Member of the 1929-1940 Men's Basketball Team
Eddy Page, student body president, president of the "T" Club, Blue Key treasurer, business manager of El Corral, was inducted into the WNMU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989. Active in basketball, football, and track, Page graduated from high school in Shelbyville, Indiana, before coming to Silver City.
Page says that being the business manager of the El corral had a "great effect on my life, for it helped create my desire to go into the business world. Working and learning from fellow students...started it all." Especially remembered are Ginger Hammack, Jimmy Richards, and "enthusiastic Gene Elayer", as well as others on that yearbook staff.
In 1942, Page graduated from STC with a Bachelor of Science in Business and a minor in math. Eddy, because of his close relationship with the President and Mrs. James and Professor Chase Webb, continues to claim them as a part of his family.
Naval LT. (JG) Eddy Page, who served from 1942-1945, was commended by Fleet Admiral Nimitz, USN and Major General Larsen, USMC. One of the commendations reads:
Lt. Page, with a small and untrained staff, handled 20,000 tons of radio-radar material to become one of the world’s largest stock of radio-radar equipment and parts, now known as Cinc-Pac Radio-Radar Pool, Guam. Only by the enactment of Lt. Page's program for storing, issuing equipment and parts and word far beyond the normal call of duty, was the fleet successfully supplied.
Before Page left NMSTC for World War II, he married his college sweetheart, Marge. Their two children, Dr. Connie Page-Conner, is a professor of statistics at Michigan State University, and Dr. Gordon Page is vice president of Radian Corporation in Austin, Texas.
Page, as owner and manager of the Rodeway Inn in Carlsbad, New Mexico, retired in 1981. In 1989, he was inducted into the WNMU Athletic Hall of Fame. Being retired has provided Eddy with time for travel (1 97-day cruise around the world), drawing, and painting.
