1990

Guyton Hays joined wife, Marie Jenson Hays (Class of 1986), as the only husband-wife members of the Hall of Honor.

At UNM, “Sheep” Hays played football for coaches Charles Riley and Gwinn Henry and ran track for Roy Johnson.  He was captain of the Lobos’ 1934 football squad that won the Border Conference championship, and was named all-league as a fullback.  That same year, Hays set a Border Conference record in the mile run (4:35) in Tucson.  Hays was also a member of the UNM boxing team and, following graduation, coached the Lobo freshman football team and served as Faculty Manager of Athletics.

Hays served two terms as Commissioner of Public Lands for the state of New Mexico.  Following his retirement, he spent many volunteer hours assisting former baseball coach Vince Cappelli renovate the bleachers at Lobo Field.

Head coach Bill Weeks’ Lobo football team began the season with a resounding 41-7 victory over New Mexico State, the defending Sun Bowl champs, and ended the regular season with a 34-6 whipping in what would be UNM’s final competition in the Skyline Conference.

The Lobos were selected to play in the inaugural Aviation Bowl in Dayton, Ohio, where they would meet Western Michigan.  Played in an ice / snow storm on Dec. 9, at Welcome Stadium, a determined UNM team with an assault of fleet running backs, a phalanx of stalwart linemen and the nation’s leading punter, defeated the Broncos 28-12.

UNM’s Bobby Santiago was named the outstanding back while Chuck Cummins earned the award as outstanding lineman.

Many players from the ’61 team would form the nucleus, and ignite the spark, that would catapult Weeks’ teams to Western Athletic Conference titles in 1962, ’63 and ’64, the first three years of the WAC’s existence.

Steve Reynolds played end on the 1938 Lobo football team that participated in the school’s first postseason bowl game, the Sun Bowl in El Paso.  But, it was his success off the field and subsequent achievements after leaving UNM that put him in the Hall of Honor.  Reynolds was Student Body President and excelled academically, graduating with distinction in 1939 with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Reynolds served as a Navy Lieutenant during World War II.  In August of 1955, he began a 35-year tenure as the State Engineer of New Mexico.  Reynolds became nationally prominent as an authority in water resources, serving on President Eisenhower’s Weather Modification Advisory Committee and as president of the Association of Western State Engineers and Western States Water Council.

Reynolds received numerous accolades from UNM, including the Zimmerman Award for Outstanding Achievement and an honorary Doctor of Law degree.

At Reynolds’ memorial service in June of 1990, New Mexico Gov. Garrey Carruthers proposed that a bust of Reynolds fill the last available space in the Rotunda of Congress in Washington, D.C., for his outstanding service to the state of New Mexico.  Each state is allowed three distinguished honorees.