Class of 1965
23 seniors from 4 countries. 61 years out. Class motto: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
- Class officers
- President Antonio PerezVice-President Dolores SolizSecretary Robert JohnsonTreasurer Arnoldo Guzman
- Class colors
- Green & Gold
Flower White Carnation - From
- Cuba · Mexico · Guatemala · United States
- Head of school
- Rev. Sherwood H. Reisner
from tenure dates
Board of Trustees, p. 12 → - Source
- Juntos 1965, senior section →
70 scanned pages
Everyone at the school that year · 100 →
Hometowns as printed under each senior portrait. The “where are they now” layer arrives when alumni claim their profiles — until then, this is where everyone started.
See the class of 1965 on the map →
Prints the school kept from the 1964–65 year, now in the South Texas Archives’ photo file. The archive dated them; the faces are this class and the ones around it.
1965 · A faculty member at the lectern, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1334 
1965 · On the stairs, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1341 
1965 · Graduates of 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1343 
1965 · Graduates of 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1345 
1965 · A musical performance, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1350 
1965 · Table tennis, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1353 
1965 · Decorating for Christmas, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1356 
1965 · Ice cream, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1361 
1965 · Veterans Day, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1371 
1965 · Chapel service, 1965.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1372
What was happening around 1965
- 1965114 students, 670 acres
Dormitories for sixty boys and fifty-four girls; a chapel, a classroom building, an office building, a library, a swimming pool and athletic fields. Total enrollment in 1965–66 is 114. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s students come from a variety of U.S. states as well as Guatemala, Mexico, Congo, Cuba and Colombia.
- 1963Fifty years
The 1963 Juntos is a 50th Anniversary Edition. Its Our Heritage pages tell the story from Aranama College to the master plan, whose first phase was completed that September; next on the program of building will be a classroom building and library. The Panamerican dream is only beginning to come to life.