Socorro Rewind

JULY 15, 1975

A TOTAL OF 25 ribbons were awarded to the SHS majorettes, Cindy Voelker, Lisa Callan, Allison Rigby and Elizabeth Aerts who attended the Camp of Champ clinic in Portales, New Mexico. The girls attended classes for parade routines, down the field marching, duet and dance routines. Each girl was evaluated on routines in different classes. Allison and Elizabeth, both freshmen, each won one blue ribbon and four red. Cindy, a junior, won four blue and one red ribbon. Lisa, also a junior, won five blue ribbons. Cindy and Lisa competed against other schools from New Mexico and Texas, receiving first place in routine construction. Lisa won a first-place ribbon in strutting which qualified her for the final strutting competition in which she was chosen as first runner-up and was awarded a special award ribbon and also received a ribbon for the hardest worker.

DELLA LOPEZ is spending the summer with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Sais. She and her parents live in St. Paul, Minnesota where her father, Thomas E. Lopez, is attending the University of Minnesota Medical School. Della, who is eight years old, is the daughter of former Socorroan, Connie Sais Lopez.

JULY 7, 2001

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VILLAGE OF MAGDALENA settled a claim with two teenage girls for an alleged illegal search performed by two Magdalena marshals. The claim stemmed from an incident during July 1999 Old Timer’s Reunion. Officers were accused of performing inappropriate body searches on two teenage girls during the investigation of an assault on an unidentified man. The investigation did not result in an arrest.

JULY 11, 2001

DELIA AGRABRIGHT of San Antonio has been accepted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She will be honored in a ceremony this fall at New Mexico State University. NSCS is a national, non-profit honors organization founded in 1994 that recognizes first and second-year undergraduate students who excel academically. Agrabright is also a Crimson Scholar and was on the dean’s list this year.

AUGUST 27, 2015

THE DISCOVERY OF A LONE black briefcase sitting upright next to a dumpster at New Mexico Tech’s Brown Hall was enough reason to make New Mexico Tech campus police suspicious. Tech police were alerted and as a precaution asked that everyone working in Brown Hall, including university President Dan Lopez, leave the building. By 10 a.m., a wide area of the campus surrounding Brown Hall had been cordoned off with crime scene tape, and two streets were closed to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Officers from several agencies including Socorro Police Department, Socorro County Sheriff’s office and New Mexico State Police, as well as the Socorro Fire Department arrived on the scene to give assistance. Two State Police bomb squad officers and a remote-controlled robot were also called in. According to New Mexico Tech Public Information Officer Thom Guengerich, the briefcase was virtually empty. It looked like a new, unused briefcase, he said. “Shortly before noon the briefcase was x-rayed by State Police and was determined to be safe,” Guengerich said. “It was then removed, and everyone was allowed back in the building.” Class schedules were not affected.