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Aicejuanita (Urban Sloan
passed away at her home in Bryan,Texas
on September►17,1998. The daughter of
!Daisy Mary Urban and Charles H.
!Urban,she was born September 18,1913
and raised in Hempstead, Texas. She
will be missed by her devoted husband:;
of 55 years,Jack T.Sloan,her daughter'
Daisy White,son-in-law,John White and'
i granddaughters, Dr. Niccole White in
Nashville, Tennessee and Jacqueline
White in Charlottesville,Virginia.Juanita
!is fondly remembered by legions of stu-
dents who learned from her about their
studies and about life during the more
J.than 30 years she taught in the Bryan and .
1 College Station school systems. Her
devotion to friends and community will
3 be remembered by those she touched
t throughout the State of Texas. She grad-
!uated from the University of Texas,
worked with the Agricultural Extension
'Service as a home demonstration agent
:and then began her many years in the
school systems. She was an active mem-
ber in St. Joseph Catholic Church, The
Woman's Club, Delta Kappa Gamma,
The Extention Service Club, and The
Campus Study Club. The Sloans were
active members with the.Texas A&M
Class of '34 where they shared many
activities and traveled extensively.
The family will receive
friends at Memorial Funeral Home,1515
S College Ave.in Bryan on Saturday from
3:30-5:30. The rosary will follow at 5:30.
Funeral services will be held at 3:00pm
j on Sunday at St.Joseph Catholic Church,
600 East 26th St. in Bryan. Pallbearers
will be Dr.Bob White,Buck Henderson,
Alton Linne, Dick Watts, Michael
Marshall, Craig Williams,Jean Donaho, 1
& Bob Cherry. Fred Walker, Harwood 1
',Smith, Harvey Caddess, Donald Foster,
John Wilson,&Larry Piper will serve as
honorary Pallbearers. Lane Lynch will
be the vocalist&the eulogy will be given
I by Bob Cherry&Ann Linne. Interment
!will be at College Station Cemetery.
I Memorial contributions may be given to
the American Diabetes Association, St.
Joseph's Hospital Foundation,&Hospice.
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Monday,June 15, 1998 The Bryan-College
News
itspast, resent at reunion
n celebrates pVVelibortheir and grandchildren said
By COLLEEN KAVANAGH bnity ornCTherassoc associ of ation provided great-grandmother,ell- tradition started bIdaParker's her husband,Royter born and raisedhomas, who in Wellborn.was would come to visit them," she to c
Eagle Staff Writer "We missed one year to go see said. "But many of them have air
about 450 pounds of meat, and in 1941.
guests filled at least three picnic "I think this started out as a our youngest daughter," she said. passed away and their children pity
The 59th Annual Wellborn that our and Picnic, a com tables Parker of Dayton, Texas, community,"he said But things ouldthave torbe at ano her time ing to d get try-
HomecomingNow we are
of sideishes. family the ewer people in tod',
munity reunion of sorts, brought John
together people who live, have attended his first homecoming have changed a lot.We all used to because we weren't going to miss Welltheir born home nowed because this is eno
lived or are interested in Well- when he was 6 months old. huddle under the trees for shade, another one." reunio ns She said
born for a Sunday afternoon of Its a time he food family," healways and Residente Elsie Wade has only have the pavillion." chang d e said a lot iat n the last 45 at one time twas a two story build
barbecue and bingo. said, "an ing, with a lodge on top and a
The homecoming, at the pavil- good. I never miss a free meal." missed one of Wellborn's Home years.
ion next to the community cen- All the people who come to the coming and Picnic celebrations "There used to be a lot of older school on the bottom. Mary Anna
ter, is sponsored by the Commu- reunion sign a guest book — a since 1953, the year she married people who would come, and France of of the original ll school. an alumna
"I went to school here in grades
one to three," she said. "And I
used to ride a horse here every
day from the ranch. I was here
the last year the school was open,
and then I went to Consolidated."
France left Wellborn to go to
business school in Houston and
then moved to Corpus Christi.
She retired to Wellborn in 1981.
"Homecoming was always well
attended back then," she said.
"My mother thought I always had
to come back for it."
Olivia Ash, president of the
Community Center Association
that sponsors the homecoming,
'} suggested that the institution establish its own indepen- County, a part of the great cotton-producing region of
dent electric plant, and at the same time institute a curricu- Texas, enjoyed uniform temperatures and abundant rain-
lum for training in electrical engineering. The embryonic fall. The fertile upland soil was easily cultivated, yielding a
system went into operation in November 1893.42 variety of crops including cereal grains, vegetables, and
In May 1899 the Texas legislature appropriated fruits. Promotional literature emphasized the excellence of
$104,000 for improvements on the A. and M. campus. bottom lands along the river courses. One pamphlet pro-
The appropriation helped lift the college out of its rudi- claimed that the "richness and fertility of Brazos bottoms
mentary environment. Funds were allotted for such facili- have become famous and their productions are not ex-
ties and improvements as a steam heating plant, a sewage celled in any part of the world."'-' Most importantly, older
system, five new homes for professors, and a new electri- residents, according to the guide, eagerly welcomed immi-
cal and ice plant.41 The new additions made the commu- grants into their midst. Inspired by this and similar ac-
nity more self sufficient. The college was able to provide counts, small communities, populated by native European
for the needs of a moderate size school population. That farmers, germinated throughout the county in the late
ability would lessen with the increased growth of the nineteenth century years.
school. One such settlement, the community of Shiloh, devel-
oped in close proximity to the Texas A. and M. College.
Shiloh, located two miles south of the campus, consisted
Surrounding Rural Farm Communities predominantly of Czech immigrants, but also included
families native to Poland and Germany. Turmoil in Cen-
Efforts of Brazos residents to attract new inhabitants tral Europe in the 1880s, accompanied by military oppres-
to the county bore fruit in the late 1870s and early 1880s. sion and religious persecutions, encouraged these people
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe migrated to leave their homelands."
to the United States in large numbers during those years, Frank Stasney, one of the early settlers in the Shiloh
and many made their way to the agricultural fields of area, fled to America to escape the feudalistic system that
Texas. Italians first arrived in Brazos County in 1870s. An shackled the peasants of Central Europe. In 1867 Stasney
Italian steamship line maintained an agent in Bryan, and bought his first plot of land in Brazos County. In time he
by the late 1880s, Brazos County had the largest colony of would-own approximately 550 acres extending west from
Italian farmers in the entire United States.44 Other immi- Carter Creek to present-day Highway 6. Like Stasney,
grant families settling in the area were recent arrivals from most families in the area purchased enough acreage so
k Russia, Germany, Poland, Austria, and two European that their farms stretched two or three miles. Families such
provinces, Bohemia and Moravia, which later were incor- as the Kapchinskies;-Blazeks, Tureks,, and Boriskiq lived in
porated in Czechoslovakia. the same vicinity as the Stasneys. The Sebestas, Bomnskies,
To these agrarian.oriented immigrants, Brazos Hrdlickas, and others settled closer to the Houston and
County represented an excellent environment for begin- Texas Central Railroad line. Immigrant farmers also pur-
ning a new life. Descriptions of the county, such as the one chased land surrounding the college. Some of the families
* published in the South and Western Texas Guide for 1878, who settled near the campus were the Taubers to the
�� encouraged settlement. The guide reported that Brazos north, the Varas to the east, and the Holiks to the south.47
n." After consultation with college officials, the The A. and M. Consolidated School District
agreed to take jurisdiction over electric lines only.59
'eft In February 1940, the council purchased facilities in Residents of College Station were determined that A.
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residential ineas at Southside. The city paid $8,500 to and M. Consolidated School District, the public school
Wwood Realty Company and $15,000 to Southside De- system which had originated on campus, would continue
ment Company for their electric, water, and sewer to serve the children of their community. The school dis-
t ryuems.'° An inventory of the newly acquired equipment trict had recently encountered difficulties. It lost taxable
bltluded such items as electric meters, poles and lines, land to Bryan, and it, too, was asked to vacate campus
transformers, water and sewer mains, laterals, outfall lines, property. Although faced with the necessity of procuring
(Ire plugs, and the sewer disposal system.41 land for a school and constructing educational facilities,
By the end of the year, the city also bought the water the citizens were fervent about supporting their school
lines in the Boyett addition and facilities in the recently district; it had provided education for their children since j
developed West Park subdivision at Southside. The council 1920.
Y also procured water and sewer utilities from College Hills The genesis of the school district began at some time
Estates for $1,100.41 The electric lines in College Hills were around the first of the century. The Texas Legislature, in
Rural Electricification Administration (REA) lines owned order to provide for the educational needs of the children
by Bryan, and to the chagrin of College Station officials, of faculty at Texas A. and M., created the'A and M.ij '
the city was not able to obtain the lines for several years. .College Independent,S ool Distric"n March 10, 1909 l4 '
College Station owned all the existing utility distribu- Since the district borders were the same as those of the
tion systems within its limit by the end of 1940 except for college, the district included 3500 acres of land and build-
the REA lines in College Hills. The city contracted with ings valued at $3,500,000. A school, however, did not
both Texas A. and M. and Bryan for utility services in the immediately materialize. College land was state owned
early days and would continue to do so until recent years. and thus not taxable. Campus families, with a total of only
The City of College Station was on its feet. Luther Jones, thirty to forty children, could not themselves support a
one of the original councilmen, felt that College Station modern school.45 Instead, professors operated an informal
had become a true municipality once the city owned its tutoring service for the children.41 I,
distribution systems and managed its utility services. Under the provisions of the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act,
Growth, he recalled, was constant. `We[the council]always funds were made available to Texas A. and M. for prepa-
got pleasure in every new house that was built. It was ration of prospective agricultural teachers. The act stipu-
surprising how fast people flocked in and built homes. lated, however, that students were to gain practical
Fortunately, we had a very ideal community, and every- teaching experience in public schools. In order to meet the
body worked for the same purpose."43 criteria of the agricultural teaching program and at the
same time furnish an education for campus children, Presi-
dent William Bizzell and Professor Martin L. Hayes, head
of the Department of Vocational Teaching, decided to
establish a school on campus.47
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Two major obstacles prevented implementation of failed to keep pace. In 1928 the four school districts con-
their plan — obtaining adequate finances and gathering a solidated and elected a board of seven trustees. Although
sufficient number of students. Professor Hayes persuaded financial burdens did not abate, the school managed to
the State Board of Education to grant rural aid funds to provide quality education through the 19301s.51
finance the operation of the school. For the construction Toward the latter 1930s, the trustees sought to relieve
of a school building, President Bizzell made available the school's congested condition. In November 1938 a
$25,000 which previously had been appropriated by the committee conferred with college officials to investigate
legislature for a new president's home. In order to insure the prospect for obtaining a new school site. The officials i
enough students, Hayes conceived of the idea to consoli- replied that they could not provide assistance, and thus
date the school with common schools that were in close implied that the school would eventually have to vacate
proximity to the campus. The rural districts of Rock Prai- the campus.52 The directors reasoned that the school dis-
rie, Union Hill, and Wellborn agreed to help launch the trict more appropriately belonged under the auspices of
new school if transportation for their students could be the newly-established municipality rather than the college.
provided.41 At this same time, Bryan city commissioners and
The new school, which was to be "a model of its members of the Bryan school board offered to incorporate
kind," opened on September 28, 1920 with 160 students in A. and M. Consolidated in their school district. Representa-
x h attendance. The students met in Guion Hall for the first tives from both school districts met in late 1938 to discuss
V.J,, few weeks until the new building could be completed. the possibilities. Considering the financial situation of the
When the classes moved into the new building, they found consolidated school district, the proposal merited serious
themselves without adequate supplies. The principal had consideration. The Bryan Eagle, reported that even if the
to borrow surplus equipment from various departments impending incorporation of the College Station commu-
on campus.49 The high school curriculum was geared to- nity came to fruition, the two school districts, in all likeli-
ward both college preparation and vocational studies. Ex- hood, would merge.51
tracurricular activities such as athletics and a dramatic club College Station citizens, however, did not want their
were available. The first class, consisting of six students, school district to be under the jurisdiction of another com-
tip graduated from A. and M. Consolidated in May, 1922. munity. They petitioned the school board to hold a bond
The young school district, inaugurated with sanguine election which, if passed, would finance the construction
aspirations, soon experienced problems. The school lost its of adequate facilities off-campus. On February 25, 1939
g6 first leaders; Professor Hayes died in the early twenties voters overwhelmingly approved the issuance of $75,000
and Dr. Bizzell moved to Oklahoma in 1925. The college in bonds for this project.54 In order to sell the bonds, the
discontinued its teacher training program, and the legisla- equalization board had to double the evaluation of all city
ture eliminated funds which previously had been appro- property. Residents accepted the assessment without
priated for educational purposes. The school rapidly complaint.55
outgrew its only building, and the entire high school de- The school board hired Ernest Langford and Clarence
partment had to be transferred to Pfeiffer Hall where it Jack Finney, professors in the Architecture Department, to
remained until it was moved off-campus. Expenses in- design the new facilities. Two school sites were under
�rPacPd, but revenue from rural aid grants and local taxes consideration, a fifteen acre tract in College Hills Estates
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and the Holik property site, also of fifteen acres. Residents• Each section had its own residential areas with accompany-
favored the Holik site. In order to purchase the land, some ing shops. Since modes of transportation were limited in
of the people organized a drive for funds and collected a the early days, residents patronized neighborhood stores.
total of $5,500.58 from 116 patrons.56 At the school North Gate continued to serve as the main business dis- "
board's April meeting, men favoring the Holik site ex- trict. New additions to that area included a theatre, hard-
plained its advantages. It was conveniently located and ware store, dentist office, and a Methodist church.62 Luke's
was situated adjacent to the land that the board had Campus Grocery moved to East Gate where College Hills
hoped to receive from the college. The site afforded access Estates continued to expand. New subdivisions were being a
to facilities on campus such as the library, laboratories, added at Southside along with a small commercial
and shops. Utilities were available from the Oakwood addi- development.13
tion, and school patrons were willing to pay for connecting One somewhat extravagant newspaper account de- f
the school's lines to Oakwood. The board accepted this scribed College Station as "the fastest growing city in
generous offer.57 Texas.1164 Community leaders and citizens were aware that
Langford and Finney assigned their students the task they were in a position to institute programs at the outset
of making the necessary surveys and designing the school; that would insure orderly growth. In those initial years, i
-the architects, however, had final approval."The finished the council established policies and organized committees
facilities consisted of four elementary units, containing. to guide municipal expansion. Although these instruments
fourteen classrooms and additional office space, a high of regulation were not utilized consistently until the late
school with eight classrooms, and a building to house the 1960s, the principle of directing growth was established at `1
industrial arts and music departments.59 Men from the the city's inception.
community brought trees and shrubbery from the Brazos According to one early developer, College Station
and Navasota river bottoms for transplanting at the new became the first city between Houston and Dallas to estab-
tt' school site.60 The buildings were formally accepted on lish zoning regulations." Residents enthusiastically sup- !.�
March 8, 1940. ported zoning because they believed it prevented loss in
Within a year, another bond election was approved to land values and eliminated "internal strife among the citi- j
1 finance the construction of a gymnasium auditorium build zenship.66 The city council created a Zoning Commission in
ing and an athletic field complete with a stadium.61 With July 1939 whose purpose was to recommend a compre-
J the continuing support of the community, A. and M. Con- hensive plan consisting of zoning districts and regulations
solidated School District successfully made the transition which would make districting effective.61 The city's first
from the jurisdiction of the college to that of the zoning ordinance went into operation in January 1949.61
municipality. To complement the Zoning Commission, Mayor Binney
appointed a City Planning Board in November 1939. At
the request of Texas Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, the board
Planning for Community Growth also functioned as an Industrial Development
Committee.69
Three distinct divisions of the city, present even in the The first city council made provisions for the creation
pre-incorporated community, expanded during the 1940s. of the City Parks Board. Beginning in May 1939, the Parks
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Name school for R.C. Nea
don't know why `his-story" is so di-;,
ferent from the truth or why I felt th
way I did after reading the article
"Community of Learners' Envisioned..
It may not be important to others, but
to me, it is of monumental importance'. "
Kemp High School was built in 1931 o
what is now called the Neal campus. ..
C. Neal was the principal. The building
was turned into Neal Junior High
School after building a new Kemp Hig
School. Neal Junior High School had
three principals: U. S. Morgan, Wendell
Davis and C. L. Scurry. sf
"His-story" states that there have
been other schools on the Neal site dat":
ing back 87 years. Mike Kristynik said
that the first was Bryan Colored High
School, built in 1910. However, with a
little research, he would have found
that Bryan Colored High School was
built on the east side of Bryan at the 500
block of Martin Luther King Jr. Street,
bordered by North.Houston, 20th and
Preston streets
In 1971, after integratl'bn etrip i
School became an elementary campus''':
along with Carver Elementary School,'%
Years later, a press conference was
called by the school board and
Superintendent Sarah Ashburn. Mrs.
R.C. Neal was invited to announce the'_
new school under construction as the
R.C. Neal Elementary School.
According to the article in the
Eagle, the school hasn't officially been .r
named by the school board, but
Superintendent Ashburn said it proba`
bly will be on the agenda for the March
meeting. Since the board policy requires
elementary schools to be named for a
deceased Texas hero, it seems appropri-
ate to name the new school after an out- '$
standing Bryan educator. R.C. Neal was
a principal at Kemp High School for 28
years. This school deserves that honor
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Article
McKay, Paul . "Baptist Education on Ennis Street." Bryan-College
Station Eagle, September 8, 1984, Saturday Magazine, p. 6. About
Bryan Baptist Academy. (TAMU Library # Microfilm / N / 557.)
(Bryan Public Library # Microfilm / Reel 309.)
Article
McKay, Paul . "A Catholic School Moves to Bryan." Bryan-College
Station Eagle, August 25, 1984, Saturday Magazine, p. 6. About
Villa Maria Academy. (TAMU Library # Microfilm / N / 557.)
(Bryan Public Library # Microfilm / Reel 308.)
Book
Nat Burtis Allen. "Who's Who in America, 1932-1947." (TAMU
Library # E / 176 / W 6.42 regular stacks.)
Article
Owens, Brad. "Private Schools." Bryan-College Station Eagle, _
January 12, 1985, Saturday Magazine, pages 8-14. Article about
contemporary private schools. (TAMU Library # Microfilm / N /
557.) (Bryan Public Library # Microfilm / Reel 314.) xa.
Article
Richardson, Hazel . "Ceremony Will Mark the Site of First Bryan
Public School ." Eagle, March 4, 1973, section C, p. 1, col . 1.
(TAMU Library # Microfilm / N / 557.) (Bryan Public Library #
Microfilm / Reel 171.)
Book
Richardson, L. S., and William W. Caudill. "Towards an Economic q
Flexibility." Bryan: Caudill , Rowlett, Scott and Associates,
1955. About A&M Consolidated School ; includes floor plans, 4t
drawings, etc. (TAMU Library, # ED 014 856 Microtext Dept.)
Book
Richmond, Mrs. Rebecca (Langworthy) . "A Woman of Texas, Mrs.
Percy V. Pennybacker." San Antonio: The Naylor Co., 1941. (TAMU
Library # Special Collections CT / 275 / P 5.6 / R 5.)
Article „
V'School Building, Bryan, Texas." American Architect 105 (1994):
137, 139 (March 11, 1914). (TAMU Library # NA / 1 / A 3.)
Book
Nrt,��ic
Edge, C1if -d C. , Jr. "Harris School Reunion for Tabor." ' an
Daily Eagle, March 29, 1956, section 1 , p. 6, col . 1. ( ,AMU
Library # Microfilm / N / 557.) (Bryan Public Library # Microfilm `*
/ Reel 92.)
Book
z ` "Educational Data in Brazos Count b Districts Pertaining to ty
y y 9
Valuation, Costs, Pupils, Teachers, Grades Taught, and Length of
School Term in 1934-1935." In Report of the Results of the Texas
Statewide School Adequacy Survey, pages 1724-1726. (TAMU Library
# L / 204 / C 5.3 / 1937a regular stacks.)
Article
"Former Bryan Band Director Accepts Palestine Position." The
Southwestern Musician, 7( 1) : 14 (September-October 1940) . (TAMU
Library # ML / 1 / S 8.5 regular stacks.)
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Article
Garrison , H . D . "An Auto Shop that Fixes More than Cars."
Vocational Education, 55 (6) :48-49 (June 1980) . (TAMU Library #
LC / 1041 / A 6 regular stacks.)
Article
raves, Debbie. "Separate no more; a Decade Ago, the Courts
Opened Bryan ' s White Schools." Bryan-College Station Eagle.,
March 27 , 1982, Saturday Magazine, pages 2-11. (TAMU Library #
Microfilm / N % 557. (Bryan Public Library # Microfilm / ReeT
Article
"High School for a Consolidated School District, College Station,
Texas." Progressive Architecture, 35(8) :9-10 (August 1954) . (TAMU
Library # NA / 1 / P 7 regular stacks.)
r / Article
v/ Hughes , W. L . "History of A&M Consolidated School ." Battalion,
July 19, 1945, p. 2; July 26, 1945, p. 2; August 2, 1945, p. 2
and August 9, 1945, p. 2. (TAMU Library # Microfilm / N / 560.)
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Thesis
Hughes , William Lycurgas . " A Project in Rural School �—
Consolidation and Its Contribution to the Solution of the Rural ' A
Crhnnl Prohlems of Brazos County." Texas A&M University, master's `:1
SCHOOLS TRANSP
contain the same information. (TAMU Library # DOCS Serial Set #
1506, 1602, 1681, 1851.)
Thesis
Williams , Erlene O ' Neal . "A History of the Allen Military
Academy." North Texas State College, master's thesis, 1944.
Article
Wilson , D . L. "Bryan, Home of Two Great Military Schools." East
Texas , 15( 11 ) :8, 24 (August 1941) . (TAMU Library # F / 381 /
E 1.9 regular stacks.)
Article
J "Winning Design in Touring Exhibit," (A&M Consolidated High
't School ) Texas Architect, 6(9) :8 (January 1956) . (TAMU Library #
NA / 1 / T 4 regular stacks.)
Article _
Young, Burt Cline. "Children's Art from Foreign Lands." (Sul Ross
School , Bryan) , Texas Outlook, 48(2) :24-25 (February 1964) . (TAMU
Library # L / 11 / T 6.7 regular stacks.)
Article
"Young Texans Taught Three R's Sixty Years Ago by Hondo Woman; Was
Paid 5 Cents Daily for Food." Bryan Weekly Eagle, February 18,
1932, p . 5 . Article concerns Lennie Lamm, who taught at the
' Prospect School for eight years in the 1870s. (TAMU Library #
Microfilm / N / 557. ) (Bryan Public Library # Microfilm / Reel
95.)
Article
Vzisman, S. B. "Community Plans its Schools . " ( College Station
Consolidated School ) , American School and University , 1941 .
Pages 28-36 . Includes an extremely good map of College Station
and vicinity dated 1934, revised 1936. (TAMU Library # LB / 3205
/ A 5 regular stacks.)
Article
Zlatkovich, Charles P. "Bryan-College Station : An Education
Center." Texas Business Review, 52(10) :209-211 (October 1978) .
(TAMU Library # HC / 107 / T 4 / T 4.6 regular stacks. )
SCHOOL IOL DISTRICT HISTORY
The College Station Independent 'school District ( name?' changed in
1980 from the A&M Consolidated
� I:3LI) is located in the southern Portion
of Brazos County and covers 97 square miles.
The District includes the City of college Station and the Texas
A&M Systems Headquarters and the Texas A&M University campus.
The original school district was chartered by the State
Legislature in 1909, but apparently notax—supported school was
operated until 1920. Union Hill , Wellborn, Rock Prairie and Shiloh
Common School district._ joined oined with the A?<M College Independent School
District in 1928 to form the A&M Consolidated Independent School
District. The Peach I_reek: and Minter Springs Common School Districts
were added to the A&M Consolidated Independent 'School District in 1949
under Provisions of the Kilmer—Aiken Acts.
The present school district has had no legal connection with Texas
A&M University since 1939 when the Publ
ic 1ic school system obtained its
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own building and moved from the college campus.
The school moved to the original site of 15 acresPurchased
the Hol ick:s in 1939 for $5. 00. ii from
5 One hundred and sixteen private
citizens Purchased the land and donated it to the school district.
Growth of District:
1942 -- white gymnasium guilt (Hulick Street ) , athletic field
(Hulick: Street ) and Negro (Lincoln ) High School
1948 -- built new high school at 1300 _jersey Street_
1951 -- built first parade Winn and cafeteria ( corner of Timber and
jersey) , Lincoln School :whop and Science Lab
195:3 -- new high school built (200 Andersen ) -- now the junior high
campus and Lincoln School gymnasium
1960 -- high school addition, Lincoln Addition and College Hills
Elementary School (Williams Street)
1967 -- built South Knoll Elementary School
1972 -- built new high school (West By—Pass, FM 2818)
1978 -- added vocational wing to high school , kindergarten
building and multi—Purpose building to -south Knoll l and College Hills
Elementary Schools.
1978 -- built Oakwood Middle School
1980 -- exchanged property at 1:300 _jersey to the City of College
Station for 21 . 82 acreas of ] and on Welch and FM 281=:
1983 -- built
Southwood Valley Elementary School ,_;,o] ( _ rner of
Brothers/Deacon Streets) , added science and music wings, gymnasium,
cafetorium, and classrooms at high school , remodeled Timber Street
buildings and built Adaptive Vocational Center at Timber
19 -- Purchased 20 acres of land for future building site (North
Graham Road )
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The A. and M. Consolidated School District
Residents of College Station were determined that
A. and M. Consolidated School District, the public school
system which had originated on campus, would continue to
serve the children of their community. The school
district had recently encountered difficulties . It lost
taxable land to Bryan, and it, too, was asked to vacate
campus property. Although faced with the necessity of
procuring land for a school and constructing educational
facilities, the citizens were fervent about supporting
their school district; it had provided education for their
children since 1920 .
The genesis of the school district began at some time
around the first of the century. The Texas Legislature,
in order to provide for the educational needs of the
children of faculty at Texas A. and M. , created the
A. and .M. College Independent School District on March 10,
1909 .44 Since the district borders were the same as those
of the college, the district included 3500 acres of land
and buildings valued at $3 , 500, 000. A school, however,
did not immediately materialize . College land was state
owned and thus not taxable . Campus families , with a total
of only thirty to forty children, could not themselves
support a modern school .45 Instead, professors operated
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an informal tutoring service for the children.46
Under the provisions of the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act,
funds were made available to Texas A. and M. for prepa-
ration of prospective agricultural teachers . The act
stipulated, however, that students were to gain practical
teaching experience in public schools . In order to meet
the criteria of the agricultural teaching program and at
the same time furnish an education for campus children,
President William Bizzell and Professor Martin L. Hayes ,
head of the Department of Vocational Teaching, decided to
establish a school on campus .47
Two major obstacles prevented implementation of their
plan--obtaining adequate finances and gathering a suffi-
cient number of students . Professor Hayes persuaded the
State Board of Education to grant rural aid funds to
-71 finance the operation of the school . For the construction
of a school building, President Bizzell made available
$25 , 000 which previously had been appropriated by the
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legislature for a new president ' s home . In order to
insure enough students , Hayes conceived of the idea to
consolidate the school with common schools that were in
close proximity to the campus . The rural districts of
Rock Prairie, Union Hill, and Wellborn agreed to help
launch the new school if transportation for their students
could be provided.48
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The new school, which was to be "a model of its
kind, " opened on September 28, 1920 with 160 students in r
attendance. The students met in Guion Hall for the first 1!
few weeks until the new building could be completed. When
the classes moved into the new building, they found them-
selves without adequate supplies . The principal had to
borrow surplus equipment from various departments on
campus.49 The high school curriculum was geared toward `
both college preparation and vocational studies . Extra-
curricular activities such as athletics and a dramatic
club were available . The first class , consisting of six
students, graduated from A. and M. Consolidated in May,
1922 . 50 (Fig. 8)
The young school district, inaugurated with sanguine
aspirations , soon experienced problems . The school lost
its first leaders , Professor Hayes died in the early
twenties and Dr . Bizzell moved to Oklahoma in 1925 . The
college discontinued its teacher training program, and the
legislature eliminated funds which previously had been
appropriated for educational purposes . The school rapidly
outgrew its only building, and the entire high school
department had to be transferred to Pfeiffer Hall where it
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remained until it was moved off-campus . Expenses
increased, but revenue from rural aid grants and local
taxes failed to keep pace . In 1928 the four school
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districts consolidated and elected a board of seven
trustees . Although financial burdens did not abate, the
school managed to provide quality education through the
1930 ' s . 51
Toward the latter 1930 ' s, the trustees sought to
relieve the school ' s congested condition. In November
1938 a committee conferred with college officials to
investigate the prospect for obtaining a new school site.
The officials replied that they could not provide assist-
ance, and thus implied that the school would eventually
have to vacate the campus . 52 The directors reasoned that
the school district more appropriately belonged under the
auspices of the newly-established municipality rather than
the college .
At this same time, Bryan city commissioners and
members of the Bryan school board offered to incorporate
A. and M. Consolidated in their school district . Repre-
sentatives from both school districts met in late 1938 to
discuss the possibilities . Considering the financial
situation of the consolidated school district, the
proposal merited serious consideration. The Bryan Eagle,
reported that even if the impending incorporation of the
College Station community came to fruition, the two school
districts, in all likelihood, would merge. 53 -
College Station citizens , however, did not want their
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school district to be under the jurisdiction of another
community. They petitioned the school board to hold a
bond election which, if passed, would finance the
construction of adequate facilities off-campus . On
February 25, 1939 voters overwhelmingly approved the
issuance of $75,000 in bonds for this project. 54 In order
to sell the bonds, the equalization board had to double
the evaluation of all city property. Residents accepted
the assessment without complaint.55
The school board hired Ernest Langford and Clarence .0
Jack Finney, professors in the Architecture Department, to
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design the new facilities . Two school sites were under
consideration, a fifteen acre tract in College Hills
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Estates and the Holik property site, also of fifteen :4
acres . Residents favored the Holik site . In order to
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purchase the land, some of the people organized a drive
for funds and collected a total of $5 , 500 . 58 from 116
patrons . 56 At the school board' s April meeting, men
favoring the Holik site explained its advantages . It was
conveniently located and was situated adjacent to the land
that the board had hoped to receive from the college . The
site afforded access to facilities on campus such as the
library, laboratories , and shops . Utilities were avail-
able from the Oakwood addition, and school patrons were
willing to pay for connecting the school ' s lines to
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Oakwood. The board accepted this generous offer. S7
Langford and Finney assigned their students the task
of making the necessary surveys and designing the school;
the architects , however, had final approval. 58 The
finished facilities consisted of four elementary units
containing fourteen classrooms and additional office I
space, a high school with eight classrooms , and a building
to house the industrial arts and music departments . 59 Men
from the community brought trees and shrubbery from the
Brazos and Navasota river bottoms for transplanting at the
new school site.60 The buildings were formally accepted
on March 8, 1940.
Within a year, another bond election was approved to
finance the construction of a gymnasium-auditorium
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building and an athletic field complete with a stadium. 61
With the continuing support of the community, A. and M.
Consolidated School District successfully made the
transition from the jurisdiction of the college to that of
the municipality.
Planning for Community Growth
Three distinct divisions of the city, present even in
the pre-incorporated community, expanded during the
1940 ' s . Each section had its own residential areas with
accompanying shops . Since modes of transportation were
Consol ha, beginning on Aggie campus
by Bruce Woods
A&M Consolidated High School is beginning it's 50th year yet the school
can be traced farther back than 1926.
The school was started as a tutor system on the campus, then evolved to
a one teacher public school in the old railroad depot.
In 1920 Rock Prairie� Union Hill , and Wellborn districts all combined and
built a stucco building to be the high school . (,U /4k)
In 1926 the A&M Consolidated Independent School District was created then
in the early 30's the school was moved to Pfeuffer Hall , where the first senior --`.
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class that went all the way through C.H.S. and graduated a grand total of 20
people.
The school remained there until February 1 , 1940 when the high school l�s
moveq in the building where special services, on Jersey e_et�is ow/,4The F
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gymnasiur%was bui'1't` i^n 1942.
In 1949 Peach Creek and Minter Springs districts were added to the
school districts and in 1954 the high school was built where the present
middle M,hoolnis now located.
In 1961 , a new school , College Hills was built, yet another school was
built in 1967, South Knoll .
Finally in 1972 the new high school was ready to have teachers, students,
and graduating classes.
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College Station School District History
Historical records of the A&M Consolidated/College Station
Independent School District remain elusive. The only records that
appear to be available are the facts contained in a history of
College Station dialogue and some newspaper clippings.
The following information is available in the Public Information
Office, 1812 Welsh.
HISTORY OF SCHOOL DISTRICT
The College Station Independent School District (name changed
in 1980 from the A&M Consolidated ISD) is located in the southern
portion of Brazos County and covers 97 square miles.
The District includes the City of College Station and the
Texas A&M Systems Headquarters and TAMU main campus.
The original school district was chartered by the State
Legislature in 1909, but apparently no tax-supported school was
operated until 1920. Union Hill, Wellborn, Rock Prairie and Shiloh
Common School District joined with the A&M College Independent
School District in 1920 to form the A&M Consolidated Independent
School District. The Peach Creek and Minter Springs Common School
Districts were added to the A&M Consolidated ISD in 1949 under
provisions of the Gilmer-Aiken Acts.
The present school district has had no legal connection with
Texas A&M University since 1939 when the public school system
obtained its own building and moved from the college campus.
The school moved to the original site of 15 acres purchased
from the Holicks in 1939 for $5500. One hundred and sixteen private
citizens purchased the land and donated it to the school district.
GROWTH OF THE DISTRICT
March 16, 1939-------School Board accepts 15 acres of land --Holick
property
September 8 , 1939----Contract let for school buildings to be
located on Holick property (corner of Timber and Jersey (now
George Bush Drive) )
March 23 , 1941-------School bonds approved for school facilities
October 16, 1941-----Bus garage/football stadium on Holick Street
completed
February 16, 1942----Gymnasium/auditorium completed on Holick
Street property (white gym formerly located on Oakwood
campus) , athletic field, and Lincoln High School
tags 1948-----------------New High School built at 1300 Jersey (now the
College Station Conference Center)
1951-----------------Built first grade wing and cafeteria (corner
of Timber and Jersey) , and Lincoln School Shop and Science Lab
1953-----------------Construction began on new high school at 200
Anderson (now Willow Branch Intermediate site) ; opened in 1954
1960-----------------High School addition, Lincoln addition and
construction of College Hills Elementary School
1967-----------------South Knoll Elementary School construction
1972-----------------Opened new high school south of town on FM
2818 West By-Pass
1978-----------------Built Oakwood Middle School , 106 Holik; added
vocational wing to high school, kindergarten building and
multi-purpose building at College Hills and South Knoll
Elementary Schools
1980-----------------City and School District exchanged property
at 1300 Jersey with the city providing 21.82 acres of land no
Welsh Street and FM 2818 for the Jersey Street property
1980-----------------School District name changed from A&M
Consolidated ISD to College Station ISD
1983-----------------Construction of Southwood Valley Elementary
School, corner of Brothers and Deacon Streets; added science
and music wings, gymnasium, cafetorium, and classrooms at the
high school; remodeled Timber Street buildings; and built
Adaptive Vocational Center on Timber
1983-----------------Purchased 20 acres of land for future building
site (north Graham Road--now fronted by Rock Prairie Road and
location of College Station Junior High School)
1989------------------Construction of Rock Prairie Elementary
School
1991------------------Construction of College station Junior High
School, 900 Rock Prairie Road
1994------------------Purchased property in the Pebble Creek
Sub-Division for construction of an elementary school
RECORD OF CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
No record available prior to 1946 information
July 1, 1946-------A.M. Whitis assumed duties as A&M Consolidated
ISD Superintendent of Schools
July 1, 1947-------Les Richardson assumed duties as Superintendent
July 1, 1955-------W.T. Riedel assumed duties as Superintendent
July 1, 1974-------Fred Hopson assumed duties as Superintendent
January 1979-------Dr. H.R. Burnett named as Interim
Superintendent--served until July 1, 1979
July 1, 1979-------Dr. Bruce Anderson of Minnesota assumed duties
as superintendent of A&M Consolidated ISD--name changed to
College Station ISD during his tenure as superintendent
October 11, 1982---Dr. H.R. Burnett named superintendent of
schools, resigned in 1985
July 1, 1985-------Dr. Ray Chancellor assumed duties as
superintendent
Janaury 1994-------Dr. H.R. Burnett served as interim until Aug.
8, 1994
August 8 , 1994-----Dr. Jim Scales of Oklahoma assumed duties as
superintendent
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FORE140R0
The community survey that the Institute for Beginring Administrators
made for A&M Consolidated Schools is a notable example of a cooperative
effort between a university and a public school system in which they
mutually benefit. When institutions of higher learning isolate them-
selves from other ''schools in their community, especially in courses
that attempt to prepare students for administrative roles in the public
schools, they are likely to be so out of touch with the vital , day to
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R day situations that arise that their program becomes unrealistic. On
the other hand a school system that ignores the potential contribution-
of a , university' s academic community is as out of touch with reality as
the ivory towered university that is oblivious to its surroundings,
We know that the experiences associated with planning and executing the
survey have been of inestimable value to us, We hope it was valuable to
the school people of the A&M Consolidated School System and will continue
to be helpful as future programs are piarned,
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We-were treated royally by school officials, board members, and school
patrons. I know, from remar!:s made by the 13 I .B.A. members, that our
administrators-to-be have been profoundly Influenced by the conversa-
tions they had with people in College Station and Brazos County.
Robert S. Randall
' O rector of I .B.A.
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School History and Economc Background
The A&M Consolidated Independent School District includes almast all
of the southern half of Brazos County. Within the limits of the
school district are the entire city of College Station and a major
part of the University campus, The boundaries enclose approximately
ninety square miles.
The original school district was chartered by the State Legislature
in 1909, but apparently no tax-supported school was operated until
1920, Union Hill , Wellborn, Rock Prarie and Shiloh Common School
districts joined with the A&M College Independent School District
in
1928 to form the A&M Consolidated Independent School District.
Most of the original Union Hill Common School District is now a part
Of the city of Bryan School District, because of the provision in
the state statutes which s a municipal
permit
s u icipal school district to annex
all areas included within the muncipality's limits. The Peach Creek
and Minter Springs Common School Districts were added to the A&M
Consolidated independent School District in. 1949 under provisions of
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_.- the Gilmer-Aiken Acts.
The present A&M Consolidated Independent School District has had no
legal connection with Texas A&M University since 1939 when the public
school system obtained its own building and moved from the college
campus.
The school moved to the original site of 15 acres purchased from the
Holicks in 1939 for $5500. One hundred and sixteen private citizens
purchased the land and donated it to the School District.
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characteri sti cs: 79 whi te, 21 / ^-)n=whi te, 8% have Spani sh sur-ames
86% urban, Medan family income was 16,8% below the state average i
1959.
The district contains the City ;,f College Station which is the site
of Texas A&M University and a residential center for faculty members
and other college personnel . Agriculture is important for the d sn
trict 's economy. Dun and Bradstreet rates 81 business establ : shments.
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The district contains two banks with 12-31-63 deposits of $6, 149;904,
College Station' s 1960 population was 11 ,396, Scholastics: 83%
white, 17% non-white,-`
*NOTE: Texas Municipal Reports, September 8, 1964, Municipal
Advisory Council of Texas,
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS!
This is our favorite subject. For instance, we have the good fortune
to be a small-town and rural district, composed of the City of College
Station and the southern part of Brazos County. We surround world-renowned
Texas A & M University and are in the center of a triangle enclosing the
largest metropolitan areas of Texas.
Our excellent highways and frequently-scheduled air and bus transporta-
tion place us within commuting range of other great universities, of NASA
and other research centers , of city shops, cultural activities , and of
diverse and numerous recreation areas. Within a day one can drive to the
seashore, or the Hill Country, to state and national forests, or an Indian
reservation, and return home in time to see the Texas Aggies play a night
basketball game.
On the other hand, one can lead the good life and never leave here. We
have good shopping and recreation facilities. The community and University
sponsor a variety of entertainment and lecture series which provide stimula-
ting and enjoyable cultural activities. There is always a choice to be made
of what to do.
The A & M Consolidated Independent School District had an enrollment of
2g00 pupils and employed 160 teachers in 197.�-7#/ This totally integrated
system has four campuses: College Hills Elementary, South Knoll Elementary,
Middle School and High School. A dedication to the interests and achievement
of each child and to the professional growth of each teacher produces a
school atmosphere which nurtures the best teaching-learning talents of both
pupils and teachers.
Steady growth has been a characteristic of the system. High interest in
the education of our children has been a characteristic of parents and patrons ,
a majority of whom are staff or faculty members at Texas A & M. Parent-teacher
and booster organizations advise and support classroom and extra-curricular
activities. As a result, the system is both creative and innovative while
operating from a posture based on solid academic precepts and proved procedures .
We are accredited by the-Scut Any ✓t� ado `5ecbiTda�SLchoa a �Yrges
,anr� the Texas Education Agency.
The district is not affluent, but our citizens, who have a high educational
level and above-average income, support the schools with their talents, labor and
money. Voters approved a $3. million bond issue in 1969 for school additions and
new construction. In September 1970, both elementary schools and the high school
were air conditioned. A new high school was opened in September, 1972. At that
time, Middle School (junior high) moved into the building that once housed the high
school.
Academically, the schools present a comprehensive program, yet they offer strong
support to the college-bound student. In the 1970 Senior Class of 142 there were
four National Merit Scholarship finalists. The curriculum of the high school is
diversified to offer many electives to meet the needs and goals of our students.
The school, is recognized nationally for its music and tennis programs . Using the
outstanding facilities at Texas A & M, a computer science course has been offered
for nearly ten years.
The strongest curriculum growth at present 'is in social studies and in vocational
courses and programs. Beginning in September, 1970, a kindergarten program for
certain ident'fied children marked� our expansion into a X-12 system. ,(t
Counseling and guidance, ealth services, speech and hearing therapy, and
special education are provided throughout the grades. Each school has a complete
library and staff. Library services are offered year-round.
Beginning in September 1972 the school system initiated a Community Education
Program. This program encourages the year-round use of school facilities by the
community. During the summer we cooperate with the College Station Recreation
Council to provide a recreation program which is unparalleled for community partici-
pation and for the variety of sports and recreation activities offered to all ages.
The summer Head Start Program has been expanded with a year-round Child Develop-
ment Program for children through kindergarten age. This center provides services
and programs which enable these children to begin their school career profitably.
The purpose of this Child Development Program initially is to prepare children
of disadvantaged homes to enter the first grade on an equal basis with children from
more advantaged homes. This aids in preventing discouragement and failures which
could lead to early school drop outs.
Teachers at A & M Consolidated are appreciated for their voluntary and enthu-
siastic participation in community activities and in their professional organizations.
The College Station Education Association actively and constructively represents
them in their professional relations.
Throughout the year, many of our teachers attend classes at Texas A & M
which is- just across the street. A national leader in both graduate study and
research, A & M offers PH.D. degrees in more than 50 fields and master's in nearly
100. Its College of Education is authorized to certify school personnel, kinder-'
garten teacher through superintendent. The University also offers numerous confer-
ences, seminars, workshops and lectures which teachers may attend. Residents may
use the University library.
Combining A & M Consolidated's good qualities with our mild climate, pleasant
working and living conditions, excellent educational and -cultural advantages, and
our stimulating, yet safe, environment, we think that our schools rank with the best.
Won't you come see us? We believe you will think so, too.
Superintendent
A & M Consolidated Schools
Bibliography
Balliew, Deborah. College Station Texas 193811988. Intaglio Press: College Station, 1987. Pg.36,
43.
"Consolidated Board Shuffles Pupils," The Bryan Daily Eagle. Vol.90,No. 175, Monday,Jan.24,
1966.
"Damage Totals$65,000," The Bryan Daily Eagle. Vol 90,No. 172,Friday,Jan.21, 1966.
"Lincoln School Blaze Displaces 100--Plans Studied Today," The Bryan Daily Eagle. Vol.90, No.
172, Friday,Jan.21, 1966.
"Lincoln School Book Count Slated Monday," The Bryan Daily Eagle. Vol.90,No. 173,Saturday,
Jan. 22, 1966.
City of College Station,City Council Minutes. Sept.8, 1941, Oct.2, 1941,July 9, 1942,Dec. 10,
1942,April 19, 1967,April 24, 1967,Feb. 26, 1968,Jan. 15, 1969,Feb.24, 1969, March 24, 1969.
A&M Consolidated School District,School Board Minutes;Jan 8, 1941; Feb.7, 1941; Feb.28, 1941;
March 31, 1941; June 24, 1941;July 3, 1941; July 9, 1941; July 28, 1941; Aug. 19, 1941; Augg.25,
1941; Seppt. 26, 1941; Oct. 17, 1941,June 10, 1943; Augg. 12, 1943; Nov.9, 1944, Dec. 18, 1944;
May 9, 1946; Jan 24, 1966; Feb.28, 1966; Aug.28, 1967; and Nov.20, 1967.
College Station Golden Memories Video Tape, 1988. Produced by the City of College Station.
Interview with Gilbert A. Eimann,former State Fire Chief/Fire Marshal for Texas A&M University.
Interview with They Murtle Owens,former elementary school and home economics teacher at
Lincoln School.
Interview with Taylor Riedel,former superintendent of the College Station Independent School
District(1957-1974).
Interview with Audrey Steen Williamson,former student and 1953 graduate of Lincoln School.
Joint interview with Jerome R.Delley, former head football coach and social studies/history teacher,
and Ethel Steen Delley,elementary school teacher at Lincoln School and 1953 graduate.
ENDNOTES
4 <.'1 Thay Myrtle Owens.
2 Ethel Steen Delle
3 Audrey Steen Williy.
amson.
4 Thay Myrtle Owens.
5 Thay Myrtle Owens.
6 Thayy Myrtle Owens.
7 A&M Consolidated School District Minutes, December 18, 1944
8 Balliew, Deborah. College Station Texas 193811988, p.36.
9 Audrey Steen Williamson.
to Taylor Riedel.
11 Thay Myrtle Owens.
12 Audrey Steen Williamson.
13 Jerome R.Delley.
14'Thay Myrtle Owens.
15 Thay Myrtle Owens.
16 Audrey Steen Williamson.
17 Jerome R.Delley.
18 Ethel Steen Delley.
19 Taylor Riedel.
20 Audrey Steen Williamson.
21 Audrey Steen Williamson.
22 Thay Myrtle Owens.
23 Audrey Steen Williamson.
24 A&M Consolidated School Board Minutes, May 9, 1946.
25 Taylor Riedel.
( 26 Jerome R.Delley.
27 Ethel Steen Delley.
28 Thay Myrtle Owens.
29 Audrey Steen Williamson.
30 Jerome R. Delley.
31 Jerome R. Delley.
32 Jerome R. Delley.
33 Jerome R.Delley.
34 Jerome R.Delley.
35 Audrey Steen Williamson.
36 Ethel Steen Delley.
37 Ethel Steen Delley.
38 Jerome R. Delley.
39 Jerome R. Delley.
40 Ethel Steen Delley.
41 Ethel Steen Delley.
42 Jerome R.Delley.
43 Ethel Steen Delley.
44 Ethel Steen Delley.
45 Ethel Steen Delley.
46 Jerome R.Delley.
47 Audrey Steen Williamson.
48 Ethel Steen Delley.
49 Audrey Steen Williamson.
50 Ethel Steen Delley.
52 Ethel Steen Delley.
53 Jerome R. Delley.
54 Taylor Riedel.
55 Taylor Riedel.
( 56 Thay Myrtle Owens.
57 "Lincoln School Blaze Displaces 100--Plans Studied Today," The Bryan Daily Eagle.
7
Bryan-College Station, Texas
le
is Tuesday, June 25, 1996
50 cent
CS scores up A A
10th-graderslightly esulis dro Reading Reading Readin Ma
- g th Math Math
1994
1995 1996 1994 1995 1996
By JENNY NELSON cent drop in reading. Grade 3 85 90 88 73 78 83
Eagle staff writer However, College Station 10th-graders
showed 90 percent mastery in reading, 79 Grade 4 86 87 80 67 81 81
College Station's third-through eighth- percent in math and 92 percent in writ-
graders posted significantly higher math ing. Grade 5 82 90 92 64 77 85
scores in the 1996 Texas Assessment of The results were presented to the
Academic Skills test, but loth-graders College Station school board on Monday. Grade 6 86 91 91 77 83 91
showed a slight drop in math and read- "We feel like our TAAS scores are
ing. improving," said Superintendent Jim Grade 7 82 92 93 72 85 86
Math results indicated a 5 percent gain Scales before the meeting. "We are cer-
in third grade, an 8 percent gain in fifth tainly not satisfied with some groups, Grade 8 89 87 93 79 78 88
and sixth grades and a 10 percent gain in like when we look at the African-
eighth grade. American and Hispanic students' scores, Grade 10 92 91 90 77 81 79
The 10th-grade results show a 2 percent
decrease from 1995 in math and a 1 per- Please see TAAS, Page A8 0 Reported in percent mastery Source: College Station School District
I
kground seem to do
ing.reading and 59 percent pass than hose kids who seen o n etter lag.
TARS ing math.
Ninty-three percent of white But it's up to us to bring prb-
loth-grade students passed the grams in for those kids who
From Al reading portion of the test, while have barriers that prohibit or
but we do have steady 83 Percent of the same group constrain them in their
passed the math tests. The math scores."
growth. ' scores were down from last year Scales said he .doubts that
The results showed 41 percent scores de class where la percent any of the district's campuses
of African American loth graders loth-gof white students passed the math will be labeled low-performing
passing the math test — com portion. by the Texas Education
pared with 71 percent last year. p
The results showed that the same Asian loth-grade students Agency. One qualification '�'E
class showed 39 percent passing also posted lower scores com- uses in rating low-performing
class
ss showed
in cent pared to last year's loth-grade schools is an overall passing
The reading scores for class. This year 85 percent score of less than 30 percent.
Passed the reading compared to Stribling said the district's
African American loth graders
dropped slightly from last 94 percent last year. In math, 85 goal is a 90-percent passing rate
year's loth-grade class. This Percent passed, while last for all of the district's students
year's results showed l0o per- by the year 2000.
year 62 percent passed com
cent passing. Overall the districts scores
pared o 67 percent last year. "Over the past two years, improved, especially in math
"We're still not pleased with we've seen the gap closing results. The results showed a 5
these scores," said Danny between the groups, and we'll percent point gain at the third
Stribling, director of elementary
education, "but we're proud of continue to work to improve grade level,an 8 point gain at e
the way those teachers are work it," said Scales. "Any time you fifth grade level and an eight
ing with those students." take a test ... you tend to find point gain at the sixth grade
The loth grade Hispanic those kids who have a stronger level and a 10 perceadelevel.mt
results showed a percent pass- social and social economic gain at the eighth grade
` oodnight to Illiteracy'
Two B-CS women selected to collaborate in children's book
By JENNY NELSON
Eagle staff writer
One Aggie's third-grade spelling bee "
nightmare led to her first published work, °
while another's love for children's stories
prompted her poem in the same book.
Angela Schlieker of Bryan and Texas
A&M University graduate student Sarah
Jensik both have a children's story in '
Half-Price Books' "1996 Say Goodnight to `
Illiteracy" book.
"In third grade I had a bad experience
in a spelling bee," said Jensik, who
i Q Y
wrote a bedtime story titled "The
Spelling Bee." "The contest got down to
three people and it went on for hours. I �.,
misspelled anonymous: I left out the `y'
and put in an `a.' I'll never forget how to
spell it as long as I live." '
Jensik said she wrote the selection A
while doing a "really boring" internship
s;
in Ohio. She said her boss would leave
town for weeks at a time, leaving her
with just a few days' work.
"Needless to say I got to know the
Internet very well," Jensik said of the Eagle photo/Butch Ireland
Sarah Jensik and Angela Schlieker pose outside Half-Price Books in
Bryan. The company published a children's book which includes a
Please see BOOKS, Page A10
story by Jensik and a poem by Schlieker.
Books Said. "I think about them ... they University. Jensik said she
had no hidden meanings, they plans to graduate in August, but
were just happy poems. I think if writing isn't in her immediate
I had children that's what I'd career plans.
like them to read." "It would have to take a string
international computer network. Schlieker said she has written of good stories, relatively close
international
one afternoon at work I about 10 stories, but hasn't sent together in time, to convince me
any to publishers, other than the to tackle writing as a career,"
wrote this story. I mentioned it
to my mom that night on the Half Price Books contest. she said. "The problem is, espe
phone.The next day she called to Ill definitely enter next cially with kids' books, it's all
tell me about the Half-Price can- year, she said. been written before ... it's just a
test m she had seen the paper. Kathy Doyle Thomas, Half variation."
"I figured a had i t fate." Price Books vice president of Jensik said she wrote the chil-
"I figured
said she saw the marketing, said this is the second dren's story because she "gets
H Schlieker
c ice advertisement wthe
annual contest. The company is depressed about how children
asking hoping to combat illiteracy with are raised in this country."
for bedtime stories and then the proceeds from the book sales. "A lot of them don't get the
wrote her story. In fact, she said "We thought bedtime stories love and support they need —
she entered the maximum of were a fun way to get people pub- just things like hearing, `I love
three stories, but a poem called lished," said Thomas. "All of the you,"' she said.
"I Tfink I've Lost My Teddy proceeds will go to fight illitera- Jensik said her favorite chil-
Bear""'was c chosen. y „
"I still have n. teddy bear, dren's writer, as well as her
although it's 20-somethin
d The chain published 20,000 hero, is Dr. Seuss and her
g years books in hopes of raising$60,000, favorite Dr. Seuss story is "The
old," Schlieker said. "He looks Thomas said.
pretty bad.'' Grinch Who Stole.Christmas."
Thomas said Half-Price Books Both authors had book-sign-
Schlieker said one of her hob
bies is collecting bears, but she will hold its third annual contest ings at the Bryan Half-Price
also breeds cock ea and reads in the fall and entry forms will Books location. Jensik said
be available at the used book- although there weren't a whole
Michael Crichton and John
store chains 52 stores. lot of takers for her autograph,
Grisham. She said her degree is in
Schlieker is a customer ser she had a good time.
journalism and she would love to
have a career as a writer one da , vice representative at TCA "It was a lot of fun," Jensik
"I still have books I had when Communications in Bryan, and said. "You don't get a lot of sign-
"I 2 years old," Schlieker Jensik is a statistics graduate ings, especially as a statisti-
_r__ student at Texas A&M cian."
� -as-9G
Bryan-College Station, Texas
'I lie 11 a le
as Tuesday, June 18, 1996 50 cents
NFUs Cashion to retire after
mun
By LARRY BOWEN can't work if you have any blockage. January, heading the officiating crew at
I m tickled to death Since there was so little of it, we of it Super Bowl XXX.
Eagle staff writer � g p
taken care of with the angioplasty." "Last year would have to rank right up
It was close call, but M.L. "Red" t0 be able t0 COm- Cashion underwent the angioplasty there at the top of the list with all the nice
Cashion will have one last year to drawl �'. . procedure, in which a balloon is used to things that happened," Cashion said. "I
his trademark "first down." plete my 25th year. clear the artery, in late May. He passed started off with the Hall of Fame Game in
The man with the most distinctive his stress test last week. Canton, Ohio, and then ended up with
voice in the National Football League, "I think it's just great," said Lou the Super Bowl, and that's pretty fun."
Cashion has been cleared for his 25th sea --Red CashionCashion, his wife of 43 years. "He's long Cashion began his officiating career in
son as an NFL official after undergoing since passed the time when it made any 1952 while a student at Texas A&M,
an angioplasty procedure to clear block- ing about retiring for a good while, and I difference financially, but it's just some- working junior high school and sub-var-
age in an artery in his heart.The 64-year- had kind of set my sights on doing this." thing that he wanted to do. sity games. A College Station native, he
old Bryan insurance executive will retire Cashion seemed to be off-target when "It's hard to feel good and have people worked his way through the high school
after the 1996 season. his annual NFL stress test in April tell you that you don't pass the physical." and college levels before moving to the
"This will be my last year," Cashion revealed minor blockage of an artery. Cashion has passed muster at NFL NFL.
said. "I'm tickled to death to be able to "I didn't know what to do with it," headquarters for many years. He served The chairman emeritus of Anco
complete my 25th year. I've been think- Cashion said. "Their rules are that you as referee in his second Super Bowl last Please see NFL, Page A5
NFL "I think I'll be awfully proud
and happy to have had the
From Al opportunity to work that many
games and have so much fun,"
Cashion said. "I think what I'll
Insurance, Cashion said he has- miss most is the people — the
n't given much thought to how it coaches and players and the
will feel to walk off the field other officials. A lot of good peo-
after his final football game. ple are involved in this."
1
Awards lunch features BmCS busines sman as sp ea
By MARIA KRINSKY "I think m wife gives them law tributed to the economy and continue to flourish."
Eagle staff writer y g Sharp said he was surprised and shocked when
Newman asked him to speak.
Samuel Nelson Sharp's first job was selling figs from firm partners baked goods once "My immediate answer was, `I will embarrass you,
his grandmother's tree for 25 cents a bucket at age 8. Louis. And I don't know anything Rotarians will want
The Troup native "arrived" in the Brazos Valley on a week so they will let me come to hear,' " he said.
Aug. 17, 1962 to work at First Bank & Trust in Bryan. Newman assured Sharp he would be the ideal speaker.
After leaving the bank, he worked at several places, in and she will get me out of the "He told me to just talk about the changes I have seen
including the Bryan Building & Loan Association and in Bryan-College Station," Sharp said. "I can do that."
the Brazos County Abstract Company. He also ran his house. Sponsored by the Bryan-College Station Chamber of
own law firm, Sam Sharp, Inc. Commerce, the Bryan Rotary Club/Newman 10 Awards
"I love Bryan," he said. "I do not for one nanosecond --Sam Sharp were created in 1994 to draw attention to the significant
regret coming'to Bryan." contribution small businesses make in the Brazos Valley.,
Thirty-four years later,Sharp is the featured speaker at The awards, which are underwritten by Newman;
Wednesday's third annual Bryan Rotary Club/Newman good occasion to 'remember former business leaders. Printing Company, are open to independent, privately-
10 Business Performance Awards Lunch. "Sam Sharp has been in positions to observe the busi- held corporations, proprietorships or partnerships:
Louis Newman, owner and president of Newman ness community, and he is a true character," Newman
Printing, said an event honoring small businesses is a said. "We need to honor the business leaders who con- Please see SHARP, Page Al2
Sharp
must be made by Friday by call- has a "little job" with Rodgers, working together more than
ing Linda Keller at 779-7700. Miller, Ellison & Holt in Bryan. ever.
Sharp said he is excited about "I do a little of this, a little of "There is more cooperation
From A9 being part of a program that that and not much of anything," between the two cities than:
acknowledges hard work. he said. "Actually, I think my there was 32 years ago," he said.
located in Brazos County. "Very few communities have wife gives them baked goods Although he will be 65 in,
Nominations are submitted by something like this," he said. "It once a week so they will let me September, Sharp said he still.
each company, by vendors, busi- is a plus for the whole communi- come in and she will get me out feels like he is in his 20s.
ness associates or friends. The ty and it is the icing on the cake of the house." "When I got my Medicare card
10 companies with the highest for winners." Sharp has been married to in the mail I laughed hysterical-
percentage increase in sales will Sharp, who retired from his Louise for almost 40 years and the ly," he said of the federal health
be recognized Wednesday from law practice in 1993, was the couple has three "big children." care insurance program for peo-
noon to 1:30 p.m. at Pebble Creek first president of the Bryan- One of the most exciting ple 65 and over and for the dis-
Country Club. College Station Habitat for changes Sharp has noticed over abled. "I thought, `Here I am, 28
The public is invited to attend. Humanity and is still active in the years in Bryan-College years old. What am I doing with
The cost is $17. Reservations the organization. He said he also Station is that the two cities are a Medicare card?"'
Bryan woman to celebrate 1 00th birthday with family, church, ex-colleagues
Willie Belle Johnson was born on June 19, 0
College of Medicine. He came to College
1896, on a farm just south of College Station from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
Station.The celebration of Johnson's 100th fMAIRGARET was associate medical director of health
birthday begins Saturday with a receptionN ZIPP and safety for Proctor and Gamble Co. He
hosted by her family from 2-4 p.m. at previously served as medical director for W_
Maxwell Center of the First Baptist the Prudhoe Bay operations of ARCO
Church of Bryan. On June 19, her former Its Like This Alaska Inc. and in the emergency depart-
colleagues and friends in Texas A&M ment at Bassett Army Hospital in
University's College of Architecture will at the Veterans Administration Hospital Fairbanks, Alaska.
host a party at Crestview Methodist in Marlin, receiving a 1,500-hour service Gaines received a bachelor's degree in SCAMARDO JOHNSON
Retirement Center, where she now pin for her efforts. p food technology from Texas A&M and a Scamardo served as guide and interpreter
resides. A longtime member of First Baptist medical degree from Texas Tech for his parents, Carol and Jim Scamardo, on a
When Johnson was old enough to start Church of Bryan, Johnson served as a University. He served a residency in inter- 10-day tour of Malaga, Toledo, Madrid,
school, her parents moved into Bryan, but Sunday school teacher for many years and nal medicine at the University of Texas Bilbao and San Sebastian. He and Rick
she was forced to drop out and help sup- later as secretary of the Amoma class. She Medical Branch in Galveston and is com- Richter, also of College Station, are travel-
port the family. Later, after taking classes always enjoyed fishing, and her nephew, pleting a master's degree in public health ing around Europe this summer.
at a local business college, she worked in Charles C.Haltom of Bryan, says she can still with the Medical College of Wisconsin. He
several downtown Bryan stores. She tell some pretty good fishing stories. is board-certified in internal medicine and ■
walked to and from work, a round-trip of ■ occupational medicine. Tina Harvell of Honolulu,Hawaii,received
more than two miles. ■ a nursing degree from Kapiolani
In 1932,Johnson took a job as a secretary Dr. William G. Gaines Jr. of Scott & White Community College on May 10. Harvell is
in Texas A&M's department of architec- Clinic has been certified as an indepen- Randy Scamardo of College Station spent the daughter-in-law of Susie Harvell and
ture, where she remained until her retire- dent medical examiner by the American the 1995-96 academic year at the David Harvell, both of College Station.
ment in 1960. She was secretary to the late Board of Independent Medical Examiners. Universidad del Pais Vasco in Lejona,
Ernest Langford, head of the department Gaines, who came to Scott & White in Spain. Before returning to Texas A&M
and mayor of College Station. 1994, is an assistant professor at Texae University, where he will be in the it r- ■ If you have an item for this column,send it to Margaret
After retiring, Johnson was a volunteer A&M University Health Science Center national studies program this ,;d, Ann Zipp,The Eagle,P.O.Box 3000,Bryan,77805.
c
-producing region of suggested that the institution establish its own indepen County, a part of the great cotton
dent electric plant, and at the same time institute a curricu- Texas, enjoyed uniform temperatures and abundant rain-
?= lum for training in electrical engineering. The embryonic fall. The fertile upland soil was easily cultivated, yielding a
system went into operation in November 1893.42 variety of crops including cereal grains, vegetables, and
In May 1899 the Texas legislature appropriated fruits. Promotional literature emphasized the excellence of
$104,000 for improvements on the A. and M. campus. bottom lands along the river courses. One pamphlet pro-
The appropriation helped lift the college out of its rudi- claimed that the "richness and fertility of Brazos bottoms
mentary environment. Funds were allotted for such facili- have become famous and their productions are not ex-
ties and improvements as a steam heating plant, a sewage celled in any part of the world.1145 Most importantly, older
system, five new homes for professors, and a new electri- residents, according to the guide, eagerly welcomed immi-
cal and ice plant." The new additions made the commu- grants into their midst. Inspired by this and similar ac-
nity more self sufficient. The college was able to provide counts, small communities, populated by native European
for the needs of a moderate size school population. That farmers, germinated throughout the county in the late
ability would lessen with the increased growth of the nineteenth century years.
R school. One such settlement, the community of Shiloh, devel-
oped in close proximity to the Texas A. and M. College.
5 Shiloh, located two miles south of the campus, consisted
Surrounding Rural Farm Communities predominantly of Czech immigrants, but also included
families native to Poland and Germany. Turmoil in Cen-
Efforts of Brazos residents to attract new inhabitants tral Europe in the 1880s, accompanied by military oppres-
to the county bore fruit in the late 1870s and early 1880s. sion and religious persecutions, encouraged these people
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe migrated to leave their homelands.46
to the United States in large numbers during those years, Frank Stasney, one of the early settlers in the Shiloh
and many made their way to the agricultural fields of area, fled to America to escape the feudalistic system that
Texas. Italians first arrived in Brazos County in 1870s. An shackled the peasants of Central Europe. In 1867 Stasney
Italian steamship line maintained an agent in Bryan, and bought his first plot of land in Brazos County. In time he
by the late 1880s, Brazos County had the largest colony of would own approximately 550 acres extending west from
Italian farmers in the entire United States.44 Other immi- Carter Creek to present-day Highway 6. Like Stasney,
x grant families settling in the area were recent arrivals from most families in the area purchased enough acreage so
Russia, Germany, Poland, Austria, and two European that their farms stretched two or three miles. Families such
provinces, Bohemia and Moravia, which later were incor- as the Kapchinskies;'Blazeks, Tureks;. and Boriskies lived in
porated in Czechoslovakia. the same vicinity as the Stasneys. The Sebestas, Bomnskies,
To these agrarian-oriented immigrants, Brazos Hrdlickas, and others settled closer to the Houston and
County represented an excellent environment for begin- Texas Central Railroad line. Immigrant farmers also pur-
ning a new life. Descriptions of the county, such as the one chased land surrounding the college. Some of the families
published in the South and Western Texas Guide for 1878, who settled near the campus were the Taubers to the
�, encouraged settlement. The guide reported that Brazos north, the Varas to the east, and the'Hohks to the south.41
n." After consultation with college officials, the The A. and M. Consolidated School District
agreed to take jurisdiction over electric lines only.s9
Y. lt� February 1940, the council purchased facilities in Residents of College Station were determined that A.
residential areas at Southside. The city paid $8,500 to and M. Consolidated School District, the public school
Wwood Realty Company and $15,000 to Southside De- system which had originated on campus, would continue
„ rdnpment Company for their electric, water, and sewer to serve the children of their community. The school dis-
{ te111S.
a.. 40 An inventory of the newly acquired equipment trict had recently encountered difficuties. It lost taxable
Itxluded such items as electric meters, poles and lines, land to Bryan, and it, too, was asked to vacate campus
transformers, water and sewer mains, laterals, outfall lines, property. Although faced with the necessity of procuring
F s fire plugs, and the sewer disposal system.41 land for a school and constructing educational facilities,
By the end of the year, the city also bought the water the citizens were fervent about supporting their school
lines in the Boyett addition and facilities in the recently district; it had provided education for their children since
developed West Park subdivision at Southside. The council 1920.
also procured water and sewer utilities from College Hills The genesis of the school district began at some time
Estates for $1,100.42 The electric lines in College Hills were around the first of the century. The Texas Legislature, in
r. Rural Electricification Administration (REA) lines owned order to provide for the educational needs of the children
by Bryan, and to the chagrin of College Station officials, of faculty at Texas A. and M., created the A. and M.V ['
the city was not able to obtain the lines for several years. College Independent School District,on March 10, 1909.91 <.
College Station owned all the existing utility distribu- Since the district borders were the same as those of the
tion systems within its limit by the end of 1940 except for college, the district included 3500 acres of land and build-
the REA lines in College Hills. The city contracted with ings valued at $3,500,000. A school, however, did not
both Texas A. and M. and Bryan for utility services in the immediately materialize. College land was state owned
early days and would continue to do so until recent years. and thus not taxable.Campus families, with a total of only
thin to fort children, could not themselves support a
The City of College Station was on its feet. Luther Jones, y y pp
one of the original councilmen, felt that College Station modern school.45 Instead, professors operated an informal
had become a true municipality once the city owned its tutoring service for the children.46
distribution systems and managed its utility services. Under the provisions of the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act, j
- Growth, he recalled, was constant. `We[the council]always funds were made available to Texas A. and M. for prepa-
got pleasure in every new house that was built. It was ration of prospective agricultural teachers. The act stipu-
surprising how fast people flocked in and built homes. lated, however, that students were to gain practical
Fortunately, we had a very ideal community, and every- teaching experience in public schools. In order to meet the
body worked for the same purpose."43 criteria of the agricultural teaching program and at the {
same time furnish an education for campus children, Presi-
dent William Bizzell and Professor Martin L. Hayes, head
of the Department of Vocational Teaching, decided to
establish a school on campus.47
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r
r
Two major obstacles prevented implementation of failed to keep pace. In 1928 the four school districts con-
their plan — obtaining adequate finances and gathering a solidated and elected a board of seven trustees. Although
sufficient number of students. Professor Hayes persuaded financial burdens did not abate, the school managed to
the State Board of Education to grant rural aid funds to provide quality education through the 1930's.1' '
finance the operation of the school. For the construction Toward the latter 1930s, the trustees sought to relieve
of a school building, President Bizzell made available the school's congested condition. In November 1938 a
$25,000 which previously had been appropriated by the committee conferred with college officials to investigate
legislature for a new president's home. In order to insure the prospect for obtaining a new school site. The officials
enough students, Hayes conceived of the idea to consoli- replied that they could not provide assistance, and thus
date the school with common schools that were in close implied that the school would eventually have to vacate
proximity to the campus. The rural districts of Rock Prai- the campus.52 The directors reasoned that the school dis-
rie, Union Hill, and Wellborn agreed to help launch the trict more appropriately belonged under the auspices of
new school if transportation for their students could be the newly-established municipality rather than the college.
provided.48 At this same time, Bryan city commissioners and
The new school, which was to be "a model of its members of the Bryan school board offered to incorporate
kind," opened on September 28, 1920 with 160 students in A. and M. Consolidated in their school district. Representa-
s attendance. The students met in Guion Hall for the first tives from both school districts met in late 1938 to discuss
few weeks until the new building could be completed. the possibilities. Considering the financial situation of the
,�ti4.y `f When the classes moved into the new building, they found consolidated school district, the proposal merited serious
f themselves without adequate supplies. The principal had consideration. The Bryan Eagle, reported that even if the
to borrow surplus equipment from various de g incorporation departments impending i oration of the College Station commu-
rI' P P rP g
on campus.49 The high school curriculum was geared to- nity came to fruition, the two school districts, in all likeli-
ward both college preparation and vocational studies. Ex- hood, would merge."
tracurricular activities such as athletics and a dramatic club College Station citizens, however, did not want their
(� r�1 were available. The first class, consisting of six students, school district to be under the jurisdiction of another com-
L p W' graduated from A. and M. Consolidated in May, 1922,50' munity. They petitioned the school board to hold a bond
The young school district, inaugurated with sanguine election which, if passed, would finance the construction
aspirations, soon experienced problems. The school lost its of adequate facilities off-campus. On February 25, 1939
g6 first leaders; Professor Hayes died in the early twenties voters overwhelmingly approved the issuance of $7 5,000
and Dr. Bizzell moved to Oklahoma in 1925. The college in bonds for this project.54 In order to sell the bonds, the
discontinued its teacher training program, and the legisla- equalization board had to double the evaluation of all city
ture eliminated funds which previously had been appro- property. Residents accepted the assessment without
priated for educational purposes. The school rapidly complaint.15
outgrew its only building, and the entire high school de- The school board hired Ernest Langford and Clarence
partment had to be transferred to Pfeiffer Hall where it Jack Finney, professors in the Architecture Department, to
remained until it was moved off-campus. Expenses in- design the new facilities. Two school sites were under
''''Paced, but revenue from rural aid grants and local taxes consideration, a fifteen acre tract in College Hills Estates
and the Holik property site, also of fifteen acres. Residents- Each section had its own residential areas with accompany-
,favored the Holik site. In order to purchase the land, some ing shops. Since modes of transportation were limited inof the people organized a drive for funds and collected a the early days, residents;patronized neighborhood stores.
total of $5,500.58 from 116 patrons.56 At the school North Gate continued to serve as the main business dis- I!'
board's April meeting, men favoring the Holik site ex- trict. New additions to that area included a theatre, hard- �{
plained its advantages. It was conveniently located and ware store, dentist office, and a Methodist church.61 Luke's
was situated adjacent to the land that the board had Campus Grocery moved to East Gate where College Hills
hoped to receive from the college. The site afforded access Estates continued to expand. New subdivisions were being
to facilities on campus such as the library, laboratories, added at Southside along with a small commercial
and shops. Utilities were available from the Oakwood addi- development.61
tion, and school patrons were willing to pay for connecting One somewhat extravagant newspaper account de-
the school's lines to Oakwood. The board accepted this scribed College Station as "the fastest growing city in
generous offer." Texas.11
61 Community leaders and citizens were aware that
Langford and Finney assigned their students the task they were in a position to institute programs at the outset
of making the necessary surveys and designing the school; that would insure orderly growth. In those initial years,
�--the architects, however, had final approval.58 The finished the council established policies and organized committees t
facilities consisted of four elementary units containing„ to guide municipal expansion. Although these instruments
fourteen classrooms and additional office space, a high of regulation were not utilized consistently until the late
school with eight classrooms, and a building to house the 1960s, the principle of directing growth was established at
industrial arts and music departments.59 Men from the the city's inception.
community brought trees and shrubbery from the Brazos According to one early developer, College Station
1 and Navasota river bottoms for transplanting at the new became the first city between Houston and Dallas to estab-
school site.60 The buildings were formally accepted on lish zoning regulations." Residents enthusiastically sup-
March 8, 1940. ported zoning because they believed it prevented loss in i
Within a year, another bond election was approved to land values and eliminated "internal strife among the citi- j
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�t finance the construction of a gymnasium-auditorium build- zenship.66 The city council created a Zoning Commission in� ing and an athletic field complete with a stadium.61 With July 1939 whose purpose was to recommend a compre-
,f` the continuing support of the community, A. and M. Con- hensive plan consisting of zoning districts and regulations
solidated School District successfully made the transition which would make districting effective.61 The city's first
from the jurisdiction of the college to that of the zoning ordinance went into operation in January 1949.61
municipality. To complement the Zoning Commission, Mayor Binney
appointed a City Planning Board in November 1939. At
the request of Texas Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, the board
Planning for Community Growth also functioned -as an Industrial Development
Committee.69
Three distinct divisions of the city, present even in the The first city council made provisions for the creation
pre-incorporated community, expanded during the 1940s. of the City Parks Board. Beginning in May 1939, the Parks
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$ I S T O R'Y O F A & M C O N S O L I D A T E D S C H O O L
Excerpts from "The Battalion"
July 19 - August 9, 1945
" Y O U R C I T Y "
by W. L. Hughes
Many years ago the Texas Legislature created an independent school district of
the A&M College campus. - a district which consisted of some 3500 acres of land and
buildings valued at approximately $3,500.00. However, since the property belonged to
the State of Texas, it was not taxable; and a school district with no taxable property,
except for a small amount of personal property, will not support a school. Another
--- factor which made it'vpossible for the campus people to have anything like a modern
school was the small number of children, there being only 30 or 40 of them on the cam-
pus. Consequently, the campus people sent their children to Bryan to school.
In 1917, the Smith-Hughes Act was passed by Congress appropriating funds for the
teaching of agriculture in public schools. A&M College was designated as a teacher-
training institution, and under authority of the act certain funds were made available
for preparing teachers of agriculture in the public schools. This created the problem
of a training school",for giving prospective teachers some practice teaching in agri-
culture. ' But the college had no public school and one was needed and must be provided.
In 1920, Dr. W. B. Bizzell, President of the College, with Professor Martin L. Hayes,
head of the Department of Vocational Teaching , conceived the idea of establishing a
school on the campus for the purpose of meeting this need and at the same time of meeting
the needs of the campus people for a public school. Many problems had to be solved be-
fore this could be realized, more particularly that of adequate finances and the further
problem of bringing together enough children to create a satisfactory school unit. Finally,
through the efforts of Professor Hayes, the State Board of Education was persuaded to
grant rural aid sufficient to Justify the establishment of the school. The college also
furnished material assistance, and Dr.Bizzell made available $25,000 for the construction
of a school building. (In this connection it may be of interest to record that the $25,000
had been appropriated by the Legislature for the construction of a new home for the
president of `M Ca_lagc, but this aid of solve the rrobi em nP the reQuisite number of
children for aLLsatisfactory school unit.)
IR Grd@F to 901VO thO prflb11&% o1 blin%ink tha.Taquired number of children,
Professor Hayes conceived the idea of making the school a rural consolidated school by
taking in sufficient territory adjoining the college property to afford sufficient pupils
to insure an. ideal organization that is, a teacher for each grade. This fact alone
created the very serious problem of transportation-that of getting the rural children to
and from school. When the rural districts Ae assured transportation for their children,
—Professor Hayes and County Superintendent Eck Smith suAeded.in getting common school dis-
tracts 2,6, and 13 - all adjoining the campus-to agree to co-operate' in launchiag`.the'.nsw
school.
The problem of securing a building in the summer of '1920, of securing teachers and
transportation for about 160 children, was no small one. But with about $13,000. rural
aid and some $5,000. furnished by the college, with the state and county apportionment,
and the local taxes from the co-operating districts the financial side of the undertaking
seemed bright enough. Accordingly, the school board proceeded with the construction of
a building and with the purchase of two Oldsmobile buses for transportation-and, for the
record, that board was made up of Professor Hayes, Dean E.J. Kyle, and Professor E.J.
Fermier, all appointed by the President of the College. A teaching.staff consisting of .
the very best teachers available was invited to take over. This staff included all necessaW
teachers from principal to primary teacher, including a teacher of home•economics and one
for agriculture. The problem of 'organizing a complete school program, including' trans-
protation, was dumped into the lap of the writer. It was his ,job to organize the school- a
task which was undertaken on September 28, 1920, when some 160 pupils presented themselves
for registration. The school. was opened in Guion Hall and continued to hold, its daily
f
session there until the new building was ready for occupancy. The new building was
soon completed but when the school moved from Guion Hall we found ourselves utterly
devoid of any equipment. The principal begged and borrowed from various departments
of the college and in a few weeks A.&M. Consolidated Sch6ol was on its 'way. It was
the plan of the original board and the superintendent to make the school a model of
its kind-that is, no teacher should have more than one grade and no grade more than
35 pupils. The teachers were to be the best obtainable. It was to be a case in
which the job sought the teacher-not the teacher the job. A teacher's home, or teach-
age, was provided, and living conditions were made as pleasant as possible.
It must be kept in mind that for many years after its organization, the school
was not consolidated legally. The districts pooled their finances and children but
---it was only by a gentleman's agreement. Rural people *e reluctant to cut loose en-
tirely from their old school districts:
During the first year of the school, 304 pupils were enrolled with an average
daily attendance of 74%. Actual enrollment was in excess of the census tabulation.
During its second year the school enrooled 342 pupils with an average daily attendance
of 80%•
The greatest problem to be solved was retardation. More than 57% of the children
j from the rural schools were retarded due to the character of the schools they had at-
tended. After a year or two, however, this situation was cased, and at the end of the
second year the school was put on the accredited list with 13 1/2 units of affiliation.
Health Program Emphasized
Primary duty of any shcool is to make good animals of its pupils. This should
be the duty of the homes in any community but is often neglected, particularly in the
rural homes. A health survey was made by the Red.Cross nurse for Brazos'county. Of
the 240 children studied, 100% were found defective. This did not include such dis-
+--Zpenses as malaria. During the first year of the school if became necessary to provide
a bed in the principle's office for malaria patients, and it was used almost daily.
The school carried on a vigorous health campaign and by the end of the second year
malaria was almost stamped out. The children were taught the relation between the
mosquito and the disease, and this knowledge was carried Lome with the result that
greater use was made of mosquito nets.
Progress was made in overcoming such defects as bad tonsils, poor teeth, and
malnutrition. Each teacher made it a part of her regular work to instruct her pupils
in the importance of clean teeth, clean bodies, and proper diet. By the end of the
second year the i'esults were very noticeable. Attendance improved and much better
progress in shcool was made.
Extra-Curricular Activities
The school was large enough to set up a program of athletics. Many matched games
j with other schools were played and good schQQL sgirit was created. A dramatic club
was organized and much interest was aroused in amateur performances. These home talent
plays were given in different parts of the county, creating a very favorable impression
and showing what a rural school could do. Incidentally, these performances brought in
sufficient money to aid in starting a good library. Although the school was the young-
est in the county, by the end of two years it had more library books than all the rest
of the rural schools of the county combined.
A parent-teachers club was organized and served to bring the parents into closer
-touch with the organization and work of the school. The mothersaided in securing library
books and in securing for the school many needed improvements.
During the first years of its able existence the school made remarkable progress.
It showed signs of becoming the type of school that will meet the needs of the community.
The high school course of study was shaped to conform to both college entrance require-
ments and to vocational life work.
During the first years, the high school department was called the "Hayes High School".
There was no graduating class the first .year, but at the end of the second year, May, 1922,
a class of six was granted diplomas.
A Practical Curriculum
All students of the high school were required to take English,. American history,
and civics, with other subjects elective. In the lower grades, civics was taught in-
cidentally with such work as health and the various school activities. Agricultural
arithmetic, agricultural composition, as well as agricultural science and practice, were
taught. Traditional courses in mathematics were offered and a large number of students
a
elected to take them. _
economics department. Girls were taught the essentials of homemaking in all its
One of the very finest assets of the school was the home various aspects. Home projects in home economics and agriculture sought to make
instructio
in these asEnglishnand mathematicscts awerescorrelatedfwithtthemoinnear R lie sivatin �everssible, and such courses
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A&M Consolidated School Buildings and Groundsossible way,
The A.&M. Consolidated School was housed in buildings on the campus from its
orgin until 1940. In November, 1938, a committee from the school board was author-
ized to investigate the possibility of w school site of
the College allowing a ne
fifteen acres and making other provisions for the school.
On February 10, 1939, theFirst B Erected a
i
Of College Station asking that an election be held to voteibonds for financing the
from leading citizens
building of adequate school facilities. The board ordered this election for February
bond
25, 1939, which approved by a large majority the issuance of $75,000. in bonds for
this purpose. A contract with the architects Ernest Langford and Jack Finney,
signed March 13, 1939, at which time two school sites were offered, one of fifteen
-^ acres in College Hills Estates and the other the Hol4k property site. The board as
accepted the Holi#k property site at its April meeting. This site, consisting of
approximately fifteen acres, was bought and paid y public subscription from
b
some 116 interested patrons at a total cost of $for for 58, and the property was
to the school board as a site for the pr
On September 8, 1939, the board let a contract for the school buildings to given
oposed school buildings.
William Smith, contractor from-Waco, on a bid of $69 825.
The
called for four elementary units having fourteen classrooms, Officelspaceo and athe
--to like; a high school building of six classrooms with auxilary rooms and a building
house roomspacehofltheshighl Arts schooland wasMnotcadequateents. It was funand a contractotodaddttwolaertadditional
classrooms was signed October 27, 1939, at a cost of $3,567. The buildings were
accepted on March 8, 1940, and school furniture and equipment were moved from the
old campus site.
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Colleges Station, Tex&a,
Lurch 13, 1939.
t
. E. a. Vtzny, Chairman,
The Board of Trustees,
A. and M. Consolidated School,
Caws. .
Dear Sir:
If the Consolidated School Board finds it necessary to locate the
School off the Texas A. and M. College campus, Ore, interested eitlzona
end patrons, believing that the best interests of our Consolidated
School Dlstriet will be best served by having a ehoioe of sitr)s for thi►
lootition of the conten;nlatod now school building, hereby suggest for
your-oon3ideration the following facts relative to tr.alve acres of land
on the front part of the Tom F.olipk tract:
1. This piece of of fored land , which inns 740.1�L feet along the ro.id
to Kik�rxaiy 6 and ex-tende south along the Oak►vood line 735 feet , is a
conizal location, and it is moat conveniently accessible to the greatest
namber of scholastics.
2. It is just across th3 road from t'ha center of scholastic populEL
tion, a location which the School Doard b.as hoped to receive from 'the
Co liege.
.3. This HblirPx site will be especially convenient to tha children
of College Parl", 6akwood, and Campus; and it will not be inconvanient to
the children of College Bills.
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4. This location, which is a block or so from the south entrance to
apezaoe Street— a street which is likaly to become a boulevard 'r-=i.nq
;traigh.t through trio College Cazpua---affords convenient excess -to the
C0ilrj8e-Campus 4 tha College library, laboratories, and shops .
I
i 5. Eighty—odd ssbseribors of this twelve—acre tract, many of whom
Rso Camraazs peyoplo having children to send to this new school but not
mining a root of land in either Oakwood or College Park, attest the
popularity of the location
G. The eurfece of thi3 Roli k land , as wall as its locations, is
rz
crccllet for school ptn•poses. t its high and well drained; it has a toatitiiUl.l,y
r,loping surface; it 2uis nplo round for athletic field ; it has mazzy
re�L•aablo tracs thnt will Provo for rmny pur;oses ono of its great assets
��r_:1 edvanta;,os.
7. All utilitio3 from O:riYwood Addition will be avn iloblo oil this land.
S. A satisf!).ctory dosed can be madar. to the Trustees of the Consolidated .
School for this lend, and the legal opinion on this Eoli f k deed has been
cjoc:zrod from the leading; lawyer on deeds am titles in 131•azos County.
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9. This tmet of twolvo acres will bo donatod to the Co=olidatQil
^drool by interested patrons.
10. Theso Dame patrons will pay for the moving of how, es off tt is
Daid tract to places agreed upon, and will defray tho cost of :running tl��Qo�rer lim t o th3 Oakvrood cones ct ion.
RBspectPttl]yy Submitted,
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e BY W. L. HUGHES BY W. L. HUGIIE3
Sixth of a Series Seventh of a Series
IIiSTOItY OF A. & M. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL: PART I HISTOItY OF A. & M. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL: PART'II.
!T.t»y years ago the Texas Leg- ritory adjoining the college proper- It crust be kept in mind that for regular work to insttvct her pu-
e created an independent tyto ntCOrl sufficient pupils to in- many years after its organization, Ails In the Importance of clean
district the A. & Li. Col- sure a ideal organization —• t n- the school was not consolidated teeth,clean bodies, and proper diet.
Ic o campus—a district which con- is, a teacher';for.euch'grade. This legally. The districts pooled their re the end of the second year the
listed of some 3500 acres of land fact alone created the very serious [in,nces and children but it was results were very noticeable. At•i
and buildings valued at approxi• problem of transportation—that of only by a gentleman's agreement tendance improved and much bet•
nrat.ly $3.500,000; However, since getting the rural children to and Rural people were reluctant to cut ter progress in school was made.
the property belonged to the Styli from school. When the rural dis- loose entirely from their old school Extra-Curricular Aetivillts.I
of Texas, it was not taxable; and tricts were assured transportation districts. The school was large enough tot
a %chnol district with no taxable for their children, Professor Hayes During the first year of the act up s program of athleltes.I
pruperty,except foltia small amount and County Superintendent Eck school, 304 pupils were enrolled Many miichrd games avit:i''other I
of personal property, will not Smith succeeded in getting com- with Lin uverage daily attendance acbools were played and good
support a school.. Another factor mon school districts 2, B, and 13-- of 741,',. Actual enrollment was in school spirit was created. A dra -'
which made it possible for the all adjoining the campus—to agree iexce•sa of the census tabulation. 7tic club was orianized and m chi
campus people to have anything to co-operate in launching the new i During its second year the school interest was aroused in amateur
like a mudcrn school was the small school en
rolled 3.1'1 pupils with an averuge,performances. These home talent
cumber of children, there being The problem of securing a build- daily attendance of 80!t. J plays were Given in different
only 30 or 0 of them on the earn- , The greatest problem to be solved parts of the county,creating a very
ing in till- summer of 19_0, to ion Was retardation, More than 57 i• fuvoruble impression and showing
pus. Const•qucntly, till- cr.mpus curing teachers and tranSport_�tion p
people sent their children to Bryan for about IGO children, wus no i4if the children from the rural what a rural school could do. In-
to school. small one. But with about =13,000 scha,ls were retarded due to the cidentally, these performances
In 1917, the Smith-llughes Act rural aid and some $5,00( ;furnish- Ichuructer of till- schools they had brought in .sufficient money to
w•as passed by Congress appropri- ed by the college, with the state Littended. After a year or two,how- aid in starting u good librury. AI-
ating; fund+ for the teaching of unit county apportionments and 'vvvr• this situation wus eased, and though the school was till-yuungca,t
cgriculture in public school+. A. the local taxes from the co•operat- :ut the end of lhtt second year the in the county, by the end of two
4- M. College wus designated as u ing districts. the financial side of .school wqs put Lin the uccreditcd yviirs it had,pntore librury books
trarber•training institution, and the .underOpkind seemed right list with 13kat unit+ o ol'f uffiliution. that'all thcstof thet'ural schools.
undt•r authority of the act certain enuuah.-'Accordingly, the school ! Ilrallh Progruta }°mphual:ed of the•cuunty combined.
funds were made available for pre- board proceadtd with the construe- J t Primary duty of ony school is A parent•teuchors club Cuss or.
paring tcachcrs of agriculture in tion of u huitding and with the purr Ito nuvS,e good unimuls of Its' l•u- gvuilxed and served to brfnu tha
the public schools. This created chase of two Oldsmobile bu+sea for ilill.. Till• should 1,<• the duty of parents Into closer.tout% with OIL-
the
problem of u training school transportation—and, for the rec• tilt• homes ill illy community but orltanizutlon and work of tho
for giving; prospective teachers ord, that !ward wus made up of Jim oleo neglect tl particularly in school' Thu and
allied In a,u•
Nome practice teaching in agricul- I?ofassor Iluyes, Dvan E. J. kyle, 'the rural humus. A health survvy cut'Ing library books and In securing
t...... glut the college had no public and Professor E. J. Ferrr.icr, all +%vus surds by till, Iced Cross nur.o for it,, school imuny needed tin-
' and une• was needed; and itppointed by the President 6f the feu' Ilruxos' County. Of the L'40 plovoltlollts. . '
f v provided College. A teaching staff consist- I0111,1101 stu,lled,110", were found During tho first' years af, it.,
� In 173d, 1>r. VV. Il. Bizzcll, Press ing of the very best tenchora avail-
defct•llvo. 'lilts did nut 111CIL to nble cxtstatcu the school nladti to•
:idoct of the t;ullrg r, vtiu4 Profess able was invitedto take over. isuch dlseui.Ps• ns Inalurla. during Ieurkubio proilit-its' It ■luuwod
'sor Mai,tin L fiuyes, head of the This staff included all necessary the first'year of the ►churl It be.
signs of breominit. till- .typo o!
0cpwtinent of Vocational Teach- teachers from principal to primary Jcantt• rtrc't'wsary to pruvhle a Iced In mchuul that will meet the rrcdl of
ing;• cun.eei%vd the idea of estab. teucher, including u teacher of the principle's-nffico for malaria the community. I'll* lillth' school
i dishing u scaoul on the campus for home vc• noniics and one for agr•i• pitt,ents• utid it wus used alraut course of study was shaped to con-
'ill,' purls,s, of rnecting.thi.s need culture. The problem of organizing jti:rtly. .The schuul carried on u finin la truth culh•go catranco iu-
and at th,• same time of meeting a complete school program, includ• ivlgurouv'lealth compatgn and by tluht-ments and;to vocational life
the newts of the campus people ing,•' transportation, w•as dumped, Ilhv end N the sccuod year malaria work,
'for it public school. ?finny problems into the lap of the writer. It was wins almust stamped nut.The child• Luring the first years, tlia hf;rh
hud to Le solved before this could his job to organise the school — ten were taught the relation' bq• schuul department was called the
be roulized, more particulurly that a task which was undertaken ai tween;the mosquito and thSdtseusi.', "ilayes High School".it here wQs
of adequate finances and the forth- September 19�0,when some 1�0 vivid ihts' knowiedgl- wus earrttrd no groduuting class tho first scut',
yr ptublcm of bringing : together pupils presented themselves for home,with the re,ult C.•it.greater but at lh- �::d of the .rco';d yc.^.r,
enough children to create a satin. registration.The school was opened use crux made of snusquito nets. May, 1O.,21, a class. of'six was
factory schuul unit. Finally, in Guiun Ilalf and continued to I Progress was made t❑ over- lrranted diplumas.
thruugh the efforts of Professor huld its daily "ssion there until I coming such defects as bad ton- A Practical Curriculum
Hayes. the State Board of F.duca. the new building was' ready fur lids. poor teeth, and mshtulrition. All btudenta of the ,tilogb school
toil was persuaded to grant rural occulmricy. The new building was Ench teacher made it a part of her vvere required to take Engfisl,
aid sufficient to justify the e�tab. soon completed but, when the —' "— "' — -- American hlstory,'uild civics, wit
lishmont of the school. The college school moved from Guion Hill we other subjects elective. In tho lei -
idso furnished matet'iul assistance, found ourselves utterly devoid of THE BATTALION er grades, civics was•taught inci.,
snit Dr. Ilizzell made avniluble Lilly equipment.The principal begg• dentally with ouch worle ai health
$:5,000 for the c'onsti'uction of a cd and borrowed from various do• and the PaHOU3 school activit;a.
school building. (In thi3 connec. vartments of the college and In 'u July 26, 1945 Agriculttu'hl nrithn-,etle, 'n.rlcul-
tiun it piny be of interest to record few weeks. A. h M. C0113olidated tural eomJgositica, as v
- :ell a9 r:gri-
that the '425.000 had beenappru• Schoul wus us, way. It was the � cultural science ar,d practice, were
hinted by the Legislature for the plan of the of iginal board and the (Page 2) tau;;ht. Traditi',n.1 I co:;racs 'In
cunntrue6on of a new honie for superintendent to make the 'school mathematics V.,fro cf,,trcu r•.nd a
the lnC sident of A. & M. College, a model of Its kind—tliat 13, no large number cf..tudonts vl`ae:cd
but this did nut sulve Um problem teacher phould huva more than'one to take them: Ulio of Clio N-JS:
e requisite number of children graehe and no grade ruor'o thin 35 finest ts3as of tl.o cchcol Wr.3 1_i
t tti.fut•wry school unit.) pupil,. Tl:e tcachera vterev to be lrow.e rconounics 6partment. Giri3
1. .order to solvu- the problem the best obtainable. It vvas to b.• July 19 1945 wore taught tiro c tcntlali of harne-
of brir.gtin r together the require•tl n case to which the job aouatt the < _ s ranking In: all Its�vario¢3 a:F,_-C
number of children, Prolc3aor teacher—not the teacher the-job: Ilonia projects in lhonio cco:curt
lluyes conceived the idea of mak- A teacher's home, or trachcraaoe (page 2) and a;frlculture e)ughp to =17
iax the school a rural consolidated ,ins provided,and living conditions instruction In ihcsa su')Jectii as
school by taking in sufficient ter- were made as pleasant 43 p033lua. near a Ilio situation is pe:iiblc,
and such cot:r::cs 1hs En;;1L-5 and
rr,t,'aataca k cra!,
eorroLitcd with
them 1n Query }:os.jbla way. I
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IIND)HI. OF A. &slt. CU 'So
LIDATED SCPIOUL: PART III i ASJI 0)N.SO1,1DATEU SC11O01. BUILDINGS AN'u GitOUNIUS
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The lust school census give the this time thu training school" idea Tilt. A. K'JI. Conuoliduted School six clattsnKom�with :uxilinr} rooms A. M. Cvnsolidutod School dis. had about disappeared and the
t l ss h,used in, buildg g
,cho
ins an the and a buildin to In usr the Jndus•
ho lusti JO white and 29cs. This is double e colored school wall simply souther d con. Ic•ctunpu• , froo, its origin 1'J until 4U. trial Atts s and kilo se departments.
thy rum- wlidated public school on its own In November. 19:11I. s committee It will, found-later that classroom
IK•r of white twenty-five years ago, resources. The taxnble valuations 'from the school builrd wvcs author• space of.the high chool was not
and more thun double the number of the consoliclnt.od district were
.of colored children, only about one million dollars 'but izrtl a Collf v n wiile pr•ssib new additions and a cunt act to odd two
of the ('allege nl�uwving u new additional' chtssntun is sus signed
It becume necessarya good many the budget,kept on increasing. school rite of fifteen acres-and October•'47, 1931 at •u cost nI
•:ears ago to erect a nee building Twenty/five years bring about muk,i,• oif prnVi.+ions for the j3,liU7.The building, were formally
for the colored children and furnish nta°y changes. College Station has rchonol the conunittoi-v was informed accepted on Illar'CF 8, 1940, and
transportation. The budget for the grown into a+city with its ow6 Hurt there wits not much chance school furniture a id cyuipment
colored school ulone now runs about nwniclpal government. People have of the school reeeiriog help front were roov.cd foci toe of.11I campus
315,048) a your. In the beginning, built their oi,6 homes and the tax. the Collr):e. site, i rt
the culorcd tochool con.,NtMl of a able valuatiore,!,have increased to First4luildin�s Erected + (
onr•ror m school situuta! •' 1.2 millionv: Local school Wxes Un February If), 19at1, the school 'Plant .Ps ;pan
/ just east'`
of the rumpus an what is now now amount some j25,000 an• hoar,! rereneed a petition from Iced• O)n Jnn ry 8, 1) the board
Highway G, No transportation was_nually. The rep(N4 was moved into urg citizens of O'ull,,ge Stutiuet ask. received a Pe
' io asking for an
needed. The budget for such a new blttlhiings'adjacent to the in�• that ru, eleetionitK held to vote ittve.tigntiun of ssibility of
r•choul %vas only a few hundred icunnlius nlniut Sive years ago,. A b,Snd.+ (,n finunciny the L1,ilding building u con indt-n gyl +iwu-
dollars annually. The colored school•gynurnsium 'Intl athletic field have; If' 'Ideiti+utt. school: facilities. The auditorium- tfeteria along wit n
,• now housed in a jl'1,000 build•;iK•on provided.The new school plant board wrdered lh& vlectiun fur nthletie C•!d and a AUltabh` Negr
:ng and is doing an excellent job about jlUU,00 unJ, almost Feb,u:uy 25, 1939, which approved high s uol buildi*yr. After the
of furnishing u practical education.'S)•nOd 'a'tnuully is required for i by it largo• mui,wifly the issul,ii loan ad matte a hurough study
colored children. it is a tJ.1'Iebt service alone. The f Udget for of j75,000 in bond lC fur this par• of is reyucst, 'ai election was
grade school with,Ill lrnchcrr. �'oc•!the white school foy*1944-45 wato I pose.A c•vnte-a(-1 wirlh the architect, c''c col for March 2,'J, 1041 for voting
utiunul nt;riculturo wool home eco,,•!upproxiruately $7,400. T%velity-one! � n Ellsem Iagford 11V Jack Finney, the Issuance of SJ 000 in bonds
mien uie (ealured. tenchvrs are required. Thu cum- was signed March 11I,1939 at which tv finance tho.projc•t. The election
1rulun,'n'nW includes such!ivork Ott time two school sit's were offered, curried by a' larg• majority. AJost how till- "truinint 'e boat" in,ustriul urls, hump rconuinics, oil(.of fifteen cres;in College Hills building cumnlittce was appointed
eleu wns last is not eusy to ex-!commercial wak, including typing Estnles and..the u�hrr the IIolich by the board doll it war authorized
€" fin. F'mfrssun Irayes died in theIshorthand, and business training. pruperty'iitc. The'boacd accepted to purchase mtioinit Z property and
:ly twentiys Will Dr. Bizzell wentlThe truditimnal courses in English, the.-Ilolicic property sit,- at its ...oke plun7for the ,roposed build.
Oklahoma it: 1125. Thus the mi,thematip, history, science are April 1Y.Ming. This site, consist. inga. If.;D, bltryfio.l1, Jr., was err-
school lust two,);oud friends. Finan.d offered• " ing,of approximately fifteen acres ployed ns atehitce and approx.
�cial trouble;+ betp,n' to wccuntulate.' 'While the school.has been thru way bought and paid b I. two pyres more for by pu of land
!"I'he tree bJs.+ov Gann proved in-imun} ups and downs, the future lic(subscription fI n t:arne; 110 in. adjoining the ichro! property were
Iudoquat•• and ndditional busses hnj ?, vois bright and promising. It telIc3tctl Pat its all u told` cost of bought from James IIolick.
jlu.ls•pureh:ard.A full-time mocha- has mot the educational needs u v5 0.63, and theirproperty wns A .contract" It q )uild thu bus
'tie had to bit employed which ad,k,l o muny rural boys and girls w•h' give to the acbo611 board'ra a aito garage and faotbh ! bleachers o:w
Ito the budget. The cost of bus I otherwise -would have had scan!. for t110 pre;used r'llool buildings. given to Olo ?,fnj Ii able of Bryan
1 transportation over poor roads rdh,cducatibnul oppurlunities: It has On September 8..1530 tbo board In July at tit c03t of �,•1,3J5, A
high. The Luildin,g Siam proved in• filled u great need for the campus let u contract for t�c'schaol build- contract to blind!t'.a symnnsium-
ado•quatr.for the increasing school children, The. financial resources InW4 to VVilliatp Stith. contractor auditorium wits g�en to N. IL
Population, and some of the child- are gradually increasing, but the fro % Waco, on a�1ia of $69,824. Smith of,Dryan o;t_.ugust 23, 1M
1ren were "furmed out" in college budget still keeps a few steps Ilia original contract eaU,d for ut a cost of 523,000. ibs bus gar33e
buildings. Finally the-entirr-high,ahead of .the--available revenues, foul•clement-ry unas'hivir„four- and stadium were eomplet4d in
ach„ol department was moved tuIThe high school departmeni with tech CIM53roon-0. 0 fice spaca and October 1941 'aril fole gymna lam
01d Pfeiffer Ifall and remained an enrollment of about 150 students tlla like; a hi h zc
there until about 1940, th col buildins of was:completed •f i obraary 1942,.
is still rather small to offer airicl.
and varied educational pro
gram.I r� �
The Texan Icuisluture cut off However, as the population of
the uppropriutions which were College Station increases, these
made in the beginning since, the shortcotnings will grndunt5y be
school had lost, or was losing, llne overcome. The school now operates
`ruining-school idea. The school m-'ven busses. The roads have been was soon on the rocks finnnciaily. improved, taxable valuations are \(�THE BATTALION
Rural aid lawn helped very little. i„creasing, the state's share in v
I nil tuxes amounted to only ajfinancing the school is Still about small part of tilt. t:choul's nccd3.:2-3 of the available funds. The
AU9USt 9, 1945
7'h,• ,late was fu,'uishing less than'board of trustees is made c:d per. capita. The school's from
fine, patriotic citizens wh�p
of
tttcadily increasing
are (page 2)
o•: wns g frum'endeavoring to sec that the "hoc!
yoo.u' to ,'ear. About 1923 a le&:ol.mrcls Pile needs of coming geneE'a-
r•.n^i liclatitrn .%vu+ effected and u
r'ol u( ,e•een tristcos sus elect•
bit: financial Uvublc.r were r,ot�
ed. Many srhenics wereirought1
ward for financing the achool.l
The cat"P" People Went as far aa) THE BATTALION
to try lit raise money by private
subscription but this scheme raised
uoly a few hundred dollars. By August 2, 1945
(page 2)
COLLEGE TO OPEN
WITHPROBABLY
2,000 STUDENTS
The Greatest Attendance, in the History of A. and
M. College Is Expected -- The Advance Van-
guard Already Arriving in Bryan and College
--The Fall Term Will Open On Wednesday
Morning and Will Break All Records
From the Monday,Sept.13,1920, V
edition,The Bryan Daily Eagle Consolidated
COLLEGE STATION,Texas,Sept.
13. — All departments during this 1/'1 School. At A '
past week put everything in readi- , .
ness for the reception of the vang-
uard of students who will arrive at Opens 016 Monday.,,
A. & M. college Monday morning Opens, 1►i n 411�
Sept. 13. On this day the following
entrance examinations will be held From the Saturday,Sept.17,1927,
for those who do not have the re- edition,The Bryan Daily Eagle
quired number of credits. And on A. and M. Consolidated school
Wednesday morning the fall term of opens Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
school will open. The first register- It is predicted that the enrollment
ants are now coming in great num- will be larger than last year. Slight
bers. changes have been made this year in
Over 2000 students are expected to regard to the administration of the
school. Heretofore, the school has
enroll for all courses at the beginning maintained.two unit schools at Shir-
of the term and by far the biggest ock and Wellborn. But this year all
year in the history of the institution children will be transported from the
is looked forward to. Electrical engi- Shirock district to the campus school,
neering and a course in agricultural
administration recently incorporated The school enters upon its eighth
are to be the most popular courses year of school work.Brazos is one of
according to indications at the pre- the few counties to begin consolida-
sent time. tion of rural schools.A.and M.Con-
solidated School consists of four
To care for the increased enroll- school districts, namely, Shirock,
ment,the teaching staff has been en- Wellborn,Union Hill and A. and M.
larged considerably, and this year a Independent.
fund of$32,000 appropriated by the
last called session of the legislature The State Department of Edu-
for additional teachers will be distri- cation has classified A.and M.Con-
buted to new instructors in the var- solidated as a standard four-year
ious departments.In addition to this school with twenty-two and one-half
still others will be paid out of the accredited units.In addition to serv-
emergency fund. The engineering ing the students of the College cam-
departments have had the greatest pus, the Consolidated serves chil
staff growth, ten instructors in all dren in three rural districts.
having been added to the civil,che-
mical, electrical, agricultural and This year the school has an unu-
mechanical engineering depart- sually strong faculty.Ten of the thir{1.
teen teachers hold B.A. degrees.Thy:
ments. teachers for 1927-28 are as follows:?
The departments of military Miss Pipkin,first;Mrs.Low,second;"
science and tactics which adminis- Mrs. Campbell, third;Mrs. Sprague`
ters the military training of the fourth;Mrs.Bynum,fifth;Mrs.Doak
school has a much more prominent and Mrs. Baccus, sixth and seventh,
organization this year. It includes a Wellborn unit,Mrs. Sloop, first, sec-
colonel of infantry,major of cavalry, ond,third;Miss Eidson,fourth,fifth,
major of field artillery, major of in sixth. High school: M.H. Byrom;
fantry, two captains of infantry, one mathematics; Homer R. Gross, His*
captain of cavalry,first lieutenant of tory-Spanish; Ernest M. Walls,
field artillery and first lieutenant of science; Annie Bell Clement, home"
signal corps,twelve sergeants and 31 economics; Edwin D. Martin, Eng-
privates,all of the regular army. lish,superintendent.
Cj)edica$ion C,evc, monk
ovember 22, 1992
F • ; � • tn
CROCK PRAIRIE
SCHOOL AND CHURCH
GERMAN IMMIGRANT ADAM ROYDER(D.1894)
DONATED ONE ACRE OF LAND HERE FOR
SCHOOL PURPOSES IN 1891 A ONE-ROOM
SCHOOLHOUSE WAS CONSTRUCTED WHERE
AREA STUDENTS RECEIVED INSTRUCTION•.
THROUGH THE SEVENTH GRADE. THE ROCK
PRAIRIE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH WAS
ORGANIZED IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE IN 1900,
AND CHURCH SERVICES WERE SUBSEQUENTLY
HELD THERE, AS WELL. THE ROCK PRAIRIE .
SCHOOL WAS'DISCONTINUBD IN 1919 AFTER
IT-WAS.-CONSOLIDATED WITH THE NEARBY
SHILOH SCHOOL, BUT THE SCHOOLHOUSE
CONTINUED TO SERVE AREA BAPTISTS AS A
HOUSE OF WORSHIP.
he La.IgI
"The Father of Brazos County"
Heritage Society
to honor Brazos
pioneer Mitchell
By ANTON RIECHER
• •
Eagle stall writer;
An ornate archway stands out
from all the other memorials in .
the Boonville Cemetery.It marks
the grave of Harvey Mitchell, a �
historic figure known as "The wa
Father of Brazos County."
A Founders Week celebration ,`<
s
honoring Mitchell is set for April
612,sponsored by the Brazos Heri
tage Society. '
Mitchell's greatest local contri `
bution was winning the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College oft.1
Texas,forerunner to Texas A&M
University,for Brazos County.
In 1871, the Texas Legislature
appropriated$75,000 to build a new
college. Mitchell organized local sx.
support to compete for the prod
-osed college. Without any clear
thority,Mitchell bid$22,000 in
id to secure the college for Bra
,os County.With only 48 hours to
come up with 2,250 acres,Mitchell
successfully raised the down pay-
ment and made 980 acres of his 5` its
own land available for purchase. p � �
Mitchell,born April 9,1821,near a
Cornersville, in Giles County a,
Tenn., made the trek to Brazos •,
County by wagon train in 1939.
He served as first deputy for the
county clerk's office and helpedrgtve +.
the county judge, treasurer and
tax collector.He won election as �" M
Justice of the peace, postmaster ntofhiabou
and, from 1851 to 1854, county moreto tho poor amino rngn
judge.During the Civil War,Mit „e Feely art d need
chell was county tax assessor tI s`« °stPntati" d with leas
collector under tl�e Confederate said oL ril he.It is
government. E"` ,rk buggy wit11°ad n�Phis r In 1848,when Mitchell married t33 11, BroV•
Arthuisa Jane Foley,he issued his fi Q 1et1y clistrib ioria AYid
own marriage license. '3 tk s 1211011 t Lttllig the
three courthouses c d�helpedfirst � 1Tdt BV@nQBe W08 iwbell built the i,A11d t#
Chunthe Bt lelip-
h in Bryson In 18411�Mitchell t17 ! aY71�riot attills
founded the Brazos Valley's first ill any word Of his,'°
..
school,receiving$20 a month for
teaching.
Mitchell mastered several other
trades, as illustrated by a story
s ' 3
that circulated during that era.A .oa
couple arrived at Mitchell's store • � ^ Eagle photo/e111 Meeks
in the Boonville settlement and The grave of Harvey Mitchell,credited with bringing forerunner of Texas A&M University, to Brazos
Please see MITCHELL,page A2 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, County,is in Boonville Cemetery.
�`S�aa�cet cph
� 2
A8M COLLEGE CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOL
THE STATE OF TEXAS GRANTED A CHARTER FOR AN I'IDEPEN-
DENT SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ENCOMPASS THE TEXAS AGM
CGLLEGE CAMPUS IN 1909. BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT A
SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT TO
SUPPORT A SCHOOL, AGM PRCSIDENT WILLIAM BIZZELL
Arab PROFESSOR MARTIN HAYES, HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT
OF VOCATIONAL TEACHING, PERSUADED THE LEADERS OF
THREE SURROUNDING COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO SEND
THEIR STUDENTS TO A NEW SCHOOL TO BE LOCATED ON ti
THE COLLEGE CAMPUS.
THE NEW SCHOOL OPENED IN 1920 WITH 304 STUDENTS.
IT WAS SUPPORTED BY AGM COLLEGE WITH FUNDING FOR .�
BUILDINGS,TEACHER SALARIES, FURNITURE, AND EQUIPMENT.
�' IT BECAME A MODEL FOR RURAL SCHOOLS IN THE AREA,
ANO BY 1928 THE SURROUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS OFFI-
r�; CIALLY DISSOLVED AND MERGED WITH AGM COLLEGE CON- 'v
SOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
BY. 1938 THE SCHOOL FACILITIES HAD BECOME OVER-
�' CROWDED. BECAUSE THE COLLEGE wA5 rdOT ABLE TO Ird— "r;
i.,.. CREASE ITS CONTRIBUiIGNS TO THE INSTITUTION,THE SCHOOL
':10VED OFF OF THE AGM CAMPUS IN 1940. WITH THE
'^,OVE CAME THE GENESIS OF THE COLLEGE STATION INDE
CNDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
A
Mitchell personal belongings to creditors at Texas A&M will be dedicated as
of friends for whom he had co- a monument to Mitchell on
signednotes. A&M's Military Walk. Mitchell
Activities planned by the so- Hall, built in 1912, was demoli•
from Al clety for Harvey Mitchell Foun. shed in 1972 to make way for the
ders Week include: Beutel Health Center.A Masonic
■An outdoor concert per- leveling ceremony will be per.
asked for a hotel. Mitchell took formed by the newly formed Bra- formed.The Singing Cadets will
them to his house. zos Valley Concert Band at 7 p.m. be on hand.
The bridegroom said his horse on Friday at the Richard Carter The society is seeking official
needed shoeing. Mitchell, the Park Dramatic readings from recognition of Harvey Mitchell
local blacksmith, did the work "To Grow With the Country"will Founders Week from the cities of
The bridegroom then asked for be performed by Stage Center. Bryan and College Station.
the county clerk. Mitchell took Dale Knobel,president of the Bra.
the couple to the courthouse and zos County Landmark Commis_
explained that,as deputy county sfon, will serve as master of
clerk,he was in charge. ceremonies.
The couple asked to be married. ■A historical marker eomme•
Mitchell said that as Justice of the morating the old Shiloh cemetery
peace,he was authorized to per- will be dedicated at 11 a.m.Satur.
form the wedding,only then did day at College Station City
the bridegroom balk and demand Cemetery.The city cemetery is on
that Mitchell prove he was every. the site of the old Shiloh commu.
thing he claimed. nity cemetery.
Life in frontier Texas was bru. ®At noon Saturday,a founder's
tal.Mitchell and his wife had nine dinner will be held at the—site of '
children.Four of those children the old Boonville settlement on
Boonville Road. Gospel and dui•
and one grandchild died from i
meningitis within one week in clmermusiclsplanned. j
January1870. ■Messina Hof winery on Old 1
His generosity with friends led Relder'ss reception t 5:30 p.m.Sgtur.1
to hardship in Mitchell's later day.
years. In 1879, Mitchell lost his ■At 2 p.m.Sunday,the pset
home near Boonville and all his ved cornerstone of Mitchell reHall
41
i�,
Alumnigather to recall earlydays
School
of A&M Consolidated High
By KARA BOUNDS four siblings. He was in the first class to graduate
`n a Eagle Staff writer from what was then the new campus, located on
Timber Street.
Robert Paine graduated twice from the Texas Lancaster left his home in Tampa, Fla., for the
A&M campus — once from college and once from reunion.
high school. A&M College Consolidated Rural School opened
As an Aggie, Paine was a member of the Class of in 1920 with students from the_A&M College school
'43 and left school to serve in the U.S. Army during district, as well as the Wellborn, Union Hill and
World War II.As a high school student,Paine was a Shirock—a combination of Shiloh and Rock Prairie
member of the last class to graduate from the A&M —school districts.
campus of A&M Consolidated High School. Lancaster said that grades seven through 11 met
.w Paine, who graduated from high school in 1939, in a stucco building on the A&M campus until the
V traveled to College Station from Marshall to join enrollment got too big. At that point, the building
'3 members of the A&M Consolidated classes of 1940-49 became the elementary school, housing grades one
for a reunion.As of Thursday,more than 300 former through seven, while Pfeufl'er Hall, a former A&M
#J students and 15 former teachers and administrators dormitory,became the high school,he said.
had registered for the reunion. Lancaster's brother, Bill, of College Station, also
Eagle photo/Kara Bounas Events Friday and Saturday included brunches, experienced some changes during his school years.
ert Paine [left] and Douglass Lancaster look over an A&M Consolidated yearbook luncheons,class parties and a banquet and dance. Since he graduated in 1945, he spent more than five
9 Y Douglass Lancaster,Class of'40,went through the
ng a high school reunion brunch on Saturday. College Station elementary and high schools with Please see ALUMNI, page A5
rJars on the Timber Street cam-
pus.But unlike his older siblings,
Bill Lancaster was never an
eikhth-grader.
'In the summer of 1941, public
sc:hools were extended from 11 to
la grades. Those who had started
spool before then, however,
weren't required to stay an extra
year,Bill Lancaster said.Instead,
they simply skipped a grade. Bill
Lancaster and his fellow seventh-
gxaders,then,were automatically
Promoted to ninth grade,he said.
;And the school was basically
void of a second grade—a "bub-
bte" that moved up a grade for
each progressive year,he said.
Most of Bill Lancaster's male
classmates were drafted into the
2imilitary service immediately
elr their graduation, although
World War II was almost over and
fq*w saw combat, he said. But Bill
Lancaster was a bit younger than
his classmates, and the draft bill
d ed two weeks before his 18th
birthday.
,"Shorthorn" yearbook dedica-
ttons from the early 1940s,
however, attest to the number of
those affiliated with A&M Consol-
idated who were fighting in the
war,killed or missing in action.
FBill Lancaster's class ring is
apother testament to the era. He
bought the ring for $5, but be-
cause of the war,gold was scarce.
Ilis is part gold and part silver.
Douglass Lancaster and Paine
skid they remember several
pranks that occurred while they
Were students at A&M Consoli-
dated. A donkey was left on the
second floor,a snake was put in a
substitute teacher's desk and a ge-
14tin capsule of hydrogen sulfide
was left on top of a steam heater,
resulting in a strong odor of rot-
t6n eggs.
Although they grinned mis-
*ievously, both men claimed ig-
norance as to the culprits' identi-
tles.
►Douglass Lancaster said the
fbotball rivalry with Bryan High
School was just as strong when he
,*as in school as it is today.But in
those days, College Station rarely
teat them,he said.
4 Both men, however, bragged
out the excellence of the A&M
onsolidated Symphonic Orches-
t a. Douglass Lancaster said his
[ave
ter, Cynthia Cooper, Class of
played the harp in the orches-
and has continued playing
ce.She has even been asked on
eral occasion to play with the
uston Symphony,he said.
The men said other classmates
also reached prominence.
There were some graduates of
s school that made something
&'themselves," Paine said. "The
rest of us have enjoyed our-
, 11
"Uklylllr, u1 a .a3a-1A1111U1C C11-011 lU o1u . %-Uuuuuuny %-Cl1lcl U11CC101 lerences, political rallies and of
prepare the center for an Pxoected Sherry Albrecht said the area will be events.
crowd of 1,500. But their w( won't used to display art works, beginning It also wil! ise offices
be completely finished by Sunt.a,. Sunday with the municipal art collec- Albrecht and ce-aer secreta:y A
Major items remaining unfinished tion normally on display at City Hall. Fleetwood, College Station Indust
include landscaping and installation of' The Arts Council of the Brazos Development Foundation Presid
an automatic "sprinkler system. The Valley also plans a community weaving Dennis Goehring and energy specia
center also will open with only about project in the gallery, inviting any in- Tim Layne.
half its full complement of furniture. - terested.resident to work on a weaving The city hopes to cover as much
,But visitors may be impressed more " planned to cover one wall of the one-third of the $71,000 ann
by the things that have been finished in gallery. operating costs with rental fees, ba
the refurbishing of the oid school. A Also on display Sunday will be on the size of room rented, the num
gallery and an auditorium seating 200 "Texas Woman — A Celebration of of hours used and the type of use. I
Cs".C0; mmunit lCeriter dedicated
By KEN LAkriiMAN ! old structuaC and•_then sw�ring that The building that was finally
Staff Writer :'the money was spent wisely. constructed at 1300 Jersey Street
Far . City Councilwoman':;'=;,.Bonnen,who later served on the had a library, two offices and six
Patricia Boughton and her father.' school board from 1944 to 1958, 'classrooms. Math, English,
C.A. Bonnen, the new College said one of the ways he raised the foreign languages or those courses
Station Community Center is a money for ,the building, -which that didn't require laboratory
Y family.project.that has been four eventually cost $75,000 to build, equipment were held in the new
decades in the making was-to double the property valua- school, while those that did were
"w4 Open house and dedication of tions in the district. held in the old building.-
s the new center, a S1-million city "Four hundred people ap- "They didn't want to put any
renovation of a 42-year-old school geared before the school board," more money into it than they had
building, was held Sunday after- Bonnen said grinning.- "But they to," Bonnen said,. referring -to--
noon. More than 100 people at- didn't raise' a fuss. They-,just costs the district would have had
tended the first hour of the open wanted to know what was going to meet for new laboratory equip-
house, which featured music by a on. ment.
string quartet, a display of the Bonnen said the high school The building, called A&M Con-
municipal art collection and a then was quickly becoming too solidated School, continued to
short speech by Mayor Gary small for the town's growing Stu- serve the school district in various
Halter, who thanked those dent population and something capacities — a junior high and
responsible for making the"badly needed to be done quickly, so he meeting place for the school board '
needed"center a reality. raised the small district's school for 15 years — until three years
Two who helped make it a reali- taxes. ago.
Bonnen's daughter, Patricia
ty are Boughton and Bonnen — "We had to double it (the tax Boughton, graduated a year
although Bonnen's contribution rate)and we still didn't have much before her father's project opened
was a little more indirect than that to work with,"he said. and never got a chance to attend
of his daughter's, who served on Once the money was raised, classes in the new school house.:
the City Council committee Bonnen and superintendent A.M. She served on the council commit-
responsible for the center's con- Whitis traveled the Texas coun- tee with councilman Tony Jones
struction. tryside looking at other school and Halter. _
Bonnen served on the Board of buildings in other Texas citys. She said the committee chose
Equalization for the College Sta- "That was the way things were the old building because of its
tion school district in the early done back then," he said. "The structural soundness and location.
1940s.He was responsible for rais- superintendent and I looked at "We thought it had a lot of
ing the funds to build the 42-year- ones in our range of finances." potential,"she said.
Friends bid fond farewell to Carver Elementary
By Scot Walker will become the community -
eapies�nwrn� school for area students in kin-
dergarten through fifth grades.
Barbara Blsor-Walker was a "I'm thankful to the teachers
member of the first class of first- and staff who have helped make
graders to attend George Wash- this last year such a successful
ington Carver Elementary School year:' said Greg Travllllon, Car-
when it opened In 1949.Sunday, ver's last principal. "This com-
at a farewell reception for the munity is excited about getting a
soon-to-be-closed school,she ran community school,and I'm look- �'
into a vision from the past:Jac- ing forward to nextyear."
quelyn Chrtstophe, a former Travillion, who is completing
classmate whom she hadn't seen one year at Carver,will take over
In 40 years. as principal at Kemp after the _-
"I remembered her name,and I change.
said,'You can't be Jacquelyn Sue Only sixth-graders have at-
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she said to me,'I hated that name. tion in 1971. Almost everyone ,>+•""`
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Christophe and Bisor-Walker benefit students. -
had fond memories of their days "Parents will be able to partici-
at Carver,which opened in 1949 pate in the PTO and in commit- �
as a school for black students in tees,"Travillion said."That's what
gr,ades one through seven.They It takes to make a school success-
recalled playing Jacks, using a ful.We will have more of that be-
nickel and a rubber band to make cause the students will be In their -
a pretend watch,and even sang a neighborhood Instead of busing
song they both remembered. them out to other schools." -byP-txR-
About 75 current and former He said having the students at- George Washington Carver Elementary school principal Greg Travillion(left)poses with Paul Kunz,who
teachers, parents and students tend one school for several grades was principal of the Carver-Kemp campus from 1977-1988.
bid farewell to the school Sunday also will cut down on transition
at a reception that was both a sa- and will let teachers concentrate porate sponsor to help fund the and all four have either graduated campus.
lute to the past and an embrace of more on educating students. school. from college or are enrolled. "It was hard trying to know
the future. "If[the faculty at Kemp)do what Paul Kunz, Carver's principal He said he has many fond what was going on at both places,
The Bryan school district Is this staff did here,I'll be In good from 1977-88,said he thinks the memories of his tenure at Carver, and trying to put out fires as they
closing the school at 1410 W. shape.No worries at all,"Travll- new school will benefit students. but the thing that stands out happened," he said. "It seemed
Martin Luther King Jr.St.at the Ron said. But he also said he thinks'stu- most In his mind is his appoint- like whenever one came up,I was "
end of the school year.The nearby Kemp will be given a$1.9 mil- dents who have passed through ment as principal and his first over at the other place.
+ Kemp Elementary School,which lion overhaul to prepare it for its Carver have received a quality ed- year,when Carver and Kemp— "I lost 25 pounds that first year,
from 1971-1989 was a part of new role as a community school. ucatlon.He cited his own children which are separated by about half running back and forth between
Carver,will undergo a facelift and Travillion also plans to seek a cor- as proof:All four attended Carver, a mile — were considered one the two."
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Lincoln School
Black Education in College Station
Many black citizens settled in Brazos county as a result of slavery. In 1864 there were
2,013 slaves in Brazos County, during this time period formal education did not exist. Formal
education for blacks began in Brazos county in 1871, as a result of the passage of the Public
School Act of 1871.'
Education for black citizens, who resided in the 55 square mile area which now constitutes
the A&M Consolidated School District of College, in the late 1800's and at the beginning of the
1900's was provided by a network of small area schools. In 1910 there were 39 buildings in
which black schools were located throughout Brazos County. Twenty-two of the buildings were
rented, and seventeen were owned by the public. Many were small, 1-4 room buildings and were
often located in or near black churches. The scholastic enumeration papers submitted to the State
Education Agency by the A&M Consolidated School District noted that black students were
attending schools at Shirock, Union Hill, Wellborn, College Independent, and Dowling and
Providence.' One hundred twenty seven students attended classes at the various black schools in
the A&M Consolidated School District in 192V
In 1928 black schools located in the A&M Consolidated School District included Peach
Creek, Sulphur Springs, Wellborn, Shirock, Dowling and Providence, Union Hill, Washington
Chapel, and College Hills. a For the next 15 years the number of students attending classes grew
steadily and by 1938, 246 students were attending classes. All of these schools were elementary
schools. The A&M Consolidated School District, which did not have a black high school, had
an agreement with the Bryan Independent School District to allow students to attend Kemp High
School in Bryan. The tuition fees for students who attended Kemp High School were paid for by
the A&M Consolidated School District. The district also provided a bus for transportation to
Bryan for the students.'
In the 1930's the number of black students that attended high school in the district steadily
increased, and as well as the cost of tuition and transportation for the students to Kemp High
School. As a result of these continuing rising costs and in an effort to provide a more
comprehensive education to the black scholastic population of the district, discussions pertaining
to constructing a black high school for the school district began. On January 8, 1941, the A&M
Consolidated Board of Trustees initiated discussions about the need for a black high school in the
District. Arguments for the construction of a high school included: the significant savings over
time in tuition and transportation costs, and encouraging more area students to attend high school.b
The board decided to build facilities for a black high school in College Station. A bond election
was held on March 29, 1941, to acquire capital for building this school among other projects.'
The site was selected for the school, and five acres were purchased from the Matthew and
Fanny R. Davis estate for the sum of $100 per acre.8 The site which was located at the
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southwestern city limits of College Station, is now bordered by Eleanor and Holleman streets.
Plans for the school progressed rapidly and the school opened its doors for the 1941-42 academic
year. Initially, the school consisted of a building containing six classrooms, a principal's office,
and a homemaking cottage.9
A curriculum for the black high school, which was initially known as A&M Consolidated
Negro School, was adopted. Courses approved by the school board included: English, History,
Negro History, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Science, Vocational Agriculture, Industrial
Shop, Home Economics, Defense Training Work, and Training for adult maids.10 E. M.
Cunningham was selected as the principal for the school. Mr. Cunningham also served as the
Vocational Agriculture teacher; other faculty members were They Myrtle Owens, Edna Harris
Tarrow, Willie A. Tarrow, A. J. Thompson, and Ruth Cunningham.
Elementary schools located within College Station, as well as those from outlying areas
were moved to the new school. Grades 1-11 were established in 1941, and grade 12 was added
the next year. The first graduates for the new school received their diplomas in 1942. They
were: Lola V. Robison, O. B. Townsend, Ethel Mae Eaton, Clarence Burrell, Dan McGill, and
Dora Jewel Townsend.
The school continued to flourish and expand. In 1945 it was noted in a serial published
in The Battalion, that the black school for College Station had a budget of$15,000 annually. It
employed 10 teachers and 296 children attended school that year." A small plot of additional
land located one block from the original school site was purchased from Edward V. and Birdie
Beatrice Hrdlicka on October 13, 1945, for $600.12 This land was designated to be used as a
football and athletic field for A&M Consolidated Negro School.
On June 13,1946 the name of the school was changed from A&M Consolidated Negro
School to Lincoln School.13 Willie A. Tarrow was named as the school's new principal. In 1947
the Vocational Agriculture and Industrial Shop class under the guidance of the Vocational
Agriculture teacher expanded the shop building by building an additional room.14 The material
for this project was acquired by dismantling buildings at the old Minter Springs school site.
Attendance at the school grew rapidly, and citizens of the city were concerned about the
school's cramped facilities. Specifications for a new High School Building on the Lincoln campus
were drawn and submitted by R. G. Schneider, Architect and Engineer, on December 1, 1948.15
This building endeavor was a portion of an overall expansion of A&M Consolidated facilities in
1948. In February 1949, C. L. Andrews was awarded the building contract for the four
classroom building, which was to be located west of the elementary school building.16
Lincoln School served as the social hub of College Station's black community, and at least
for a short period of time as a spiritual meeting place. The College Station Church of Christ
requested and received permission from the school board to use rooms on the campus as a meeting
place on Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, and Wednesday or Thursday nights. In return the
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congregation agreed to reimburse the school district for the utilities costs and any additional
janitorial services required."
The Lincoln campus growth continued in an effort to better serve the community. The
construction of tennis courts for the Lincoln campus were a topic of discussion by school board
members during the spring of 1950. This proposal was approved by the A&M Consolidated
School Board in May 1950." Expansion of the school continued throughout the 1950's. The
A&M school board discussed future construction for Lincoln campus throughout the fall of 1950.
On June 14, 1951, bids for an industrial arts shop and science building were taken and the
building was completed in April 1952.19
A number of milestone and events occurred involving Lincoln School in 1953. In January
bids for the construction of a Gymnasium were opened. The specifications for the gymnasium
included the requirement of piers for future expansion of the building and room for construction
of a stage and dressing rooms.20 Public School Week in 1953 was observed at the school with
festivities that included a radio program and an open house. Progress on the establishment of a
library for the school continued throughout 1952 and 1953. On September 4, 1953, Lincoln
School was accredited by the State Department of Education.zl
As the focal point of the community grew the personality of the school developed. The
school colors were purple and gold and the mascot chosen for the school was the panther. The
school mottos was, "Forward forever, backward never," and their school song was "O' Lincoln
High."
O' Lincoln High
O' Lincoln High we love you true.
We love the purple and gold too.
To you we will always be true.
O' Lincoln High how we love you.
The purple and gold mean much to me.
Let's try to keep our colors true,
We pledge a better school to be,
O' Lincoln how we love you.
As the school grew the area that could be used as an athletic field was found to be
inadequate. In 1956 discussions concerning a possible trade of 80,000 square feet of property
owned by the school district with a 120,000 square feet parcel owned by the Hrdlicka heirs.22 The
land trade was completed on February 11, 1957. A&M Consolidated paid the Hrdlicka estate
$10.00 for the additional square footage.23 This trade allowed the athletic fields to be located
adjacent to the school and to be more readily accessible to students. Expansion of the school
continued with the addition of a homemaking cottage. Bids for the construction of the
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homemaking cottage were announced on July 17, 1956.24
Discussions on plans for integration of the A&M Consolidated School District began on
June 15, 1956.25 This was the first of a series on ongoing meetings and seminars on the subject.
It was decided to adopt a "wait and see attitude.i21 In the early 1960's the A&M Consolidated
Independent School District received notice that the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People was requesting immediate integration of College Station schools. The plan for
integration adopted by the school district was a stair step method.
Under this plan, the black elementary grades would be fused with white elementary grades
one grade at a time. Every year a new grade would leave Lincoln and become integrated.
Attendance at Lincoln became voluntary. Two of Lincoln's teachers were reassigned to A&M
Consolidated High School and several white teachers were relocated to Lincoln. Teachers for
special education and speech taught at both schools. By 1965, grades one and two had been
phased into the A&M Consolidated school system.
On January 20, 1966, a fire at Lincoln School was reported to the Texas A&M University
Fire Department. At the time the fire started an adult education class was being held in one of
the buildings. The fire department was notified at 7:45 p.m., however the first truck did not leave
the fire station for 15 minutes. A second and third truck was dispatched 10 minutes later.27 These
delays were unexplained in all existing documents. The trucks were also hampered in reaching
the fire by large crowds that gathered to watch the fire. The fire, whipped by high winds was
well established by the time the firefighters reached the scene. Once the firefighters arrived the
blaze was contained in about an hour and no deaths were reported. The ten classroom high school
building, principal's office, teachers' lounge, and library were destroyed. Buildings that were not
damaged included the gym, two classrooms, auditorium/assembly hall, homemaking cottage,
cafeteria building, science laboratory, and industrial arts shop. The damage to the Lincoln School
complex was estimated at $65,000 and displaced 100 students.28 The majority of records and
documents pertaining to the school were destroyed in the fire. The cause of the fire was never
determined. Although it was speculated that the fire may have been set to force integration to
occur more quickly,29 a search of the local newspaper revealed a number of mysterious fires were
set by an unknown arsonist during that time period.so
High school students were transferred to A&M Consolidated High School. The 38
students in grades three, four, and five returned to class at Lincoln the Monday following the fire.
Grades six, seven and eight also attended Lincoln School, but reverted to a departmentalized
program with a seven period day. These lower grades remained a Lincoln due to space limitations
at the other schools in the Consolidated system. Teachers from the school were reassigned."
At the end of the 1965-66 school year, Lincoln's doors were shut, and the remaining
students were integrated into the other A&M Consolidated schools. The school Board decided that
it was not feasible to rebuild the burned facilities.
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In 1967, the City of College Station discussed what could be done with city property that
was adjacent to Lincoln. An informal agreement was made by the city and school district to
temporarily use the school property as a city park.32 The buildings remained unused, except for
the occasional gatherings of small church groups. In 1968, the school board agreed to lease the
land and facilities at Lincoln to the city for a period of 10 years. The City Council directed the
Parks and Recreation Committee develop detailed plans for the property and buildings."
In 1969 the College Station Parks and Recreation offices were located at Lincoln. The
facilities were used for continuing education classes and served as a neighborhood recreation
center. City property adjacent to the school was used for an all purpose sports field. The
homemaking cottage served as the Parks and Recreation Department Office, and the industrial arts
shop was converted into a shop for the department.14
The property was renovated and restored in 1972. In 1978, the city bought the land from
the school district and the facilities were entirely refurbished. On June 6, 1980, the Lincoln
Center was officially dedicated and began to serve as a tribute to the school that once stood on the
site. Lincoln Center serves as a home for many community activities, the local Boys and Girls
Club, a senior outreach program, immunization program and an emergency management site.
The memories and influence of Lincoln School remain. The Lincoln school trophies are
displayed at the Center. The Lincoln Former Students Association was formed in 1982. The
association, which is comprised of students who attended Lincoln School, holds biennial reunions.
The association activities includes providing scholarships for black students and preservation of
the history, heritage, and memories of Lincoln School.
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References
1. Buford, Michael Dwain, Up From Cotton, Bryan, Texas, 1988.
2. A&M Consolidated School District, Scholastic Enumeration and School Board Minutes,
1923.
3. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, 1923.
4. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, 1929.
5. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, 1938.
6. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, January 8, 1941.
7. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, March 31, 1941.
8. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, May 8, 1941.
9. "Lincoln Center in College Station: Essential Elements of Programming for Minorities,"
page 16, Texas Recreation and Park Society.
10. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, June 24, 1941.
11. Hughes, W. L., "Your City, Eighth of a Series", The Battalion, August 12, 1945.
12. Deed from Edward V. Hrdlicka and Birdie Beatrice Hrdlicka filed in the State of Texas
County of Brazos, 1945.
13. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes June 13, 1946.
14. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, October 7, 1947.
15. General Contract Specification for Facilities for the A&M Consolidated School District,
submitted to the A&M Consolidated School Board, December 1, 1948.
16. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, February 9, 1949.
17. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, March 5, 1951.
18. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, May 20, 1951.
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19. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, June 14, 1951, and April 17,
1952.
20. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, January 5, 1953.
21. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, September 1954.
22. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, July 8, 1956.
23. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, February 11, 1957.
24. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, July 17, 1956.
25. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, June 15, 1956.
26. A&M Consolidated School District, School Board Minutes, January 14, 1957.
27. Texas A&M University Fire Department, Dispatch Logs, January 20, 1966.
28. "Damage Totals $65,000," "Lincoln School Blaze Displaces 100--Plans Studied Today,"
Bryan Daily Eagle, Friday, January 21, 1966.
29. Balliew, Deborah Lynn, The City of C In 1Pge Station 1939/1999, page 43, Intaglio Press,
College Station, Texas, 1987.
30. Various articles from the Bryan Daily Eagle, January 19, 1966, through February 1, 1966.
31. "Consolidated Board Shuffles Pupils," Bryan Daily Eagle, Monday, January 24, 1966.
32. City of College Station, Council Minutes, April 19, 1967, and April 24, 1967.
33. City of College Station, Council Minutes, February 26, 1968.
34. City of College Station, Council Minutes, January 15, 1969, February 24, 1969, and
March 24, 1969.
Other References
Randle, Irene Ethelind, A Comparative Study of Common Schools for Negroes in Rrazos
County, thesis, Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, Prairie View, Texas
August 1944.
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Balliew, Deborah Lynn, The City of College Station 1938/1988, Intaglio Press, College
Station, Texas, 1987.
Parks, Ann, History of the Citv of College Station, 1939-1987 M.A. thesis, Texas A&M
University, College Station, Texas, May 1984.
Hughes, W.L., A Project in Rural School Consolidation and Its Contribution to the
Solution of the Rural School Problems of Brazos County, M.S. thesis, Texas A&M
College, 1922.
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t COMMUNITY HISTORIES
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The rapid expansion of College Station in the 1960s was
related to the growth of A&M (now University). During this
J� period Mayor David "Andy" Anderson initiated a number of
municipal projects which were continued under the leadership
of Mayor James(Dick)Hervey.Under subsequent mayors,Oris
Holt, Lorenc Bravenec and Gary Halter, increased emphasis
was placed on comprehensive municipal planning.
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-� In the 1970s the city council encouraged developers to meet
off-campus housing demands.It constructed new city facilities,
p improved recreational facilities and road access,and sought to
J _ control commercial and residential growth in an orderly
manner.
A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
Land was set aside on the north side of the campus in 1912 for 1940-1975
businesses.At the west end of the block was the College Station
post Office, and at the other end a photography shop. Other 1940 - Acceptance on 8 March of first off-campus buildings of
early businesses were a butcher shop,hamburger stand,shoe A&M Consolidated School on 15-acre tract south of
repairshop, barbershop, and tailorshop. Jersey Street. The buildings included four elementary
The First Decade units of 14 classrooms and the 8-room high school and
College Station began purchasing in piece-meal fashion the a building to house industrial arts and the music
existing utility distribution systems from Boyett addition,Oak- department.
wood Realty, Southside Development, and College Hills, and 1941 - Bond election passed to finance construction of a gym
by the end of 1940 had acquired all except REA electric lines in and auditorium for A&M Consolidated.
College Hills. The city continued for a number of years to 1946 - College Station State Bank opened its doors on 1 May.
contract with Texas A&M and Bryan for utility services. 1947 - First city hall built.
Mayor Binney resigned because of injuries received in a car - First city park established.Originally called Dexter Park
accident, and was replaced by Col. Frank G. Anderson, the but later renamed Brison Park.
track coach at A&M, who agreed to serve one term. He func- 1948 City Cemetery e tract that hadcated 1 been the FebShiruary.
Land included
tinned as both mayor and city manager,but not with the latter y.
1949 - New High School and Lincoln School opened.
title. Patrol car� purchased for Chief of Police Lee Norwood,Since the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas made no provision - a second and police officer employed, especially to
for employment of a city manager for cities of less than 5,000 a ndbusiness district officer
night.
population, College Station operated as a "general law" city patrol
without one. However,J. Garland Brown filled the position of 1951 - City purchased REA lines in College Hills from Bryan
"business manager" for the month of November, 1942, until for$38,109.
Lloyd Smith resigned as councilman and assumed the man- 1953 - Mayor appoints 5-member recreation board to develop
agerial duties. a program using college facilities.
nged to a ward sys- 1
In 1942 election of City government cha956 - Sewerage disposal and treatment plant went into opera-
tem with two representatives from each of three wards. Their tion.
title also was changed from aldermen to councilmen. In 1943 1957 - Agreed to join with representatives of Brazos County,
when the Texas Legislature enacted a law to allow cities of A&M College and Bryan to establish Brazos County
fewer than 5,000 to adopt a council-manager form of govern- Planning Commission.Interest in this endeavor waned
ment,Smith became College Station's first City Manager. by mid-1960s.
Ernest Langford was elected mayor in 1942,and began a long 1959 - First bond election demanded by citizens to finance
period of service in this capacity during which he worked dili- street improvement was defeated 4-1;however,a record
gently to provide needed services for residents. He was less turn-out of 937 residents voted.
concerned with stimulating commercial growth than later 1960 - First full-time paid fire chief,Virgil B.Phipps,employed.
mayors, and, in fact, shared a preference of many residents 1963 - College Station State Bank reorganized as University
during that period to remain a residential town with adequate - National Bank.
facilities and educational opportunities.With two years of ser- 1965 - Industrial Development Committee created.
vice as councilman and 26 years as mayor,Langford earned the 1966 - Lincoln School fire damages ten classrooms and
appellation of"Father of College Station." offices;forces immediate integration_
1950-1970 - David A. Anderson elected mayor; charts long-range
During the 1940s the voter turn-out at municipal elections goals and institutes surveys of citizen opinions.
was low,but in the 1950s residents began to take more interest 1968 - Charter revision election changes council representa-
in elections,and more candidates ran for council places.When tion from ward to place system.
the 1950 census recorded a population of 7,268 in College - City joins Brazos Valley Development Council.
Station, the community was no longer restricted to being a - New water tower completed; improved water system
"general law city." Since home rule would give the city more begins operation.
control over annexation,the immediate response was to organ- 1970 - Second city hall and new police/fire station dedicated.
ize a charter commission.Ran Boswell became City Managerat - Suit by Alton P.Boyett charging that councilmen were
the time of change to home rule and implemented the goals set holding more than one"civil office of emolument"led to
by the council for improving city services for the next twenty a year of litigation and the resignation of the mayor and
several councilmen.
years. r
109 BLACK HISTORY
named Clarence Thomas who opened the school doors to PROMINENT BLACKS
blacks,though he never enjoyed the opportunity of attending The Thomases were but two of the prominent blacks named
an integrated school himself.Thomas's name is the first on a in 1982 and 1983 to a special"Black History Honor Roll"—an
civil rights lawsuit filed 14 September 1961,in Houston Federal honor sponsored by Community Forum,a group of black pro-
Court. Thurgood Marshall, later the first black U.S. Supreme fessionals and business persons now living in Bryan. The
Court justice,was one of the attorneys with the NAACP,which group also honored the late Harmon"Son"Bell,who may have
assisted with the Thomas case. been the first black elected to Bryan's city council.
TheThomassuit,based on the 1954 Supreme Court decision Bell won election to the council in July 1968,when he filled
which declared school segregation unconstitutional, alleged an unexpired term.He was re-elected in'69,and became mayor
that Bryan school district operated a dual school system based pro-tem.He was defeated in 1971,but returned to council one
on race and ethnic origin.In a 1963 decision,the court ordered year later. He was re-elected in 1973 and remained a council-
the Bryan district to integrate students at a rate of one grade man until August,1976.Bell was born in Bryan in 1900.A past
level per year,based on freedom of choice,until all grades were president of the local NAACP, he once received a national
integrated. The district complied with the order, but another award for political achievements.
ruling in 1965 determined that the desegregation plan was a A few others honored by Community Forum include the
failure.The Justice Department ordered the district to imme- following:
diately adopt a plan based on freedom of choice, enabling R. C. Neal. He was an educator in Bryan school system 31
students in all grades to pick the school they wanted to attend. years.He was born in Independence in 1892 and was raised in
The plan was adopted in August 1965, but it too failed in the Navasota.He was a principal from 1930 until retirement in 1958.
view of the court. Five years later, during the 1970-71 school Oliver Sadberry.He was an educator for 36 years.When he
year,650 blacks chose to attend traditionally white schools.But died in 1970 at age 61, Sadberry had been a principal in the
no whites had enrolled in black schools. Bryan school system more than 20 years.
In 1970, a series of fires demolished or partially destroyed W.A.Tarrow.He served as an educator 45 years,retiring as
several Bryan schools.Washington Elementary,the old Bryan principal of College Station's Lincoln High School in 1965.He
School for the Colored, was the first to burn. Flames burst died in 1978 at age 75.
through the wooden roof of the two-story brick building on 16 Lawrence E.King.He was a businessman,butalso an educa-
September 1970.Neal Junior High,a black school, burned 40 for for 25 years. He served three years in the Pacific during
days later, on Thanksgiving morning. Subsequent small fires World War 11. He taught in Bryan and in College Station
broke out at Fannin Elementary, a white school, and at the schools. He was part owner of People's Mortuary in Bryan
all-black Carver Elementary.The fire at Cancer was definitely about 18 years. He died in 1972 at age 60.
set,but the causes of the other fires were never determined.At C.L."Dick"Scurry.He was a teacher,coach and administra-
any rate,the fires put more Bryan black students into predomi- for in Bryan schools from 1944 to 1976.He was active in parks
nately white schools. and recreation programs, having served in the Bryan Athletic
Still,it took a 1971 court order to end desegregation fully and and Recreation Association from 1972 to'79.He died in 1979 at
abruptly.On 23 July 1971,Judge James Noel determined that age 67.
Bryan still had five minority schools. He ordered the school Sam Mosley. He is a farmer and rancher, and also owns
district to keep schools within a ten percent variation of the interest in a washateria.But Mosley is identified even today with
community's ethnic make-up. "the little grocery store" he opened in Bryan in 1935. It was
Clarence Thomas, the student named in the original 1961 located at 701 W.19th St.and was open almost 50 years.A meat
suit,never reaped the benefits of integration.He was 16 at the market and gasoline pumps were also a part of the popular
time that his father, J. L."Lev"Thomas,and a group of other business establishment.
black adults,including Olemuel Davis and Harmon"Son"Bell, Dr. S. J. Sealey. He came to Bryan in 1931 and practiced
filed the suit.He graduated from the all-black school before the medicine until his death,at age 65,in 1948.He operated a clinic
original desegregation plan was implemented. and pharmaceutical dispensary from his downtown Bryan
College Station schools were integrated overnight,when the office, but he traveled once a week to Madisonville,where he
all-black Lincoln School burned down on 21 January 1966. A served as a clinician at the Madisonville Well-Child and Pre-
lawsuit had been filed in that district too, in 1961. But, as in Natal Clinic.He practiced in Cameron before moving to Bryan,
Bryan,the suit failed to bring about complete desegregation. where he took over the practice of Dr.A. E.Thompson.
(SOURCE: All information about desegregation was taken Daniel Jarvis.A one-time slave,Jarvis moved to Texas when
from a 27 March 1982 article in the Eagle.The article,in"Satur- he was 14.He gradually acquired land by selling crops of sweet
day Magazine,"gives a detailed account of the integration of potatoes. He raised eight daughters and a son, and his de-
Bryan schools,with quotations from many of the key persons scendants still get together regularly and visit the 237-acre
involved in the ten-year desegregation process.) Jarvis family farm on the Navasota River.Jarvis donated land
The late John L. "Lev" Thomas, the man credited most for for the Christian Hill Missionary Baptist Church and a grammar
pushing the issue of desegregation, was born and reared in school that was named for him.He taught in the school himself.
Bryan.He was a real estate salesman,investor and tailor shop In addition to being an educator and farmer, Jarvis was a
owner. He was a Brazos County Chairman of the Republican trapper and dairyman,and operated a commissary on his farm.
Party,though he often supported Democratic candidates,and John Sadberry.Starting as a day laborer for Brazos County
was active in the NAACP.He died in 1974.Thomas met his wife, farmer H.B.Steele,Sadberry became a sharecropper and then
Sadie,when both were students at Wiley College.Mrs.Thomas, a renter on the Charlie Davis farm. He and wife Alice lived in
who graduated magna cum laude,taught English more than 30 Burleson County,where Sadberry bought his first 30 acres of
years, mainly in Bryan schools. A city park on Old Reliance land.The couple owned 400 acres by the time they moved to
Road in Bryan is named in her honor. Robertson County, where their landholdings multiplied to
3,000 acres.Sadberry,a cotton and cattle farmer,died in 1926.
Dr. Irving A. Carter. He was Bryan's only black dentist for
BLACK HISTORY 110
many years. He died in 1975. Fine Arts in Houston.
E.A.Kemp.A longtime principal of the Bryan School for the Some other families that established themselves here are the
Colored.Retired teacher Irene Lane says of Kemp,"Mr.Kemp Mazys, Latsons, Westbrooks, Sadberrys, Robertsons, Hern-
made sure teachers taught. He had complete control of stu- dons, Johnsons, Knoxes, Stearnes, and Lewises, to name a
dents. Mr. Kemp would go around and look at the students' few. Their descendants and families who still live here are
work himself.Mr.Kemp believed in perfection. If you had one "Tanka"Mazy Sadberry,Rev.M.L.Westbrook,Willie Mae Allen,
erasure on your work,you did it over." Irene Randle Lane,Robert Eddie Randle, Lorraine Ocheltree,
We know from early newspaper reports in the Eagle and the Anne Sterling, Fannie Diggs, Doris Scurry and Mattie Green.
GalvestonNewsof two men who were prominent in local black They are teachers,ministers,dietitians.
activity in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Miss Ada Hall,fondly called Miss Ada by students,was the
R.B.Goosby was a prominent Republican leader who held first grade teacher for many years. She was a "nice little old
several positions in the party.He was chairman of the Republi- lady," the students often said. She lived on what was called
can Executive Committee of the 6th Congressional District, Candy Hill with her mother and every day she would let the
according to the Bryan Weekly Eagleof 23 June 1904.In 1914 student or students who did best in the morning classes go get
he served as a chairman of the black relief society for flood her lunch and the students considered it an honor.The fourth,
victims(there was a separate group for whites),with his barber fifth, sixth and seventh grade teacher was Mrs. Kemp, the
shop as headquarters. According to his obituary, Goosby principal's wife.She is the only teacher living who taught at the
M began each day by playing the bugle. He apparently valued "$t� " rid,"as it was then called.It was
education very much,as the names of Goosby children show nd named E. A. Kemp High School after Principal
up regularly in listings of school awards. Kemp. Mrs. Kemp left here after the death of her husband in
Another prominent black,John L.Johnson,may have been 1929 and went to Washington,D.C.,where she did government
Bryan'sfirst black attorney.He was apparently a school teacher work for over 40 years. She is retired and still lives in
who tried to get a law license and failed in the first attempt.Later Washington.
newspaper accounts of the 1880s refer to"John L.Johnson,a Principals who did outstanding jobs are R. C. Neal, C. D.
colored lawyer of Bryan."He was nominated for district attor- Yancy,W.D. Dunn,U.S.Morgan,Wendell Davis,C.L.Scurry,
ney by the Republicans in 1888(See Galveston News,9 Sep- T.W.Cole,O.W.Sadberry,Fannie Diggs,John T.Lane,W.A.
tember 1888, p.2.) Tarrow, and Otha Byrd. Some notable teachers were Mrs.
Johnson was a member of a black militia unit referred to in Sadie Thomas, whose husband, Lev Thomas,was a Republi-
many newspaper articles from the 1880s. This one from the can, a prominent citizen who feared nothing. When people
Galveston News appeared 19 August 1881: carried clothes to his tailor shop in downtown Bryan, and
"The Gregory Rifles (colored) of this city (Bryan), wanted to pay in advance,he would refuse and say,"There are
under the command of Captain J. D. Jackson, had an two kinds of payers, one that pays in advance and one who
eight-hour drill today and target practice.Third Sergeant does not pay at all.I don't like either one.Pay me when I do the
J.W.Wood took the prize." work."
Other teachers were Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Keatts. Mr. Keatts
A REMEMBRANCE also saw the need for teenage recreation so he opened a place
Olivia M. Banks wrote the following remembrance of"The called Keatts Hall where the youngsters went for various activi-
Blacks of Bryan and Brazos County": ties. Shortly after the Keatts Hall opened, Mr. E. H. Knox, an
There have been and are now some outstanding black citi- elementary principal here, opened a recreational place for
zens in the Bryan and Brazos County community, some of youth on the west side_Mrs.F.E.Diggs was a stern teacher and
whom will be mentioned in this brief account of black contribu- her husband, Rev. S. E. Diggs, was a longtime pastor of New
tions. The black families that migrated here from various Chapel Baptist Church,also known as Third Baptist Church.
southern states in the 1800s,as illiterate as they were,cultivated Mrs.J. L.Wyatt,who, besides teaching in school,also taught
land they bought at a very low price—hard to get in those days piano lessons in her home to many people who are now exer-
-and built homes for their families.They were not educated, cising that gift. Rev. R. W.Wheaton, pastor of Galilee Baptist
but had a little foresight and plenty of innate intelligence,called Church for 40 years,also known as Fourth Baptist Church;and
"mother-wit," to begin their mission in the hard way. In this Rev. U. S. Keeling, pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church,
manner black history began and it is still progressing.Some of also known as Second Baptist Church,for more than 50 years;
the early black settlers and their families who settled here will and Rev. D. H. Shivers, longtime pastor of Shiloh Baptist
be mentioned in this brief discourse. Church, also known as First Baptist Church.
The Daniel Jarvis family came from Missouri and settled in Other blacks who contributed to the achievements of the
Bryan where they reared their nine children. These children black community are Ed Scott and W.C.Daniel,Jr.,morticians;
Produced many children who are still living here,continuing in Rev.W.C.Daniel,Sr.,who was a minister and mortician;Dr.W.
the footsteps of their fore-parents in various business endea- A. Hammond, physician, who has grandchildren here in the
vors, such as a health center, barber shop, teaching, and professional fields such as doctor, teacher, and business —
ministering. namely:George Coker,a teacher at Lamar School;Dr.Carolyn
The Alex and Nettie Sharpe family migrated here from Loui- Coker Ross, a physician; and Jewel Coker Hill, an Account
siana. They had seven children whose offspring became Representative and Advertising and Promotion Director for
teachers, ministers, barbers and skilled laborers, namely Progressive Vision.
Gertrude Davenport, L. C. Mosley, Marion Mosley, Imogene The following people of today have contributed much to the
Singleton and Rev. R. A. and J. A. Sharpe. Only two of the progress of the black people.They are Bryan people living here
�- descendants live in Bryan. They are Olivia Mosley Banks, a and elsewhere:Effie Perry,math teacher of Bryan High School;
retired teacher of the Bryan public schools, having taught 45 Bobby Joe Perry,Counselor of Jones 7th Grade School;Willie
years and three generations of several families;and William E. and Mell Pruitt,Assistant Principal of Bryan High School and
Mosley,a retired guard and director of traffic in the Museum of Lamar 5th Grade School Counselor, respectively; Linda
BLACK HISTORY
111
berry, Special Education Counselor of Bryan Public
Schools. Robert Person, social studies teacher of Stephen F.
Austin Junior High; Willie Pruitt, Jr., and Cecil Webster,
raid Carter and Curtis Dickey, pro-
teachers at West Point; Ge
fessional football players;Dr.Adolph Johnson,Jr.,and Dr.Joe
Toliver, both with doctorates, are teachers at a University of
California and the University of Houston,respectively;Dr.O.D.
Baker,also teaches at the University of Houston and is pastor of
West Union Baptist Church of Bryan; Dr. Weldon Walton
teaches at Paul Quinn College in Waco;Dr.Freddie C.Thomas,
a medical doctor in Tennessee;and Dr.Jerry Guyden of Oak-
land,California.Dr.M.L.Price,deceased,was pastor of Greater
Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Houston,moderator of Lin-
coin District Association,and President of the General Baptist
Convention.
High honors were given Anne Sterling in 1973;Eloise King in
1975;Jessie Mae Walton in 1977;and Ora Waldon in 1983,as h
they were chosen Teachers of the Year, in secondary or ele-
mentary levels. x
There have been other doctors who contributed to black �K
progress,namely Doctors C.W.Flint, I.A.Carter,J.T.Canad
c y
—all dentists; Dr.A. E.Thompson (who organized a football
team in the black school and worked with it as he did his
patients,although he was not paid for this service).There are
also lawyers—Albert Sims and Otis Walton, Jr., and the late ; •,
Lovey J.Hammond. In the religious world there is Father Mel-
vin D.C.,and Dr.Henry Robertson also
vin Turner of Washington,
has a doctorate degree. _
Two families have opened nursery schools:Helen Simpson
and Melvin and Betty Hanks. Harmon "Soh" Bell cannot be
iverlooked for all that he contributed to the advancement of .
ulacks in Bryan,especially as President of the National Associ- �w •
ation for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)and the
first black on the Bryan city council and mayor pro-tem.Also to
be recognized is Milton Turner,a member of the School Board
and a Commissioner.Carey Cauley,who formerly taught social James and Ada Johnson pausing and posing while playing a
studies in Bryan schools, is a mortician and President of the game of tennis. Parents of Lorraine Johnson Ocheltree.
NAACP,as well as an active member of the Board of Directors
for the Bryan Boys Club,and prior to that a Program Director of $5 per week.He also rented what was called a small"shotgun"
Activities of the Boys Clubs of Bryan.Sam Mosley is a retired house for the family. In 1924 he built a wood-frame four-room
grocery man of over 40 years; Elvin Walker is owner of a chain house in Bryan First Addition Candy Hill from borrowed
of car wash services. Pies Turner has served as a County money.There were no modern conveniences—wood stoves
Commissioner for some time. City parks have been named in for cooking and heating; lamp light;a dug well for water con-
honor of C. L. Scurry and Sadie Thomas because of their sum ption and"the privy."On part of the land a tennis court was
outstanding work as coach,teacher,and community leaders. set up where the family members and others played tennis for
What has been written here is by far not all the history made recreation.My husband and I now live on the same home site,
by Brazos County's black community,but it does give an ink- having built our home in 1959.
ling of the continuing progress of blacks to make Bryan a better In 1927 our mother passed away and our father later married
community in which to live. Franchelle (Blanche) Davenport,whom we affectionately call
—Olivia M. Banks '-Miss Francis." She graduated from Bryan Public School for
the Colored. agent,a
JAMES L.JOHNSON FAMILY In 1930 my father became Atlanta Life Insurance
The James L.Johnson Sr.family history,written by aBaugh- se- Can you imagi
boot?Walking lack lCandy Hill,Freedma townleWest Side insurance the rain
ter,Lorraine,follows: oliti-
My father,James L.Johnson Sr.,is the son of Sue and John and mud.This sort of made him confidante socially anuck d of
Johnson.HewaandrBr August an from 1897 on. As a youngster, he vegetables whew cally. To ich were lement sold to what was then cae income we had a rlled A.and M.
pi in Boonville Bryan
picked cotton randid od
Publliiicjobs where School for„Colo ed s motherth ough he ducworked. He e and otthe srtaughtt us he mportan e of respons bil ty and
attended the Bry
grades, then went to Houston etoand married Ada Hintonry n Woakchauffeurhs job for the Canfield family.ght aT-Model Ford
school in Houston. There he joining age and
1918.To this union three children were born:Lorraine,James II Father was a church man, oinin Shiloh at ar early 9
and Paul Lawrence. being active there until 1941.He was a deacon,superintendent,
ale Company at a salary 8 One fami ly tradition was and is"that we are family"—grands,
My father L believed in family and was a family man.So in 1918 choir member and financial contributor for himself and family.
he went to work for Howell Wholes p Y
x
,WCK HISTORY 112
ants,uncles,etc.,who believed in helping each other.Another
fa verse
dn day
race and a
iIorSun mornings ead a
'on—at meal �rr se we say cripture e from the Bible, fU
prayer and a verse.
The three children all attended Bryan Public School for
Colored and graduated from E.A. Kemp High School in 1937, f '
jg38 1939. Daughter Lorraine graduated from Prairie View
Collegewith Bachelorand Masterdegreesand taught in Bryan
Public Schools for 37 years before retiring in 1979. Paul Law-
rence joined the Armed Forces and died in 1956.Jamesworked
for Caldwell Jewelers until 1944. _
In 1943,Lorraine married Ural Ocheltree,son of Millie Mos-
ley of Wixon Creek and Pyree Ocheltree. Ural went to the Air
Force in 1941,graduated from Sam Houston in 1950,graduated
from TexasA&M University in 1971,retired from A&M Consoli-
dated School District in 1984,where he was Visiting Teacherfor
33 years.
In 1944 James II married Mary Ruth Grear, an E.A. Kemp
graduate.To this union fourchildren were born,James III;Earl,
Bruce and Anna,all of California.
In 1941,our father joined the Air Force and was stationed at
Fort Sam Houston,San Antonio,Texas, until 1945.
When discharged he and Miss Francis moved to Oakland,
1
California,where he worked at the U.S. Public Health Hospital
until retirement in 1963.He still lives in Oakland—still family,
community and church oriented.Each year father,Miss Fran-
cis and Lil Auntie return to Bryan to visit and talk about their
roots.
'E LATSON FAMILY ¢"
i he following Latson family history was provided by Mrs.
Irene E. Lane: `
In 1900,Mrs.Ella Johnson Latson and her young daughter of
15years,Rosa Latson,along with Mrs.Latson's brotherand his Joe Northington and Mrs. Rosa-about 1910.
wife,John and Helen Johnson and two friends, Mr. Buck and
Mrs. Mary White, moved to Bryan from Washington County The Northingtons purchased a home in the 1920s on North
(Harris Spring Community), which is about five miles from Pierce (now Martin Luther King) and Military Street. Mrs. Ella
Brenham.They went by way of Hempstead,Walker County. Rivers purchased property on the same street,2 February 1924.
The group rented a house in the Woodville settlement,just In 1916,Alvin Latson,Mrs.Rivers'only son'swife died and left
across the track from the Howell family Oil Mill,near the South- two sons and one daughter,Leila Mae,who was only four.Mrs.
ern Pacific track north,where the Weiner Store is now located. Rivers went to Bellville,Texas,and brought Leila to live with the
Mrs.Ella Latson was a midwife and delivered many babies as family.The family had united with Allen Chapel African Metho-
the Bryan records will show;she also nursed the sick.The men dist Church when they first moved to Bryan. Family prayers
worked on the railroad.They called it"laying steel." were always said, the family members participated in many
Some of their neighbors were the Vanhooks, Richard and activities of the church and held responsible positions such as
Betty Randle and their two sons, Robert and Rufus, and a Trustee,Steward,Stewardess,Sunday School,Choir,Mission-
daughter,Maggie,who was married to James Thurman.A few ary, Class Leader, Allen Christian Endeavors League and
years later, Rosa Latson married Robert Randle and one son, others, as requested or needed.
Robert Eddie,was born in the Richard Randle home.Rosa and The children in the family, Robert Eddie and Irene Randle
Robert did day work and odd jobs and,in season,chopped and and Leila Mae Latson,attended only the elementary school for
picked cotton. blacks in Bryan, on the site where Washington Park is now
Mrs. Ella Latson married Lafette Rivers and they rented a located.
house from Mr.Jim Darvin.The house was located on the site On 17 October 1923,a baby girl,Joe Marie,was born to the
where Tinsley's Chicken is now,on Texas Avenue and E. 19th Northington family.Joe Marie was Mr.Joe's only child.The life
Street (which became Martin Luther King Street in 1984). of the family centered around this late addition to the family.
Two years later Rosa and Robert separated and she moved in A few years later the Randle children, Robert E. and Irene,
with her mother,where herdaughter,Irene,was born.Shethen graduated from Bryan Colored High School,which was in the
met and married Joe Northington from Chappell Hill, Texas, same building with the elementary school, in 1926 and 1927
-ho was also working on the railroad.Later,Mr.Joe worked for respectively. E.A. Kemp was principal.
iort time on the interurban, or trolley,that ran from down- Robert E. entered Prairie View College in September 1927
in Bryan to Villa Maria School,to College Station. and later attended Paul Quinn College in Waco, which is an
Soon after that Mr.Joe became the fireman forthe Bryan Oil A.M.E. Church School.
Mill.Thejob paid well,considering the meager wages that most Irene entered Prairie View in September 1927.In order for her
blacks made. He provided well for the family. to continue her education afterthe death of Mr.Joe,in January
BLACK HISTORY
113
`:eta
t
V
t
�x
3
J
i Mrs. Rosa Northington (Randle) honored by Allen Chapel
A.M.E. Church. The oldest Active member. From left to right:
Robert Ellis, God-son;John T. Lane(son-in-law);Irene Lane,
_ daughter,'Honoree,Mrs. Rosa(seated);and Robert E.Randle,
r son.
1928,Mrs.Rosa Northington started cooking for Mr.Erwin and
Mrs.Onah Astin.
s
After a few years Joe Marie entered the elementary school
3,
whose name had been changed to Washington Elementary
School.Leila Latson graduated from E.A.Kemp High School in
the 1930s.This school was built on the west side of town after
the death of E.A. Kemp. Mr. R.C.Neal was principal.
A few years later Joe Marie entered E.A.Kemp.
Irene graduated with a B.S. degree and attained71 a M.S.
degree a few years later.She taught at Nelson Chapel in Harvey
District,Brazos County,then at E.A.Kemp High School,where
she taught chemistry and physics until integration in 1971.In
Pictured on the left is Irene Randle and on the right, Robert September 1971 she began teaching chemistry at the new
Eddie Randle-about 1912 Bryan High School,and retired in 1973 after44 years of service
She was married to John T.Lane who was principal of F School
School,Bryan.Later he was principal of an elementary
in the Houston Public Schools until his retirement.
All of the children married in Bryan but later moved from
Bryan,except for Irene,who has remained here all her life.Joe
Marie, the youngest daughter, passed away in California in
ne
1978. Mrs.Rosa Northington is now 97 years old and randchald�en.
t. son,one daughter,six grand children,ten great-grandchildren,
f,✓, _•- four great-great-grandchildren.She is still active. She attends
church every Sunday,and she enjoys fishing when the weather
.'t.� "•,r is favorable. Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church honoread Mrs
is* },
'✓, lst
Northington (Randle), Sunday, 20 July 1980.
* Active Member. Lane
—Mrs. Irene E.
4
,;. AN ORAL HISTORY born in 1899.
On 9 September 1975, blacks Matilda Jones,
n
and Betty Jackson, born in 1909, recalled their lives �n a
interview with Hazel Richardson. worked
They said their fathers farmed cotton and corn a the also
40 acres. There was not much social life, , -
besides farm and church. The following recollectior y
r came from the Jones and Jackson transcript: lilt. _
" School was segregated,was very strict,was hel d in k0 -
en
g,
�w� ism one-room building,and theteacherwasblack.Chilort
n Robert ERand/e- >983. eight miles to school. They had to gather wood
for the stogy
s
Mrs. Rosa Northington and so
rpCi<HISTORY 114
Sory morning.There was not much chance to go to school,
(Only when no farming was going on. School was open nine
six months out
months.Mrs.Jones had school books,but no of asu e books.M s.
of
"year.They P
Jones said,"Parents were more concerned about farming than
oweducation of their children."
Once a year, people went to Bryan by wagon. On a typical
day,they got up at 3 o'clock and cooked breakfast, went to
fields and waited for the sun to come up. They plowed and
chopped cotton until noon,then went home for lunch, which
usually consisted of bread, syrup and vegetables. They went
pack to the fields until 7 p.m.and then cooked and went to bed.
Families raised most of their own food, and had hogs,
chickens and gardens.They made soap from the fat of hogs,
and made 30 to 40 gallons of molasses every year. Children
stripped the cane,then helped haul it to mill.At the mill,some-
times a mule would turn the stone,but sometimes the children
did the work.The mill,owned by a Mr.Nelson,was at Harvey.
Women did their own canning of wild grapes and plums. A
neighbor made wine from persimmons.
Sometimes a doctor would come for babies, but there were
midwives.Sometimes people had to walk miles to a bus to fetch
a doctor. Many illnesses were treated with herbs and roots of
dewberry vine.There was also a tea made from shucks of corn
for high fever. If that didn't work,a person was wrapped in hot
wet leaves.Sweat baths were also given with herbs,and hot tea
was used to extract the measles. Smallpox was common.
It should be noted that "Aunt Gussie" Wilborn, a College
station woman,was given a special humanitarian award at the
1985 Outstanding Woman of Brazos County luncheon. Aunt
Gussie,who turned 80 on 15 July 1985,brought up more than
50 children. She housed, fed and cared for entire families for
extended periods of time...sometimes even for years.She took
in at least 25 older people who couldn't care for themselves.A
true humanitarian, Aunt Gussie told the Eagle in a 1985 inter-
view that she"always was a lover of elderly people and children,
so I took up the trade of nursing,and God blessed me through
this effort." (See the Eagle, 28 July 1985.)
121
rGHOOLS
On 13 February 1978, a petition calling for ction Scchool for the 983-84 s hool year was 0 69 cents per$1100,based oto indebtedness on bonds purchased from 1952 to date.Tax n
separate the City of Bryan and the Bryanpendent n
of
ssed
District was presented to the School Board by former Bryan 10iemberseof the M 1984 Bryan ISD Board of Trustees: Dr.
Mayor Jerome"Jack"Zubik.
On 1 April the question was settled by the voters of Bryan in James Stegall, President;Tom BorsJr., Wendy Costa,Vice President, W. W.
Travis
Brya
the election;they votedtseparate
faced the school ma rgct upon Nelson, Se escand y;THerb B.W den, Jr
considerations
votes. Several
separation,such as the collection of taxes and the question of
which entity would manage multiple-use facilities. It was
decided that the deficit in operating expenditures for the Civic COLLEGE STATION SCHOOL DISTRICT HISTORY
Auditorium remain at 60% city and 40% by the schools, the INTRODUCTION
same as the present agreement.
It was also decided that the city and schools continue the Brazos County's other public school system is the College
same cooperative alsr decided that
ing relationship on all multiple-usefacil- Station Independent School District(which was known as the
is
ities as was presently being practiced: usage.
ing pools,Travis located in the southern portion ated ISD until 'of Brazos Couts name nty ande in s covers ers 97
Park,school gyms,and Neal Campus 9
Finally,it was decided that the city would continue to assess square miles including the A&M University campus and the
and collect taxes for the 1977-78 school year until the school City of College Station.
district could make a transition to collect its own taxes. In July and August 1945 The Battalion,Texas A&M's student
In September 1978, the school district purchased the old newspaper,published a series of articles by W.D.Bunting and
First State Bank building at 25th and Main Streets in downtown W. L. Hughes describing the history of the College Station
Bryan o house its new tax office and other administrative Consolidated School District.Their articles are quoted within
toffices.The building was remodeled,and began operation in thiThe otriginal school district was chartered by the State Legis-
January 1979. lature in 1909, but apparently no tax-supported school was
1983 operated until 1920. Union Hill, Wellborn, Rock Prairie and
Dr.Wesley K.Summers announced his retirement,effective Shiloh Common School Districts Independent School Dis rict in 1928 toaor the A&M Consol with the A&M e
August 1984.
dated Independent School District. (Prior to this merge,there
1984 was a school called Battle School that was located in the
Dr. Guy G. Gorden, Director of Instructional Services, was proximity of where K-Mart now stands,at Highway 6 and FM
named superintendent. 2818.Since the school was never mentioned in the writeup on
Fifteen campuses in the Bryan Independent School District the CS School District,we assume been absorbed by one
e it had
today house approximately 10,500 students: one 5A high of the other rural schools, perhaps Wellborn or Rock Prairie,
school,grades 10-12;one junior high,grades 8-9;four unitary before 1928.)
campuses for grades 5,6,and 7;and nine elementary schools The present school district has had no legal connection with
for grades kindergarten through 4: Bryan School District Texas A&M University since 1939 when the public school sys-
quare miles. Some 1,065 tem obtained its own building and moved from the college
boundaries extend over about 435 s
professional,paraprofesional,and auxiliary staff members are campus.
employed by the district. The school moved to the original site of 15 acres purchased
Campuses include Bryan High School, Stephen F. Austin, from the Holicks in 1939 for$5500.One hundred and sixteen
Anson Jones,Carver-Kemp,Lamar,Bonham,Bowie,Crockett, private citizens purchased the land and donated itto the school
Fannin, Henderson, Johnson, Milam, Ross, Travis, and Neal district.
Campus.Administrative offices are located at 2200 Villa Maria
Road and 100 West 25th Street.Three additional school sites HISTORY OF A.&M.CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL:PART
have been purchased by the district for the construction of
schools for future growth.
Ethnic analysis of the student population 6 October 1983: "Many years ago the Texas Legislature created an indepen-
American Indian,Alaskan 0•1% dent school district of the A&M College campus—a district
Asian 0.6% which consisted of some 3500 acres of land and buildings
Black 22.5% valued at approximately$3,500,000. However,since the prop-
Hispanic 20.0% erty belonged to the State of Texas, it was not taxable;and a
White 56.8% school district with no taxable property, except for a small
The Bryan Schools are dedicated to serving all of the citizens amount of personal property,will not support a school.Another
of the community, with curriculum ranging from classes for factor which made it possible for the campus people to have
pre-school handicapped children to those for senior citizens, anything like a modern school was the small number of chil-
Interested citizens,working hand in hand with school person- dren,there being only 30 or 40 of them on the campus.Conse-
nel, help create a variety of quality academic and vocational quently, the campus people sent their children to Bryan to
programs. Parents are involved in parent-school support school.
organizations,and business people in the community cooper- "In 1917, the Smith-Hughes Act was passed by Congress
schools by offering students on training in their appropriating funds for the teaching of agriculture in public
ate with the sc
businesses cooperation with instructors of vocational schools. A&M College was designated as a teacher-training
institution, and under authority of the act certain funds were
courses.
The Bryan lSD budget for the 1983-84 school year was some made available for preparing teachers of agriculture in the
$25.8 million, with only $9.6 million remaining as balance of public schools.This created the problem of a training school
SCHOOLS
122
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BATTLESCHOOL—(Present Highway 6)South of College Station. The children shown were all born priorto 1900. Top Row,Left
to Right.'Ernest(Bits)Battle,Huge Kincannon.Second Row:Reuben Holland(Teacher),Joe Georzycki(Gorzycki),Hugh Dowling,
Pinkney Graham,Hubert Jones,Robert(Robbie)Dowling,Jesse Wade, Edna Dowling. Third Row.'Allen Vanncy,Frank Visoski,
Lewis Jones,Joe Bukowski,Girl(?),Harley Deason,Mina Graham,Annie Putz, Victoria Putz,Mary Blazek,EulaBukowski.Fourth
Row.'Willard Dowling,Bil/Dowling,Eddie Blazek, Willie Blazek,Harry Georzycki(Gorzycki),Johnny Visoski,Annie Visoski,Lucille
Graham,Addle Jones, Lizzie Bukowski, Rosie Bukowski. (Photo courtesy of Lillie Dowling Sunkel)
for giving prospective teachers some practice teaching in agri- sufficient pupils to insure an ideal organization, that is, a
culture. But the college had no public school and one was teacher for each grade.This fact alone created the very serious
needed,and must be provided. problem of transportation—that of getting the rural children to
"In 1920, Dr. W. B. Bizzell, President of the College, with and from school.When the rural districts were assured trans-
Professor Martin L. Hayes, head of the Department of Voca- portation for their children, Professor Hayes and County
tional Teaching,conceived the idea of establishing a school on Superintendent Eck Smith succeeded in getting common
the campus for the purpose of meeting this need and at the school districts 2, 6, and 13—all adjoining the campus—to
same time of meeting the needs of the campus people for a agree to co-operate in launching the new school.
public school. Many problems had to be solved before this "The problem of securing a building in the summer of 1920,
could be realized, more particularly that of adequate finance of securing teachers and transportation of about 160 children,
and the further problem of bringing together enough children was no small one. But with about$13,000 rural aid and some
to create a satisfactory school unit.Finally,through the efforts $5,000 furnished by the college, with the state and county
of Professor Hayes, the State Board of Education was per- apportionment,and the local taxes from the co-operating dis-
suaded to grant rural aid sufficient to justify the establishment tricts, the financial side of the undertaking seemed bright
of the school.The College also furnished material assistance, enough. Accordingly, the school board proceeded with the
and Dr.Bizzell made available$25,000 for the construction of a construction of a building and with the purchase of two Olds-
school building. (In this connection it may be of interest to mobile buses for transportation—and, for the record, that
record that the$25,000 had been appropriated by the Legisla- board was made up of Professor Hayes, Dean E. J. Kyle,and
ture for the construction of a new home for the President of A.& Professor E. J. Fermier, all appointed by the President of the
M. College, but this did not solve the problem of the requisite College. A teaching staff consisting of the very best teachers
number of children for a satisfactory school unit.) available was invited to take over.This staff included all neces-
"In order to solve the problem of bringing together the sary teachers from principal to primary teacher, including a
required number of children, Professor Hayes conceived the teacher of home economics and one for agriculture.The prob-
idea of making the school a rural consolidated school by taking lem of organizing a complete school program,including trans-
in sufficient territory adjoining the college property to afford portation,was dumped into the lap of the writer.It was his job to
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anize the school — a task which was undertaken on 28 "A contract to build the bus garage and football bleachers
September 1920,when some 160 pupils presented themselves was given to Ole Martinsen of Bryan in July at a cost of$4,345.
for registration. The school was opened in Guion Hall and A contract to build the gymnasium-auditorium was given to N.
continued to hold its daily session there until the new building E.Smith of Bryan on 26 August 1941 at a cost of$25,000.The
was ready for occupancy. The new building was soon com- bus garage and stadium were completed in October 1941 and
pleted but when the school moved from Guion Hall we found the gymnasium was completed in February 1942."
ourselves utterly devoid of any equipment. The principal
begged and borrowed from various departments of the College
and in a few weeks A&M Ccnsolidated School was on its way.It
was the plan of the original board and the superintendent to HISTORY OF A&M CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL: PART 11
make the school a model of its kind—that is,no teacher should
have more than one grade and no grade more than 25 pupils. "It must be kept in mind that for many years after its organiza-
The teachers were to be the best obtainable.It was to be a case tion, the school was not consolidated legally. The districts
in which the job sought the teacher-not the teacher the job A pooled their finances and children but it was only by a'gentle-
teacher's home,orteacherage,was provided,and living condi- man's agreement.' Rural people were reluctant to cut loose
tions were made as pleasant as possible." entirely from their old school districts.
"During the first year of the school,304 pupils were enrolled
A&M Consolidated School Buildings and Grounds with an average daily attendance of 74%.Actual enrollment was
"The A&M Consolidated School was housed in buildings on in excess of the census tabulation. During its second year the
the campus from its origin until 1940. In November 1938, a school enrolled 342 pupils with an average daily attendance of
committee from the school board was authorized to investigate 80%.
the possibility of the College allowing a new school site of "The greatest problem to be solved was retardation. More
fifteen acres and making other provisions for the school. The than 57%of the children from the rural schools were retarded
committee was informed that there was not much chance of the due to the character of the schools they had attended.After a
school receiving help from the College. year ortwo,however,this situation was eased,and at the end of
the second year the school was put on the accredited list with
First Buildings Erected 13 I/2 units of affiliation.
"On 10 February 1939,the school board received a petition
from leading citizens of College Station asking that an election Health Program Emphasized
be held to vote bonds for financing the building of adequate "Primary duty of any school is to make good animals of its
)ol facilities.The board ordered the election for 25 February pupils.This should be the duty of the homes in any community
which approved by a large majority, the issuance of but is often neglected,particularly in the rural homes.A health
$6,000 in bonds for this purpose.A contract with the architects survey was made by the Red Cross nurse for Brazos County.Of
Ernest Langford and Jack Finney,was signed 18 March 1939 at the 240 children studied,90%were found defective.This did not
which time two school sites were offered,one of fifteen acres in include such diseases as malaria. During the first year of the
College Hills Estates and the other the Holick property site.The school it became necessary to provide a bed in the principal's
site,consisting of approximately fifteen acres was bought and office for malaria patients, and it was used almost daily. The
paid for by public subscription from some 116 interested school carried on a vigorous health campaign and by the end of
patrons at a total cost of$5500.58 and the property was given to the second year malaria was almost stamped out.The children
the school board as a site for the proposed school buildings. were taught the relation between the mosquito and the disease
"On 8 September 1939 the board let a contract for the school and this knowledge was carried home with the result that
buildings to William Smith,contractor from Waco, on a bid of greater use was made of mosquito nets.
$69,825.The original contract called for four elementary units "Progress was made in overcoming such defects as bad
having fourteen classrooms, office space and the like; a high tonsils, poor teeth, and malnutrition. Each teacher made it a
school building of six classrooms with auxiliary rooms and a part of her regular work to instruct her pupils in the importance
building to house the Industrial Arts and Music departments. It of clean teeth,clean bodies,and proper diet.By the end of the
was found later that classroom space of the high school was second year the results were very noticeable. Attendance
not adequate and a contract to add two additional classrooms improved and much better progress in school was made.
was signed 27 October 1939 at a cost of$3,567.The buildings
were formally accepted on 8 March 1940 and school furniture Extra-Curricular Activities
and equipment were moved from the old campus site. "The school was large enough to set up a program of athlet-
ics. Many matched games with other schools were played and
Plant is Expanded good school spirit was created.A dramatic club was organized
"On 8 January 1941,the board received a petition asking for and much interest was aroused in amateur performances.
an investigation of the possibility of building a combination These home talent plays were given in different parts of the
gymnasium-auditorium-cafeteria along with an athletic field county,creating a very favorable impression and showing what
and a suitable Negro high school building.After the board had a rural school could do. Incidentally, these performances
made a thorough study of this request,an election was called brought in sufficient money to aid in starting a good library.
for 29 March 1941 for voting the issuance of$40,000 in bonds to Although the school was the youngest in the county,by the end
finance the project.The election carried by a large majority.A of two years it had more library books than all the rest of the
ng committee was appointed by the board and it was rural schools of the county combined.
)rized to purchase adjoining property and make plans for "A parent-teacher club was organized and served to bring the
the proposed buildings. H. D. Mayfield, Jr., was employed as parents into closer touch with the organization and work of the
architect and approximately two more acres of land adjoining school. The mothers aided in securing library books and in
the school property were bought from James Holick. securing for the school many needed improvements.
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124
"During the first years of its able existence the school made elected,but financial troubles were not abated.Many schemes
4 remarkable progress. It showed signs of becoming the type of were brought forward for financing the school. The campus
school that will meet the needs of the community. The high people went as far as to try to raise money by private subscrip-
school course of study was shaped to conform to both college tion timebut thethis'tra ping schoolheme ' dealy a hadfew hundred dollars.ab about disappeared aBnd the
entrance entrance requirements and to vocational life work. -
"During the first years, the high school department was school was simply another consolidated public school on its
.The taxable valuations of the consolidated
called the"Hayes High School".There was no graduating class own resources on
the first year, but at the end of the second year, May 1922, a trict were only about one million dollars,but the budget keptt on
creasing.
class of six was granted diplomas. in"Twenty-five years bring about many changes. College Sta-
tion has grown into a city with its own municipal government.
A Practical Curriculum
"All students d to take Eng- People have built their own homes and the taxable valuations
the high school were require
lish,American History,and Civics,with other subjects elective. have increased to 2.5 million dollars. Local school taxes now
amount to some$25,00
In the lower grades, civics was taught incidentally with such 0 annually.The school was moved into
work as health and the various school activities. Agricultural newgymnasium d tic buildings adjacent
field have beenthe campus oprov'dedut five aThe rs �ew
arithmetic, agricultural composition, as well as agricultural
annually is
science and practice, were taught. Tradumber of students requ edtional courses in school lfor debt sere ant cost aboutce a o0ne.The budget for th,000 and almost 0e white to school
mathematics were offered and a larger
s of the school for 1944-45 was approximately $7,400. Twenty-one teachers
elected to take them.One of the very finest asset
was in home economics department. Girls were taught the are required.The curriculum now includes such work ags YP ng-
essentials of homemaking in all its various aspects. Home trial arts,home economics,commercial work,includin t in
projects in home economics and agriculture sought to make shorthand, and business training. The traditional courses in
instruction in these subjects as near a life situation as possible, English, Mathematics, History,and Science are offered.
and such courses in English and mathematics were correlated the While the school has seems bright and n hroug gmahas met the educany ups and ,
with them in every possible way." tional needs of many rural boys and girls who otherwise would
have had scant educational opportunities. It has filled a great
HISTORY OF A&M CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL: need for the campus children. The financial resources are
PART III gradually increasing, but the budget still keeps a few steps
ahead of the available revenues.The high school department
"The last school census givesthe A&M Consolidated School with an enrollment of about 150 students is still rather small to
district 496 white and 296 colored scholastics.This is double offer a rich and varied educational program. However, as the the number of white twenty-five years ago, and more than Station increases, these shortcomings
will gradually be tion of College
The school now operates seven
double the number of colored children. -
"It became necessary a good many years ago to erect a new buses.The roads have been improved,taxable valuations are
he state's share in financing the school
building for the colored children and furnish transportation. increasing,t still about
budget for the colored school alone now runs about two-thirds of the available funds.The board
The bu of trustees is made -
The bu a year.In the beginning,the colored school consisted up of fine,patriotic citizens who are endeavoring to see thatthe -
$1 a one-room school situated just east of the campus on what school meets the needs of coming generations.
iof s now Highway 6.No transportation was needed.The budget The future has indeed been bright for the College Station
for such a school was only a few hundred dollars annually.The schools. In 1949 it absorbed the Peach Creek and Minter
colored school is now housed in a$12,000 building and is doing Springs Common School Districts just as in with the Union Hill,
it had become -
an excellent job of furnishing a practical education for the a Consolidated School District by merging with -
colored children. It is a 12-grade school with ten teachers. Wellborn,e Rock omenrairpopu Steiloh Commo
growth of BSa osoCountyt in
agriculture and home economics are featured. general and College Station in particular since World War II
"Just how the 'train i ng-school' idea was lost is not easy to hallenged the imaginations and talents of the district's em-
explain. Professor Hayes died in the early twenties and Dr. to ees and elected officials; but they were equal to the task.
Bizzell went to Oklahoma in 1925. Thus the school lost two The following growth chart provides a dramatic yet succinct
good friends.Financial troubles began to accumulate.The two picture of their accomplishments.
buses soon proved inadequate and additional buses had to be P
purchased. A full-time mechanic had to be employed which
added to the budget.The cost of bus transportation over poor
roads ran high. The building soon proved inadequate for the Growth of District
increasing school population, and some of the children were 1942 White gymnasium built (Holick Street),athletic field
'farmed out'in college buildings.Finally the entire high school (Holick Street) and Negro (Lincoln) High School.
department was moved to old Pfeiffer Hall and remained there 1948 Built new high school at 1300 Jersey Street.
until about 1940.
"The Texas Legislature cut off the appropriations which were
made in the be since,the school had lost,or was losing, 1951 and Jerseyuilt first rade wing Sttreets , Lincdolnfeteria (corner of TSchool shop and sc ence
the 'train i ng-school' idea. The school was soon on the rocks
financially. Rural aid laws helped very little. Local taxes laboratory. )
amounted to only a small part of the school's needs.The state was furnishing less than $20 per capita. The school's budget 1953 New high school
c ololampu builts an0d ndn rsooln School the ju _
-
ior
was steadily increasing from year to year.About 1928 a legal slum 9
consolidation was effected and a board of seven trustees was
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l' 1960 High School addition, Lincoln addition and College RURAL SCHOOLS
Hills Elementary School (Williams Street).
Despite the illustrious history of the independent school dis-
1967 Built South Knoll Elementary School. tricts,until well into the Twentieth Century most Brazos County
youths were educated in rural schools,more properly known as
1972 Built new high school (West Bypass, FM 2818). common school districts.
Common schools were funded by annual appropriations
1978 Added vocational wing to high school, kindergarten from the state school fund frequently supplemented by special
building and multi-purpose building to South Knoll tax levies from within the district. Each district had its own
and College Hills Elementary Schools. board of trustees responsible for hiring teachers and setting
policy but there was also a County Superintendent who guided
Built Oakwood Middle School. the trustees and teachers in their duties and coordinated mat-
ters of common interest, such as holding teachers training
1980 Exchanged property at 1300 Jersey to the City of Col- institutes and conducting the annual scholastic census. Until
lege Station for 21.82 acres of land on Welch and FM 1908 the County Judge served as the ex-officio school superin-
2818. tendent. Afterwards there was a separate elected superinten-
dent until the office was abolished in 1978.
1983 Built Southwood Valley Elementary School (corner of Dorothy Bunting, Lila Lane,and Juanita McCann have pro-
Brothers and Deacon Streets),added science and vided this list of school superintendents and common schools.
music wings,gymnasium,cafetorium,and classrooms
at high school, remodeled Timber Street buildings COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
and built Adaptive Vocational Center at Timber Street. In 1887the Legislature gave the county commissioners court
in each county the optional privilege of establishing a separate
Purchased 20 acres of land for future building site office of County Superintendent of Schools, and in 1905 the
(South portion of Southwood Valley). authorization was given for creation of the office,after a favor-
....
I'1! David Bunting, a Teacher in Brazos County Schools for 48 years. Taught at Tabor, 1926-1928, Principal Kurten School,
1928-1936, Taught and coached in Bryan High School, 1936-1941, Superintendent of A & M Consolidated Schools, 1941-1946,
i Superintendent Brazos County Schools, 1946-1974. When he was interviewed by the Eagle, upon his retirement, Mr. Bunting
indicated that one of his accomplishments he was veryproud of was to form the first county-wide transportation system in the state.
This later served as a model for other counties as well as valuable material on which to base the State Transportation Program
formed under the 1948 Minimum Foundation School Law. (The picture was taken in the Spring of 1942, courtesy of the Public
School System.)
it
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SCHOOLS
able election initiated by the voters.Since 1907 the office has Blanton School was established in 1893. The land was
been mandatory in all counties of over 3,000 scholastic popula- donated by G. W. Blanton. The first teacher was Sallie Ham-
tion. In May 1945 there were 187 Texas counties with County mon.It too was consolidated with Tabor in 1921.Between 1893
Superintendents. (Handbook of Texas- Vol. I., Pg. 426) and 1921 other teachers were:
Minnie Bullock Pinky Ferguson
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF BRAZOS COUNTY Roy Zimmerman Joe McGee
1908 W. Parker' Bertha Graham Eugene Sample
1916 Wm. L. Powers' Henry Hudspeth Nannie Williams
1920 Eck Smith (James Eckler)' Myrtle Hester Levie Gilpin
1922 D.J. McDonald` Stella Covington Minnie McCallum
1928 Frank M.Vance' Mrs. Lula Blaylock
1930 D.J. McDonald` In 1915 Central High of the Tabor Community was con-
1932-1942 Mrs.W. E. (Amy) Neeley structed on five acres of land bought for$50 per acre.The next
1942-1946 Luther Pearsson year it absorbed the other earlier community schools.The new
1946-1974 William David Bunting school was a T-shaped building with four large classrooms in
1974-1978 J.B.Streetman the front part and a large gymnasium and auditorium in the
'This list of superintendents is from Elmer Grady Marshall's rear.The school enrolled 25 students on 20 September 1915.
Masters thesis, 1937, University of Texas, "History of Brazos Charles Bobo was principal and C_ C. Scott was the first
County." teacher.Some teachers in the 1920s were Leroy Miller,Winnie
The following data on rural schools were compiled from Harris, Mr. Hewitt, W. David Bunting, Miss Brown, and Merle
Janice Jean Schultz's thesis, "A Time for Planting, a Social Hudson. In 1921 it consolidated with the Harris, Alexander,
History of Selected Rural Communities in Brazos County", Blanton,and Cottonwood schools and was itself absorbed by
Mary Edna Dorsey's"Those Were The Days",and information the Kurten School in 1946. In 1950 the building was used as a
provided by various county residents and former teachers. permanent recreational center.The land was sold in 1972 and
The Thompson Creek Community had two schools.The first the building demolished.
was erected about 1875 but the names of the early teachers are Wixon School land was donated by Reverend J.H.Mitchell.
forgotten. From the turn of the century until the 1930s Rufus The Trustees were Mitchell, R. T. Short, J. D. Whitten, Z. P.
Meads,Lavita Goins Weedon,Mrs.Ed Purcell,and Lizzie Pey- Pearson,and Harrison Crenshaw.The school was torn down in
ton Bade kept the school. the 1930s.Teachers were Robbie Mickel,Earnest Beard,Geor-
The T.W.Parker School(named afterthe first County School gia White,and Edna Harris.
Superintendent) was built about 1905 two miles southwest of Edge Community had three schools — two seven-grade
the first Thompson Creek School.This building also served as schools—Liberty and Concord.Liberty was located on the Will
the community center. Henry place,and Concord was one mile northeast of the New
The Alexander community built its first schoolhouse/com- Church cemetery. Teachers at the two schools were Sue
munity center in 1865. William L. Glass was the first teacher. Benbow,Allie Montgomery,Grace Morgan Bethany,Paul Fer-
Another early instructor in the community was Thomas John- guson, Eva McDonald, D.J. McDonald, Mr. Pickney, Mr.Pink
son who taught the children of Hugh Reed Henry in the Henry Graham, Eugene Sample, P. S. Magnum, Emily Tatum, and
household. From 1897 to 1921 other teachers were: Kathryn Wilson. Both Schools consolidated into Kurten in
Mary Johnson A. S. McSwain 1946.
Jessie Johnson Winnie Washburn Edge High School was built in 1912 and had two rooms.
Abbie Arnett Minna McMillan Teachers were Mr.and Mrs.X.Smith.The school was located
Sue Benbow Bessie Stallings Benbow on the Ft. Martin place. It burned in 1940.
Prof. Edward Robbins Ola Mae Henry There were one-room schools at Shiloh and Macy. They
Joe McGee Prof. Henry Green were consolidated with New King's Highway in Macy.Leonard
John L.Cobb Mrs. Evie Hearne McDonald gave two acres of land 11 August 1922 for a new
Willie Boyett Ruth Fuller school.The name was then changed to King's Highway.
Emma Orr Mrs. Mary Ewing A one-room school in the Fickey Community was built by
Eve McDonald Mrs. Emma Montgomery Frank Fickey in 1892 near the Richard Schram place. The
Nina Graham building was 15 ft. wide by 30 ft. long,was of unfinished oak
The first school in the Harris Community was called the boards one inch thick by eight inches wide with one inch thick
Claremont School. In 1878, however, another building was by four inches wide sidings.The entire building was set on oak
constructed on Jim Lawrence's land and was renamed the blocks that measured about eight inches wide by 12 inches tall.
William Harris School — in honor of the man who solicited The teachers were John M. Moore, Lee McDonald, Lillian
contributions for its construction.It was rebuilt and enlarged in Crenshaw, Edelweiss Koppe Jones, Clara Wallin, Beatrice
1911 and in 1921 the district was consolidated with Tabor.Miss Rogers, Mary Lou Prinzel, Annie Locke,and Clara Lueck.
Robbie Mickel was the first teacher and she was followed by The school had housed the Zion United Church of Christ
John M.Moore and Miss Helen Kelley. (then called the Lutheran Evangelical Church) about 1894
The Cottonwood Community School used the Baptist before they built a church. The school operated until in the
Church Building until it was destroyed by fire in 1893. It was 1930s and was then disbanded.
rebuilt in 1895 and Will Kelly became the first teacher. In 1921 In 1876 Henry Kurten donated land for his community's first
the white school was consolidated with Tabor. In 1939 Annie two-story schoolhouse made from hewn logs.The first teacher
Mary Gray taught grades one through eight at the Cottonwood was Horace Raymond. About 1900 the building was replaced
Baptist Church. After one full session Miss Gray's school was by a new structure which in turn was superseded by a large red
absorbed by the John M. Moore Consolidated School where brick building in 1937 which cost$10,000.By 1947 enrollment
she subsequently taught the first and second grades. was down to only 21 pupils and one teacher.The quality of the
t, rr
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Students of Fickey School- 1896.
physical plant and the rash of school district consolidations in Walling, Mary Worthington, Eva Potts, Syble Roth,and Elijah
the post-World War II period,however,gave the school a new Rudd.
lease on life. By 1957 it was the only white common school in As was common in the rural schools, teachers were fre-
the county boasting five teachers and about 100 students. In quently little older than their students. Mary Ruth Cloud, for
1968,however,it was finally incorporated into the Bryan Inde- instance,was herself a 15-year-old Kurten School pupil when
pendent School District. the teachers pulled her out of the upper class to help teach the
Teachers in the Kurten school included:Mr.Mims,Mr.Tem- lower grades.She taught for six years and then married Minus
pleton, Mrs. Maggie Easters Kelley,Johnnie Moore Stockton, B.Easters.Their eleven children included Maggie Easters(Mrs.
Amy Rosier Kurten, David Bunting,Dorothy Bunting,Carl Orr, W. T. Kelley) who taught at the Kurten School from 1917 to
Fred Gage,Mr.Hibbetts,Mrs Herbert Smith,Mae Wilson,Ruby 1961. ,
As was frequently the case for common school districts,
there was both a white and a black school. In Kurten the black
school was the John M. Moore Elementary School.Teachers
included Mae Edna Jones, Edna Tarrow, Lenia Wilson, Olivia
u. Banks, Tenola Mosley,Annie B. Fennell, and William Cotton.
Principals included Fred Batts and Otha Byrd.
~ Another black common school was the Wilcox School.In the
1920s and 1930s the teachers included Annie B.Fennell White,
and Lila Lane. It was typically open six months a year and the
teachers were paid about $55 per month. In 1939 this seven-
grades school was one of five schools absorbed by the John M.
Moore School.
In the 1870s and 1880s there were rural schools in operation
in Reliance, Steep Hollow and Harvey. Teachers at the Steep
Hollow and Holligan Chapel schools included James Riley,
James Murdock,Bertie Risinger,and Mamie and Edna Tobias.
y Mr. Robinson, Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Ennis taught at Bethel
Academy School in Harvey in 1887. The attendance reached
155.
'Fan as Kelley taugh,in the Kurten Schoolfor44 Years.
Clarissa
taught at
the
ss School
redsinPictureareotherKurtenSchoolStafandthecountY tri tNo. )i�n1Birdwell
39 and1940. ShewauceededbYEtthel
s"Perintendent. Cunningham, Lila Lane,and then Dauzalu Littleton.
f Y
sup-
128 SCHOOLS
The Love School (on Dilly Shaw Tap Road) was another of BLACK EDUCATION IN BRAZOS COUNTY
the schools absorbed by Kurten. Teachers included Annette
Green and Annie B. Fennell. It was not until 1971 that Brazos County schools were fully
Mrs.Fannie Diggs taught for many years in the rural schools, integrated. Heretofore local educational facilities were "sep-
and at one time served as principal. Most of her teaching arate but equal."They were definitely separate,but equal only
experience was in the Fairview School. in the theoretical sense of the word. In reality black schools
Not all school communities fit neatly inside of county bound- were inferior to white buildings; the teachers were both paid
aries. Such was the case of the Little Rock School near the less and less qualified than their white counterparts;terms also
Brazos/Robertson County line where Mt.Zion Baptist Church were shorter, and the students enjoyed fewer facilities than
now stands. This school was established in about 1931 when pupils at the white schools.
the Queen's Chapel School(near the present location of High- Despite the many shortcomings, education was no less
way 6) and Walker Settlement School (south of the Old San important in the black than in the white society.Indeed,in some
Antonio Road and the Walker Estate)lost enrollment and were respects it was probably more so. Blacks granted a higher
merged.Lila Mae Andrews taught some 39 Brazos and Robert- status to theirteachers than did whites because education was
son County students from 1931-1933.Her predecessors at the one of the few professions open to capable and ambitious
Queen's Chapel School had been Daisy Harris and Alene Ste- blacks.The following article,which first appeared in The Eagle,
wart.The teachers at the Walker Settlement School had been dramatically demonstrates the significance of black education
Mrs. Mittie B. Bennett and Tenola Mosley. in Bryan in particular,and by extension,the county as a whole.
One of the many outstanding educators of Brazos County An official Texas Historical Marker for black education in
was Mrs.Cornelia Sloop,a supervisor in the rural schools.Mrs. Bryan has formally been dedicated in Bryan and will appear in
Sloop,who also taught in the A&M Consolidated School Dis- the next edition of the Guide to Official Texas Historical
trict,developed a method of teaching reading which has been Markers to stimulate tourist travel in this area,to arouse interest
used by many school districts across the nation. in historical tours and to acquaint people of this locale with our
unique heritage.
The marker,placed on E.20th St.between North Preston and
North Houston streets,is made of cast aluminum with Swedish -
SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF BRAZOS COUNTY steel effect. It measures 27 by 42 inches and is sponsored by
Alpha Tau Sigma Chapter of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.
District No. The inscription on the historic marker reads:
1.Templeman Black Education In Bryan
2• "On 30 March 1885,the city of Bryan purchased seven lots of
3. Millican this area as a site for a public school to provide separate but
4. Peach Creek equal and impartial instruction for Black children of the com-
5. Providence munity,as prescribed by the Texas State Constitution of 1876.
6. Union Hill (territory near the area in Bryan called The'Bryan Public School For Blacks in Brazos County'.
the Triangle) "When school opened in the fall of 1885,its principal was A.
7. Harvey H. Colwell, who later became a prominent leader of Black
8.Steep Hollow Republicans, and was named as a presidential elector from {`
9. Reliance Texas in 1896.The original faculty included Mrs.Anne Alber-
10. Kurten son, Misses Mamie Burrows, and Beatrice Calhoun, Mrs.Ada
11.Woodville Schott Hall and Mrs. Lenora Green,a classmate of Dr.William
12.Tabor E. B. Dubois.
13. Queen's Chapel "The first school building on this site was a two-story frame
14. Edge structure,furnished with planks supported by kegs forseating.
15. Leonard After the school burned in 1914, a brick edifice was con-
16. Rye ] structed. In 1930 when the Kemp Junior-Senior High School
17.Stabler ] Joined as Rye-Stabler No. 17 was built across town,this facility became Washington Elemen-
18.Steele Store tary School. After its destruction by fire in September, 1971,
19.Wixon ] Washington Elementarywas not rebuiltand the blackstudents
20. Prospect] Joined as Wixon-Prospect were integrated into the Bryan Public School System. Wash-
21.Love School(near Kurten,joined Kurten Dist.before 1947) ington Park occupies most of the original site." (1975).
22. Fickey On 10 March 1885,during the administration of Major John
23. Knob Prairie W. Tabor, Mayor, the City of Bryan purchased lots three
24. Cedar Grove through ten,except lot five,of block 56,City of Bryan,for$200
25. Bowman from F. A. Rice and William R. Baker,trustees of the Houston
26. Minter Spring and Texas Central Railroad, for the establishment of the
27.Smetana school.This was the first school to be established exclusively
28.Allenfarm for Negroes in Bryan, and for many years it served as a high
29.Cawthorn (near Allenfarm) school for all Negro children in Brazos County. I he estaD11s11-
30. King's Highway ment of the-school represented a determined effort on the part
1947-1953 Districts 5,7,8,9, 10, 11,12,14, 16,20,22,23,24, of the citizens of Bryan to provide for the education of the black
25, and 30 were all consolidated as District No. 10 Kurten youth of the community.
District (CSD). The school site contained originally seven of the ten lots in
Districts 15, 17, and 27 consolidated into District No. 27, block 56 of the 640 acres set aside and platted as the City of
Smetana District. Bryan by William Joel Bryan,nephew of Stephen F.Austin,out
. ,low—
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SCHOOLS
,ague nine,located in northern Brazos County.In 1952 the
Bryan Independent School District purchased from the Negro
Woman's Club of Bryan the three remaining lots in block 56.
The school was in operation from the Fall of 188
5 to 16
September 1971,and was located between East 19th and East
20th Streets and between North Houston and North Preston. /-
The first principal of the school was A. H. Colwell who had
recently arrived in Texas from Louisiana.Colwell was a gradu-
ate of New Orleans University, an Institute supported by the
Freedmen's Aid Society of the United Methodist Church. He
was said,at that time,to have been one of the four best edu-
cated Negroes in Texas,and was soon to become a recognized „`
Republican leader in Texas. Colwell, of Brazos County, was
nominated by the "Regular" (as contrasted to the "Reform") f
n meeting in Dallas,28-29 August
Republican State Conventio
1894,as its candidate for the office of State Superintendent of
Instruction,but failed to win election.At the McKinley Republi-
can Convention in Austin,26 March 1896,he was named one of Early school group-Brazos County.
the two Republican presidential electors from Texas.He served
as a member of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions at sixth,Lon Nash;the seventh,Thomas Cole;and the last,O.W.
the Republican State Convention in Fort Worth, 16-18 August Sadberry.
1898,and as chairman of that committee at its convention on The first teachers were: Mrs. Anne Alberson; Mrs. Lenora
6-7 March 1900,Waco.Colwell later moved to Louisiana. Green, a graduate of Fisk University and a classmate of Dr.
The second school principal was Pal Landry;the third, E.A. William E.B.Dubois;Miss Mamie Barrows;Miss Beatrice Cal-
Kemp;the fourth, H. C. Neal; the fifth, Edward H. Know, the houn;and Mrs.Ada Schott Hall.
Grades taught,at first, were one through ten;and when the
state school system changed to an eleven-grade system, the
Bryan Public School for Colored became an eleven-grade sys-
tem;and,finally,in 1940-41 it became a twelve-grade system in
conformance to state law. At first, the primary interest was
upon reading, writing, and arithmetic. Latin was taught for
MUM
-11. Among the first grades of the
several years in grades 7
school were Tim Phillips, Tee Goosby, Eva Goosby, Bailey
Bowens, Violet Bowens, Jennie Hall, Ada Ridley, Charlie
Duren, Lisa Haynes, Tommie Haynes, Willie Haynes, William
Ford, Perry Ford,Emma Ford,and the Johnson children.
The original school building was a two-story frame structure
with offices on the first floor and an auditorium on the second
floor. Planks supported by kegs served as seats.The building
} °`• ° was destroyed by fire in 1914,and pending the construction of
a new school building, classes were held temporarily at Allen
Chapel of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, at Lee
Chapel of the Methodist Church,and at Shiloh Baptist Church.
In 1915 a new one and a half story brick school was com-
pleted on the site of the original structure.In 1930 Kemp Junior-
Senior High School was built on the west side of town,and the
Bryan Public School for Colored became Washington Elemen-
tary School. The Washington Elementary School was des-
:tub i
u troyed by fire on 16 September 1971,and was not rebuilt.No
school occupies the site today, but in 1974 a new building
occupying less than the one-fourth of the site was constructed
to house the Special Services Department of the Bryan Public
Schools,and the remainder of the block has been developed by
. �. w the City of Bryan's Parks Department as Washington Park, a
neighborhood playground.
For many years this was the only public school for Negroes in
Bryan, and for a long time it was the only high school for
Negroes in Brazos County.The principal of the school acted as
"superintendent"and reported directly to the school board until
more recent years.
As we near the Twenty-first Century,Brazos County Schools
are in a better condition than they have ever been before.
Instruction is uniformly excellent and the physical plants ade-
` quate.The only thing that can damage the future of our school
Students of an early Brazos Schoot systems is apathy.
Memories Of The A&M Consolidated School In The 1940s
In the 1940s, the entire A&M Consolidated Schools were housed on the property
bordered on the north by Jersey street, on the west by Timber street, on the south by Anna, and
on the east by Holik street. There was a little store at the corner of Holik and Jersey. The
Dobrovolny farm extended east from Holik and was bordered by Jersey on the north.
The school was new having been moved off the A&M campus about 1938. School buses
ran to the rural communities of Wellborn, Peach creek and Providence to transport students to
the new consolidated school.
With the school district having very little taxable property, the income was very low and
the wants were greater than the income to pay for these wants.
When male teachers volunteered or were drafted to serve in World War II, there were
only two men working at the school. Mr. W.D. Bunting was the superintendent and Dean Beal
from Wellborn was his only male helper. Every time the doors were opened at the school these
two men were there and stayed until the doors were closed. The parents and the business
community supported the school in every way possible. The Mother's and Dad's Club sponsored
a community supper each year to raise money for the school. The fathers worked at the school on
Saturdays to build sidewalks to connect the various buildings and do other things the school
could not afford to have done. Both parents worked on landscaping and other needs of the new
school. The school was truly a community project.
When peace was declared in 1945 and the men returned from serving their country to
join the 100% women faculty, things improved for everybody.
One of my fondest memories of the 1940s school years was working with the Future
Homemakers of America which was an outgrowth of the Home Economic classes. The
organization consisted of local chapters, area and state and the National Organization. One year
the National Organization solicited entrance of songs to be considered for the national song of
the Future Homemakers of America. Lou Ann Smith, a local member from Wellborn wrote a
poem based on the Motto and purposes of F.H.A. Mrs. Ford Munnerlyn who wrote the Twelfth
Man song for the Aggies and the CHS and Tiger Fight Song for A&M Consolidated, set the
poem to music and played for our Future Homemakers to cut a record at KTAM to send to our
State Organization in Austin. The record was played as the wake-up call at the summer camp
that summer and we were invited to present the song at the state Convention in Galveston the
next spring. The band director Colonel R.J. Dunn made a beautiful copy of the music for us and
the choral director, Mrs. Barker, arranged the song in three part harmony for a tripple trio to sing
at the state meeting. After that we were able to take six girls to the first National Convention for
Future Homemakers of America in Kansas City, Missouri. At the convention, there was a lot of
competition from all over the country. The Texas song and the Tennessee song were most
popular. The National Association decided to delay the choosing of the national song at that
time. At the next state meeting the Texas Association voted to adopt it as the state song. We
were very pleased!
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County, a art of the great cotton-producing region
gio rain-
Texas,c y P
institute a cumcu Texas, enjoyed uniform temperatures and abundant
suggested that the institution establish its own indepen
dent electric plant, and at the same time embryonic fall:The fertile upland of cereal was eas grains,ily ivVegetallles, and
lum for training in electrical engineering. Thea2 ry variety of crops including
riated fruits. Promotional literature emphasizedo the
excellen pamphlet °f
f system went into operation in November 1893.
In May 1899 the Texas legislature approP bottom lands along the river
$104,000 for in on the A. and of campus.
claimed that the ,richness and fert p oduty rt ons are not°ex.-
The appropriation helped lift the college o have become famous „45
, of the world. Most importantly, older
mentary environment. Funds were allotted for such facili- celled in any part
and improvements as a steam heating plant, a selectee residents, according to the guided by thiswand similar ac-
mi-
ties P
system, five new homes for professors, and a new ants into their midst. inspired
counts, small communities, populated by native European
` cal and ice plan The new additions asaablel top vide s e�inated throughout the county in the late
z � nity more self-sufficient. The g farmers, g
nineteenth century years.
� for the needs of a moderate size school population. That One such settlement, the community of Shiloh, devel-
ability would lessen with the increased growth of the close proximity to the Texas A. and M. College.
school. oped
Shiloh, located two miles south of the campus, consisted
redominantlY of Czech immigrants,
but also included
Surrounding Rural Farm Communities P res
i . . families native to Poland d accom anted by military °PP en-
? tral Euro e in the 18 P these people
Efforts of Brazos residents to attract new inhabitants P
fruit in the late 1870s and early 1880s. sioleandt�e g'homous eandsers u6ions, encouragedthe Shiloh
to the county boremigrated to
e numbers during those years, Frank Stasney, one of the early settlers In
Immigrants from South am and Eastern Europe Mgr fled to America to escape the feudalistic system that
I to the United States g
and many made their way to the agricultural fields of area, f land tr Brazos County. In time he
Brazos Count in 1870s. An shackled the peasants
of Central Europe. In 186 7 Stasney
Texas. Italians first arrived in Bra Yotofland
550 acres extending west from
Italian steamship line maintained an agents e B colony of wo bought
dtown approximately o Highway6. Like Stasney,
by the late 1880s, Brazos County had the lag Y
most families in the area purchased enoughacreage
cre gs h
farmers in the entire United States.44 Other imp-- Carter Creek to present- ay �
Italian f
grant families settling in the area were recent arrivals Blazeks, Tureksg and Boriski� lived in
Poland, Austria, and two European that their farms stretched two or three onnnskies,
Russia, Germany, pe
the same vicinity ast the
Stalled clone ser tobtheaHouston and
provinces, Bohemia and Moravia, which later were incor- as t
._ porated in Czechoslovakia. Brazos Hrdlickas, and others
these agrarian-oriented immigrants, Texas Central Railroad line. Immigrant fa -eth also es
To
County represented an excellent environment for eo'i'" settled near the campus were the Taubers to the
of the county, such as the one chased oed land surrounding the college. °me he south
ning a new life. Descriptions
published in the South and Western Texas Guide for 1878, w
. The guide reported that Brazos north, the Vass to the east, and the Ho to t
encouraged settlement $u
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location until
Each week the farmers in Shiloh traveled into Bryan Bryan. Shiloh Hallmo ai to the the same
1975, when it was
border of the
to sell their crops and buy essential commodities. The count sa
family members packed their wagon in the early morning The children of Shiloh attended a county school that
hours and began their trek along a dirt and gravel path was located at the present intersection of Highway 6 and
into the county's major town, passing Texas A. and M. Farm to Market (FM) Road 2818. A two-room building
College on their way. Bryan, in the late 1880s, had become served fort to fifty students; one room contained the first
a manufacturing and trading center. Stores lined the main through the sixth grades, and the other held the seventh
streets, and the saloons, located on each block, provided and eighth hth grades. The children walked to school, carrying
refreshments ad entertainment.54 A grist mill, a cotton their shoes if it rained. School was in session on the aver-
seed mill, and two planing mills were in operation as well age of five months a year because the money allotted for
as a chair factory, a carriage and wagon factory, and a o operations lasted only that long. In 1920 the newly-formed
cotton gin. Cotton buyers from larger cities were on hand A and M. Consolidated School District absorbed the
seasonally. By the end of the nineteenth century, buyers count school-59 four
shipped 20,000 bales from Bryan to Galveston annually.55 Although the community no longer remains,
After selling their produce and buying weekly supplies, acres It College Station's cemetery connects Shiloh's past
families headed back home and reached their homestead to the city today. Mrs. William G. Rector deeded four
by twilight.56 acres to the Methodist Church in 1870 to be used as a
Many of the farmers in Shiloh sold vegetables, fruits, cemete for settlers at Shiloh. The Shiloh Club assumed
and livestock to families on campus. Some had regular �'
and delivered eggs and butter each week. the responsiility for rhos few acres and the surrounding
Col-
customers, lege Station acquired
Frank Stasney sold much of his harvest to Bernard Sbisa, land for a city cemetery, the Shiloh Club continued to
the manager for many years of dining facilities on the donate moneyfor the care of the original cemetery.60 The
campus. As a child Herman Krenek accompanied his Cori of Shiloh eventually disappeared; its lands
grandfather to the college where Stasney displayed for were absorbed by the city. The heritage of the immigrants,
Sbisa a cornucopia of crops — corn, peanuts, cantaloupes, however, does remain. It is incorporated into the many
watermelon, peaches, pears, or whatever else was in sea facets of the city's character.
son. Stasney also provided Sbisa with some poultry includ-
ing squabs e babel pigeons. hat only theere considered a
professorrs were
delicacy, Krenek Further Development of the Campus Commu-
served the squabs.57 nity
By the turn of the century, a few commercial estab
lishments were in operation in Shiloh. In 1911 Krenek's At the turn of the century, Texas A. and M. was
father built a grocery store that remained in business until gaining recognition and stature as a leading educational
the 1930s. The Golden Rule Poultry Farm was established uistitution. The college cumculum emphasized theoretical
with the purpose of raising and selling chickens on a cam stud as well as practical application. For those students
mercial scale. once a month and on holidays, local people enrolled in mechanical arts, machine shops and equipment
held dances at Shiloh Hall, bringing in orchestras from
-�� � • Consolidated School District
» fter consultation with college officials, the
The A. and M•
A over electric lines only-39 Residents of College Station were dt er public tschool
d to take jurisdictio purchased facilities in and M. Consolidated School District,us would continue
1g40, the councilP aid $g,500 to s stem which had originated on camp
February unit The school dis
ential areas rant ari thside. The city P d sewer
o Y and $15,000 to So
De to serve the children of their comm Y It lost tax-able
C P water, an had recently encountered diffke t'to vacate campus
�wt�od Realty an for their electric, tnct d it, too, was as
ent company land to Bryan, an
40 An inventory of the newly acquired Band lines, educational nS
facilities,
c meters, pro erty. Although faced strh�i:n necessity n procun
ed
such items as electric land for a school and con g ortin their school
,' formers, water and sewer mains,laterals, outfall lines, the citizens were fervent about op their gchildren since
t rovided education
�plugs, and the seweearls the also bought the water
district; it had p
` By the end of the y
in 1920.
in the Boyett addition and f aSourhside.tThe council The Texas Legislature, in
&Ks
The genesis of the school district began at some time
developed West Park subdivision ti college around the first of the century. 4
procured water and sewer utilitiinfCo ege Hills were created the A. and M.
es order to provide for the educational needs of the children
also P 42 The electric lines 1909.
lines owned of faculty at Texas A. and M.,
44
Estates for $1,100. tion on March 10,
Rural Electricification Admi ri sto f Colleges Station officials, College independent School as those of the
,
Bryan, and to the chagrin Ines for several years. since the district borders were the same
land and build-
by ry Si
the city was not able to obtain the 1 utility distribu- college, the district included A school,
however, did not
College Station owned all the existing Y g 500,000. A state owned I
contracted with ings valued at $
system
within its limit by the endrof 1940 except for immediately materialize. College land with a total of only 1r
Lion y imm Y
the REA lines in College Hills. The city and thus not taxable. Camper f ' support a
and M. and Bryan for utility services in the children, could not themselves
both Texas A to fo y
would continue to do so until re her ones, thirty a5 rofessors operated an informal
early days and modern school. Instead, p I'i
The City of College Station was on its feet. Luther J tutoring service for the children.46
original councilmen, felt that College Station
thecity owned its der the provisions of the 1917 Sa d M for pr•pa
es Act,
one ofUnder I
had become a true lull'pmlanag once
utility services. funds were made available ;tu al as
hers. The act stipu-
distribution system always agn practical
ration of prospective that students were to gain p i
Growth,he recalled,was constant' `Watt was built. It was ted, however, ls. In order to meet the ;
new house that la public schools-
got got pleasure in every and built homes. teaching experience in and at the
surprising how fast people flocked in and every- criteria of the agricultural teaching program Presi-
we had a very ideal community, education for campus children, head
Fortunately, "43 same time furnish an
body worked for the same purpose.
Hayes,
fessO'r Martdecided to
dent William Bizzell ofdVo°adonal Teaching,
of the Department47
establish a school on campus'
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11 25 y
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failed to keep pace. In 1928 the four school districts con-
vented implementation of 'dated and elected a board of seven trustees.
es. Although
Two major obstacles pre soh
to
or Hayes persuaded financial burdens did not abate, the school
their plan — obtaining adequate finances and gathering a the
t number of students. Profess y funds to provide quality educi1930 r hghsteessought to relieve
sufficient Toward the latter
the State Board o�on of the schoolucation to -For the construction the school's congested condition. In olle e officials ob nest gate
finance the opera
of a school building, President Bizzell made availab e committee conferred with c g
v. l had been appropriated by the the prospect for obtaining a new de°a s stan�h and ithus
$25,000 which pre y
conceived of the idea to insure
replied that they could not p
legislature for a new president's home. In order to insure ned that the school dis-
ts Hayes lose implied that the school would eventuallyhave to vacate
enough students,, Y the campus•52 The director
date the school with commons. The rural districts of Rock Pram trict more appropriately belonged under the auspices of
proximity to the camp
Hill, and Wellborn agreed to help launch tbe the newly-established municipality rather missioner°s and
rie, Union At this same time, ry
an
new school if transportation for their students cit school district. Represent e
as of its members of the Bryan s lnoh board offered to incorporate
'provided. A. and M. Consolidated
The new school, m ier 28 ch a1920 with 160 s students in i financial situation of the
» n Se to first
trues from both school districts the fmin late 1938 to discuss
P kind, opened o p
the possibilities. Considering
attendance. The students met n Guion Hall forte consolidated school district, the proposal merited serous
e ' few weeks until the new building `building,the yfound P
new _ 'deration. The Bryan Eagle, reported thationeven
commu-
ry� When the classes moved into the consideration
�' The impending incorp t the°two school districts, in all likeli.
themselves without adequate supplies.
departmcipal ent P came to fruition,
to borrow surplus equipment f
P hood, would merge. however, did not want their
on campus The high school curriculum was geared to- ni Y ss
d a dramatic club College Station citizens,
ward both college preparation laild �°ariional studies. Ex- district to be under the jurisdiction °�hold a bond
tracurricular activities such as a school
consisting of six studenso� munity. They petitioned the school boar
® were available. The first class, 1922. 1939
from A. and M. Consolidated in May, ire election which, if passed, would finance the construction
graduated lost its of adequate facilities off-campus. On February 25,
The young school district, inaugurated with sags voters overwhelmingly approved the issuance of $7 5, th
!� aspirations, soon experienced
P died in he early choe s °t twenties in bonds for this project.54 In order to valuatie bonds,
on of all city
6 first leaders, ProfessorHayes
equalization board had to doublet e
and Dr: Bizzell moved to O o ro in m,land he legisla q
�l discontinued its teac
her training p gT property. Residents accepted the assessment without
ture eliminated funds which previously had been appro- coin laint.ss
The school board hired Ernestchite tune Department, to
ord and Clarence
riated for educational purposes. The �hh°chool-apide- P e professors n the A were under
P Jack Finney, p
outgrew its only building, and the
design the new
fifteen acre tract in C liege Hills Estates
artment had to be transferred to Pfmpus. ExpensesHan ein � ion
P consideration,
remained until it was move- of ca p
grants and local taxes
creased, but revenue from rural aid
and the Holik property site, also of fifteen acres. Residents Each section had its own residential areas with y
accom an .
favored the Holik site. In order to purchase the land, some ing shops. Since modes of transportation were limitedp
of the people organized a drive for funds and collected a the early days, residents patronized neighborhood stores.
total of $5,500.58 from 116 patrons.56 At the school
the main business dis.
board's April meeting, men favoring the Holik site ex ri tt New additions to thate continued toe erve aaincluded a theatre, hard.
plained its advantages. It was conveniently located and ware store, dentist office, and a Methodist church.62 Luke's
was situated adjacent to the land that the board had Campus Grocery moved to East Gate where College Hills
hoped to receive from the college. The site afforded access Estates continued to expand. New subdivisions were bein
to facilities on campus such as the library, laboratories, added at Southside alon with a small c g
and shops. Utilities were available from the Oakwood addi- development.63 g ommercial
tion, and school patrons were willing to pay for connecting
the school's lines to Oakwood. The board accepted this scribed nColl College Statione somewhat as extravagant
fastest
growing
account in
generous offer.57astest growing city in
Langford and Finney assigned their students the task they were Texas.'161
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na position tion to institty leaders ute citizens
programs at the outset ki
of making the necessary surveys and designing the school
that would insure orderly growth. In those initial years,approval."architects, however, had final approval. The finished the council established policies and organized committees
'/'facilities consisted of four elementary units containing toguide
fourteen classrooms and additional office space, a high of rgulaon municipal not autili utilized consisgtentleSuntito a late
school with eight classrooms, and a buildingto house the 1960s, Y the late
industrial arts and music departments.59 Men from the the city's inceptione of directing growth was established at
community brought trees and shrubbery from the Brazos According to one early developer, College Station
,4.
and Navasota river bottoms for transplanting at the new became the first city between Houston and Dallas to estab-
school site.60 The buildings were formally accepted on
` .March 8, 1940. p fish zoning regulations.fi1 Residents enthusiastically sup-
ported !'
VAA_JLr Within a year, another bond election was approved to and values and eliminated "internal strife ramong prevented
ci loss ti.�✓p 6't finance the construction of a gymnasium-auditorium build- zeship.66 The city council created a Zoning Commission in
ing and an athletic field complete with a stadium.61 Withose g
U• the continuing support of the community, A. and M. Con- hen sive planconsisting oof zoning
dse was to istricts
a compre
ions
solidated School District successfully made the transition which would make dtricting f fective.6s The rc ty stfirst
from the jurisdiction of the college to that of the zoning ordinance went into operation in January 1949.68
municipality. To complement the Zoning Commission, Mayor Binney
appointed a City Planning Board in November 1939. At
Planning for Community Growth the request of Texas Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, the board
also functioned -as an Industrial Development
Three distinct divisions of the city, present even in the Committee.69
The first city council made provisions for the creation
pre incorporated community, expanded during the 1940s.
of the City Parks Board. Beginning in May 1939, the Parks
27
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Oldest wome s cum CS iOnstalls presoldent
Frances Henry was installed as 1994 95 9 A1 honored as Humanitarian of the Year at
president of the Campus Study Club on ;; the Brazos Animal Shelter's annual rec- �'
May 11. Serving as officers with Henry ognition dinner, held on March 31. Vol-
are Betty Haupen,vice president;Merle Hob- j unteers John Womack and Mary Tielkinp
Hob-
good, recording secre • Louise Rotsch, were recognized for spending many
g 'Y�Q .ding secretary;Anna Belle Mans- ' _ hours helping Brazos Valley animals and
„ ..field, treasurer, Gladys Darrock, auditor; !, people. '
Gladys Taylor,reporter;and Bonita Horn,his- In addition, 14 area veterinarians were
Ads
torian. cited for serving Brazos Valley animals "
The oldest women's club in College Sta- is Like This and people for more than 10 years. Re =3 Y
tion, the Campus Study Club was organ- ceiving this honor were John Harris, Jill
ized in 1914 for wives of members of the Margaret Ann Zipp Hobbs, Gary Lackey, Joseph Mikeska, Henry HENRY MOGLE
faculty and staff of Texas A&M College. Presnal, Sam Scarmardo, Katherine Wheeler,
SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
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4 SENIC) R CITIZENS ASSN . IN
The Brazos County Senior Citizens Center was founded on May 22, 1976 to serve the needs of Brazos County's older citizenry.
Originally located at 308 West 28th Street, the center came about after many years of planning. The center is the result of
founder Lola Thompson's six year dream to provide a place for senior citizens to come for fellowship and learning.
In August of 1981 the center moved to its current location at 1402 Bristol in Bryan, just off of 29th Street. The move was
made possible by a land grant from Jack Lester and donations from local citizens, as well as the cities of Bryan and College
Station and Brazos County. The $250,000 structure stands today to serve the needs of our older population as a tribute to
the cooperation of the cities, county and the private sector.
The Brazos County Senior Citizens Association, Inc. operates the center as a non-profit organization, so the center pays for
itself. Donations are welcome and are tax-deductible.
The Senior Citizens Center currently has about 300 members and hosts a variety of activities for its members. Luncheons,
dinners, quilting, games (such as bridge and dominoes), and pottery are just a few of the options for members to participate
in. Each Tuesday and Friday there are covered dish luncheons.
Florence Hall, the president of the Senior Citizens Association, has announced that there will be a bake sale and bazaar on
December 6. A wide variety of baked goods will be available as well as artwork, quilting, and crocheted articles made by
senior citizens.
The center is open Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Membership dues are $1a per person for a year. If you have
any questions or would like to become a member of the Senior Citizens Association, call 822-6873.
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aConference Center
1300 George Bush Drive
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(409) 764-3720
November 19, 1996
Helen Pugh
601 Fairview
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for sharing your time with us and participating in the
College Station Oral History Project. Your contribution is very much appreciated.
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Sincere ,
Sy Martinez
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in various directimD with the Various oup or the city
Undid of the City of Brappop Tender as said City Lbp have
cash recently extended to where Said preavat City Liats
right of vey;
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sposer doctor, Abstract ft. Oj
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no beentary, of thin Board In hereby ordered to xatard a act,
Of Vale order in the Limarthom of %Us Demands and Certify mona to the
Conatta .rr for record io me record designated Retard of sandal
at
Sommi 40 took, the question bdJd aalled for, the Following
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