Presbyterian Pan American SchoolAlumniEst. 1911, Kingsville, TX
The Senior Form of 1971 in front of the chapel

Everyone camefrom somewhere.

Kigali. Seoul. Havana. Matamoros. Melilla. Tuskegee. For four years, one campus five miles south of Kingsville, Texas: the Presbyterian Pan American School, established in 1911. This is the living archive of every Eagle, starting with the yearbooks, finished by the people in them.

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67 classes, from 1957 to 2023.

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34 countries. One dorm hallway.

293 hometowns, from Mexico City to Kigali.

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The biggest hometowns

Same hallway. Six decades apart.

67 classes are in, from the 1958 seniors who chose a scripture verse and signed their class photo to the 2020 seniors who listed four years of clubs, captaincies and superlatives. All of it exactly as printed. One class from each decade:

Ruth Aguirre
Rafael Cardenas
Luis Estrada
Carlos Gutierrez
Patricia McClendon
1959
23 seniors · 3 countries
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Laura Alvarado
David Dzul
David Gutierrez
Belia Montiel
Peggy Poncho
Jose Servin
1969
30 seniors · 4 countries
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“Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"”

Margarita Arriaga Perez
Duly G. Duran Cavazos
Dalia I. Garza Cortez
Carlos Ibañez C.
Maribel Miranda Garza
Elda Denise Rodriguez
1979
40 seniors · 5 countries
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“Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.”

Angel Aguilar
Hector Baglietto
Gabriela Elvira Crespo
Daniel Ernesto Garza
Moises Mendoza
John Peasland
1985
41 seniors · 3 countries
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“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the wisdom to know the difference”

Adriana Abreu-Cladera
Sergio Becerra
Alicia Guajardo
Liliana Martinez
Karina Musi
Yolanda Ramirez
1992
38 seniors · 4 countries
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“Hitherto Hath the Lord Helped us. Through our time in Pan Am God was with us. He taught us to love Him and to love each other. Of all lessons this is the greatest, the lesson about love, lesson that will last forever.”

Eli Emmanuel Aguado
Luis Castro
Alan DeLeon
Josephine Johnson
Alejandra Murguia
Edgarth Andres Rivera
2008
44 seniors · 5 countries
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Carlos Aguilar
Zacharias Duran
Sebastian Guerrero
Geyong Hui Kim
Ivan Morin
Roger Rugwiro
2014
56 seniors · 5 countries
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Prince Byamungu
Joseph Castillo
Nicolas Garcia
Adelite Hategeka
Jesus Pardo
Jimena Rodriguez
2020
37 seniors · 6 countries
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All 67 classes, 1957 → 2023 →

The presidents, as the yearbooks printed them.

All of them, with dates and doubts →

Before it was Pan Am, it was mesquite.

A boys’ school built by its own students on land from the King Ranch. A girls’ school in Taft. A merger, an architect, a domed gym, a centennial. 35 dated milestones, 16 heads of school, every Board of Trustees the yearbooks printed, with every source shown.

Tex-Mex

1912–1956

A boys' school built by its own students.

Pres-Mex

1924–1956

The girls' school at Taft.

Pan Am

1956–today

One coeducational, international school.

Travel the century →The campus, then and now
Tex-Mex from the road, 1914
Tex-Mex from the road, 1914Juntos 1963, p. 9 →
The new campus from the air, 1959
The new campus from the air, 1959Juntos 1967, p. 10 →

Juntos 1987, page 22.

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Juntos 1987, page 22
“Within a Christian community the Presbyterian Pan American School instills in all students a lifelong passion to learn, lead, and serve.”
The school’s vision

About seventy students from six countries, a chaplain again, a president inaugurated in Morris Chapel in 2025. If a page here made you want to do something for the place, the school’s own channels are one click away.

The school todaySupport Pan Am →