Texas School for the Deaf - Towers Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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school this year. XVe hope you will accept The Texas School for the Deaf was esf tablished by our forefathers for the purpose of educating deaf children. The first stuf dents to enroll in this school was in l8'57. Since that time 3.293 students have received training in this institution. With the cooperation of the student body many changes have been made this year. These changes have been made. because progress results from dissatisfaction with things as they are and the desire to make them better. Progress demands courage and is only achieved through effort and sacrifice. Progress is to do a thing first and bettere to keep ahead of the burden of leadership and to suffer the jibes and jeers of the self' satisfied who find it easier to scoff and to scorn than to do. Vxfe feel We have made progress this year. and We hope that prof gress will dominate the lives of those leaving the challenge to continue to make progress in your Own personal lives and reflect credit on this school as Well as the State of Texas. Maya 1 ' 7254 ' ,r 'si

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To the Seniors and Graduates of the Texas School for the Deaf: Only eleven years after Texas became a State, the School for the Deaf was established in Austin. Since 1856 many thcusand young men and young women have graduated from this fine instituf tion. The enrollment has increased to the point where now more than SCO stuf dents are in attendance each year. They ar: rec tiving instruction in many sub' jgcis. their training being designed to make them successful in their personal careers and useful in their service to the State. Texas has provided a physical plant GovERNoR W. LEE O'DANIEL at the School for the Deaf valued at more than a million dollars and appropriates each year about a quarter million dollars for the operation of the school. These figures alone indicate the interest which the State has in these students and the con fidtnce which it places in their ability to become informed and valuable citizens. At this graduation time. it is my pleasure to 'xtend the greetings of the State of Texas and my own felicitations to the seniors. and to wish for them every success and happiness Gorwfzof' of Texas STATE BOARD OF CONTROL The State Board of Control of Texas is the governing board of the Texas School for the Deaf as well as twenty-one other eleemosynary institutions. It also acts as Purcliasingz Agent for all State Departments. HARRY KNOX HENRY MEYER TOM DEBERRY FRANK DAVIS Chairman Former nzenzber- .llemher Menzbel Term Expired Jan. 1, 1940

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MRS. LU EMMA SYKES Sf1,iporvising Tcachci' K CHARLES WEYERMAN Pirincipa I Y MRS. JEWELL HAGE Principal of the Oral School B. C. WESTBROOK Principal of the Vocational School