I Reen's Story of Overcoming Her Shyness and Becoming Sure of Herself

i reen won the miss all south texas sweetheart contest in 1958. After graduating from school she returned to her old neighborhood below the tracks for work. She taught second grade at the elementary school there and even used her first paycheck to help buy her students school supplies clothes and books plus she'd been nominated as the secretary of the parent teachers association. Two weeks after i reen penned that letter it's easter weekend on the holy saturday april 16th 1960 when irine doesn't return home by 3 a.m. her parents know something was wrong.