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echnically, the Board owned the school which Mrs. Kinkaid ran. She was, in effect, an independent proprietor paying rent for school facilities. Mrs. Kinkaid, being a determined woman who left nothing to chalice and Whose only interest fshe had no hobbiesj was in making her school the best possible, reserved the right to absolute jurisdiction in educational matters. She relinquished ownership of facilities only as a practical solution to the increased financial responsibility of a larger school. The original Trus- tees, Mr. Blaffer, Mr. Clayton, Mr. E. L. Neville, Mr. Burke Baker, and Mr. Harry C. Weiss, agreed to a written contract to this effect. The first task for the Trustees and for a committee of mothers, headed by Mrs. E. L. Neville, and including Mrs. W. L. Clayton, Mrs. E. R. Spotts, Mrs. Alice Baker Jones, Mrs. J. J. Carroll, and Mrs. W. T. Carter, was to ask the patrons, approximately 100 in number, to subscribe to the building fund. The subscriptions ranged from 3100 to 310,000 each, and about 385,000 was collected. The Trustees borrowed an additional amount from the Rice Institute and a local bank. With funds available, a five acre site at the corner of Richmond Road and Graustark was purchased for 340,000 The building was begun in July, 1924. William Ward Watkin was the architect. To celebrate the opening of the new building, in December, 1924, Mrs. Kinkaid decided upon a birthday party. The event was planned to show parents the work of their children and became an annual occurrence. With more space the school could again expand on a grade per year basis. In 1927, the Junior High Department was completed. Mrs. Kinkaid, in adapting to the times as well as to the wishes of parents, increased the school to include a Senior High Department during the depres- sion years. Many parents, who previously had sent their children to Eastern preparatory schools, now preferred, for financial reasons, to have a good preparatory school in Houston. As a result, the first graduation class entered college directly from Kinkaid in 1937. William Kinkaid, who had been teaching in the school since 1930, helped his mother handle the additional responsibilities and later became head of the High School.
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