Remembering Portales Mayor
Sharon King Dec. 23, 1953 - March 1, 2018
Mayor Sharon King (BUS 95, AA 91) passed away on March 1, 2018 after battling cancer for several years. King was Portales’ first female mayor, elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014. Prior to becoming mayor, she was executive director of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce, as well as ENMU’s grant coordinator and executive secretary to the ENMU president for five years.
ENMU Special Collections Suffers a Tragic Start to the New Year Over the past two years, the entire collection of Golden Library books and special collection materials have been transferred to various storage locations around campus while the Golden Student Success Center is under renovation. ENMU administration placed the library’s government documents in a warehouse on the north side of campus; the library offices, functions and University archives in Bernalillo Hall on the south side; and all the books, General and Special Collections in the basement of the Campus Union. On Dec. 29, 2017, the Campus Union basement encountered significant flood damage. Over the holiday break, a pipe froze and burst hours before being discovered. ENMU Special Collections bore the brunt of the disaster. Special Collections consists of three main areas: 1. The University Archives 2. New Mexico history 3. The Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library
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The majority of the archives are in another location and were not harmed. In the flooded basement were oral histories, photographs, and folders of information about New Mexico. The Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library is one of the largest collections of its kind in the nation. A sizable section of the books and about half of a large collection of magazines spanning more than 100 years were soaked and sitting in water. The New Mexico history collection includes rare books, a number of which were also saturated. In an effort to rescue the damaged collections, approximately 230 boxes of books and magazines were taken off-campus to be freeze-dried. One of our greatest losses was the entire historical collection archiving the student newspaper The Chase from 1934 through fall 2017. ENMU staff aren’t confident that newsprint can be salvaged. A large record of ENMU’s history has been lost.
ENMU NEEDS YOU If you have past issues of The Chase and wish to donate them to restore the collection, please mail issues to: ENMU Special Collections Attn: Gene Bundy ENMU Station 32 1500 S Ave K Portales, NM 88130 575.562.2636
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