1981 Senior Day at Dobie

Feb. 25, 1981 Dobie Girls Swim District Champs & Varsity Baseball Coach Resigns

Weber Elementary Chinese New Year Celebration

7/28 In Celebration of Childhood

Huff Post photographic collection entitled "21 Glorious Vintage Photos Of Kids Having Fun Before The Internet" is here.

I'd take issue with the whole "blame the internet" thing, but that's another opinion for another blog. 

Since it's someone's birthday, breaking away from the newspaper scans, here is a collection of photos in same vein: kids just being kids in their era, 40-45 years ago.

Enjoy!

1981 Dobie High Introduces New Head Football Coach (Buster Gilbreth)

Why does a football coach leave a highly successful football-mad town of Cuero to the unrest and turmoil of the PISD and Dobie High School? . . . .

Gilbreth, whose concept of the game is totally team-oriented, says he feels the ranking shouldn't overshadow the individuals who participate. "I'm in it for the kids," he professes.

His strong straight-forward attitudes towards his job have caused much concern within the coaching staff already at Dobie. With the power to evaluate each coach at the end of the year and make recommendations concerning them, Gilbreth's "workaholic" attitude has most Dobie coaches looking elsewhere for employment. 

Gilbreth coached winning seasons for Dobie from the fall of 1981 through the fall of 1984 before leaving in the spring of 1985 to coach for Clements. Buzzy Keith came on board a month later and remained for 10 seasons.

1981 Memories of Meador 1967-1981 by Joyce Gentry, Meador Secretary

Excerpts from Joyce Gentry's account:

In the beginning there was nothing. Nothing but the wide open space of the salt grass prairie spreading from Genoa south and west to Clear Creek. The year was 1963 and a wise old school superintendent names George A. Thompson gazed into his crystal ball and said, "I foresee a great population explosion out on the prairie. They have built Houston's first super highway called the Gulf Freeway across the prairie there and this area will surely grow. I must send a recommendation to the school Board of Trustees that a school e built there."

The school board approved Thompson's recommendation. There would be a little red brick school house built out on the prairie. The school would have 34 classrooms, a cafetorium, an office area and a teacher's lounge. A fine school for the time. The school board decided to name the little school The B.F. Meador Elementary School in honor of B.F. Meador, distinguished former mayor of South Houston, member of a prominent family in the community, and foremost a staunch supporter of excellence in education.

Now the board needed a leader for the little school. They wanted a good citizen, active in church and community, or moral character and educationally qualified for the position. They found a man will all the qualifications and they appointed Hollis D. Powell to be principal of Meador. The plans were complete and construction of the school began. 

Time passed and the school began to take shape and to develop its own personality. The opening date was very near, but construction was not complete. . . . 

But finally the last brick was in place and on Dec. 12, 1963, at 9 a.m., the school buses arrived at the front door with 495 enthusiastic students, their textbooks and belongings on board.

 Meador Dedication: April 26, 1964

1965: Air conditioning installed

1967: school courtyard enclosed and converted to office space and library

1968: Atkinson opened and alleviated the nearly 1000 student population overcrowding.

1969: New principal Mr. McNabb and his secretary (and writer of this piece) Mrs. Gentry came to Meador.

1971: Sixth graders attended Meador to allievate crowding at Beverly Hills.

1972: First carpeted library is installed

1975: P.E. Gym built

1976: Burnett Elementary students from Scarsdale attend the Meador campus until their campus is completed

1977: Teague Elementary students from Pasadena attend Meador campus until their campus is completed.

1978: Frazier Elementary students displaced by the fire at their campus attend classes at Meador

 

1981 Mystery School Feature

I'm going to need some help on this one. I managed to scan all the photos from the elementary school feature but missed the title and did not capture the name of the school in any of the captions.

Can anyone tell me which school these teachers worked at?