Texas Military Institute - Crusader Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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DR. W. B. SEELEY X 5 x

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Dr. W. B. 5eeley xxxx Graduate from Princeton University in the class of 1879, Master of Newark Academy, Newark, New Jersey, for three years, W. B. Seeley came to San Antonio in the year 1886, and founded the San Antonio Academy. This school he conducted with marked success until he moved to California in 1906, where he is now living in the City of Los Gatos. Dr. Seeley is a scholar of splendid attainments and a convincing teacher. But of all else he is a man. He has always been one of those delightful spirits who spread happiness wherever they go. He is tender, true, loyal and absolutely lovable. Modest and unostenta-cious. He is likewise just and generous. These qualities have so endeared him to the students who studied under him, that through the years their affection for him remains a rich and elevating influence in their lives. “His life is gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature stands up And says to all the world 'This is a man'.’’ To him this Volume is respectfully dedicated. X ■» X

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A Brief History of 5an Antonio Academy xxxx Who remembers the Seeley School on Houston Street? Who remembers it must confess to 39 years of memory. For the San Antonio Academy was founded in 1836 by Dr. W. B. Seeley, and its first home was the second floor of a business building on Houston Street, just west of the Navarro Street intersection. In those days the St. Anthony was not—and Travis Park offered a delightful playground for the Academy students for two years. But in 1888, the school had out-grown its quarters, and removed to the site of the San Antonio Academy of today, where two dwellings were combined to provide quarters for the institution; and San Pedro Park, directly across the street, offered the greatest recreation and playground that the school could have desired. Indeed, there was not even the dividing line of the street in those days, for that community was regarded as “far out in the sticks,” and only a rabbit-path connected the school with the park, where the only way across the lake lay across an old footlog. Here the school has remained for thirty-nine years, a college preparatory school of the first grade, the first Protestant school for boys to be established in San Antonio. Until thirteen years ago, when the present modern building was erected, the original frame structures, with such additions and alterations as the growth of the school demanded, served as a stepping-stone to some of the most illustrious institutions of learning in America. Princeton University alone has graduated twenty of the boys who were students at the San Antonio Academy. And in every section of the country, where the famous educational institutions are located, the name of this old San Antonio school is held in high esteem. Dr. Seeley remained with the school until 1906, when he retired; and the president of today, W. W. Bondurant, succeeded him. Under Mr. X 6 X