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NEWS BRIEFS Bataan Museum hosts milestone celebrations The New Mexico State University Santa Fe Alumni Chapter and NMSU President Barbara Couture hosted a reception to celebrate the state of New Mexico Centennial, the Morrill Act sesquicentennial, the Bataan Death March 70th Anniversary and Coach Lou Henson’s 80th birthday Jan. 27, 2012, at the Bataan Memorial Museum in Santa Fe. “It was a great event for NMSU, the Bataan Museum and the New Mexico National Guard,” said retired Brig. Gen. Jack Fox. “Over 200 people attended the event, which provided great exposure for the museum.” Fox gave a brief history of our Bataan heroes and said, “There were 55 Aggies on the Bataan Death March, many of them New Mexico National Guard members, and some that deployed from this armory, which is now the Bataan Memorial Museum.” 26 NEW MEXICO Minuteman / Spring 2012 NMNG, MaxPreps honor Cleveland High School football team For the fi rst time in history, the MaxPreps Football Tour of Champions, presented by the Army National Guard, visited the state of New Mexico to honor the V. Sue Cleveland High School football team at a trophy presentation Jan. 20 during an assembly in the packed gymnasium. Though in existence for only two years, the Storm won their fi rstever state championship after fi nishing the season 13-0. Coach Kirk Potter and the Storm fi nished the season ranked #112 in the MaxPreps Freeman Rankings poll. MaxPreps’ Leland Gordon spoke about what an amazing feat it was for Cleveland to be so highly ranked after opening their doors only two years ago. Gordon then turned the microphone over to New Mexico Army National Guard Lt. Col. John D. Sedillo for the trophy presentation. Sedillo spoke about when you are on a football team, you rely on the support of your teammates, coaches and community, and how being in the Army National Guard, you rely on that same support system. Sedillo then presented the coveted Army National Guard national ranking trophy to Potter and his players.
Luna served New Mexico well By Spc. Charles Martinez 200th Public Affairs Detachment Maximiliano Luna was born in Los Lunas, N.M., June 16, 1870. He was educated at Las Vegas College in Las Vegas, N.M., (which was later moved to Denver, Colo., and named Regis University), and at Georgetown College, District of Columbia. Upon completing his course at Georgetown, Luna received an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Just as he was ready to begin his studies at Annapolis, his mother died, and his plans changed. He made a tour to Cuba, after which, in December 1889, he returned to his home in New Mexico. He was married around 1890 to Berenice Mary Keyes, granddaughter of Lucien B. Maxwell, one of the largest landowners in the Territory. Her younger brother Maxwell had several things in common with his brother-in-law Maximiliano Luna. They both served as Rough Riders in Troop F (Keyes provided testimony in support of Theodore Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor). They both served in the Philippines; both died there (Keyes died six days after Luna); and both are buried in the same cemetery. On the April 15, 1945, Maj. Gen. Keyes visited the 804th Tank Destroyer Battalion (New Mexico National Guard) along with Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee (Deputy Commander of U.S. Forces in the European Theater of Operations). The 804th was in fi ring position in the Po Valley. With Lee acting as artillery loader on one of B Company’s (from Raton, N.M.) guns, Keyes fi red the Battalion’s 200,000th round at the Germans. Berenice’s youngest brother Geoffrey was commanding general of the 3rd Armored Division, 9th Armored Division, I Armored Corps, II Corps, Seventh United States Army during World War II, and the Third United States Army immediately afterward. He retired as a lieutenant general and is also buried in the same cemetery as his brother and brother-in-law. In 1890 Luna was appointed interpreter of the Second Judicial Court of the Territory; in 1891 he was chief clerk of the Twenty-ninth Assembly of New Mexico, and in 1892 he was elected probate clerk, recorder and ex offi cio county clerk of Valencia County until 1894, when he was elected sheriff of the county. He served as delegate to several territorial Republican conventions; in 1890 he was the organizer of the Republican League of the county, and in 1892 he was a delegate to the National Republican League. He served as Captain for Troop “F” of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, popularly known as “Rough Riders.” In 1899 he served as speaker of the House of Representatives for the Territory of New Mexico. He joined the 34th U.S. Volunteer Infantry and was sent to the Philippines as a fi rst lieutenant. It was there that he died on duty on Nov. 18, 1899. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, one of the fi rst New Mexicans so honored. Among the honors bestowed on his memory by the state of New Mexico are the following: • A bust of Luna has been placed in the state Capitol. • In 1929, the training site for the New Mexico National Guard outside of Las Vegas, N.M., was named Camp Maximiliano Luna in his honor. In 1967 the state Legislature authorized a vocational training facility to be built in the area, and the site chosen was Camp Luna. In 1969 the school was established under the name of the Luna Vocational Technical Institute. • A memorial to him at the Luna Vocational Technical Institute was rededicated in June 1987 and stands in front of the Technologies Building. It faces the school campus and former training grounds of the National Guard. • The current name of the campus, Luna Community College, was adopted on Dec. 18, 2000. Spring 2012 / NEW MEXICO National Guard 27
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