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Since 1955 the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas has become one of the country's largest classrooms. The Valley, because of its geographical isolation, its native bi-cultural population, its proximity to Mexico, and its attraction to hundreds of winter tourists from all parts of the United States, i^'an area rich in educational opportunities andi.varied educational interests. In shape it is a rough scalene triangle whose base is some one hundred miles long, extending from Rio Grande City on the west to Brownsville on the east, and whose apex is located about fifteen miles north of Edinburg. Near the center of this triangle of citrus groves, cotton farms and mesquite thickets is Pan American College.^
Created in 1952 by a special act of the Texas legislature, "Pan American College is dedicated
1 Located at Edinburg, Texas, Pan American College is the successor to Edinburg Regional College, a junior college.
to honesty in thinking and sincerity in seeking for the best in education, bringing higher educational advantages to every young man and every young woman of the Valley, and to serving the mature citizenship of its territory to the extent of its abihty and their wishes."
The educational program developed to fulfill this purpose has been both broad and flexible. It has gone beyond the bounds of the usual classroom. And it has shown that the small college dependent on commercial facihties can make a worthwhile contribution to education by way of radio and TV.
In November, 1955, Pan American College began the first of 14 radio and television programs* made possible through the cooperation of three radio and two television stations— KURV, Edin
2 The abbreviations TV and R wHl be used to distinguish between the two media in the program descriptions.
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Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — February, 1961