Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Landrum Receives Award for School Disfrich i Dr. H. M. Landrum, SuperinTendenT Dr. Landrum addresses The School Board aT Their monThly meeTing. Dr. T'l. M. Landrum has served as Superin- TendenT oT The Spring Branch schools since he was 27. Under his supervision, and wiTh The help oT The comrnuniTy, The disTricT has grown Trom a one-room school house To a disTricT wiTh Three high schools. Tour iunior high schools, sevenTeen elemenTary schools and a combined enrollmenT oT over 27,000 sTudenTs. During These TwenTy-Tive years, Dr. Landrum has had many honors besTowed upon him, in- cluding being selecTed one oT TwenTy-Tive school superinTendenTs To parTicipaTe in The I965 lnTernaTional Field STudy Program, Edu- caTion in The SovieT Union, by The American AssociaTion of School AdrninisTraTors. The emphasis on The Tour was To sTudy The develop- menTs and changes in educaTion in The European SovieT counTries in a six year period. Perhaps The mosT ouTsTanding award was To have The Spring Branch lndependenT School DisTricT selecTed Tor The Pacennalcer Award by The NaT- ional EducaTional AssociaTion and Parade Mag- azine. Dr. Landrum's inTeresT in The school disTricT is more Than ThaT oT an adrninisTraTor7 he calls The play-by-play Tor mosT TooTball games aT Grob STadium. -A-fr

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Celebrates 25 Years as Superintendent ae, it L. Dr. Landrum's tamity smiles with pride at the banquet observing his superintendent. Honoring Dr. Landrum on his twenty-tive years ot service. the P-TA Area Council and the Spring Branch Teachers Association held a banquet November 30 at the Rice Hotel. Master ot Ceremonies was Dr. Arvin Donner ot the University ot Houston and Judge Thomas J. Stovall was guest speaker. The iudge compared Dr. Landrum to such personages as Churchill and Eisenhower tor the pro- gress which has been made under his guidance. A book ot several hundred letters trom school and State otticials, triends and admirers, was presented as a token ot gratitude to Dr. Landrum. Judge T. J. Stovall, the main spealcer at the banquet, called Dr. Landrum an outstanding man ot our times. LQ QF 5X twenty-titth year as Dr. Landrum thanks the School Board, the teach- ers, and the people ot the district tor their help 27