If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 100.
New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.
Sam Steel Way was named for a young man who would have been the first graduate of NMSU, then known as New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, had he not been murdered in 1893. Steel was shot and killed on March 9 of that year in what today is known as Mesilla Park. The 17-year-old was the son of a prominent Mesilla Valley family and a nephew of local Judge John McFie, who helped found the college. Steel began attending the college at age 13. According to an article in The New Mexico Collegian , a monthly publication of the Columbian Literary Society, Steel was delivering milk at the time of his murder. An excerpt from the article read: "The hearts of the whole community w...
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