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Parochial school for the elementary grades offered both. >> we were told, don't get mad, pray. the catholic school, don't get mad, pray. so we'd say we have to pray for so-and-so, we start praying. >> later, at the public high school, where girls often aspired to be baton twirlers with the marching band, irene and josie were reluctant. it was the 1940s. was it unusual for mexican-american teenagers to do twirling? >> it was. my mom says, you go ahead and try out. they have a new music director, and we'll see if he'll get you in. and he was impressed with the two of us, and he let us in. >> ire...

School, where girls often aspired to be baton twirlers with the marching band, irene and josie were reluctant. it was the 1940s. was it unusual for mexican-american teenagers to do twirling? >> it was. my mom says, you go ahead and try out. they have a new music director, and we'll see if he'll get you in. and he was impressed with the two of us, and he let us in. >> irene went on to become mcallen high's first mexican-american drum majorette, an inspiration to her younger cousins. >> in essence, it really did not matter what race she was. she was just irene. >> irene also made an impression i...

>> irene went on to become mcallen high's first mexican-american drum majorette, an inspiration to her younger cousins. >> in essence, it really did not matter what race she was. she was just irene. >> irene also made an impression in the local beauty pageants, eventually being crowned miss south texas in 1958. >> she was everything i think that all little girls, especially the young cousins, wanted to grow up to be because she was so poised. i don't know if it's just the right word, elegant? >> after graduating from college, both irene and her sister became elementary school teachers in mcall...

>> if education was to be the way out, religion would show them the way up. parochial school for the elementary grades offered both. >> we were told, don't get mad, pray. the catholic school, don't get mad, pray. so we'd say we have to pray for so-and-so, we start praying. >> later, at the public high school, where girls often aspired to be baton twirlers with the marching band, irene and josie were reluctant. it was the 1940s. was it unusual for mexican-american teenagers to do twirling? >> it was. my mom says, you go ahead and try out. they have a new music director, and we'll see if he'll g...

>> if education was to be the way out, religion would show them the way up. parochial school for the elementary grades offered both. >> we were told, don't get mad, pray. the catholic school, don't get mad, pray. so we'd say we have to pray for so-and-so, we start praying. >> later, at the public high school, where girls often aspired to be baton twirlers with the marching band, irene and josie were reluctant. it was the 1940s. was it unusual for mexican-american teenagers to do twirling? >> it was. my mom says, you go ahead and try out. they have a new music director, and we'll see if he'll g...