I ran for the school board and was fortunate enough to be elected. I served for 12 years, having served as president, VP and secretary of the Board. I was, in fact, the first Hispanic to be elected to the Board of Trustees.
Read MoreWhen I was a freshman I attended the “Fish Bowl” school. This was the last year that Round Rock HS had a 9th grade center due to the large number of students in the high school. It became Chisholm Trail MS the following year. When I was a sophomore, Westwood HS opened. I remember that the railroad tracks on 620 were the dividing line. There was nothing but open land between Round Rock HS and 183.
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A very special teacher I remember was Helen Booth who went to bat for Mitchell Wolf so he could graduate with our class. Mitchell was very smart, but missed a lot of school to help work on the family farm. Because of Miss Booth, Mitchell did graduate with us, and went on to be a very successful top construction foreman. One of his many success stories is the work he oversaw on the construction of Bergstrom Air Force Base that was completed in 1942.
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I graduated from Round Rock High School in 1942. After the raid on Pearl Harbor, I joined the Navy. I went to San Diego for basic training and then onto fight the Japanese in the South Pacific. I served on the destroyer USS McCalla DD 488.
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Dick Mayfield and I agreed that a great way to remember our fellow students’ accomplishments would be in a yearbook. RRHS had never had a yearbook. When they approached Mr. Perry, he dismissed our idea as “only a way to look at the girls’ pictures.”
Principal O.V. McDaniels originally said no to the yearbook idea, but later called us back into his office with a compromise — if we could sell $250 in ads in one hour, then we could have a yearbook.
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