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The album · 10 photographs

1950s

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1954

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7 photographs · from the school’s Facebook group and page
  • The Tex.-Mex. Reflector for January 1954: the quartet sings in Corpus Christi, and Tex-Mex beats Zapata High School 28 to 6.
    1954 · The Tex.-Mex. Reflector for January 1954: the quartet sings in Corpus Christi, and Tex-Mex beats Zapata High School 28 to 6.Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, three-quarter view.
    c. 1954 · The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, three-quarter view.Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, front view.
    c. 1954 · The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, front view.Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, with its Rawlings stamp.
    c. 1954 · The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, with its Rawlings stamp.Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, side view.
    c. 1954 · The Tex-Mex-era leather football helmet, side view.Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • A leather Rawlings football helmet kept from the Tex-Mex football days of the 1950s.
    c. 1954 · A leather Rawlings football helmet kept from the Tex-Mex football days of the 1950s.Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • Classmates at Tex-Mex — the Texas-Mexican Industrial Institute, the boys’ school that became Pan Am — in December 1954; Alfonso Reyes Pineda is among them, and Ernesto Cano thinks the one in the bow tie is Carlos Nuñez.
    1954 · Classmates at Tex-Mex — the Texas-Mexican Industrial Institute, the boys’ school that became Pan Am — in December 1954; Alfonso Reyes Pineda is among them, and Ernesto Cano thinks the one in the bow tie is Carlos Nuñez.“Compañeros en TEX-MEX 1954!!! Alguien los reconoce??”Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove

1955

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2 photographs · from the school’s Facebook group and page
  • The football page of the Tex.-Mex. Reflector, March 1955: “Mr. Jarvis talks things over with our first team.”
    1955 · The football page of the Tex.-Mex. Reflector, March 1955: “Mr. Jarvis talks things over with our first team.”Francisco Treviño G. ’57Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove
  • The Tex-Mex football team in the mid-1950s; Alfonso Reyes Pineda is third from left in the bottom row, and Francisco Treviño, Class of 1957, is also on the team.
    c. 1955 · The Tex-Mex football team in the mid-1950s; Alfonso Reyes Pineda is third from left in the bottom row, and Francisco Treviño, Class of 1957, is also on the team.“Mi papa, Alfonso Reyes Pineda, es el de la fila de abajo de izquierda a derecha, el tercero.”Francisco Treviño G. ’57Shared by Yolanda Reyesg · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove

1956

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1 photograph · from the school’s Facebook group and page
  • A Webster’s dictionary the staff gave Ernesto Cano E. on 13 December 1956 ‘for the name that proved most suitable for the student paper’; in the comments he recalls it may have been Juntos.
    1956 · A Webster’s dictionary the staff gave Ernesto Cano E. on 13 December 1956 ‘for the name that proved most suitable for the student paper’; in the comments he recalls it may have been Juntos.“El diccionario que me dieron por escoger el nombre del periodico de la escuela.”Ernesto Cano E. ’57Shared by Ernesto Cano · PPAS Alumni group on Facebook · Correct or remove