Lakeview Elementary School Will Celebrate Its 100th Anniversary in March

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This is a save-the-date message announcing Lakeview Elementary School's celebration of its 100th anniversary on Saturday, March 24, 2018. More about this as we get nearer the date.

Click this link for details as of this date.

Fort Bend ISD 1997

My thanks to Terry Bates for giving a copy of Inside, a monthly publication from Fort Bend ISD. This copy came out in April 1997, almost 20 years ago exactly. It's very interesting reading. 

I've selected a few things for now.  First is a summary time line of the history of FBISD up to 1997. Second is a page of teaching awards. Last is a photo of my DHS classmate, Janice Jenkins Girard. She was a spring chicken back then.

Click the image to view the clippings.
    

Old Sugar Land Youngsters

Anyone recognize this member of the Class of '67 at Dulles?

Minor Miners well before they moved to Sugar Land.  [I assume that's Mike (DHS '69) on the right in the back.  Looks like they were born into a Longhorn family.]

Rozelle House on 3rd St. about 1940.  Monnye Smith Rozelle on front steps.  Carolyn McCord Williams, John Lee McCord, Monnye Alice McCord, Johnnie Beth Linnenberg, and Jean McCord Babineaux getting inspected before walking to church. (Thanks, Jean McCord Babineaux.)

Ryan Kelly (Clements HS '93) and Lauren Kelly Arnold (Clements HS '96) in the early 1980s. (Thanks, Ryan.)

This next photo is a stretch (not really Sugar Land), but it was too good to pass up.  I have almost no photos from Willowridge HS.  This one comes from an early '80s yearbook.  

Current News

I'm very sorry to report the deaths of two residents of old Sugar Land.  First, Rosie Syblik Janssen, mother of my classmate Dorothy Syblik (DHS '68) passed away recently.  Mrs. Jansen was a long-time resident of The Hill and church secretary for St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Sugar Land.  Here is an obituary.

Rosie Syblik Janssen in the early 1960s.

Harold 'Kirk' Kuykendall, Jr. (DHS '63) passed away in Bryan, Texas in August 2014.  I wasn't aware of his death until recently. [Thank you Marsha Krause Smith (DHS '68) for notifying me.] Here's an obituary.

On a happier note, I want to congratulate Carolyn & Vernon Madden, who have been honored by Fort Bend ISD for their lengthy careers in our local schools.  Carolyn & Vernon Madden Elementary School will open in August in the Aliana subdivision in west Sugar Land.  Click here to view an online newspaper article on the new school.  Congratulations to Coach and Mrs. Madden!

Last, but not least, the Sugar Land Heritage Foundation has organized a scavenger hunt to raise funds for the new Sugar Land museum.  Test your scavenging skills for a good cause!  (Here's a contest where old timers may have an advantage.)  Here are the details.

More People of Old Sugar Land

I want to thank the Earnest family, particularly Judy and Carolyn, and Haroldetta Robertson for letting me scan these images for the blog.  Mildred and Edward Earnests were mainstays of Sugar Land ISD and FBISD.  They lived on 6th Street, and you can see some of the area in the backgrounds of these photos.

 

Judy or Carolyn provided identifications of the women in the following photo.  Back row left to right: Edwina (Mrs. Archie) Milam, Beth (Mrs. LeRoy) Mills, Margaret (Mrs. M. B.) Watson, and Mildred Rozelle.  Front row left to right: Helen Rozelle, Dorothy (Mrs. Joe Bob) Hughes, Eva Beth (Mrs. Don) Williams, and Marjorie (Mrs. T. C., Jr.) Rozelle.

 

I failed to note the exact date for this article, but I think it came from a 1968 issue of The Imperial Crown.

I found the Crown article that goes with the Dulles HS Junior Achievement photos I posted a few weeks ago.  Here it is.  (Note there are a few typos in the identifications.)

FBISD Bus Route #5 in the '63/'64 School Year

As I went through Rick Kirkpatrick's scrapbook recently for Dulles football memorabilia, I came across this interesting little item.  It's a verbal description of the bus route Mr. Pat Gibbons drove in 1963.

I did my best to depict it on a Google map, but I know it's not completely accurate.  Local roads have changed in 50 years.

 

Late 1960s FBISD School Board

My thanks go to my first grade teacher, Maxene Gary, for giving me the following picture of the Fort Bend ISD School Board in the late 1960s.  It's a little odd because one school board member is missing, and the missing member would provide a clue for the date. 

The members shown in this picture served several consecutive terms with one seat changing.  In one term, a man named Whatley was on the board.  In another it was Dr. Wheeler, and in another it was C. T. Renfrow.  

Back: Bruce Edwards, Sr., Antonio Arriaga, Bill Little.  Front: Tony Cangelosi, Kenneth Landin, Herbert Shelton.

Dulles Junior High Open House, November 1973

I found this article about the open house at Dulles Junior High School in the Hightowers' scrapbook.  It comes from the Fort Bend Suburbia published on November 14, 1973.  

I've always found the name of this school very confusing. I went to Sugar Land Junior High on Lakeview in the 1960s.  Soon afterward, FBISD opened Dulles Junior High on Dulles Avenue next to Dulles High School.  They eventually incorporated the Junior High buildings into Dulles High School and in 1973 opened Dulles Junior High, which is the subject of this article.  This school is located on 7th Street in Sugar Land.

FBISD subsequently changed its name to Dulles Middle School, and then changed it once again to Sugar Land Middle School, which is its current name.  I think I've got all this correct.

 

New FBISD Assistant Principals

I found this newspaper photo in the Hightower family collection.  I don't have a precise date, but my best guess is sometime in the late 1970s.  Frank DeLaro is a '65 graduate of Dulles High School.  I'm not sure if he still works in FBISD. (I don't know Ronald Hartman.)

I'm sure you recognize Frank on the left in the bottom row in the picture below.  That's Bill Knox next to him & Charles Hauerland on the right.  Next row up from the left is Ronnie Adler & Bill Tise.  The apex of the group is Van Brock.  I think the drum major in the background is Wayne McCormick.

Mr. Earnest Retires

I found this article about Mr. Edward Earnest in Dot Hightower's files. (My thanks to her & Scotty for letting me scan it.) I don't know the date. The paper was obviously the FBISD in-house bulletin.

A few months ago I posted a brief history the Earnest children wrote about their parents. If you haven't read it yet, you may want to. It contains some interesting details about two educators who were very important to this area.

M. R. Wood & Arcola School Pictures, 1962

T.C. Rozelle had a copy of a prospectus promoting a Fort Bend ISD bond issue for refurbishing and expanding several schools 1962. The brochure included these pictures of M. R. Wood. I have very few pictures of the school, so I thought I'd post them.



The brochure included these photos of the Arcola School.

FBISD's and Dulles High School's Early Years

Hello Bloggers:

The next 22 posts are Fort Bend Mirror articles concerning the inaugural school year of Fort Bend ISD and Dulles High School--1959/60.

Please be aware that you will need to click on "older posts" at the bottom of the screen to view the entire collection as well as other recent posts.

I hope you enjoy them,

Bruce
[Chuck's baby brother]

P. S. I have also put together a history of the Dulles Band from 1959-68 for the band's 50th reunion on October 23 and 24. If you would like to read it, go to:

http://sites.google.com/site/dulleshighbandreunion/; click on Photos and Memorabilia; then on History of the Dulles High School Marching Band.

The Fort Bend Mirror, Nov 5, 1959

Fort Bend ISD's very first six-weeks enrollment report.
Dulles High School started with just 384 students.

The Fort Bend Mirror, Nov 12, 1959

An early report on the development of the new [Dulles] Senior High School in FBISD.

The school board initially took about 8 1/2 hours to look over the new plans. Unfortunately, the continuation of the article on page 7 is missing.

The Fort Bend Mirror, Nov 12, 1959

Can't you still feel the sting?

The Fort Bend Mirror, Nov 19, 1959

The Fort Bend Mirror, April 07, 1960

Imperial Sugar [I. H. Kempner] continues to support the area's education by donating land, enabling FBISD to expand M. R. Wood.

The Fort Bend Mirror, April 07, 1960

School board candidates offer their appreciation to the voters.

The Fort Bend Mirror, April 14, 1960

Fort Bend ISD grew by 110 students its first year.

The Fort Bend Mirror, April 14, 1960

Remember these names?--Acord, Landin, Vaccaro, Wheeler, Edwards, Renfrow, and Brinkman?

Thanks for being stand up men!