalako Indian Club
Cooper Hall
Cab
Taos School Board Reviews Policies and Hiring
Taos school board held a special meeting to revise policies up to Article X and to decide bids for typing service. They accepted Mountain States Typewriter and School Supply Company of Santa Fe as the low bidder and hired Rochelle Shatzman of Brooklyn for an English position at Taos High School. Overcrowding in Taos schools prompted proposals to zone districts or use Canon facilities with vacant classrooms. The board debated expanding teacher support and classroom oversight and will announce the date of the next special meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taos
Joe Otero
Elmer N. Garcia
Mountain
Otero
Canon
County Tot To Under '0 New Surgery
Pea Clyde Lopez, seven months old, may need a second operation to correct a malfunctioning transplanted esophagus done April 18. Son of Porfirio and [illegible] Lopez of Rodarte, the child was born Nov 10 at Embudo Presbyterian Hospital and treated at Bernalillo County Indian Hospital before being flown to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore for the transplant. Doctor John Cahill reports the esophagus closed at the top, impeding swallowing, but the boy is in satisfactory condition and currently taking food orally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Lopez
Porfirio Lopez of
Rodarte
John Cahill
Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Baltimore
Associated Press
Cahill
Pea
Embudo Presbyterian Hospital
Bernalillo County Indian Hospital
Albuquerque
Questa Airman Promoted to Airman Second Class
John G. Trujillo son of Mr and Mrs Epifanio Trujillo of Questa has been promoted to airman second class in the U S Air Force He is an air policeman at March AFB California and a member of the Strategic Air Command which keeps the missile and jet bomber force ready The airman is a graduate of Questa High School.
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Questa
John G. Trujillo
Epifanio Trujillo
U.S. Air Force
Trujillo
March Afb
Calif
Strategic Air Command
Questa High School
Funeral services held for Jose Mascarenas in Vadito
Jose Mascarenas 27 of Vadito died in Leadville Colorado on June 12. Rev Andrew Santos led funeral services in Vadito on June 15 with burial at Vadito Cemetery. Pallbearers included Andy Manuelenez Alfred Martinez George Martinez Joe Archuleta and Paul Roybal. A prayer service was at Garcia Funeral Home on June 14. Survivors include his widow and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose Ramon Mascarenas
Vadito
Leadville
Colo
Andrew Santos
Andy Mar Unenez Alferis Martinez
Alfred Martinez
George Martinez
Joe Archuleta
Paul Roybal
Garcia Funeral Home
Taos Trio Named to NMSU Engineering Honor Roll
Three Taos area students, John L Berrenberg Silas Gallegos and Tranquilino Rodriguez, earned spring semester dean's list honors at New Mexico State University College of Engineering. Criteria require a 3.2 grade average or higher and 12 or more credit hours. Berrenberg is a freshman mechanical engineering major and Taos High School graduate. Gallegos a freshman and Penasco High School graduate. Rodriguez a junior mechanical engineering major and Taos native.
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University Park
Taos Area
College of Enggineering
New Mexico State University
John L. Berrenberg
Silas Gallegos
Tranquilino Rodriguez
Berrenberg
Jack Berrenberg
Taos
Taos High School
Gallegos
Lucia Lopez
Chamisal
Penasco High School
Penasco
Rodriguez
Biasquin Rodriguez
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Questa Airman
Jose Mascarenas
Make Money
Safeway
Usda Choice Grads
Peyton
Salaway A
Manor House
Folgers
Ummer Evora
Texas
Santa Rosa
Romine S
Ajax Cleanser
Lucerne
al Amarind Gourmat Flevent
Star-Kist
Health & Beauty
Bnrive
Score Hair Cream Press
Pete Kat
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