McAllen High School - El Espejo Yearbook (McAllen, TX)

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hjtyjJU, -dt ih CZ2mtf£?t. r- 313;1 1-15 The School 16-63 Classes Editor in Chief Kathleen Clayton y} °t ' Cs 64-75 Faculty 76-99 Sports 100-129 Organizatioi 130-152 Activities Assistant Editors Medora Parker and Karen Taggart Copy Editors Barbara Bowman and Bette Carolyn Yancy Business Manager 0 Janie PoMt • Sports Editor Marion Hancock U ? £ e c n Well-developed minds, strong arms and initiative have been combined to make the in- dustries of the Rio GrandeValley a thriving proposition. In the above picture these intense workers are working on one of many hundred oil wells found in the Valley. The oil business has been the leading industry which has made Texas and the Valley the wealthy state it is.

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fy JM 47 BALE 1953 COTTON OKOWN IN THE US HARLINGEN'%Z MAY 2S ; vvvvr C MISSION TEXAS » ;V 2500.°° waKP HiHuum (iwmtvr.V Commmi - Foreword - - Land of balmy sunshine, tropical fruits, palm trees swaying silently in the breeze, fast-growing, beneficial crops—this land is ours, this Rio Grande Valley, and this is why we love the land of miracles. In this annual we have aspired to describe to each reader the love- liness and prosperity of the Rio Grande Valley, and show through our pictures and words just how much our home in the southern tip of Texas means to each one of us. The Rio Grande Valley has everything!—fruits raised here are sent to all parts of the nation, cotton grown in our fields makes up a great percentage of the production in Texas, and the Valley weather gives warm, sunny days perfect for trips to the beach, swimming, sunning, and just general entertainment; whereas, during the evenings, there is always a cool, soft wind blowing, making the nights of the Valley com- fortable and enjoyable. Truly, the Valley is a tourists' haven, as hundreds of snowdiggers from the East and Middle West find out each year. Businessmen find the Valley to be growing rapidly and becoming a thriving section of Texas. New plans are being put through to enlarge and improve the complete Valley. Our Rio Grande Valley has everything! We hope that the following pages will convince you of this statement. mcallen memorial library McALLEN, TEXAS

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Number One Drum Beater... o- -fi % Q Vx. «-4- - M friAriftflEAX' JixjJkr cSu -v'Jt qJ A C i- '4 «a0 a-f UCA k s- -Ajl. —yv- - Ukjju A -JL» —• ■; -f-iV j -eSU - r - Ub dUU-o -Q. V r - ■jcS AS Jofe ‘ Paul Vickers has been plugging the Valley in general and McAllen in particular for over 20 years. It's his job, but it is also his main desire. Prominent among chamber of commerce men in Texas, Mr. Vickers has been luring tourists, industries and honeymooners to McAllen until it has become the number one tourist city in the Valley and has become known as the Honeymoon City of Texas. He has served as president of the Texas Chamber of Commerce managers two different terms; he was a lecturer at the Southwestern school in Dallas; and of the 28 years that he has been a member of the Texas Association of Chamber Managers, he has appeared on the convention program 26 of those 28 years. Besides this, he is intensely interested in our schools. Hardly a group wins an honor or does some- thing unusual that Mr. Vickers doesn't write a letter of congratulations or recog- nize them in some manner. All of this he does quietly and without fanfare and with no desire for personal recognition. It is with pleasure that we dedicate this 1955 El Espejo to him. 5