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A Guide to the Main Avenue High School Alumni Association Records, 1921-1999
Historical NoteThe Main Avenue High School Alumni Association was organized around 1979 to plan the 50th Anniversary reunions of the graduating classes of 1930-1932. Main Avenue High, originally San Antonio High School, was established in 1882 to accommodate the growing number of school-age children in San Antonio, Texas. The school was rebuilt and renamed Main Avenue High (to reflect its street name) in 1917. The only other secondary school in the city at that time was Brackenridge High. Main Avenue and Brackenridge formed an intense rivalry, which later turned into friendship when both schools' alumni associations cooperated on alumni events for students from the graduating classes of 1929-1932. The alumni association of Brackenridge High was called the Mid-Thirties Alumni Association, which sometimes worked with Main Avenue on alumni events. In 1932, Main Avenue High became Fox Technical High School, the city's first vocational school; the newly opened Thomas Jefferson High School offered an academic curriculum to former Main Avenue students. Mary Carr-Paschal (Class of 1930) and Ben Shaver (Class of 1931) were the founders of the Main Avenue High School Alumni Association and Carr-Paschal served as one of the principal officers of the Association. She was the Association's Newsletter Editor and also Alumni Historian. Carr-Paschal was primarily responsible for establishing contact with alumni and orchestrating alumni events. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Content NoteThe Main Avenue High School Alumni Association Records document the efforts of two alumni to reconnect with classmates from the graduating classes of 1930, 1931 and 1932. The collection includes information about the school alumni associations and people connected to the Main Avenue High School Alumni Association. Items include correspondence, news clippings, yearbooks, alumni catalogs, alumni lists and addresses, flyers, photographs, newsletters, newspapers, meeting minutes and memoranda, programs and invitations, sign-up and reservation forms, reports, song lyrics, cheers and original poems and essays. Noteworthy items include Main Avenue High commencement programs from 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930, yearbooks for Main Avenue and Brackenridge, two unique newspaper publications of Main Avenue's El Huisache, a panoramic reunion photograph by local photographer E.O. Goldbeck, and extensive obituary documentation. Main Avenue High School Alumni Association correspondence includes notes and letters from alumni detailing the lives and deaths of former students, information which was later summarized in the alumni newsletters. There are also biographical materials, notes and certificates that belonged to Mary Carr Paschal. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsThis collection is housed at UTSA's Main Campus and must be accessed via the John Peace Library Special Collections reading room. To request access, please use the Collections Request Form. Use RestrictionsThe researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred Citation[Identification of item], Main Avenue High School Alumni Association, MS 145, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections. Acquisition InformationDonated by Mary Carr-Paschal and Ben Shaver, 2003 and 2004. Additions donated by Kathy Shockley in September 2020 (2020-023) and by Cathy Coers Frank in September 2020 (2020-024). Processing InformationProcessed by Ancelyn Krivak and Heather Kuhn, Interns, July 2006. Additions processed by Melissa Gohlke, Assistant Archivist, December 2020. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Collection
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