Born : 1927 - Texas, USA
Died : 7th November 2017 - Myrtle Beach, Sth.Carolina, USA
Nationality : American
BALLET DANCER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Hightower
John attended the 1958 Meher Center
Sahavas for Meher Baba in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Tex also attended the 1962 East-West Gathering for Meher Baba at Guruprasad, Poona, India.
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![Myrtle Beach Center ; Amartithi 2013, with Ambika ,Sher DiMaggio Zois & Patti Cavender. Photo taken by Anthony Zois](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=492x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/id7d298b6a00db6b6/version/1511187276/image.jpg)
VIDEO COURTESY OF ROBIN VOGEL
![Tex Hightower, in his dancing days with the world renowned American Ballet Theatre. Photo courtesy of Ed Henkel & Eric Teperman.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=492x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i7409ee4adb88b22f/version/1510163430/image.jpg)
Tex pictured with Janet Collins, first black prima ballerina at the Met, a publicity shot for the opera Carmen, 1961
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![Tex in the production of "Carmen". Photo courtesy of Ed Henkel . Photo is cropped from the original.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=490x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/ie41435be4c4f36c1/version/1563550014/image.jpg)
![Tex with Janet Collins. Courtesy of Edward Henkel](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=494x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i7c3432db12b7ad79/version/1511143713/image.jpg)
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![1956 - Photo taken at the "Holiday Lodge", San Francisco ; : Tex top-left , Margaret - in front of Baba ; Peter Saul is on top-right. Lower left : Bunty Kelley & Marie Adair far right. Image capture from a video by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i8102f567007f5d32/version/1596435309/image.jpg)
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1958 : Meher Baba with Margaret Craske & her students
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Meher Baba at Myrtle Beach 1958