The High Point-Thomasville HiToms have acquired Samford University RHP Alex Gaeto for the 2024 Coastal Plain League Campaign. In 35.1 innings-pitched through two seasons with the Samford Bulldogs, Gaeto has logged 39 strikeouts and has a career record of 1-1 out of the bullpen. Gaeto attended Albuquerque Academy, where he posted a 1.56 ERA and […]

By Andrew Felts – Southwestern University For the first time in Southwestern University’s illustrious history, a student has earned the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Junior biochemistry and mathematics double major Brian Armijo ’25 was awarded the prestigious, nationally competitive scholarship designated for students pursuing research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering fields. “When I […]

To celebrate 50 years of educating girls at Albuquerque Academy, Alumni Council member Ted Alcorn ’01 is telling the stories of women alumni. By Ted Alcorn ’01 Lena Moffitt ’01, who directs one of the country’s leading environmentalist organizations, traces the roots of her advocacy to a box of yellowing newspaper clippings.  She discovered them […]

By Jay Newton-Small / For the Journal In the summer of 2020, Yale University forestry student Ben Christensen was home in Albuquerque weathering the pandemic like most students. He’d just left a large lumber waste pile, which collects waste wood from all over the city, in Los Ranchos and was walking into a Sprouts a […]

To celebrate 50 years of educating girls at Albuquerque Academy, Alumni Council member Ted Alcorn ’01 is telling the stories of women alumni. By Ted Alcorn ’01 As a five-year-old, in the company of her maternal grandmother, Elianna Boswell ’12 went to China.  It was one of many countries she had already visited. That “China” […]

By Ryan Boetel – Albuquerque Journal Business Editor Albuquerque native and Houston Astros All-Star Alex Bregman earlier this month launched Wild Sol, a Southwest food brand that is beginning with a lineup of four salsas, each of which includes fresh ingredients and a minuscule amount of tequila for taste, Wild Sol CEO Michael Posey said. […]

To celebrate 50 years of educating girls at Albuquerque Academy, Alumni Council member Ted Alcorn ’01 is telling the stories of women alumni. By Ted Alcorn ’01 Catherine Gordon, Academy Class of 1977, the first woman ever to coach men’s professional soccer in the U.S., did not start coaching until she was nearly 40. And […]

By Jennifer Ramo, published in the Albuquerque Journal “It’s a mud day,” Dr. Karen Sanchez-Griego mentioned on our call. It took my brain a few seconds to register what a mud day might be. It was a snow day but with mud. The entire student body of the Cuba Independent School District (CISD) was working […]

In honor of 50 years of coeducation at Albuquerque Academy, Alumni Council member Ted Alcorn ’01 is telling the stories of women alumni. Laura Hochla ’97 was about to introduce America’s highest ranking military officer, General Mark Milley, to the pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. But she was thinking about her seventh-grade […]

In honor of 50 years of coeducation at Albuquerque Academy, Alumni Council member Ted Alcorn ’01 is telling the stories of women alumni. When Phoebe Suina describes her feelings for the mountains, fields, and rivers of New Mexico, even the word “love” doesn’t seem adequate. “It’s in my bones, and it’s in my blood,” she […]