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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1969
Page
22
A fragment from a 1969 1970 yearbook style page includes holiday greetings, names of students, and a long poem about Christmas in Texas. It mentions Linda Sargent of Fort Davis and several readers sending best wishes for the season. The piece blends personal notes with a Christmas verse about Santa in Texas.
Locals Lt Bill German a flight instructor for the U S Navy at Chase Naval Air Station Bee ville received his promotion to full lieutenant on Dec 2. He and his wife Patty will be in Alpine for Christmas with his parents to divide leave between Odessa Alpine and Ruidoso N M. Mr and Mrs E E Rutledge of San Antonio will visit her sister and brother in law for Christmas. After Christmas the couples will motor to Abilene to visit their sons. Major Max Olson and family are stationed at Dyness AFB with Patsy Butterworth and children from El Paso and Charles Patterson at Rice University in Houston spending Christmas with Judge and Mrs C E Patterson.
A holiday message titled To all children of Texas offers wishes of joy from an unknown author and signs off with SMILE until next week.
Mr Monte DeRe of Hayward California taught by Mrs Sotello and family will spend Christmas with them. He was the first Latin American from Alpine to graduate from Sul Ross State University and now teaches in Hayward.
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