• Jj Velasquez •
• Originally published May 1, 2010 at 10:48 p.m., updated May 1, 2010 at 11 p.m.

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• AREA PROMS

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Jayron Boston is set to become the first person in his family to go to college.

On Saturday, he became the first of his siblings to attend their high school prom as a senior.

The Memorial High School student attended prom as a freshman, sophomore and, now, as a senior.

Not that he has anything to hide from, but Jayron masqueraded at the prom. That was the theme this year.

"I think it's a fun place to go and see all your friends," he said about prom. "It's just a night to have fun."

His sister, K.K., did not go to prom. She dropped out of high school in the ninth grade.

She beamed at her soon-to-be college freshman brother with pride, as she cradled her infant son.

Jayron was accepted to the University of Houston and plans to attend this fall.

He stood on the stoop of his East Stayton home as he awaited his date, Iesha Shelton, also a senior. His long coat cloaked him in the thick heat.

The two have been good friends since middle school, he said.

Jayron was one of 852 people to purchase tickets this year for Memorial High School's prom.

Students and their dates bustled in and out of the Victoria Community Center at 5 p.m. as they took their prom pictures.

Kimberly Breaux is an assistant to the prom photographer, Patrick Korczynski.

He was also the photographer when she went to her senior prom in 2000.

But it was Korczynski's wife who convinced her the year before to attend prom when she decided at the last minute to not go.

"Mrs. Korczynski said it was an event I couldn't miss," Breaux said.

She helped Breaux find a date and make all her other prom arrangements.

She had decided not to attend initially because her father wouldn't let her take her boyfriend to prom. The two later split, she said.

"It was a nice distraction to go and get over it and be with my friends," she said.

A couple years later, she took a job with the photography company.

Working at area proms every year has kept her own prom memories fresh in her mind, which makes it hard to believe that she danced at prom a decade ago, she said.

Danya Alcaraz, a Memorial High School senior, brought her boyfriend, Thiago Lira, who graduated high school in Weslaco, to prom.

The two have been dating for eight months.

"It's kind of like the last chance that I would get to really hang out with all my friends," Danya said, on why she came to prom.

Thiago and Danya decided at the beginning of her school year that they would skip out on the rest of the high school formalities as a couple, but would attend prom together at the end of the year.

"We made prom the special one to go to," said Thiago.

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