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05-09-2006, 07:30 AM
It Took A While, But...
By Socorro Reporter
© 2006 SONewMex.com - Reprint Permission Granted
Socorro, Monday, May 8 – Never let it be said New Mexico Tech doesn't respect the past. Of course, it may take a while for them to notice the past. They are after all a disproportionately male institution. Still, once they realize something has been overlooked they invariably do things with the same style, class and gentlemanly aplomb that's typical of a usually-thoughtful guy who absent-mindedly overlooked an important anniversary.
With that notion in mind, a monument in honor of the Socorro families who in 1889 donated slightly more than 22 acres of land to establish the New Mexico School of Mines will be formally dedicated on the New Mexico Tech campus on Friday, May 12. The public is invited to the dedication ceremony, which gets underway at 11 a.m. in front of Brown Hall, the university’s main administration building.
http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Founders_Memorial4.jpg
Several New Mexico Tech administrators, as well as numerous descendants of the university’s founders, will participate in the official dedication of the four-foot-tall, brick-and-mortar monument. The monument’s facade is topped with bronze plaques that commemorate the individuals and families who donated property that became the original site of the School of Mines in Socorro, which in 1951 was renamed the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
The 1889 territorial legislation known as the Rodey Act, which established several state institutions, including New Mexico’s three research universities, stipulated that the School of Mines be located on a tract of donated land, which was to be deeded over to the Territory of New Mexico by no later than August 18, 1889.
http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Founders_Memorial2.jpg
With the deadline fast approaching, a 22-and-one-fifths-acre tract was conveyed to the territory by a group of Socorro landowners, including Edward and Emma Hubbard, Juan Jose and Francisca Baca, Estevan and Catalina Baca, Severo and Josefina Baca, Jacob Naumer, Robert Collins, and Antonio Abeyta y Montoya.
The 11 founding land donors of the university are listed on one of the plaques on the new monument, which is situated within the original site donated to establish the New Mexico School of Mines.
http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Founders_Memorial3.jpg
As we said, it may have taken 117 years; but at least now they're bringing roses!
Way to go, Tech!! :p
By Socorro Reporter
© 2006 SONewMex.com - Reprint Permission Granted
Socorro, Monday, May 8 – Never let it be said New Mexico Tech doesn't respect the past. Of course, it may take a while for them to notice the past. They are after all a disproportionately male institution. Still, once they realize something has been overlooked they invariably do things with the same style, class and gentlemanly aplomb that's typical of a usually-thoughtful guy who absent-mindedly overlooked an important anniversary.
With that notion in mind, a monument in honor of the Socorro families who in 1889 donated slightly more than 22 acres of land to establish the New Mexico School of Mines will be formally dedicated on the New Mexico Tech campus on Friday, May 12. The public is invited to the dedication ceremony, which gets underway at 11 a.m. in front of Brown Hall, the university’s main administration building.
http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Founders_Memorial4.jpg
Several New Mexico Tech administrators, as well as numerous descendants of the university’s founders, will participate in the official dedication of the four-foot-tall, brick-and-mortar monument. The monument’s facade is topped with bronze plaques that commemorate the individuals and families who donated property that became the original site of the School of Mines in Socorro, which in 1951 was renamed the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
The 1889 territorial legislation known as the Rodey Act, which established several state institutions, including New Mexico’s three research universities, stipulated that the School of Mines be located on a tract of donated land, which was to be deeded over to the Territory of New Mexico by no later than August 18, 1889.
http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Founders_Memorial2.jpg
With the deadline fast approaching, a 22-and-one-fifths-acre tract was conveyed to the territory by a group of Socorro landowners, including Edward and Emma Hubbard, Juan Jose and Francisca Baca, Estevan and Catalina Baca, Severo and Josefina Baca, Jacob Naumer, Robert Collins, and Antonio Abeyta y Montoya.
The 11 founding land donors of the university are listed on one of the plaques on the new monument, which is situated within the original site donated to establish the New Mexico School of Mines.
http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Founders_Memorial3.jpg
As we said, it may have taken 117 years; but at least now they're bringing roses!
Way to go, Tech!! :p