University of Texas–Pan American

And excellence has a way of making walls look small.

She went on to Pan American College, where she was crowned both prom queen and homecoming queen.

In 1958, she was named Miss All South Texas Sweetheart.

She was fair skinned, polished, and remembered for her pillbox hats and sweater sets.

don't have a team.

Who's your team? I graduated from UTPA.

They didn't have football.

They didn't.

... and, uh, non-native English speakers, um, from the Netherlands and, uh, and Chile, uh, who met there at the university.

And then my dad got a teaching position at what was Pan American University and then became part of the UT system, uh, it's now UT Rio Grande Valley, um, and taught there for 48 years.

Um-

Wow.

Oh, really? He got hired by Coach Cooney.

Two Januaries Previous And I got hired in 08 Hired him and the first day Of classes he left and went to UT Pan America

I didn't realize he didn't make it through the spring No

He was at FAU for two seasons Um, as an assistant along with me.