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There was a time when the only people on campus who dressed in strange clothes and excited unruly crowds to frenzy were called cheerleaders. The fall of 1963 was such a time, and there was no better place to be a cheerleader than the University of Texas. Eleven wins, no losses, UT’s first national championship, total dominance of Roger Staubach’s Navy team in the Cotton Bowl: all were carried out with a ruthless precision that made them seem preordained. Fourteen years later the memories come back crisp and clean: the band blaring out “Texas Fight,” the trumpets swaying in unison, the cheerleaders running onto the field at exactly the right moment, the backflips, the cartwheels, the team emerging from beneath the stands, the deep
almost back to normal for Ann Hoeffer and her family in rural Lake County.
“The younger ones are doing great. It’s the older ones,” said Hoeffer, who’s helping raise her six grandchildren. “They’re only going to school two days a week, and it’s not enough.”
The youngest three children Esmerelda, 4, Gabriel, 5, and Jesse, 6 have been going to in-person school five days a week for several months. Gabriel and Jesse, who both have autism, have made significant leaps forward thanks to their teachers and therapists, and the stable routine. Jesse can write his name, Gabriel can get himself dressed, and their social skills have improved.
Marcia Ambrose had a brush with royalty in 1969 when she was a student at Clear Lake High School.
The 16-year-old schoolgirl stood among her classmates on Nov. 5, 1969, at the Mason City Airport to greet His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, when he arrived for a brief refueling stint and an even shorter encounter with the large crowd gathered to see him.
Four Clear Lake High School girls watch as Prince Philip gets off of his plane on Nov. 5, 1969, at the Mason City Airport. The girls are (left to right): Marcia Ambrose, Lynn Holden, Sandy Frederichs and Candy Thornberg.