South Houston High School - Palladium Yearbook (South Houston, TX)

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Mr. Lomax confers with an administrative official concernin current school problem of dropouts. Mr. Lcrr.ax orientates Mr. Matthys as to his daily tasks. During the years Mr. Lomax has been in the educational field, he has expressed his deep interest in all sports activities. He rotates from football in the fall to base- ball in the spring, and from hunting in the winter to fishing in the summer. After graduating with a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College, he was drafted into the Army. His application was accepted for the Officers Can- didates School in Florida. Graduating as a Second Lieutenant in the Airforce, he became a Physical Training Officer in BIythe, California, at Morton Air Academy. He remained there during the war In charge of the new cadets. When the war ended he returned to Southwest Texas State Teachers College to take a refresher course. Before coming to the Pasadena School District, he coached at Kingsville, Texas, for a year and a half, and at Sugarland for two years. He began teaching at Pasadena High School as a basketball coach, and spent his sum- mers at the University of Houston, working on his M.Ed, degree. With this behind him, he served as assistant principal of both Southmore Junior High and South Houston Junior High School, and as principal at Jackson Junior High. In the fall of 1962, he became the assistant principal of South Houston High. He remained here just long enough to get settled, when the school board decided that he was the most suitable choioe ' for the principal of Sam Rayburn. Mr. Lomax has set his main goal making Sam Rayburn the finest educational institution in the Southwest. Each student will have the best opportunities avail- able. 296

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BONDV R£PtACES UORTOM Bondy proudly accepts an honorary award for his outstandii ' ice to the Vocational Industrial Club of Pasadena High School. As Miss Savell expla solution. her problem, Mr. Bondy considers a possible If Mr. Elmer G. Bondy enjoys assisting students in all phases of school life. He endeavors to make students graduating from South Houston Senior High better qualified for the future. After attending Southwest Texas State Teachers College for tv o years, Mr, Bondy joined the Air Force to play his part in World War II. He saw nineteen months in the Southwest Pacific as a pilot of the Troop Carrier Command. Choos- ing between the Air Force and teaching as careers was extremely difficult for him. However, he considered every prospect and decided to return to Southwest Texas State Teachers College, where he completed his B.S. degree. Then he moved to Houston and enrolled in the University of Houston to receive his M.Ed, degree. Mr. Bondy has .been in the Pasadena School District the full seventeen years he has taught. In 1947 he began his first year at South Houston Junior High School. During the three years he was there, Mr. Bondy coached and instructed mathematics classes. In 1950 he moved to Pasadena High School where he taught physical education and coached for seven years. In 1957 he became the Assistant Principal of Pasadena High School and remained in this position for six years. Mr. Bondy became the new principal of South Houston High School this year when Mr. Morton, former principal of South Houston High School, mover, accept- ing the position of Dean of Men at Sam Houston State Teachers College. Mr. Bondy, with much administrative experience behind him, was elected by the school board to fill this important position. 295

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MArmvejOfNsn Q vN ctpfp , -- ;. A change of semesters and students welcomed a new face around Trojan halls, this being the new as- sistant principal, W. C. AAatthys, who replaced Carter Lomax when he assumed duties as principal of the new Sam Rayburn High School at midterm. Mr. AAat- thys came to Pasadena after graduating from Baylor University, where he majored in Business Administra- tion, and receiving his Master at Texas A M. Since then, he has credit for 16 hours at Texas University, 20 hours at the University of Houston, and 9 hours at the Houston College of Fine Arts. After moving from a farm near Waco to Pasadena, Mr. Matthys taught seven th and eighth grade math at Jackson Junior High for five and a half years. He left Jackson to become principal at South Houston Elemen- tary, but served in this position only a year and a half, and then assumed duties as principal at Gar- dens Elementary. Mr. Matthys stayed at Gardens for 10 years, until Southmore Junior High opened in 1953, and he moved to become principal there. After close to 10 years at Southmore, Mr. Matthys moved to South Houston Senior High. Mr. Matthys stated, The students today are better than ever before, and working with them has been and will be a tremendously rewarding job. II