Margo personally encourages his recruits to get their education, then return to their hometowns, as Propst and other former Aggies have done, to make their contributions to the rapidly growing Rio Grande Valley.Get a load of this beauty and former dancer who was in my studio before the holidays! My favorite thing is to get someone in front of my camera and watch them slowly reveal themselves and let their inner light shine. “The class work is hard work, even for some of the top students who maybe have never made a C, but the mental, spiritual and emotional growth students gain by leaving the Valley to attend Texas A&M is a positive force that will last them a lifetime.” “Once students visit our campus in College Station and witness for themselves the wholesome Aggie family and their genuine hospitality and friendliness, Valley students fall in love with the idea of becoming an Aggie,” Margo said. The public, and especially prospective students and their parents, are invited to attend. 23 before attending the grand opening ceremonies at the new recruitment center in McAllen. Gates will speak to juniors and seniors at McAllen Memorial High School on Nov. Ken Poenisch, the current director of admissions, and Jeannie Laird and Linda Vasquez of the Office of Admissions and Records.” Frank Ashley, the former assistant provost for enrollment at Texas A&M, was instrumental in landing this great new office space and we will always be indebted to him and all the others who helped make this new office a reality,” Margo said. On either side of a long hall are five offices, large and small conference rooms, a coffee shop and a storage room for brochures, class schedules and promotional items. Margo and staff are working days, nights and weekends to increase those numbers, but now without the inconvenience of stepping over boxes or on each other.Ī large lobby area includes three computer stations for students to apply online. That’s a 28 percent increase over last year’s numbers, which were 16 percent higher than the year before. Of the 600 Valley high school seniors who applied through Margo’s office this year, 200 enrolled for the fall semester. We admissions counselors bring them in to apply and the financial aid counselors close the deal with financial assistance,” Margo said. “This office is now a joint project between Texas A&M’s Office of Admissions and Records and its Department of Student Financial Aid, making us a one-stop shop for local students who want to get into A&M. Two recruiters, Joel Solis and Oscar Lopez, and two financial aid advisors, Tricia Cisneros and Rene Valdez, are now helping Margo recruit students from the 49 high schools between Brownsville and Laredo. With an ever-growing number of Valley high school students who want to become Aggies, Margo’s staff grew as the old office space shrank. It’s a far cry from the one-room office Margo opened two years ago at the Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Weslaco. A maroon and white outdoor TAM sign beckons students and parents to the still new-smelling offices, which are complete with maroon doors, white trim and maroon-shaded carpet.
Located in a booming commercial part of town, the new recruiting office is unmistakable. “He helped us design and equip the offices the way we wanted, and he’s just bent over backwards to help make this happen.” Sakulenzki made us a tremendous deal on our new offices in a new strip mall in North McAllen,” Margo said. Rick Margo, admissions counselor at the new Rio Grande Valley Regional Prospective Student Center in McAllen, said he and his colleagues could not find the proper office space until Propst (class of 1980) contacted Joe Sakulenzki of Commercial Building Systems of McAllen, whose son attends Texas A&M-Kingsville.
Gates will be on hand at the grand opening of the newly constructed Aggie recruiting office from 3-5 p.m. Long story short: Texas A&M president Robert M.
(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station photo by Rod Santa Ana III.) Texas A&M University admissions counselors (l to r) Oscar Lopez, Joel Solis, and Rick Margo stand outside the new facilities of the Rio Grande Valley Regional Prospective Student Center in McAllen.
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