Ysleta High School - Otyokwa Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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From Its humble beginning In a remodeled courthouse in 1 927 to the present site which was first occupied in 1929, Ysleta High School has experienced a tremendous growth. In 1930, eight students received their diplomas from the first school in the Ysleta Independent School District and the first school in Ysleta, Texas. In fifty years, enrollment has climbed to 3000 students and the curriculum program has been subjected to changes stemming from outside influences: local, national, and world. Since Its beginning half a century ago, Ysleta ' s population has witnessed and participated in major world, national, and community events, reflecting these in its growth and change. Moving rapidly through fifty years many momentous events stand out: 1927-1937 — Stock Mar- ket Crash: beginning of the Great Depression — Hitler comes to power in Germany — Drought creates Dust Bowl 1937-1947 — Beginning of World War II — Japanese attack Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters the war — Franklin D. Roosevelt elected into an unprecedented third term — War ends in Europe — Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Begin- ning of the Atomic Age — World War II ends 1947-1957 — Religious exer- cises in school ruled unconstitu- tional — Television in wide use — Communists gam control of China — Supreme court rules segre- gated schools unconstitutional 1957-1967 — First U.S. satel lite in orbit Ometf mm nrrn, on of th thr woman police oHicert of th« Lowor Valloy Police tubttatlon, fulllllt part of tier duly completing complaint forms. INSERT: Sotting an axample of changing fashion trends between generations, two visiting Meiican nationals pause during thato dtarnoon shopping for refreshment.

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' 4 fi ,.,. i fe cametoYsl first coach and tea of agriculture, where he formed the first football team — the Ysleta Qears. In 19 1, he succeedMtMiss yiyBc|{)al and served in that position until 1939. At the beginning of World War II, Superintendent Hanks was called to the Pentagon and Mr. Cooper was appointed as acting superintendent for the district. After the war, Mr. Cooper was assistant superintendent until his retirement in 1962. Mr. John Yoe headed the mathematics department and was principal of Ysleta Grade School for two years prior to attaining the position of principal for YHS in 1939. Yoe received his teaching degree from the Southwest Texas State Teachers ' College and carried out his term as principal until he was called to the service in 1943. Mr. Clyde Wafer left his position as athletics and P.E. coach at El Paso . High School and came to YHS in 1 932 as coach and teacher of Social Studies. Mr. Wafer coached footbalf basketball, and track in that position; he produced champion teams In all three sports with the assistance of two students. In 1 943 he was ' ■ appointed as principal and served until 1962. In that same year, he was appointed as district assistant % superintendent and served until his retirement in 1 974. i , Mr. W. T. Denham left his position as teacher and superintendent of A Leuders School District in Jones ] County, Texas, and was first employed in the YISD in 1 958 as head of the Social Studies Department at Bel Air High School. He was promoted to the position of assistant principal at the same school until 1 962. In 1 962 he 3 took the position of principal at YHS, p,; Years where he still serves today.

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— Peace Corps created — First Soviet cosmonaut orbits the earth — Berlin Wall built — First American Astronaut orbits earth — U.S. Troops ent er South Viet- nam — Cuban Missile Crisis — Kennedy assassinated — Congress passed Elementary and Secondary Education Act where one billion dollars of federal money is provided for the nation ' s public and elementary schools — Racial disturbances breakout in several large cities — Cultural Revolution, Hippies, Flower Children, Drugs — First Mexican-American sur- named teacher hired in YISD 1967-1977 — Robert F. Ken- nedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated — American troops begin with- drawals from Vietnam — American astronauts land on the moon — Voting Rights Act enables eighteen-year-olds to vote in fed- eral elections — Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office as a result of criminal activities charges in Mary- land — Constitution challenged when Watergate Scandal is discovered: President Richard M. Nixon resigns — First Mexican-American, Mrs. Alicia Chacon, elected to the YSID School Board. — Chamizal land settlement between the United States and Mexico on the El Paso border causes relocation of American families and brings new students toYsleta — YHS students walkout in pro- test of dress codes; dress codes for the district changes in March — Chicano Walkout; YHS has its first taste of racial disturbance, involving about 20 students — Energy Crisis: Arab Oil Embargo pushes price of gasoline from 23 cents to over 58 cents a gallon Changes in the world and in America affected each and every person at YHS. Students witnessed the advance of Woman ' s Lib on a grand scale, the entrance of pornography and more open homosexuality, more energy crises, and the worst political scandal in American History. These drastic changes have changed lifestyles, morals, values, goals, religion, fashions and society — perhaps a bit later here — but inevitable. ,,MM||6erous senior co-eds join together to itiake a square dancing lesson fall in per- Tect timing. INSERT: Grace Moreno and Chuy Ulloa fol- i low through dance techniques as a part of ' class requirements. 5 Fifty Years