Mark Guereca:
CLASS OF 1967
Tascosa High SchoolClass of 1967
Amarillo, TX
Mark's Story
Mark's schools include Tascosa High School elementary schools: Jusepin [Monagas], Quiriquire [Monagas], San Tome [Anzoategui], Lagunillas [Zulia] [Venezuela]. Ross Intermediate [El Paso, TX]. Sam Houston Jr. Hi [Amarillo, TX]. Amarillo Junior College. West TX A&M University [Canyon TX]. U.S. Air Force tech school graduate Keesler AFB MS. UTEP [El Paso TX TX teacher certifications. TX Education Agency acquisition Gaztelania teaching certificate. Substitute teacher El Paso school districts [1976-1977], Eleven yrs as teacher at Carver Learning Center [AISD], 25 years Caprock HS [AISD]. Harp music has been the most enjoyable learning. Most beloved is Joropo [Venezuela], Jarocho [Veracruz MX], Cueca [Chile, when played with harp], Chacarera, Chamame [Argentina, when played with harp], Paraguayian Guarani harp music]. Large accumulation of historic & government knowledge through self research. One of several Tascosa HS representing Tascosa at the U.S. History & world history HS contests held at WTSU Canyon TX; Mark Guereca won the first place trophy in world history; 300 contestants representing TX panhandle high schools, Lubbock to Canadian. One of three most traumatic shocks of my lifetime. A Japanese professor at UTEP with tw...Expand for more
o doctorates in U.S. History] told us that the most unique soulful way to understand a majority national population of a given county was to listen and study the music listened to, along with at least one majority minority language/music. He told us that what is in the heart of the campesinos tells what is in the soul of the people. Despite the complexes/commonalities that most people want, music will never be same the world over simply because music exhibits the deep differences between people around the world. Music exhibits the true differences of humankind. Unlike languages, music will never be the same around world, despite strong influences that come and go. Granted music evolves as well, but in a different manner. Prominent languages are world wide [and dying out as well: the Navajo language was on an extinction freeway; thousands of American Marines are grateful it survived]. Geologists have found evidence that certain extinct human species were playing flute music more than 100,000 years ago. In all fairness, fossils cannot tell us if languages were being spoken. The flutes are absolute proof because intentional holes were being made in certain animal bones. And those intentional holes were generating sound when blown.
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