1930s - Bui lding the L ass o Tr adition LASSOS BECOME AMERICA’S

Swee Thearts

The Lassos are k nown as one of the best drilled organizations any where. They have achieved fame throughout Texas and have been hailed as one of the most outstanding and attrac tive organizations of their k ind. The Monticello, 1938

On M arch 7, 1938 Lassos appeared on the cover of Life M agazine, a treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th centur y. At one point it sold more than 13.5 million copies a week .

Lassos continue leading school spirit as a 12- coach train takes the pep squad and the football team to Austin for the annual game against the Austin M aroons.

Business rms of San Antonio sponsor a goodwill tour for the Lassos in 1939 which took them to the New York World’s Fair.

Traveling with a delegation from the school, 175 Lassos took a char tered train to New York City with stops en route in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

20th Centur y Fox movie “High School,” starring Jane Withers, one of the most popular child lm stars of the 1930s and 1940s, is made in 1938, featuring the Lassos. I ts sequel, “ Texas Girl” was made in 1939, also starring Jane Withers.

100 members of the Lasso drill team and 75 members of the Drum and Bugle Corps were guests of United States Vice President John N. Garner in his o ce in the Senate and had tea with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.