Port Isabel High School - Tarpon Yearbook (Port Isabel, TX)

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QP 6 980464 lt doesn't take a big town to have interesting people, and good people, in fact, it doesn't take a town at all But we have a town that is a town but not a big town, and we have Miss Maggie Valent NN Frank M La Roche al lnteresting people, and good people, too Miss Maggie's father who lived to be lOO years old was born in Palma Mayorce, Spaln, ln 1822 He came to Port Isabel in 1884 where he later started in the fishing bus iness with three salling vessels, La Linda, El Mar, and El Mundo Ferdinand VII was King of Spain at the time M Valent left Spaln Mr Valent was a member of the Con federate Army Miss Maggle was born in Port Isabel November 22, 1888 As a child, she was wide awake, and now remembers many interest ing things 1D Port lsabel's history Mlss Maggie was Chair man of the Red Cross for this section durlng the first World War She is public spirlted and does a great deal of Charity work She 1s an accomplished seamstress and artist in waxing flowers and creating designs on textile materials His father, Daniel Constance LaRoche, was brought to Brazos Santiago Pass a prisoner of war in 1860 H stole a yawl boat from the captain's ship, a barrel of water, some hard tack and a compass, and escaped by sailing up the Rio Grande River After the war, he settled at Point Isabel and brought his family here where Frances was born, November 25, 1889 and has raised and helped en people, one of wifen, accord ing to Mr LaRoche, was a better fisherman than he was be cause she caught a 7 ft tarpon Mr LaRoche is the father of eleven children two more He had to keep busy He has seen tertain on fishing parties some illustrious whom was President Warren G Harding, nwhose Mr LaRoche operated the Casino Boat line from Port Isabel to Padre Island for two and one half years, has been and still is a boat builder, has served as Master and Engineer for the United States Army and worked with the first dredge ever to work in the Pass Mr LaRoche knows the history of Port Isabel and he likes Port Isabel, tool as ' 0 .. I 0 f 1 ' . . . it ibg U - Yi? ' 0 I'. 1 9' ' . . - ,,: . . . - . . . ' an . . . . e . .. D . O I 1 . - Q n , - f n 2 . . -. .l r-i A-- xx W Q ' L D O I

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6 egafazfora arewoe To the tudent of Port Isabel High School, the taff of 'The Tarponn hope that thl year book w1ll br1ng back pleasant memor1es for many year to come ve hope that thi book will keep al1ve your love for and your loyalty to your Alma hater we expre our appreclatlon to the following for thelr L Harrel, our photographer, for his fine work and untiring effort Gonzalo Gonzales for his excellent work on our ads Ne now turn thi 1947 Tarpon over to you, tudents hope you enjoy it as much a we did in preparing it ,PAAZZ OMXJLZZ, 54? if 84 e ' ' s . s . s .S . . ' S 0 I- ' S . , . ' SS 1 . . . assistance in giving you this annual. lr. s. O l ' s s . We s . v -S . 45-.hx , t ,

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F1 nk T iclman Dr J A Hockaday .T,E. La Moore Lllgqgfp Q nf Fey s, thlrty year O S g x L e UH 1 tbA xx Bb h Ckg L econl thTC W t 1 off ce net bolz a officer P 211' Of' CC f pq Clkl s an 1Cc1 of e s Ira l PP' 'I' U e wit' an afalian b U6 YB ,u 5, ho kill 1 V15 W1 e have DY UI' 1 '11 t of Lrank Frank 15 retlred o and spends nost of 11S t1W8 1 Yblf , h rses and n He does ter the lawn, too 'Do Hockadev's history reveals tr T he spent the early year of hls life trflne to prow u, After praduftlfv from high chool, he became a Hedlcal student at University hedl al school in Kansas ity where he cr on ted in 1913 nHbltl0U for the professior, he swung h stethoscope e out h s 4 1 win xg team near Camden, Nc and recorded the pulse of people Later he went to estern Kansas whe Pe ofned e drug store, but before p oflfs put hxm lf a POSIUIOH to retlre, orld 'ar I took hir out and gl c d m 1U as a First Ll6Ut8H9Ht in the Lpdical Corps Doc c o tlne to Port Isabel on June 15, 1919 ju t in tra nick lthin 2h hours efter hls Prrlvel he spanked the a eeve of life into b bies Timmle L Roche nd hoe sno they have been breathing it ever ince Gonzales WDoc' hes performed an aver ve of 50 such sparklnv e ch year slnce 915 arrlval In order to have a place to l1ve, WDocN took over nfnage ment of Coastal Potel in 19 O He is the Nfather' of the Fishing Rodeo WTICH developed to a 'ational scale in 1929 Doc became yor of Port Isabel in l9L6 and is fighting hard to put his propran over Pls hobbies re many, but na ture hunting nd vll ne life f1t well into the picture Born in Michigan, April 2,5 1871, and grew up 'Just an average boy in a b1g famlly. Always interested in en- gineering, he took his studies seriously. At 19, he 'want- ed to go places and see things , so the life of the sea gripped him for 50 years. But , said he, 'the sea is for a young man, so I quit and built a marine shop in Corpus Christi just as that port was starting to develop. Later I came to Port Isabel and saw its possibilities and built a shop here, which was in 1928 . He plans to stay. Mr. La.Moore has received the higxest certificate issued by the United States Department of Cormnroe, that of Chief En- gineer cf Ocean Going Vessels. He held the record at the time for having completed his examination with 'Very Ex- cellent' rating in the mortest time possible. At, '75, his hearing is perfect am his eye is accurate. 0n one occa- sion, the author saw him with one jerk each draw tour red hot bars into perfect right angle. He dared the author test with a square, but In knew better. Mr. LaMoore's hobby is pets. He has ducks, geese pigeons, and guinea fowls that :ntch their young under his work benches. 66