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Above, recipients of the San Marcos Academy Alumni Scholarship for the 2020-21 school year are Belle Cummings, Mitchell Howard and Arden Moczygemba. The annual awards were presented recently at a school assembly. Below, joined by Mrs. Cecilia Peña, junior Conner Irwin was presented the Captain Paul W. Peña Memorial Scholarship at San Marcos Academy on Jan. 19.
Photos by Marcus McDonald Wed, 01/27/2021 - 6:25pm
Submitted by San Marcos Academy
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
San Marcos Academy presented scholarship awards to four deserving students at a chapel assembly Jan. 19.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Dr. Karen Lyle Munson was born on September 9, 1941 in Corpus Christi, Texas, the first of five children to Kenneth Elwyn Munson and Lillian Lois (Nolen) Munson. She was home schooled through first grade and entered second grade shortly before her seventh birthday. Most of her school years were spent in Beeville Public Schools where she excelled in all her studies.
Karen began piano lessons at age six, and music became her true passion in life. She enrolled in band class in the fifth grade, and became an excellent oboist as well as pianist. The family moved to La Pryor, Texas when she was a sophomore in high school. By then, she was so advanced as a pianist, that she travelled to Uvalde to take lessons from Professor Stein at the college there. While at La Pryor High School, Karen was captain of the girls’ basketball team, and represented her school at district and regional tennis tournaments. She graduated
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Editor’s note: This story is the second installment of a four-part series looking back at the year that was 2020.
In the months of April-June, San Marcos saw a tragedy with the killing of San Marcos Police Department Officer Justin Putnam. San Marcans also participated in civil-rights protests seeking justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. As the summer began in 2020, COVID-19 cases began to spike.
April
On April 1, the Daily Record reported that Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra announced the county would receive 2,000 COVID-19 tests through an agreement with Reliant Immune Diagnostic’s telemedicine application MDBox. The tests, however, would become a source of contention and never became available to the county. The CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System completed its acquisition of Central Texas Medical Center on April 1. The hospital was also renamed to CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - San Marcos. To combat the economic hardship caused by the C
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