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

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Contents Staff B l-I5 The School Editor in Chief I6-63 Classes Kathleen Clayton 64-75 Faculty Assistant Editors Medora Parker and Karen Taggart 76-99 Sports Copy Editors l00-l29 Organizations Barbara Bowman and Bette Carolyn Yancy l30-l52 Activities . Business Manager Q Janie Polk Sports Editor Marion Hancock Xi Well developed minds strong arms and initiative have been combined to make the in dustries of the Rio Grande Valley 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 .f ' 1 'iv ' Q fl T ' ,, l A t . , A 5 ' K A g, . n x A Q . lips' Ik 7 In

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Number Une Drum Beater ,f,f,L H-.Jer T, ?Q,,.,-I:1:u.,y 'C' v L1 X, Jr! ,,, N J7.4.,vs,L, -'-' Al' A ,nk -Af.:-42 V Lu-QQ -ifiyv -M P7 ,seo ,A+- til.: A--1:54 .J Paul Vrckers has been plugging the Valley rn general and McAllen rn partrcular for over 20 years Its hrs lab, but rt IS also has mam desrre Promrnent among chamber of commerce men In Texas, Mr Vrckers has been lurmg tounsts, rndustnes and honeymooners to McAllen untrl rt has become the number one tounst clty rn the Valley and has become known as the Honeymoon Cnty of Texas He has served as presrdent of the Texas Chamber of Commerce managers two drfterent terms, he was a lecturer at the Southwestern school rn Dallas, and of the 28 years that he has been a member of the Texas Assocratron of Chamber Managers, he has appeared on the conventron program 26 of those 28 years Besndes thus, he rs rntensely Interested In our schools Hardly a group wrns an honor or does some thmg unusual that Mr. Vrckers doesn't wrrte a letter of congratulatrons or recog mze them rn some manner. All of thrs he does quretly and wrthout fanfare and with no desrre for personal recognrtron It rs wlth pleasure that we dedlcate thus l955 EI Espejo to him. .D 2 I l I Q 'V Q I A 4 , , ' X ,,-. ..-M uf -, xp,-EY , .,. 4'-...ff 'If J ' -.- ' if T 'I . ,B wk . ,l ll l ' .!,-'.-.. ' ' :A-f qt- ' ,B Y, L+ ' f' f D - V Q ,,, sf- y . W.-, ,,-, ,gf -' L ls,je.-:,...f ' F . . I - , ,T - . h V, - ' r- -- -X ' -W . ' C- A , ---MMA . all 'J x 4 '. 5 .,. .LJ-' -A' l-.1 fc 'T ' 'J ' 'ik I 'T ' c A.- V ' ' ' A C l 4, I 2 1 l'Wld T 'ff M r f NJ E f. I ' 1 . J ,f V5.4 xv - W - 1 1 R I ,1 E 1 U I , s N- J ,,.1..,-X J... . L vi s, 'I ,,,- ,. 4 gm e y H ffl! L Hd ' . I X 'V . 2 ' 1'-J .,-, A -. 'md ' -v - ..f' I H - X U . : sf, 4' A.. s . .r v X' l I J. Y r r X S .J wg, Lf wr ' W 54 l, ' I f , ,Lf' , . cf ' ll ' ll ' - .