Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1983: Word was received of the death of Floyd Golden, longtime president of Eastern New Mexico University, who had died the previous day in Amarillo.
Golden served as president of ENMU from 1941 until his retirement in 1960. His involvement with the school began when it opened as the two-year Eastern New Mexico Junior College in 1934 and he was appointed its first dean for an annual salary of $3,600.
As dean, he helped in the selection of the school’s first president, Donald MacKay.
The university’s library was dedicated as Golden Library in his honor in 1977.
Golden was survived by his wife, Elsie.
1973: Clovis High School graduate Judy Garcia was one of two women in the United States to be selected for the United States Navy Recruiter Assistance Program (RAP).
The daughter of Manuel and Mary Garcia of Clovis, Garcia had completed eight weeks of recruiter training in Orlando, Florida, and was back in Clovis to spend 10 days working with local Navy recruiters Chief Doug Rogers and Chief Robert West.
After her stint in Clovis, she was headed to Norfolk, Virginia, to work in the personnel department as part of her three-year commitment to the Navy.
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