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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1988: Clovis High School students were pledging to avoid drugs and alcohol during the last week of school as part of the "Good Start for Life Program."
About three dozen local businesses signed on as supporters for the effort, which was sponsored by Principal Mack Mitchell, the yearbook staff, the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program, Students Against Drunk Driving, the athletic department, and the junior class.
Students who signed up to participate were entered in daily drawings for prizes including gift certificates, free movie tickets, and meals at local restaurants.
"This may save a real bad accident," said Assistant Principal Roy Franse. "I think it will help save a life."
1983: Funeral services were scheduled in Portales for William D. Pitt, 61, a longtime faculty member at Eastern New Mexico University who died May 21.
Born in 1921 in Kansas City, Missouri, Pitt came to Portales in 1963, and taught geology at ENMU until his retirement in 1981.
He was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was also active in the Lions Club, the Geological Society of America, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Portales Gem and Mineral Society, and the Roswell Geological Society.
Survivors included his wife Natalie Pitt, and a son, Lee Pitt, of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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