Photo of Ray Akin with seven students in a Metz Elementary School Classroom, presenting a project.
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Photo of Ray Akin with seven students in a Metz Elementary School Classroom, presenting a project.
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Ray Akin was an elementary school teacher, vice principal, and principal in the Austin Public Schools from 1936 through 1974. Ray was vice-principal and sixth grade teacher at Metz in 1949-53. His students in those days included Joe Lung, one of old Austin's favorite personalities, and Carlos Navarro, one of the east side's once-in-a-generation athletes (not pictured). This is Ray in a Metz classroom with several of his students from about 1952.
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Jon Akin, an Austin-based lawyer and Ray Akin's son.
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“Photo of Ray Akin with seven students in a Metz Elementary School Classroom, presenting a project.,” Metz Elementary Archive, accessed October 7, 2026, https://metzarchive.org/items/show/686.
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