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TSHA Hockaday School

The Hockaday School, in Dallas, is a private girls' college-preparatory institution encompassing grades preschool through twelve. In 1913 Ela Hockaday established the school to "provide Dallas and the Southwest with an outstanding college preparatory school for girls," with training based on "the traditional four cornerstones of living-scholarship, courtesy, athletics, and ...

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TSHA Texas High School Coaches Association

The association uses its economic resources for insurance for those junior high school or high school athletes killed or injured in University Interscholastic League events and provides death benefits for deceased coaches. Since 1957 the association has published its own magazine, Texas Coach, which is provided to all of its members. The

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TSHA Terrill School For Boys Tshaonline.org

The school became well-known in athletics, assembling football and basketball teams that were able to compete on very high levels. The school attracted athletes from beyond the Dallas area, and many came to Terrill for a post-graduate year. This afforded the football team the ability to play not only various private and public schools, but also

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TSHA Union Academy

Union Academy was the only school chartered under the Republic of Texas in which no Masons were incorporators. Its short life was typical of Texas's schools, but lack of local community spirit and absence of support from religious or fraternal organizations may have hastened the institution's demise.

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TSHA North Central Texas College

North Central Texas College. North Central Texas College, originally Gainesville Junior College, opened on September 8, 1924, as part of the Gainesville public school system. The new college was the culmination of a campaign led by Gainesville school superintendent Randolph Lee Clark, with the backing of the Gainesville Kiwanis Club and the PTA.

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TSHA Mountain View School For Boys

The Mountain View School for Boys in Gatesville was established on September 5, 1962, as a facility for chronic, serious offenders previously held at the Gatesville State School for Boys.Administration of the Mountain View school was conducted by the Texas Youth Council (see TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION) and was separate from other Gatesville facilities.. The ...

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TSHA Loretto Academy

Loretto Academy was founded by the Sisters of Loretto in 1879 in San Elizario, Texas, the El Paso county seat at the time. Within the stone and adobe walls of this first schoolhouse of the El Paso area, children were taught practical information for daily life. In 1892 the school was moved to El Paso, and emphasis was adapted to a program to prepare young women for careers as ...

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TSHA Presbyterian School For Mexican Girls

The Presbyterian School for Mexican Girls, or Pres-Mex, was founded in 1924 in Taft, San Patricio County. It was intended as a place for Mexican-American girls in the Presbyterian Church to learn to read and write. The Presbyterian Synod of Texas financed most of the original cost of the school by providing $52,928.

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TSHA Richmond State School

Richmond State School for the Mentally Retarded was opened in April 1968 as a state school facility of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.The school, located on a 242-acre site on a bend of the Brazos River north of Richmond, was constructed in phases, with the first phase to provide accommodations for 500 students.

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TSHA Franklin Beauty School

After Franklin’s death in 1934, her daughter Abbie and son-in-law James Jemison, who had managed the Chicago beauty school, returned to Houston in 1935 and reopened the Franklin Beauty School permanently in Houston. With an African American Houston community of 64,000 and a Texas law requiring 1,000 hours of training for beauty ...

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TSHA Texas Country Day School

Texas Country Day School opened in 1933 in Dallas and was founded as an alternative to the long-established and prestigious Terrill School for Boys.As Terrill’s emphasis shifted towards athletics in the late 1920s, a group of Dallas families approached Terrill’s retired founder, Menter B. Terrill, and ask him to offer tutoring services to some of their sons.

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TSHA St. Mark's School Of Texas

St. Mark's School of Texas was formed in 1950 from the merger of two existing schools, Texas Country Day School and Cathedral School for Boys.St. Mark’s traces its origins to Terrill School for Boys, which was founded in 1906 on Swiss Avenue by Menter and Ada Terrill.The school continued there until it moved to the St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on ...

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TSHA Ursuline Academy, Dallas

The Ursuline Academy of Dallas, a private girls' preparatory school, was established in 1874 by six nuns from Galveston's community of Ursuline Sisters in response to a request for a school from Dallas pioneer priest Rev. Joseph Martiniere and Texas Bishop Claude Marie Dubuis, who provided a four-room building on Bryan Street for the purpose.It opened on ...

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TSHA Southwest Research Institute

Southwest Research Institute. Southwest Research Institute, an independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization, is the United States's third largest applied science center, after Batelle and Stanford. The institute is eight miles west of downtown in the city limits of San Antonio.

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TSHA Texas State Technical CollegeHarlingen

The Texas State Technical College-Harlingen, known as the Rio Grande Campus, began operations in November 1967 as an extension of the Waco campus of the Texas State Technical Institute on the old Harlingen Air Force Base and in various city-owned buildings. There were two instructors and forty students.

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TSHA Richards, Dorothy Ann Willis [Ann]

She was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in March 2006 and died at home in Austin on September 13, 2006, surrounded by her family. She was buried in the Texas State Cemetery. In August 2007 the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, an all-girl preparatory school, opened in Austin.

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TSHA San Antonio Academy

San Antonio Academy. San Antonio Academy, a private preparatory school for boys, was opened in San Antonio by Dr. William Belcher Seeley in September 1886. The academy, first located on East Houston Street, had an enrollment of seventy-two students at the end of the first year. In April 1888 the school was moved to North Flores Street, facing

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TSHA Mexican American School Boards Association

The Mexican American School Boards Association (MASBA) was founded in 1970 by José A. Cárdenas, superintendent of the Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio. Although Mexican Americans were a substantial part of the population, they were poorly represented on most public school boards in the state. In the early 1970s, for

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TSHA Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University was founded as Add-Ran College in 1873, when Addison and Randolph Clark moved their private school, begun in Fort Worth in 1869, to Thorp Spring. Chartered as Add-Ran Male and Female College in 1874, the school came under the control of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1889, and its name was changed to ...

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TSHA San Marcos Baptist Academy

San Marcos Baptist Academy. San Marcos Baptist Academy is a private coeducational secondary school located on Ranch Road 12 three miles west of San Marcos in Hays County. After an organization drive that began in 1905, the Southwest Texas Baptist Conference established the school in 1907 by matching $25,000 raised by citizens of San ...

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TSHA Brenham State School

Brenham State School is one of thirteen residential institutions for the intellectually disabled operated under authority of the board of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, a nine-member board appointed by the governor.It was established through the General Appropriations Act of the Sixty-first Legislature in 1969 and was the culmination of ...

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TSHA University Interscholastic League

The University Interscholastic League had its beginning at a Texas State Teachers Association meeting in Abilene in 1910. The leader of the organization effort was E. D. Shurter, who was commissioned by University of Texas President Sidney E. Mezes to undertake the service as part of the newly created Extension Bureau of the university. Known first as the ...

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TSHA Daniel Baker College Handbook Of Texas

Daniel Baker College, in Brownwood, was founded in 1888 as a Presbyterian college and named after clergyman Daniel Baker, who had helped to organize both the first presbytery of his church in Texas in 1840 and Austin College in 1849 and had advocated a public school system for the state.The Coggin brothers, local residents, donated land for the campus ...

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TSHA Texas State University

The university offered more than 200 degree programs, including a Master of Applied Geography degree program which was the first of its kind in the nation, eight doctoral degrees, and a new nursing program to be available at the Round Rock campus in 2010. Effective September 1, 2013, the name of the university was changed to Texas State University.

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TSHA Texas Biomedical Research Institute

exas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed), formerly the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, was established in 1941 by Thomas Baker Slick, Jr. Around that time he envisioned a facility devoted to scientific research. With an inheritance, he had purchased 1,600 acres west of San Antonio, which he named the Essar Ranch.

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TSHA St. Thomas High School

St. Thomas High School is a college preparatory school for boys, both regional and interparochial, which has operated in Houston under the direction of the Basilian Fathers since its founding in 1900. At the outset it was officially named St. Thomas College and was so designated at the entrance of the building it occupied at Hadley and Austin streets from 1906 ...

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TSHA Clarksville Female Academy

Clarksville Female Academy was first called Pine Creek Female Institute when it was established by Robert and Martha W. (Maum) Weatherred in 1840 on Pine Creek, fifteen miles north of Clarksville. The school was moved from Pine Creek to Clarksville in 1844, and the name was changed to Clarksville Female Academy, although the institution was

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TSHA Cathedral School For Boys Handbook Of Texas

Cathedral School For Boys. Cathedral School for Boys in Dallas opened in September 1946 out of the reorganization of the Terrill School for Boys in August 1946. The last headmaster, John D. Kirby, became the assistant headmaster of Cathedral. The reorganization of the Terrill School for Boys into the Cathedral School for Boys also included the assets from ...

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TSHA Little River Academy, TX

Little River Academy, TX. Little River Academy, TX. Little River Academy is on the Little River and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line at the intersection of State Highway 95 and Farm Road 436, eight miles south of Temple in southeastern Bell County. Little River was among the earliest settlements in Bell County.

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TSHA Hardy, John Crumpton

John Crumpton Hardy, college president, was born in Newton, Mississippi, on December 24, 1864, the son of John D. and Martha Hardy. He graduated from Mississippi College in 1889 and took a law degree at Millsap Law ...

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TSHA Negley, Laura Schley Burleson

The Laura B. Negley Elementary School in Kyle, Texas, was named in her honor. The Handbook of Texas Women project has its own dedicated website and resources. Visit Website Bibliography Categories Citation Image Use Disclaimer

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TSHA Baylor College Of Dentistry

In 1995 the college trustees voted to merge Baylor College of Dentistry with Texas A&M University, and in September 1996 the college became part of the A&M system. Baylor College of Dentistry is now a component of the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. James S. Cole was dean in 2000, when enrollment was 521.

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TSHA Ball, William B.

In 1925 Lincoln High School was renamed Ball High School, and on June 19, 1939, a swimming pool and an auditorium-gymnasium for the school were dedicated and named in his honor. The building was used for an elementary school in the 1980s but still carried Ball's name. A major street in Seguin is also named for W. B. Ball.

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TSHA Garcia, Macario

Garcia, Macario (1920–1972). Macario García, recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II, was born on January 2, 1920, in Villa de Castaño, Mexico, to Luciano and Josefa García, farm workers who raised ten children. In 1923 the family moved to Texas; they eventually settled in Sugar Land.

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TSHA Texas School For The Deaf

The Texas School for the Deaf was established by the legislature in 1856 as the Texas Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Governor Elisha M. Pease appointed a board of five trustees and instructed them to find a site for the school. The trustees rented a fifty-seven-acre tract, a half mile south of the Colorado River in Austin, that had a two-room cottage, three log cabins, and ...

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TSHA University Of Central Texas

The University of Central Texas is a four-year private college in Killeen. It was established in 1973 as the American Technological University (ATU) with a first year enrollment of 260 students. The university offered both undergraduate and graduate degrees that focused on technology and career education.

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TSHA Texas Association Of School Boards

The Texas Association of School Boards Director is under the supervision of the local board of trustees. There are over 7,000 elected school board members in Texas. Out of a total of 1,068 school boards in Texas, 1,062 boards are members of TASB. Rupert N. Richardson, Texas: The Lone Star State (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1943; 4th ed., with

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TSHA Clements, William Perry, Jr. [Bill]

Clements, William Perry, Jr. [Bill] (1917–2011). William Perry “Bill” Clements, Jr., businessman, philanthropist, and forty-second and forty-fourth governor of Texas, was born on April 13, 1917, in Dallas, to William Perry Clements, Sr., and Evelyn (Cammack) Clements. He graduated from Highland Park High School in 1934.

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TSHA Aerospace Medicine, Air Force

Aerospace Medicine, Air Force. Aerospace medicine is a medical specialty that deals with ways to adapt to the stresses experienced by those who fly far from the earth, including sustained acceleration, weightlessness, decompression sickness, temperature extremes, noise, vibration, confinement, and radiation. After the Wright brothers pioneered

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