Kinkaid High School - Kinkaidian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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KTNKA DS FFT he year was 1906. The United States was fast emerging as a world power. The country was prosperingg its outlook was bright. Teddy Roosevelt had given up his Hrough riderv saddle for a desk at the White House, had waved his Big Stick in foreign affairs, and had begun trust-busting on the domestic scene. The enthusiasm generated on the national level was the reflection of the spirit of local communities, a spirit that was especially strong in the town that had been founded along the banks of Buffalo Bayou seventy years earlier. A visitor of that year wrote, ufloustone-the moving, bustling, active, thriving, industrious, wide-awake, growing city-is today the metropolis of Texas. Forty-one thousand in 1900-has almost doubled in five years . . . 1t's growing so fast hotels are not adequate, churches not large enough, post office entirely too small . . . People from all sections of the country are hitching on to Houston. 1t's got what they are looking for-opportunity.', Railroads, shipping, cotton, lumber, and recently discovered oil contributed to a pros- perity welcomed after the difficult days of the period following the War Between the States. lt was a fitting time for new beginnings, including that of a school. The expanding population had overcrowded the public school facilities. Parents, wanting more thorough and individualized instruction for their children, approached Margaret Hunter Kinkaid to teach a pre-primary class. Mrs. Kinkaid, a teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School until her marriage in 1899, was a young woman of serious mind and enterprising spirit. Since a regulation prohibited married women from teaching in public schools, she had given up her career to be a housewife. However, the domestic arts did not provide sufficient satisfaction for her. Her love of teaching was too deep rooted. Therefore, in September, 1904, she accepted her first students, seven five-year-old children including Annie Wiei' Bonner, Annie Beth Lockett, Hunter Kinkaid, Ruby Dick Blackburn, and Porter Hubbell.

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