For immediate release

Garza and Torres to be sworn in

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS – June 18, 2008 – Adela Garza and René Torres will be officially sworn in at the TSC Board of Trustees meeting at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 25, at the Gorgas Board Room.

Garza won the Place 1 seat on the Texas Southmost College Board of Trustees Saturday, June 14 in a run-off election against Dr. Jaime Silva.

They competed for the seat held by former incumbent Jose Herrera.

Garza won the seat by garnering 1,143 votes (54 percent) compared to Silva's 973 (46 percent).

René Torres was elected to the place 2 seat during the general election Saturday, May 10. A retired assistant professor at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College where he was a faculty member for 25 years in the School of Education.

Garza received 2,989 with Silva coming in second with 2,082. Herrera came in third with 1,579 votes.

Torres ran for the Place 2 seat, vacated by Dolly Zimmerman, against Tita Esparza Tamez, also a retired educator.

Early voting for the run-off election ended June 10. Cardenas North Hall on campus served as one of the polling places to vote. A total of 110 voters cast ballots on campus. The total number of votes cast at the locations during early voting was 1107.

For more information please call the TSC District Office at (956) 882-3879.