Pharr San Juan Alamo High School - Bear Memories Yearbook (Alamo, TX)

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Sylvia Quintanilla Homecoming Queen 1980-81 Among dll the activities that took place during Homecoming Week, the most important one was the electing of a new Homecoming Queen. Assemblies for each of the classes were held to introduce the ten young ladies nominated. Later all students receivod a chance to vote for the young lady of their choice. Friday came and the girls found themselves on the center of the field, as undoubtedly all the attention centered on them. Moments later Miss Sylvia Quintanilla was announced as the new Homecoming Queen for 1980-81. a Min Sylvia Quintanilla, Homecoming Queen 1980-81. bi Homoconrrg nominees aro Sylvia Quintanilla, Charlotte Jackson. Rosario Compean, Esmeralda Barrera, Mary Lou Sandoval, Sandra Ramiroz, Diana Chapa, Patty Serna, Hilda Lopez and Jennie Garza. c Letty Tagle In bear costume and Miss Carolyn Morriss find a little timo to char despite oli the eicitement as the mighty Bears clobbered the Mission Eagles 27-6. d) On the Homocoming court are Sondra Ramirez, second runner up, Sylvia Quintanilla. Homecoming Quocn and Patty Serna, -firs runner up. e| Thoso mums aren't gonna stop Connie Hernendez from cheering for the Beers, f' Esmeralda 8arrera was one of the ten beautiful girls being introduced at the Homecoming assemb'y-

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If you don't like the weather in Texas, lust wait five minutes and it will change so goos the saying and there was o lot of truth in it for Valleyitos this year. Everything from a drought to Hurricane Alien shed its wrath upon us this year. The summer turned out to bo one of • tcka s the hottest in decades. Lakes and ponds dried up. grass died and the sun sizzled upon our heads endlessly. Many crops in the area were destroyed because of the lack of rain. Very few raindrops fell until August 9. That's when Hurricane Ailen knocked on our doors. Billed as one of the worst hurricanes of the century wo quickly boarded up windows and sandbagged doors, stocked up canned goods and water and prepared for the worst. Many even left town for safer ground. This mass evacuotion saved thousands of lives. However. Allen proved to be not quite as bod as first thought. As it neared the Brownsville coast, it stalled and weakened as peak gusts recorded there were 78 mph. Land fall wos over the south end of South Padre Island ond 95% of the Valley escaped the most severe portion of the storm—the northeast quadrant. The hardest hit area was in and around Port Mansfield. And those of us at school will never forget the endless rains of the fall. What teacher could forget walking into any room in E. M. K or G building only to see garbage bags directing a steady stream of water into their trash cans. All in all. it was a year of contrast. But if you don’t like the rain, just wait five minutes and the sun will come out. al A common » gkt was a lanitor swooping up tna ma r in tka halls, b) Hallways war always floodad wkan tka ram fa c) Trask cans provod useful in more wavs than one

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HOMECOMING