Corpus Christi High School - Duffle Bag Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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SCHOOL BOARD L L HEATH Iru dent W A LONNOR hxPr1sldent Ill LUBAUIL Vice Presxdnnt

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IN MEMORIAM Colonel H H Cra1g Pres1dent of the Board of Educat1on of the Corpus Chr1st1 Pubhc Schools dled at h1s home 1n Corpus Chr1st1 Texas Sunday Oc tober 4th 1914 In h1s death Corpus Chr1st1 and especmlly the publlc schools suffered 'L loss that only the de Lth of such fa. noble self sLcr1f1c1n0 mm can 1nfl1ct Colonel Cr ug was born 1n Woodford County Kentucky March 13 1848 At the affe of fourteen he Jomed Scott s Loulsxan L Cavalry and served throuoh the C1v1l War After the war he taught school for a tlme and then studled law under Governor Thomas R Porter of Versailles Kentucky He was ad 'mtted to the bar 1n 1868 Wh1le only twenty seven years old he enjoyed the d1st1nct1on of bemg the youngest member of the M1ssour1 Legaslature Perhaps Colonel Crfug s most noteworthy ach1evement was the crgamzmg and leadmg of the flmous Cram R1f16S The purpose of thls body of sterhng young men xx as to protect the c1t1zensh1p of Kansas Clty durmg the great r ulroad str1ke The moral effect cf the Cralg Rlfles seemed to be suff1c1ent and It afterwards became Kansas Clty most popular socxal order In 1903 Colonel Crfug moved to Corpu Chrlstl Hls d1Un1f1ed bearmg c1v1c prlde hxvh ldeals erergetlc Splflt and lovlng d1sp0s1t1on soon won for hun the f1rst place ln the mmds and hearts of hls fellow men For two year prlor to hlS death he served the people of Corpus Chr1st1 as Pres1dent of the Board cf Edu atxon Much of the recent lmprovement 1n the Clty Schools TS due to hls modern 1dea and untumg energv It was Colonel Cralg th It champloned the cause of vocatlonal tralmng 1n the H1gh School The Departments of Domestlc Sc1ence Domestlc Art and Manual Trammg vwhlch are tc'l y recelvng so much approbatlon stand 'ls monuments of h1s achlevements It IS to Colonel Cralv that we bow our heads 1n acknolwedgement that he fough' ,Oood flght and ran fa good race . . , . , . , 1 , Y - . . . .I . a ' 7 y ' . 2 . , -z D' 1 , ' 1 1 1 y - ' . . , . . l i U 1 1 x' 3 . , , . . , . - . 1 . . . I N , . . , , , l , . D , c . , Z . , . . , N . 1 1 S 1 . , 1 ' S . 5 ' . . .... K. . . . . . . 9 5 1 1 v f 1 K 7 1 5 , . , . in . . . . . . . H -i- Q , .3 U . 2 1 8 . A r 1 v 121 1' 1 . 1 1 -- . 1 D 1 N . N .- U ll. Q ' ' a 1. 1

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SCHOOL W W CHAPMAN Secretary GEORGE DAVIDSON BOARD---Continl J B CHAMBERS W Il Bk AMER i , , if ff