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Terrell Alumni Association’s Center

 

   

After visiting the various school sites of the Secondary School Study, the meeting room of the I. M. Terrell Alumni Center must be considered one of the most beautiful and spacious. The facility is a model for all other school associations who wish to establish a setting to meet and a venue to display school documents. Further, the Alumni Association is engaged in activities beyond historical preservation. The group exemplifies a spirit of social involvement and community engagement.

I. M. Terrell Alumni Association www.imterrellhs.com
     

 “The Alumni Association has and is working hard to help the I. M. Terrell Elementary School continue the excellence that the previous teacher base in the fifties began once desegregation descended upon us. The Alumni Association contributes by purchasing school supplies, uniforms, donating shoes, books, and time by volunteering for the aforementioned projects. Our hope and goal is to give these children a base for a good education like our I. M. Terrell Alumni have enjoyed for over the past 50 years.”
Beverly J. Washington


Beverly J. Washington
 

James Mallard at the Terrell Alumni Wall of Fame

        

The Museum of Education applauds the efforts of many individuals, including James Mallard, Beverly J. Washington, Viola Kincade, Margie Major, Opal Lee and others (notably, Tom Kellam of the Fort Worth Public Library and Donald Williams of the Juneteenth Museum) who are actively involved in preserving the history of this important school. We hope that more oral history interviews are conducted, and school materials and documents are acquired and placed in safe-keeping. A comprehensive school history of I. M. Terrell High School cries out for a thoughtful and sensitive educational historian.

      


An April 2009 meeting of the Terrell Alumni Association with the singing of the alma mater

When we grow too old to dream
Terrell High we'll remember.
When we've drifted far apart
Your love will live in our hearts.
The Old Gold & Blue
To you we'll be true
And through the years that come and go
We'll sing of old Terrell High!
                         
Comments from those attending this meeting:

“The legacy of I. M. Terrell High School is to carry on the tradition of advanced learning for as far as possible. Years ago, nothing less than excellence was acceptable. Today’s students are following that same tradition that “nothing less than excellence” is acceptable.”		  
           
   


“At one time there was only one black school in the entire area. We passed many other white schools which we could not attend, and we made many sacrifices by coming from so far away. But that has made us even more loyal to I. M. Terrell.”
 
“We may not have known what an outstanding education we were receiving at this wonderful school. Once we went out through these portals and entered the real world, we found that we were able to compete with graduates from ANY school. That was the type of education that was instilled here.”

“The teachers were not just educators; they were our ‘other parents.’ We were taught more than mere facts; we were taught how to become women and men. Mrs. Peace guided us, and as we left I. M. Terrell those beliefs and manners are still with us. At times during our discussions at the Alumni Association, someone would say, ‘that’s not the I. M. Terrell way.’ And that is all that has to be said. We return to the legacy of I. M. Terrell.”
                         
                     
         
 
           
 
     
   

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