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"NMSU" redirects here. For the university in Missouri, see Northwest Missouri State University.
New Mexico State University
Former names
Las Cruces College,
New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Type
Public
Land-grant
Space-grant
Established
1888
Endowment
$167.5 million (2017)[1]
Budget
$621 million (all campuses)[2]
Chancellor
Dan Arvizu[3]
President
John D. Floros
Academic staff
2,519[4]
Students
24,580 (total headcount) 14,852 (Las Cruces campus)[4]
Undergraduates
12,027[4]
Postgraduates
2,825[4]
Location
Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.
Campus
Urban, 900 acres (360 ha)[5]
Colors
Crimson and White[6]
Athletics
NCAA Division I – WAC, Independent (football)
Nickname
Aggies
Mascot
Pistol Pete
Website
www.nmsu.edu
New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public, land-grant, research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, and the flagship campus of NMSU System. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest public institution of higher education in the state of New Mexico. It is the second largest four-year university in the state, in terms of total enrollment across all campuses as of 2011, with branch campuses in Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Doña Ana County and Grants, and with extension and research centers across New Mexico.[7]
New Mexico State University is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a "R-2 Doctorate-granting University - with higher research activity". The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges for 2018 ranked New Mexico State University 198th among national universities in the United States, classifying it as a “Top Tier” university.[8][9][10] New Mexico State's athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division I level, competing in the Western Athletic Conference, except for football which is part of the Sun Belt Conference.
The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM), located on New Mexico State's main campus, is a privately funded osteopathic medical school. New Mexico State University shares a unique relationship with BCOM as the medical students can enjoy the facilities and amenities of NMSU's campus.[11]
It was founded to teach agriculture in 1888 as the Las Cruces College, and the following year became New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. It received its present name in 1960. NMSU has 14,852 students enrolled as of Fall 2015, and has a faculty-to-student ratio of about 1 to 16. NMSU offers a wide range of programs and awards associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through its main campus and four community colleges. NMSU offers 28 doctoral degree programs, 58 master's degree programs, and 96 baccalaureate majors.[12] NMSU is the only research-extensive, land-grant, U.S.-Mexico border institution classified by the federal government as serving Hispanics.[13]
Contents
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1 History
2 Campus
2.1 Medical School
2.2 Housing
2.3 Libraries
2.3.1 Branson Hall Library
2.3.2 Zuhl Library
2.4 Museums and Collections
2.5 Police Department
3 Academics
3.1 Rankings
3.1.1 Diversity
4 Institutes and research programs
4.1 Research programs
4.2 Academic Centers and Research Institutes
5 Student life
5.1 Student organizations
5.1.1 Student government
5.1.1.1 ASNMSU
5.2 Greek life
5.2.1 Panhellenic Council
5.2.2 Interfraternity Council
5.2.3 Multicultural Greek Council
5.2.3.1 Fraternities
5.2.3.2 Sororities
5.2.4 National Greek Academic Honor Society/organizations
5.3 Media
6 Traditions
6.1 Aggies
6.2 Victory Bell
6.3 "A" Tradition
6.4 The Pride of New Mexico Marching Band
6.5 The Wonder Dog
6.6 Crimson Fridays
6.7 NMSU ring
6.8 Noche de Luminarias
7 Athletics
7.1 Rivalries
8 Notable people
8.1 Alumni
8.2 Faculty
9 References
10 External links
History[edit]
Hiram Hadley
In 1888, Hiram Hadley, an Earlham College-educated teacher from Indiana, started Las Cruces College. One decade later, the Territorial Assembly of New Mexico provided for the establishment of an agricultural college and agricultural experiment station with Bill No. 28, the Rodey Act of 1889. It stated: " Said institution is hereby located at or near the town of Las Cruces in the County of Doña Ana, upon a tract of land of not less than one hundred (100) acres, This land could be contiguous to the main Las Cruces irrigating ditch, south of said town." Designated as the land-grant college for New Mexico under the Morrill Act, it was named the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.[14]
Las Cruces College then merged with the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, and opened on January 21, 1890. It began with 35 students and 6 faculty members. The college was supposed to graduate its first student in 1893, but the only senior, named Sam Steel, was murdered before he was able to receive his diploma.[15] Classes met in the two-room adobe building of Las Cruces College until new buildings were erected on the 220-acre (0.89 km2) campus three miles (5 km) south of Las Cruces. In February 1891, McFie Hall, popularly known as Old Main, opened its doors. McFie Hall burned down in 1910, but its remains can be seen in the center of Pride Field on the University Horseshoe.[14]
In 1960, in move to better represent its operations, New Mexico A&M was renamed New Mexico State University by a state constitutional amendment.[14]
New Mexico State University now has a 6,000-acre (24 km2) campus and enrolls more than 21,000 students from the United States and 71 foreign countries. Full-time faculty members number 694, with a staff of 3,113.
Campus[edit]
The main campus of New Mexico State University occupies a core of 900 acres (360 ha) in the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico.[5] It is located adjacent to Interstate 25, surrounded by desert landscape and greenhouses.[16] The main campus is also bordered by Interstate 10, which is the main east-west interstate highway across the southern part of the United States. To the east of Interstate 25, the campus facilities consist of the President's residence, NMSU Golf Course, the "A" Mountain west slope, and the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. South of University Avenue are Pan American Plaza, 48 acres of horse farm, and the Fabian Garcia Science center, which houses the Chile Pepper Institute's research, teaching and demonstration garden, algal biofuels research equipment, grape vineyards and gazebos, and fields and greenhouses for plant research projects. About six miles south of campus, on 203 acres of land, is the Leyendecker Plant Science Research Center.[17]
The Las Cruces campus is home to a nesting population of Swainson's hawks, a raptor species currently protected by federal law. The hawks are known for attacking pedestrians randomly. Pedestrians are advised to be careful when walking on Stewart Street, as signs have been posted all across.[18] Umbrellas are also being provided to students for their convenience, as well as protection from the aggressive nesting hawks. A hawk reportedly attacked an NMSU lifeguard, leaving a slash on her face, nearly touching her left eye and stretching across the bridge of her nose.[19]
The first master plan of the university was to create a "Horseshoe", a U-shaped drive, in an open large lawn. At the center was Old Main, the original campus building, originally known as McFie Hall, which was destroyed by fire in 1910 (the remains are now a college landmark). The cornerstone and remains of Mcfie Hall stand near the flagpole in the middle of the Horseshoe.[20] Today, the Horseshoe is the center of campus and is the location of the main administration building, Hadley Hall, which sits at the top of the Horseshoe, and other classroom buildings.[21]
NMSU is a land-grant institution with a presence in all 33 counties of New Mexico, a satellite learning center in Albuquerque, 13 research and science centers, distance education opportunities, and five campuses in Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Grants, Doña Ana County, and Las Cruces.[22]
New Mexico State University's main campus, with Aggie Memorial Stadium on the left, and the primary "colleges" on the right, along University Avenue
Medical School[edit]
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM), an independent and private medical school, is located on NMSU's main campus. Burrell College opened its doors to welcome its first class of Doctoral students in August 2016. New Mexico State University shares a unique relationship with Burrell College, allowing BCOM students to live in NMSU student housing, participate in activities, and use all amenities on campus.[23] Burrell College and New Mexico State created a pipeline program whereby NMSU students who meet certain qualifications during their undergraduate studies are guaranteed a spot at the medical school.[24] BCOM is the second medical school in New Mexico, the first being in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico.
Housing[edit]
NMSU Housing is available to students who choose to live on campus. There are several residential areas to choose from, including residential halls, apartments, graduate housing, family communities, living learning communities, and theme communities.[25] Housing includes:
Chamisa Village Apartments Stage I
Chamisa Village Apartments Stage II
Cervantes Village Apartment Complex
Cole Village
Garcia Hall
Pinon Hall
Rhodes Garrett Hamiel
Tom Fort and Sutherland Village
Vista Del Monte Apartments
Libraries[edit]
Zuhl Library
NMSU has two major libraries on the main campus.[26] These include Branson Hall Library and Zuhl Library. Both libraries have a total collection of more than 1 million volumes.[27]
Branson Hall Library[edit]
Branson Hall Library was built in 1951 and houses texts and resources related to engineering, business, agriculture, science, special collections, maps, government publications, and archives.[28] A sculpture made of bronze named "Joy of Learning", created by Grant Kinzer, former Department Head of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, can be found on the north side of Branson Hall.[29]
Zuhl Library[edit]
Zuhl Library was built in 1992 at a cost of $11 million. The library houses texts and resources related to the arts, humanities, and sciences.[30] North of Zuhl Library is a 20 foot wide steel and granite sculpture, named " A Quest for Knowledge", which was created by Federico Armijo, an Albuquerque native.[31]
Museums and Collections[edit]
NMSU is home to several museums, collections, and galleries. The NMSU Arthropod Museum, which houses more than 150,000 research and 5,000 teaching specimens, is housed in Skeen Hall. Specimens are used globally for taxonomic research and within the state for community outreach. The University Museum (established in 1959) serves the community as a repository and exhibitor of local and regional culture and history.[32] The Klipsch Museum is a tribute to Paul and Valerie Klipsch, who provided materials representing more than 80 years of audio engineering. It is located in NMSU's Foreman Engineering Complex. The Zuhl Collection combines the functions of an art gallery and natural history museum and showcases thousands of specimens of petrified wood, fossils, and minerals.
Police Department[edit]
The university has a dedicated police department employing 35 people, including 22 full-time commissioned police officers. The number of employed personnel expands greatly during special events such as concerts or sporting events, with as many as 50 security guards and dozens of additional officers from other departments. The current chief of police is Stephen Lopez.[33] In addition to the Las Cruces campus, the department also has authority for all university-owned campuses, lands and facilities around the state.[34]
The department also offers personal defense courses for females on campus, including training in rape prevention, escape and the proper use of pepper sprays.[35] Campus officers receive training on gender identity/expression issues, which has helped the university achieve an overall score of 4 out of 5 for LGBT friendliness.[36]
Academics[edit]
NMSU is the land-grant university of the state of New Mexico. It offers a wide variety of programs through the Graduate School and the colleges: Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Extended Learning and Health and Social Services.
NMSU offers 28 doctoral programs which are limited primarily to agriculture, education, engineering, and the sciences; the specialist in education degree is offered in 4 study areas; the education doctorate degree is offered in 3 study areas; there are 58 master's degree programs and 96 baccalaureate degree programs.[37]
Dona Ana Community College is a branch of NMSU
At its four branch community colleges, Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Doña Ana Community College and Grants, New Mexico State University offers academic, vocational/technical, and continuing education programs. In accord with its land-grant mission, New Mexico State University provides informal, off-campus educational programs through the Cooperative Extension Service. Through a statewide network of 9 research facilities, the Agricultural Experiment Station conducts basic and applied research supporting agriculture, natural resources management, environmental quality, and improved quality of life.[38][full citation needed]
Zuhl Library with Organ Mountains in the background.
NMSU is divided into several colleges and a graduate school. These include:
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences[39]
College of Arts and Sciences[40]
College of Business[41]
College of Education[42]
College of Engineering[43]
Graduate School[44]
College of Health and Social Services[45]
Honors College[46]
Rankings[edit]
University rankings
National
Forbes[47]
419
U.S. News & World Report[48]
198
Washington Monthly[49]
254
Global
Times[50]
501-600
U.S. News & World Report[51]
652
NMSU was ranked 198th in the national universities category and tied for 106th among public universities by U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) in its 2018 rankings.[52] Also, in 2017, USN&WR ranked the College of Engineering's graduate program as tied for 133rd, the Nursing School tied for 142nd, and the College of Education's graduate program tied for 146th in the nation.[53]
Diversity[edit]
The University of Southern California's Center for Urban Education named NMSU as one of the top 25 institutions with "effective practices for increasing the number of Latino recipients" of bachelor's degrees in the STEM—science, technology, engineering and math—fields.[54][55]
Campuspride.org ranks NMSU 4 out of 5 stars for LGBT friendliness.[36]
Institutes and research programs[edit]
Research programs[edit]
Foster Hall is home to the Department of Biology
New Mexico State University is ranked by the National Science Foundation among United States colleges and universities with high research and development, and is among the top institutions without a medical school in terms of R&D expenditures. Most early research followed mandates of the founding legislation of land-grant colleges by generating knowledge useful in agriculture and engineering. Over time, however, research has expanded from this focus on applied natural sciences to include all disciplines of the university.[38]
NASA logo
The university is home to New Mexico's NASA Space Grant Program.[56]
In 2010, the NMSU Physical Sciences Laboratory secured a study contract with Reaction Engines Limited, a British aerospace company that is developing technology for an airbreathing single-stage to orbit, precooled air turboramjet based spaceplane.[57]
The NMSU Department of Astronomy operates the Apache Point Observatory, in Sunspot, New Mexico, site of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey[58].
NMSU is a research active university, with $150 million per year in externally funded research programs. Its estimated annual economic impact in New Mexico is $1 billion. Anchoring the southern end of New Mexico's Rio Grande Research Corridor, NMSU is the only university to reach the platinum, or highest, level of service to NASA's Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program. SATOP makes the expertise of corporate and university researchers available to small businesses.[59]
Academic Centers and Research Institutes[edit]
Agricultural Experiment Station – conducts basic and applied research supporting agriculture, natural resources management, environmental quality, and improved quality of life.
Arrowhead Center – provides business assistance, technology incubation, intellectual property commercialization, economic policy analysis to local businesses as well as students, staff and faculty at the university.[60]
Institute for Energy and Environment (IEE) – a multidisciplinary, energy sector and water resource institute.[61] IEE's goal is to provide global leadership, expertise, and technology for public policy, technical and human resource development to meet growing energy and water needs. The International Environmental Design Contest is co-hosted by the IEE.[62]
Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Center (M-TEC) – supports economic development in New Mexico by providing manufacturing education, technical assistance, and other extension services to industries in New Mexico.
Student life[edit]
Student organizations[edit]
NMSU student organizations include a Greek system and several religious organizations. The Associated Students of New Mexico State University is the student government, and is considered a departmental organization.[63]
Skeen Hall with Organ Mountains in the background. Skeen houses the Department of Entomology Plant Pathology and Weed Science, the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, and the Department of Extension Plant Sciences
Student government[edit]
ASNMSU[edit]
The Associated Students of New Mexico State University (ASNMSU) is the student government of NMSU, with an elected student body president, vice president, 30 senators, and an appointed student supreme court. Senators are elected to two semester terms, with two elections each school year, in each, 15 senators are elected. There are 12 different departments within ASNMSU, who manage various events such as the homecoming parade, free students concerts, a free cab program for students, and many others. Each department is overseen by a director, who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. ASNMSU manages a budget of over one million dollars.[64]
Greek life[edit]
Fraternities and sororities at New Mexico State University include:[65]
Panhellenic Council[edit]
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Zeta Tau Alpha
Interfraternity Council[edit]
Alpha Gamma Rho
Alpha Tau Omega
Delta Sigma Phi
Kappa Sigma
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Delta Theta
Pi Kappa Alpha
Phi Kappa Tau Colony
Pi Kappa Phi
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Chi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Multicultural Greek Council[edit]
Fraternities[edit]
Phi Beta Sigma
Omega Delta Phi
Sigma Chi
Kappa Sigma
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Delta Theta
Sororities[edit]
Kappa Delta Chi
Chi Upsilon Sigma
Zeta Phi Beta
National Greek Academic Honor Society/organizations[edit]
Gamma Sigma Alpha
The Order of Omega
GAMMA
Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society
Media[edit]
Founded in 1907, The Round Up is the oldest student-run news publication at New Mexico State University. In fall of 2017, the Round Up cut back its printing frequency and now provides current online news coverage as well as special print editions.[66]
KRWG-TV is a full service television station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is operated and owned by New Mexico State University. It is a member station of PBS (Public Broadcasting Service).[67]
Puerto del Sol is a literary magazine run by graduate students in the English Department.[68] It has been in print for over fifty years and currently publishes biannually. The magazine also curates a Black Voices series on its website.[69]
News22 is a student-run television newscast that airs live on KRWG-TV three days per week during the nine-month academic year. The broadcast is produced by New Mexico State University journalism students. In 2011, News22 added Noticias22 en Español, a Spanish language broadcast that airs Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Las Cruces, Silver City and El Paso, Texas.[70]
Kokopelli is an online news publication produced by New Mexico State University journalism students. Kokopelli provides breaking news, features and weekly sports coverage during the nine-month academic year. Kokopelli is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press.[71]
NMSU also owns and operates two radio stations: KRUX (91.5 FM) and KRWG-FM.
KRUX is an entirely student–run, non-commercial radio station located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that was founded in 1989. KRUX is financed through student fees administered by the Associated Students of New Mexico State University, the student government of NMSU. KRUX is a member of the Collegiate Music Journal Network.[72]
KRWG-FM (90.7 FM) is a public, non-commercial, full-service FM radio station. It serves the area within southwestern New Mexico and Far West Texas. It is an affiliated station of National Public Radio and features NPR programming.[73]
Traditions[edit]
Aggies[edit]
The nickname was derived from its roots and beginnings as an agricultural school and the state's only designated land-grant university.
Victory Bell[edit]
Goddard Hall
In the 1940s, the Victory Bell, a gift of the Class of 1939, was housed in an open-sided structure on the Horseshoe and rung to announce Aggie victories. In 1972, the bell was rededicated as the NMSU Engineer's Bell and mounted on a platform near Goddard Hall. On game days, various school organizations took turns in toting the ringing bell around Las Cruces before kick-off. The Bell was then taken to Aggie Memorial Stadium where it rang after Aggie touchdowns. More recently, the bell has been permanently mounted at field level just behind the south goal post of the stadium.[74]
"A" Tradition[edit]
In 1920, students of then New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts scouted for an appropriate place to display their school letter. Tortugas Mountain, located three miles (5 km) east of campus, seemed a natural spot. Brave males gathered enough stones to form a big "A" easily visible from campus and the surrounding area. On the following day, April 1, students trudged up the mountain side with their five-gallon cans of whitewash and splashed it on the stones, turning them into a gleaming white "A". For many years, giving the "A" its annual fresh coat of whitewash was an all-school effort. The seniors mixed lime and water at the foot of the mountain and the freshmen and sophomores toted the mixture up to the juniors who splashed it on the "A." With the growth of the university through the years, the tradition was taken over by the Greek Council.[74]
The Pride of New Mexico Marching Band[edit]
The marching band of New Mexico State University is known as the Pride of New Mexico. It is composed of approximately 200 musicians, dancers, and auxiliary. They provide entertainment at football games, parades, and other NMSU events.
The Pride Marching Band was the first collegiate marching band to be invited to the London New Year's Day Parade in 1987 and has performed at dozens of NFL halftimes, including most recently a Denver Broncos-San Francisco 49ers game in 2014 and a San Diego Chargers-Jacksonville Jaguars game in 2016.
Timothy Lautzenheiser was director of the band, naming it the Pride of New Mexico, from 1976 to 1979.
[75]
The Wonder Dog[edit]
At kickoff of every NMSU home football game, Aggie fans await the "Wonder Dog" to retrieve the kicking tee from the football field. This tradition started in the mid 1990s. The first "Wonder Dog" was Smoki, a border collie-Australian shepherd mix born in Capitan, New Mexico, and trained by Joel Sims, an NMSU alumni. Smoki "The Wonder Dog" entertained the Aggie crowd for six years and retired in 2002. She also debut in a Hollywood film which co-starred Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid, entitled "Wyatt Earp", as a town dog.[76] Smoki "The Wonder Dog" died at the age of 15 in 2005. Since then, the tradition ended until 2012, when a tryout for the next "Wonder Dog" took place. A panel of celebrity judges chose Striking as the next "Wonder Dog". Striking "The Wonder Dog" is a four-year old border collie breed, owned and handled by Dr. Stochaj, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University who also serves as Chair for the President's Research and Economic Development Committee. Striking first appeared on August 30, 2012, at the NMSU-Sacramento State home game.[77]
Crimson Fridays[edit]
Every Friday, some students, faculties, staff, and alumni of NMSU wear crimson colors to show support for the university and the school's sports programs.[78]
NMSU ring[edit]
The official ring of New Mexico State University is given to students with junior and senior standing, and alumni of NMSU, to celebrate and commemorate their achievements and NMSU traditions. The official Ring Ceremony is sponsored by the Alumni Association, which is held every spring and fall Semester at the Aggie Memorial Tower.[79]
The official ring is manufactured by Balfour, which comes with white gold and yellow gold, with an optional stone; diamond or cubic zirconia at the centerpiece of the ring; and is presented with Hatch Chile Ristra. The top of the ring highlights the NMSU three triangles school seal, encircled with the school name. The three triangles represent NMSU's role as a land-grant university – teaching, research, and service. It also represents the connection of Spanish, American Indian, and Anglo cultures in New Mexico, and the triangulation of NMSU campus with Interstate 10 linking Interstate 25 in the first principle interchange of the Pan American Highway in North America. The one side of the ring shows the Aggie Memorial Tower, in honor of Aggies' who died for the country, and the other side of the ring displays a majestic Organ Mountains. Students wear the ring facing the school name. Upon granting of degrees, graduates should turn the ring around facing outward, which symbolizes that they are ready to face the world.[80]
Noche de Luminarias[edit]
A tradition that signals the beginning of the holiday season is the "Noche de Luminarias" or "Night of Lights". A university tradition that started as the President's Holiday Reception in 1984, which starts the holiday season with a night of entertainment and festivities. It is considered one of the largest luminaria displays in the state of New Mexico.[81]
Each candle set is lit inside a paper bag. With more than 6,000 luminarias, it begins at the Educational Services Building, extends towards the International Mall and then encircles the Corbett Center Student Union. The display is being set up by the Las Cruces High School band, and will serenade the visitors as they walk through the lighted path by the Las Cruces High School Brass Choir.[82]
Athletics[edit]
Main article: New Mexico State Aggies
Pan American Center
NMSU's teams are called the Aggies, a nickname derived from the university's agricultural beginnings. New Mexico State is in its thirteenth season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), except in football where NMSU competes as an independent. The Western Athletic Conference was the fifth conference NMSU has been affiliated with in its football history. New Mexico State spent the past six seasons as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. Before that, NMSU was a member of the Big West Conference (called the Pacific Coast Athletic Association until 1988), Sun Belt Conference, Missouri Valley Conference and the Border Conference.[74]
Rivalries[edit]
Main article: Rio Grande Rivalry
NMSU maintains strong athletic rivalries with the University of New Mexico. The UNM-NMSU rivalry is called the Rio Grande Rivalry (aka Battle of I-25), a competitive series based on points awarded to the winners of head to head competitions between the two universities in every sport. A rotating trophy is granted to the winning university for a period of one year, until the award presentation the following year. Different traditions take place at each school the night before game day. NMSU also has a football rivalry with the University of Texas at El Paso known as The Battle of I-10; in 2017, NMSU won its first Battle of I-10 since 2008.
NMSU Aggie Memorial Stadium
Notable people[edit]
Main article: List of New Mexico State University people
Alumni[edit]
There are approximately 120,000 living NMSU alumni.[83] The NMSU Alumni Association is one of the university's oldest organizations, dating from May 24, 1898.[84] Notable alumni include Paul W. Klipsch, engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer; Jerome Shaw, EVP/COO of Volt Information Sciences, Inc;[85] Christine Aguilera, President of SkyMall;[86] Alvy Ray Smith, co-founder of Pixar; Kevin Johnson, President and CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company; Pervis Atkins, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee; and Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, a nanoparticle researcher and professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.[87]
Faculty[edit]
Notable faculty include Paul Bosland, an internationally recognized authority on chile who leads the university's chile breeding research program and directs the Chile Pepper Institute at NMSU,[88] Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer best known for his discovery of Pluto;[89] Antonya Nelson, named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 best young fiction writers in America, who has published three novels and more than 50 stories
Historian Burl Noggle taught at NMSU from 1955 to 1960. He later moved to Louisiana State University, where he penned a book on the Teapot Dome scandal.[90]
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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For the film adaptations, see Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film) and Where the Red Fern Grows (2003 film).
Where the Red Fern Grows
First edition hardback cover
Author
Wilson Rawls
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Children's novel
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
1961
Media type
Print (Hardcover)
Pages
245 pp
ISBN
0-440-22814-X
OCLC
39850615
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs.[1]
Contents
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1 Plot summary
2 Films
3 Background
4 Reception
5 See also
6 Footnotes
7 External links
Plot summary[edit]
When leaving work in Idaho's Snake River Valley, Billy Colman sees a pack of dogs attacking a stray coonhound. He takes the stray home to feed it. Once it has rested, Billy sets it free, knowing that it will return home.
The experience reminds Billy of his childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. He wants a dog, and his parents offer to get him a mongrel from a neighbor. He wants two coonhounds, but his parents tell him they cannot afford them. Billy finds a magazine ad for a Kentucky kennel which breeds Redbone Coonhounds and sells them for $25 each. He goes to work performing odd jobs and saves the $50 he needs with the help of his grandfather. Since it takes two years to do so, his grandfather writes to see if the kennel will honor the ad. They do, and the price has dropped so the two puppies only cost $40.
Billy's dogs are delivered to the freight depot in Tahlequah. His family does not have transportation, so he finds his own way to get to the depot and walks through the hills. He picks up his puppies, which are a male and a female. He buys a gift for each member of his family with his extra $10 before heading back home.
On the way back home, he spends the night in Robber's Cave in the Sparrow Hawk Mountains. There he builds a fire and plays with the puppies. While trying to sleep, he hears a noise that he realizes is the cry of a mountain lion. In the morning, he continues on. He comes to a sycamore tree and sees the names Dan and Ann carved inside a heart in the bark and decides to name the puppies Old Dan and Little Ann.
To train Old Dan and Little Ann, Billy traps a raccoon with the help of his grandfather and uses its pelt to teach them to hunt. During their training, their personalities become apparent: Old Dan is brave and strong, while Little Ann is very intelligent. Both are very loyal to each other and to Billy.
On the first night of hunting season, Billy takes Old Dan and Little Ann out for their first hunt. He promises them that if they tree a raccoon, he will do the rest. They tree one in a large sycamore, which Billy had previously nicknamed "The Big Tree". As he tries to call them off, they look at him sadly and he cuts the tree down, which takes him two days and costs him blistered hands. In the end, when he's about to give up his effort, Billy offers a short prayer for strength to continue. A strong wind starts to blow and the tree falls. Old Dan and Little Ann take the raccoon down.
Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann go hunting almost every night and become well-known in the Ozarks. Billy and his grandfather make a bet with Rubin and Rainie Pritchard that Old Dan and Little Ann can tree the "ghost coon". It leads them on a long, complicated hunt, and Rubin and Rainie want to give up. When they finally have it treed, Billy refuses to kill it. Rubin then orders his dog, Old Blue, to attack Old Dan, who is smaller; and Rubin starts to beat Billy. Little Ann helps Old Dan, and together they injure Old Blue; Rubin runs to attack them with an axe, but he trips, falls on it and kills himself.
Billy's grandfather enters him into a championship coon hunt, putting him against experienced hunters and the finest dogs in the country. Before it starts, he enters Little Ann into a conformation contest, where she wins the silver cup. On the fourth night of the hunt, Old Dan and Little Ann tree three raccoons, making it to the final round. The sixth night, they tree one before a blizzard hits. Billy, his father, grandfather, and the judge lose sight of the dogs. When they finally find them, Billy's grandfather sprains his ankle. They build a fire, and when Billy's father chops down a tree, three raccoons jump out. Old Dan and Little Ann take two of them down, and chase the third to another tree. In the morning, the hunters find them covered with ice circling the tree. That raccoon wins them the championship, gold cup, and $300 of jackpot money.
One night Old Dan and Little Ann tree a mountain lion, and it attacks. Billy enters the fight with his axe, hoping to save his dogs, but they end up having to save him. Eventually, they kill the mountain lion, but Old Dan is badly wounded, and Billy finds his intestines in a bush. He dies late that night. Billy is heartbroken, and Little Ann loses the will to live, stops eating, and dies of grief a few days later on Old Dan's grave. Billy's father tries to tell him that it is all for the best, because with the money they received from winning the championship hunt, they can move to town. He goes to visit Old Dan and Little Ann's graves and finds a giant red fern between them. According to Native American legend, only an angel can plant one. He feels ready to move on knowing that his dogs are always going to be remembered.
Films[edit]
The novel was made into a 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, and Jack Ging.[2] It was followed by a sequel in 1992, which starred Wilford Brimley, Chad McQueen, Lisa Whelchel, and Karen Carlson.[3] The film was remade in 2003 and starred Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty and Dave Matthews.[2]
Background[edit]
In a talk given to a group of schoolteachers, Wilson Rawls related how he wrote the first version of the novel (along with five full novels, and hundreds of short stories and novelettes) during the years that he worked on construction in Mexico and Idaho. He rolled the manuscripts up and saved them in a trunk at his parents' home. When he met his fiancée, Sophie, he did not want her to know about his failed dreams of becoming a writer, so about a week before he got married he visited his parents and burned all his manuscripts. He then returned to Idaho and married Sophie. About three months later, he confessed to his wife that he had burned all his manuscripts and had always dreamed of being a writer. She encouraged him to rewrite one of his stories. He quit his job and wrote the novel in just three weeks. He said, "I had it memorized." [4] He would not let her read it until it was finished. He said, "I finished it on a Friday. I gave it to her Saturday morning and I went to town. I stayed in town all day. I knew she had time to read it. I called her on the phone. I just knew she was going to laugh at that writing...but when I called on the phone, she said, 'You get back out here to the house, I want to talk to you...this is the most wonderful dog and boy story I've ever heard in my life.'" [4] She encouraged him to lengthen the story, because she felt it was too short to be a novel but too long to be a short story. He went to work on lengthening the manuscript. He wrote it longhand with no punctuation. She then typed it up and submitted it to the Saturday Evening Post.[4][5]
The Saturday Evening Post rejected the manuscript in three weeks. Sophie then sent the manuscript to the Ladies' Home Journal. She believed that a woman editor at the Ladies' Home Journal would like the story. About four months later, Rawls received a letter from the Ladies' Home Journal saying that it was the wrong kind of story for their magazine, but they wanted to send it to the Saturday Evening Post. Upon the second submission to the Saturday Evening Post, it was accepted. It was first published in serialization in the Saturday Evening Post in 1961 under the title The Hounds of Youth.[4][5]
Doubleday then accepted the book for publication. Rawls said Doubleday then "broke my heart." They changed the title to Where the Red Fern Grows, and attempted to market it to adult readers. For about six years, it languished on shelves and failed to sell. Doubleday was going to put it out of print, but one agent named Mr. Breinholt from Salt Lake City fought for it and asked for just a few more months to market it. He got Rawls a speaking engagement at the University of Utah to a conference of over 5,000 reading teachers and librarians. Copies of it were made available to them. When they took it back to their schools, the children loved it, and orders began pouring in. Jim Trelease states, "Each year since then, it has sold more copies than the previous year."[4]
Reception[edit]
Although sales of the novel began slowly, by 1974 over 90,000 copies had been sold.[6] In 2001, Publishers Weekly estimated that it had sold 6,754,308 copies.[7] Today Where the Red Fern Grows is required reading in many American schools.[8] One critic said it will please adults as well as children.[9]
I remember crying so much through this book, and even today I tear up thinking of Old Dan and Little Ann. I also loaned this to my [then] children’s librarian, because the library copy was always out. I even marked the pages, “Get out tissue here.”
—  DeAnn Okamura
I love, love, love this book with all my heart and soul. My fourth grade teacher read it to me eons ago, and I’ve read it to two of my three boys. There’s something about weeping together uncontrollably that builds a community of readers…
—  Tess Alfonsin
[10]
There is a statue of Billy and his dogs at the Idaho Falls Public Library.[11]
Every year in Tahlequah Oklahoma there is a Red Fern festival. It is listed below in the links.
See also[edit]
List of Where the Red Fern Grows Characters
Footnotes[edit]
Jump up ^ Where the Red Fern Grows Discussion Guide | Scholastic.com
^ Jump up to: a b Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) on IMDb
Jump up ^ IMDb: Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Wilson Rawls, Dreams Can Come True, audio recording with commentary by Jim Trelease
^ Jump up to: a b http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rawls.html
Jump up ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19740216&id=bMdSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AH4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5192,3528282&hl=en
Jump up ^ "All-Time Bestselling Children's Books". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
Jump up ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19730929&id=3dBSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G38DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6645,6875378&hl=en
Jump up ^ "The Catoosa County News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Children’s Novels #34: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
Jump up ^ "Wilson Rawls". Idaho Falls Public Library. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
External links[edit]
Oracle Think Quest, Education Foundation: Where the Red Fern Grows.
SparkNotes: Where the Red Fern Grows.
http://www.redfernfestival.com
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows&oldid=804803797"
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