Today's News

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The Board of Education for the Las Vegas City Schools is inviting parents of students attending the school district and members of the community who have experience in accounting or finance to serve on its audit committee.

The audit committee reports directly to the board and shall be asked to fulfill the following responsibilities:

• Evaluate the request for proposals for annual financial audit services;

• Recommend the selection of the financial auditor;

Joshua Garcia and six other northern New Mexico recipients were honored at a luncheon this month where they received the Pete Domenici Scholarship funded by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Garcia, son of John and Ann Garcia, is a 2011 graduate of Mora High School. At the luncheon recipients had a chance to sit and visit with Domenici.

The students selected for the scholarship were chosen because of their outstanding academic achievement as well as outstanding leadership skills and community service.

A recent KFUN radio program that Jesus Lopez hosts had an old friend of mine as a guest. Willie Sanchez and I were students at New Mexico Highlands University together a long time ago.

This was the early 1950s when our veterans from both World War II and the Korean conflict returned and went to school via the G.I. Bill. They came to get a good and useful education so they could move on with their lives. Some of us younger students didn’t have the same work and study habits they had. In other words, they came to get an education and they had little time to goof off.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelor of Arts

Artie J. Allen,
Human Performance & Sport
Adam Alvidrez,
Criminal Justice Studies
BrynErin Vivtoria Anderson,
Psychology
Marco V. Aragon,
Political Science
Efuetbejah Atemnkeng,
Psychology
Coleen Ruth Avery,
Criminal Justice Studies
Navid Babadi,
Psychology
Abenicio E. Baldonado,
Political Science
Jason Louis Bays,