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Mackay
Class of 1927
The school teachers in the school photo, on left Hortensia Trevino
and on the right, Eudelia Trevino, are sisters. They are daughters
of the Rev Elias Trevino, a pioneer Presbyterian minister in Texas
in the early 1900s. Hortensia married my uncle, Guadalupe Ramirez,
a 1928 graduate of Texas A & M, one of the first Hispanics to
do so. He had been sponsored to A & M by A.P. and Marie Hough
Borden. Guadalupe returned to Mackay as a teacher and there met
Hortensia. Following their marriage in 1934, Hortensia and Guadalupe
taught school in Bexar, Duval and Starr counties before joining
the U.S. State Department's Agency for International Development
(AID) and served in Bolivia, Colombia, and Paraguay for 17 years,
Hortensia as a teacher and Guadalupe as Rural Development Officer
and Agricultural Advisor. He became a close, personal friend of
Bolivian president Rene Barrientos.
In the school photo are some of my uncles and aunts as well as
brothers and my sister. - Ruben R. Hernandez, June 21,
2005
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