Robert E. Lee Elementary School Staff from Decade of the 1990’s Celebrate 35 Year Reunion
:By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2025
Former Eagle Pass Independent School District Principal Julian Lerma announced that former principals, teachers, and staff members of the former Robert E. Lee Elementary School from the decade of the 1990’s celebrated a 35 Year Reunion on Monday, March 31, 2025 at the now named Juan Seguin Elementary School in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Lerma stated that over 40 persons attended the 35 Year Reunion and everyone had a memorable time and getting to visit with one another after so many years of working at Robert E. Lee Elementary. Staff members and their families enjoyed a great time reminiscing about the good old days at Robert E. Lee Elementary and sharing many success stories about the students, teachers, and staff persons at the school.
Lerma was the school principal at Robert E. Lee Elementary from 1991 to 2000. Lerma recalls the school also having principals such as Frank Chisum, Leopoldo “Polo” Moncada, Jesus Sanchez, and Jesus Wever-Diaz among others.
During the 1990’s, Robert E. Lee Elementary was one of the first public schools within the Eagle Pass Independent School District to earn a Recognized School Rating in the State of Texas. The school was very successful in its academic achievements, always at the forefront of educational standards. The school was a pathfinder among the Texas Education Agency Region 20 schools. The school enjoyed having dedicated and committed teachers, staff, students, and supportive parents. Excellent teachers and parents made for excellent students.
Reunion attendees enjoyed refreshments and hor’s oeuvres and taking photographs to document the joyous occasion and rekindling old friendships.
Lerma informed the Reunion attendees that he had donated an old school banner, letter jacket, cap, photographs of staff and students, and other school-related memorabilia to the historic Fort Duncan Museum for permanent display to the public and visitors.
Lerma also informed the attendees that he and his wife, Lydia, had donated two memorial mortar bricks at the Basilica de San Juan in San Juan, Texas dedicated to all Eagle Pass Independent School District Principals and another for teachers. Lerma and Lydia Lerma gave each Reunion attendee a religious rock inscribed with Bible verse from the sacred Basilica de San Juan.
Lerma concluded that he is very proud of his entire staff and educators whose prime endeavor is to educate and shape the young minds of students to seek their dreams and make the Invisble, Visible, and the Impossible, Possible. Lerma reported everyone enjoyed and cherished great moments at the Reunion and celebrated their blessings for having such great students, parents, and teachers.
