The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 2001 Page: 3 of 22
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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, November 7, 2001
The Mercedes Enterprise -- Page 3
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THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ecclestastes 3:1, The Living Bible, Tyndale House
WORLD-WIDE REASON FOR HIS COMING
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world, that whosoever
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Evening Worship, 6 p.m.
Wednesday -- Clothes ministry, 10 a.m.
Prayer Meeting and Bible Study, 7:30 p.m.
Dear Mercedes,
Letters from F.S. Lentz, Jr.
Dear Mercedes, 1964. Was it, is it, as long a way from
A Class Act... 64 to 2001? Only they know. Probably
I will dispense with the usual title so. That is a scary thought.
of this piece. While the above may be (Note to the seniors of this year
a little too clever, it is an apt descrip- who saw all those people in weird
• tion of what took place in Mercedes clothes at the football game last Fri-
this past weekend. day night: Your time is coming, and it
The graduating classes of 1955 comes with unbelievable velocity.)
through 1962 held a reunion. On ei- Some not seen in tens and twen-
ther end of the years printed on the ties of years will be there.
announcement were question marks. Isn’t it at times like this that the
That would be my class year, 1964, perpetual redefining of who we are
appropriately entered in the question becomes more noticeable, reinforced
mark zone. . by a strong dose of our own youth?
I had foreknowledge that some of Let’s see...I am a son, a father, a
my classmates were going, some I husband, a busin .sperson, a friend,
have not seen since forever, so I a grandfather, a veteran.
signed up. Pay the ticket, take the Whathave all the friends become,
ride... Since it was not my class do- what has become of the friends...
ing the hard work of hosting, I felt a That all spins in one’s head as fast
little like a party crasher, but we were as the tires do going 85 between
welcomed anyway.
I had that odd kind of fun while
driving on the way down, with antici-
pating. You know you will see people
you once knew pretty well, that you
George West and Alice. Yeah, I used
ease.
Part of the fun was getting to talk
to people who were so far ahead in
school years that you couldn’t talk
to them back then. Several com-
mented on that phenomenon.
Maybe that is every small town,
where the difference of one year is as
rigid as the caste system in India.
Maybe not.
The first night’s festivities ended
with Liz, Margaret Solis and I having
a midnight meal of Mexican food at
another town in the mid-Valley, com-
paring notes.
Sixty-Four people can still hitthe
long ball.
The main event was Saturday
night'. It was held at what I would call
a guest ranch just north of town.
There is not time, space, nor abil-
ity sufficient to get that evening down
have not seen in a long time. At least runny-nosed kid who walked the same
to be a football player, an FFA guy, a here, now.
UIL literary events guy, Priscilla’s little I will be a while in digesting it, but
brother... I can say that it was one of the more
So it goes, back to the bare footed, positive events I have been to.
The thing that kept repeating it-
you felt like you knew them well... path to school every day for about self to me was that I certainly am not
And did it matter much then, how ten years, give or take the rides people the only one who has this abiding
well you knew them? Not really. It was gave him. affection for the people and place that
enough that you were all from Interjection: A walker never for- make Mercedes. It is not as we re-
Mercedes, went to the same schools, gets those who gave him rides. That member it, nothing ever is. But we
the same dime stores, and sooner or is the first reason I wanted to see came, and the part of Mercedes in us
later, the same El Sombrero, Den, and Charlene and Gladys Rhea Traylor, is still the same.
Mer-Tex. The rain fell on everyone the nee married names. No prettier gals When it sorts itself out, I will try
same. ever to get a ride with. Wanted to to finish it, because there is more to
That was then, this is now, isn’t thank them and did. - say.
it? The closer I get, the more blurred Liz and Janet Morgan had gotten What happened to all of us on 9/
it gets. down before I did and the trusted Liz 11 put a different sense of importance
In 1964, a class getting together gave me the plan. Off we went. on keeping the friends and relation-
that had graduated thirty-seven years Charlene Traylor and Bill Ray ships that we have, and that we care
back would have been the class of were the people who ran the show. I about.
1927.1 wondered if the seniors of this have to say they showed us younger I saw that happening, it happened
year, 2001, would consider us as anti- ones much class. Well organized, they to me.
quarian as we considered people from put in a heck of a lot of work; they Like I said, it was a class act...
1927 when it was our turn. demonstrated an openness and wel- ^Que te vaya bien, eh?
It was a long way from 1927 to coming that made everyone feel at Fleet
Iglesia Bautista Filadelfia
410 Dawson Road, Mercedes Ruben Rios, Pastor
Schedule of services:
Sunday School — 9:20 a.m.
Sunday Worship Services - 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service — 5 p.m.
Wednesday Prayer Services - 7 p.m.
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JV LADY TIGER TEAMS - Members of the two Junior
Varsity teams fielded by Mercedes High School
are shown here. In upper photo are JV Lady Tigers,
in front from left, Christine Valdez, Gloria Gonzales,
Josie Gonzalez, Olga Garcia and Charleen
Espinoza. In middle row in same order are Elissa
Rodriguez, Becky Gonzalez, Jennifer Mascorro,
Desi Olivarez and Melissa Torres. In back are
Crystal Rocha, Erika Galan, Coach Betty Morrell,
, Christine Villarreal and Jolynn de la Cerda.
Members of the JV B team are shown below, with
Joanna Pina in front. Next row shows Angie Reyna,
Celina Rivas, Vicky Flores, Amanda Flores,
Jennifer Ruiz and Marcy Marques. In back are
Eileen Sanchez, Elena Moreno, Veronica Reyna,
Yadira Flores, Patricia Muniz, Adriana Garza,
Diana Lara and Coach Rosie Pena. (Photos
courtesy of Oscar Presas Photography.)
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