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Saturday
Deluge
It seems the saying “When it rains, it pours”
holds true for this area. During Saturday’s rain
people reacted differently. Those who could,
traveled in cars or pickups. Others stood in
doorways and watched. A few, mostly the young
and young at heart, walked- or dashed- through it.
One who gave the high step a try was Balde Alanis,
shown on the right.
TIE nun IWF5S
Section B
Pharr, Texas 78577
June 7,1979
The time is now
PAU secures aid for students
EDINBURG--If you have not
jumped on the bandwagon to
receive your federal loans and
grants here at Pan American,
you are one of the few students
who have not.
About 75 percent of Pan
American’s approximate 9,000
students enrolled for the spring
and fall sessions have received
some type of financial aid.
Since most of these students
- were reared in low-income
families, they need assistance
of federal loans and grants in
order to go to school.
In order to receive a grant or
loan, you must first go to PAU’s
financial aid office at the
University student center
building, room 108.
The pace is hectic in the
financial aid office, and it is
usually pretty crowded, for
there are many students who
are anxious to receive financial
aid.
There might, be a little wait
before someone helps you to fill
out an application but if you are
a student who is truly in need of
financial aid, the wait will be
nothing compared to a $1,00 or
$1,500 grant or loan.
In order to be eligible a
student must prove his
financial need. This means he
must discuss his and his
family’s income. If a student
shows that he has to have this
money to go to college, he is
considered eligible.
Each student must be
evaluated for financial need.
Pan American’s evaluation is
based on the principle that a
student has the responsibility
for education costs. Therefore
his income (and spouse’s, if
married), and other assets are
considered when determining
need.
How much the student is
expected to contribute toward
his educational costs will vary
depending upon marital status
and school classification.
Workin during vacation pe-
riods, summer jobs and
part-time work all can be
considered as part of the
student’s contribution toward
his education, according to
Sylvia Lujan, financial aid
director at PAU.
Parents of dependent stu-
dents are expected to contri-
bute to their children’s
educational costs also. The
same guidelines determining
need and amount of aid for
independent and married stu-
dents also are used here.
Lujan goes on to say that the
financial aid department at Pan
American tries to fund at least
80 percent of the individual
student’s need.
“We expect the student to
carry part of the load, says
Lujan.
Even though the student who
is on financial aid needs to help
out a little, the biggest part of
his education is being paid for
him, and if he is receiving only
grants, the grant money does
not have to be paid back in most
instances.
Kika said Mexico visit successful
Rep. Kika de la Garza said
the recently concluded U.S.-
Mexico Interparliamentary
Conference held in Mexico City
last week was successful.
“Although realizing that one
conference can’t solve all our
problems, the opportunity to
discuss issues of mutual
concern face-to-face with Mex-
ico’s leaders helped each
conferee understand our re-
spective situations better,”
Rep. de la Garza said.
‘‘As chairman of the US
House delegation to the
conference I also had the
opportunity to discuss with
Mexican conferees many issues
of mutual concern to our border
area.
“The assignment gave me the
chance to renew my long-
standing relationships with our
Mexican friends and colleagues
and to continue to address the
critical issues facing the U.S.
and Mexico. Immigration,
Mexican energy reserves,
trade, drug traffic, law of the
sea and new crop development
were some of the issues dealt
with in a spirit of cooperation.
“These are tough problems
for both nations, but the
atmosphere of warmth and
candor of our meeting bodes
well for the future solution of
these difficult problems facing
us,” de la Garza concluded.
The U.S.-Mexico Interparli-
amentary Exchange was initi-
ated nineteen years ago to
provide a direct mechanism for
the legislatures of the fwo
nations to communicate and
establish relationships benefi-
cial to both countries. Meetings
are held in alternate years in
the two countries. Las year’s
meeting was held in
Washington.
Reynolds Aluminum has
recycling center here LBJ School lists 8th grade honor roll
The Reynolds Aluminum
Recycling Company has a
mobile unit that stops each
Friday from 9- 11:30 a.m. at El
Centro Shopping Center.
Area residents interested in
aiding conservation can deposit
PSJA people you should know
School employee enjoys work
Delfina Vecchio started
school in a one room school with
students from the age of seven
to over 20 studying in the same
room. More than five decades
later Mrs. Vecchio still goes to
school.
Mrs. Vecchio has worked in
PSJA School District lunch-
rooms for 25 years. She started
in 1954.
A plaque was presented to
Mrs. Vecchio by Dan Ramirez,
PSJA school board president,
May 18, honoring the 25 years
of service to the district.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE- Mrs Delfina Vecchio
shows the plaque she received for her 25 years of lunchroom
service to the PSJA School District. Dan Ramirez, school board
president presented the plaque to Mrs. Vecchio.
“I’ve decided to work another
year,” Mrs. Vecchio said,
“because I enjoy it.
I get along with everybody,”
Mrs. Vecchio said, “even if they
aren’t always nice. I love them
all.
The schools are much larger
now, Mrs. Vecchio said, than
when I first started. Because of
this the students seem to be
harder to control, she said.
“The students don’t seem to
have the discipline,“Mrs. Vec-
chio said, “that they used to
have.”
The dress styles have also
changed, she said, from dresses
slacks for the boys to jeans and
shorts now.
Mrs. Vecchio was born on a
farm in Star County. Her father
owned land on which he grew
cotten.
“The roads were sand then,”
she remembered, “and it took
three days to get to Lubbock in
1932.”
Her father had a 1927 truck
that he took the family and a
few other workers to Lubbock
in to pick cotton.
“I enjoyed it even though it
was often very dusty and
sometimes we had to travel in
ice and snow," Mrs. Vecchio
said.
The city of Pharr has
changed, Mrs. Vecchio said.
“We used to come to Pharr in a
1925 Model T and buy
hamburgers for a nickle or an
ice cream cone for the same
thing, a nickle.”
There was a park where HEB
is now, Mrs. Vecchio said.
Mrs. Vecchio said now she
and her Husband Enrique, keep
a garden and go out and have a
good time.
their alminm beverage cans and
other aed alminm items and
receive money in return.
Reynolds reported it had
recycled over 16,000,000 po-
unds from Texans in 1978. The
company paid over $2,750,000
for this aluminum.
Reynolds pays 20 cents per
pound for cans and also accepts
aluminum items such as pie
plates, foil, frozen food and
dinner trays, storm doors and
window frames and lawn
furniture tubing.
$100 awarded
Eight PSJA High School
seniors received Pan American
University’s President’s Lead-
ership Scholarships.
Benefits from this scholar-
ship include $100 per semester
for the freshman year plus the
assurance of continuation.
The eight PSJA students
are:Anna Maria De Leon,
Perfecto Facundo, Noel Garza,
Ramiro Gutierrez, Irene Jasso,
Alma M. Lopez, Helen Patricia
Maserang and Elena Trevino.
Students who receive the
scholarships must be accepted
as full-time PAU students.
They must also rank in the top
50 percent of their high school
graduating class and have had
successful leadership exper-
ience in high school activities.
Pit Privy
aid still
available
The City of Pharr is
currently operating a Pit-Privy
Elimination Program which
is currently in its third year of
implementation.
Financial assistance is being
made available to eligible City
residents for the construction
| of adequate indoor bathroom
facilities.
Additional information re-
garding this program can be
obtained by contacting the
Community Development De-
partment at 415 S. Palm or by
calling 787-8573 between 8 and
5 p.m., Monday-Friday.
Lyndon B. Johnson announ-
ces the eighth grade honor roll
for the third quarter . Students
who received all “A’s” were:
Olha Ahuilera, Mariela Barri-
entes, Lorelli Cottle, Olga
Esquivel, Michael Galvan, Lori
Ann Garza, Oneida R. Garza,
Raudel Garza, Veronica Gonza-
lez, Ernesto Gutierrez, David
A. Keel, Laura Lozano, Ma.
Francis Martinez, Bryan R.
Newcombe, Bertha A. Reyes,
Roel Robles, Javier Saenz,
Yolanda Sandoval, Dinora
Zapata.
Eighth grade students re-
ceiving A’s and B’s are:
Elizabeth Barrera, Lisa Boone,
Edgar Cabrera, Ma. Guadalupe
Cantu, Benigna Casares, Ma:
Isabel de la Garza, Robin
Brenda Doty, Ricardo Escobar,
Anita Fann, Beatriz Flores,
Rene Flores, Ma. de los
Angeles Garcia, Elizabeth
Garcia, Eugenio Garcia, David
Garza, Ma. Magdalena Garza,
Marisa Garza, Roel Garza,
Sandra Garza, Ramiro Gonzalez
and Tamara Graham.
Others include: Cleotilde
Guerrero, Cesar R. Hernandez,
Edmundo Maldonado, Josefa
Mata, Roberto Martinez, Feli-
ciana Mendoza, Yolanda Mo-
rales, Orlando Munoz, Raul
Munoz, Jose M. Palacios,
Fernando Ramirez, Martina
Ramirez, Ramiro Ramirez,
Zoila Ramirez, Sonia Rivas,
Rogelio Rodriguez, Roel Rosa-
les, Eddie Sanchez, Aron Santa
Maria, Martha Sepulveda,
Melinda Serna, Ruth Tijerina,
Cynthia Vega, and Enriqueta
Vera.
Eighth grade students who
received all A’s for the year
are: Olga Aguilera, Mariela
Barrientes, Edgar Cabrera,
Olga Esquivel, Lori Ann Garza,
Oneida R. Garza, Raudel Garza,
Veronica Gonzalez, Bryan R.
R. Hernandez, David A. Keel,
Laura Lozano, and Edmundo
Maldonado.
Others include: Ma. Francis
Martinez, Felicia Mendoza,
Yolanda Morales, Jose M.
Palacios, Fernando Ramirez,
Zoila Ramirez, Sonia Rivas,
Roel Robles, Rogelio Rodri-
guez, Roel Rosales, Javier
Saenz, Gilbert A. Salinas Eddie
Sanchez, Yolanda Sandoval,
Martha Sepulveda, Melinda
Serna, Ruth Tijerina, Cynthia
Vega, and Gloria Vela.
continued on page 4
Honors Mrs. Marie Baker
Whitney surprises retiring principal
The Whitney School court- School where the U.I.L.
yard was the setting for a students won the Second Place
lovely surprise for Mrs. Marie Trophey this year.
Baker, who is retiring as
principal.
At a meeting of the school
personnel on May 31, Mrs.
The students outlined the Baker was presented with a
courtyard. Thw Whitney Drill
Team, dressed in white blouses
and blue pleated skitrs,
performed the drills and dances
that have made them outstand-
ing.
Coach Alice Alvarez pre-
sented a lovely spray of
long-stemmed red roses to Mrs.
Baker as a tribute to her
leadership as principal of
Whitney School. As she was
presented this bouquet of
roses, the teachers and
students honored her with the
song “You Light Up My Life.”
Mrs. Baker has had twenty-
two years experience in the
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo School
District which include positions
as Math Teacher, Math
Department Head and Princi-
pal at both Sorensen and
Whitney Schools.
One of her achievements
while teaching math at the
High School was taking several
students to State U.I.L. in
beautiful silver tray expressing
the affection and respect of her
faculty.
Mrs. Baker is a member of
Delta Kappa Gamma, T.S.T.A.,
Texas Elementary Principals
and Supervisors, Texas Associ-
ation of Supervisors of
Mathematics, Math Supervis-
ors Organization, Rio Grande
Valley Association of School
Administrators, Texas Asso-
ciation for Bilingual Education.
RETIRING PRINCIPAL- Mrs. Marie Baker is her 22 years of service to the school system by
Number Sense. This leadership retiring as principal of Whitney School. Mrs. faculty and students at Whitney,
has carried over to Whitney Baker was given a suprise reception honoring (Photo by Leo Garza)
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Nelson, Charles. The Pharr Press (Pharr, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1979, newspaper, June 7, 1979; Pharr, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth866810/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Pharr Memorial Library.