Rogers Cavasar:
CLASS OF 1971
McAllen High SchoolClass of 1971
Mcallen, TX
Rogers's Story
When I was in High School I could not wait to leave McAllen and the RGV. I have spent the past forty-four years searching for a way to return.
I live in Beihai, Guangxi, Peoples Republic of China. I own (semi-retired) an engineering consulting company for the oil and gas industry that operates in China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. I serve as the Shamas of the Shul, Beth Tefeli Leke Ammin.
LIFE EVENTS
Attended the University of Texas and Southwest Texas State University, graduating from SWTSU (now Texas State University) with a BSc Degree.
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Attended and graduated from Golden Gate University in San Francisco with an MSc Degree.
Through studies at a Theological Seminary and courses at Harvard University, I received a PhD. in Hebraic Religious Studies and was Semikhah (ordained) a Rabbi by a Rabbinic Council
Served seventeen years three-hundred five days on the roles of the U.S. Army, active and reserve. Entered as a private and exited...Expand for more
as a Captain. Toppled dictators and overthrew governments. Survived.
Father of six children.
Lived in five different countries (USA, Thailand, Singapore, Iraq, China). Traveled and worked in twenty-nine.
Climbed Mountains in Tibet, road elephants in Thailand, prayed in the ancient temples of Cambodia, walked the beaches of islands in the South Pacific, sailed the waterways of America as a seaman, watched the sunset in the Philippine Islands, endured the deserts of Iraq, was the first westerner seen by remote villages in China, met many people from head of state to street sweepers and enjoyed many other adventures to numerous to mention.
REGRETS: Hours wasted looking at a television and a computer. monitor. Learning to kill and destroy. Wasting precious time in the brief time we have to live.
FUTURE PLANS: Return to the Rio Grande Valley where I was born and raised and belong. Do some farming and look back on a wonderful life.
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