Socorro Rewind

June 6, 1974

MISS BRENDA FINCH of Reserve, daughter of Rosemary Finch, was crowned Rodeo Queen at the 1974 Reserve Rodeo. Brenda has many achievements during her high school career. A 1974 graduate of Reserve High School, she was Junior Class president of 1972-73, Honor Society Vice-President 1972-73.\, Letterman’s Club 1973-74. She belonged to many clubs and was active in volleyball, basketball, and track. She received honors in good sportsmanship, track, NEDT Merit Award, science, public speaking, Citizenship award and Valedictorian. She was voted most studious and class favorite for 1973-74. Her outside interests were 4-H for which she was Council Secretary 1972, Council Treasurer 1973 and was on the Horse Judging Team in 1972.

June 11, 1974

CHRISTY TAYLOR, who will be a senior at Socorro High School, was pleased and surprised that her poster was chosen as this year’s Socorro County Fair and Rodeo catalog front cover. Christy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Taylor of San Antonio. She has outdoor hobbies like sports and horseback riding but is pursuing her artistic bent this summer making Indian jewelry for John Knight, her art teacher, Eleanor Oliver helping her get her summer job. Christy has studied for one year under Mrs. Oliver and plans another course her senior year and hopefully studying it in college.

June 9, 1994

AT THE LAST COUNT the Socorro community raised $27,731 dollars in the Relay for Life, a benefit program of the American Cancer Society. The relay held at Clarkfield began Friday evening and lasted 18 hours, carrying over into Saturday. Each relay team was committed to always having at least one of its members on the track either walking, running, or wheeling. Cancer survivors, 37 of them, headed the event as they walked the first round, the Survivors lap. Each team then walked a lap together. In the evening, luminarias lit the way for the walkers. The event was not all about ceremonies. Members of the relay team were treated to entertainment and food of all kinds as they took a rest. Music and games filled the night including a pajama party followed by a pizza feast at midnight. The money raised from the event is to be applied to cancer research and provide services to cancer patients and their families.

June 12, 1999

WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you found $100? For a student at Sarracino Middle School, there was no question. As Aimee Serna of San Acacia was walking past the school courtyard, she saw something in the grass. When she picked it up to find out what it was, she discovered much to her surprise it was a roll of five $20 bills. She took the money to the school’s office and explained she found it outside. Serna said turning in the money was the first thing that came to her mind. Serna thought that the money was meant to be a graduation gift as the eighth-grade celebration was the night before. She felt the money must have slipped out a parent’s pocket or purse. Sarracino principal Bob Jiron said he was pleased to find that young people still do things like that.

June 12, 2014

WILLIE SCHAFFER, of Socorro, won the 2014 Elfego Baca Shoot Out last Saturday, making his way down M Mountain in 16 strokes. Following Schafer were Stian Afloy (28), Gerald O’Connell (31), Ephraim Ford (33) and Sam Fernald (43).