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Senior Form · Juntos 1971 · Volume XIV

Class of 1971

25 seniors from 5 countries. 55 years out. Class motto: “To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.”

Class officers
Treasurer Emilio Lanier
Class Moderator Maria Elena Garcia
Class Executive Secretary Hector Garcia
Class colors
Purple & Gold
Flower Orchid
From
Mexico · Cuba · United States · Honduras · Guatemala
Headmaster
Rev. Sherwood H. Reisner
Juntos 1971, p. 13
Board chair Martin G. Miller
Source
Juntos 1971, senior section →
102 scanned pages
Everyone at the school that year · 136 →
Full senior class in front of the chapel, with the handwritten signatures of every senior below it.
The Class of 1971, together. Full senior class in front of the chapel, with the handwritten signatures of every senior below it.Juntos 1971, p. 20 →

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 1971 on the map →
United States
13 seniors · 9 cities
Corpus Christi
Carlos CuellarArturo GarzaGraciela Lopez
Dallas
Deanna PerezGloria Sandoval
Tuskegee
Emiko LanierEmilio Lanier
Fort Sumter
Daisy Whitesides
Gilmer
Jack Daniels
Kingsville
Nancy Rayburn
San Marcos
Azael Lomeli
Taft
Irene Jimenez
Victoria
Thelma Laurel
Mexico
8 seniors · 6 cities
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Maria Elena GarciaMartha Reyes
Mexico City, CDMX
Leticia GonzalezJoel Suarez
Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas
Sonia Castillo
Cuernavaca, Morelos
Rosalinda Martinez
Nueva Rosita, Coahuila
Enrique Cardenas
Reynosa, Tamaulipas
Celso Caballero
Cuba
2 seniors · 2 cities
Sagua la Grande
Hector Garcia
Santa Clara
Danilo Cruz
Honduras
1 senior · 1 city
El Progreso
Ruth Garcia
Guatemala
1 senior · 1 city
Guatemala City
Rosa Maria Rosales

1971 in the archive’s photo file
22 photographs · shown as the archive publishes them

Prints the school kept from the 1970–71 year, now in the South Texas Archives’ photo file. The archive dated them; the faces are this class and the ones around it.

  • Standing: Jack Daniels, Aida Dedmon, Dorothy Leos, Sonia Castillo, Emilio Lanier — the archive could not read the rest.
    c. 1970 · Standing: Jack Daniels, Aida Dedmon, Dorothy Leos, Sonia Castillo, Emilio Lanier — the archive could not read the rest.The archive’s caption: “Standing: Jacp Daniel; Aida Dedmon; Dorothy leau; Sonia Castillo; Emilio Sonier; (Some names are illegible) Squatting: Names are illegible”Jack Daniels ’71 · Aida Dedmon ’73 · Dorothy Leos ’70 · Sonia Castillo ’71 · Emilio Lanier ’71South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.0664
  • The Board of Trustees, 1970.
    1970 · The Board of Trustees, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1763
  • Trustees and students, 1970.
    1970 · Trustees and students, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1766
  • Groundbreaking, 1970.
    1970 · Groundbreaking, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1777
  • The whole school outdoors, 1970.
    1970 · The whole school outdoors, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1782
  • The graduating class outside the school — the archive dates it 1970; the faces are the Class of 1971.
    1970 · The graduating class outside the school — the archive dates it 1970; the faces are the Class of 1971.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1783
  • The graduating class in gowns.
    1970 · The graduating class in gowns.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1784
  • On the tractor, 1970.
    1970 · On the tractor, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1787
  • Putting up a fence, 1970.
    1970 · Putting up a fence, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1790
  • P.E. class in Pan Am shirts, 1970.
    1970 · P.E. class in Pan Am shirts, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1796
  • Popcorn, 1970.
    1970 · Popcorn, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1799
  • Walking to class, 1970.
    1970 · Walking to class, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1800
  • Students with faculty, 1970.
    1970 · Students with faculty, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1802
  • At the piano, 1970.
    1970 · At the piano, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1811
  • Dancing, 1970.
    1970 · Dancing, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1812
  • The faculty, 1970.
    1970 · The faculty, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1826
  • In the lab, 1970.
    1970 · In the lab, 1970.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.1831
  • Choir 1971, a contact sheet: Isai Castillo; Sunday-afternoon games; Francisco Palafox and Jose Luis Garcia; the Torsch family; Ernesto E. Pulido, Peter Gonthier and Hector Cortez; Hector Cortez and Omar Lyra; Isai Castillo and Ernesto Pulido.
    1971 · Choir 1971, a contact sheet: Isai Castillo; Sunday-afternoon games; Francisco Palafox and Jose Luis Garcia; the Torsch family; Ernesto E. Pulido, Peter Gonthier and Hector Cortez; Hector Cortez and Omar Lyra; Isai Castillo and Ernesto Pulido.Isai Castillo ’72 · Francisco G. Palafox ’72 · Jose Luis Garcia ’72 · Ernesto E. Pulido ’72 · Peter Gonthier ’72 · Hector Cortez ’72 · Omar Lyra ’72South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.2067
  • Choir 1971, a contact sheet: Frances Sandoval and Leticia Perez; Alma Garza and Isaac de Lugo; Elpidio Padilla and Justyn Rees; Melva Turrubiates and Vicky Osborn; Carmen Chapa and Melva Turrubiates; Isaias Uc and Elpidio Padilla.
    1971 · Choir 1971, a contact sheet: Frances Sandoval and Leticia Perez; Alma Garza and Isaac de Lugo; Elpidio Padilla and Justyn Rees; Melva Turrubiates and Vicky Osborn; Carmen Chapa and Melva Turrubiates; Isaias Uc and Elpidio Padilla.Frances Sandoval ’72 · Leticia Perez ’72 · Alma Garza ’72 · Isaac de Lugo ’73 · Elpidio Alberto Padilla ’72 · Melva M. Turrubiates ’72 · Victoria Osborn ’72 · Carmen Chapa ’72 · Isaias Uc ’72South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.2068
  • A faculty member with small children, 1971.
    1971 · A faculty member with small children, 1971.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.2069
  • Eight visitors in the garden, 1971.
    1971 · Eight visitors in the garden, 1971.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.2072
  • Behind the school banner, summer 1971.
    1971 · Behind the school banner, summer 1971.South Texas Archives, Texas A&M University–Kingsville · A2016-017.2079
Meanwhile, at the school

What was happening around 1971

The whole century →
  1. 1971
    President becomes Headmaster

    For the first time the yearbook prints Reisner's title as Headmaster; the classes are the First, Median and Senior Forms. Enrollment in 1972 is 110, with a faculty of thirteen.

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