The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 Page: 345
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Alexander Penn Wooldridge
of the Austin school board, Wooldridge declined to be a candidate
for re-election. During his entire career on the school board, rules
were consistent and fair to teachers, pupils, Negroes, and whites
alike. Complaints by the general public and parents were few
and far between as the board constantly sought ways to better
the public education which they had brought to Austin.
That the teachers of Austin greatly appreciated Wooldridge's
efforts is evidenced in the following letters:
Hon. A. P. Wooldridge Austin, Dec. l2th,
Late President Austin School Board '89.
Sir:-
We the colored school teachers of Austin, learning of your with-
drawal from the School Board, and desiring to express to you the
feelings that that act has occasioned in us, have formulated them
in a series of resolutions which we, through a committee, beg to
present.
We gratefully and gladly record our appreciation of the kindness
and courtesy that we have ever received at your hands; your readiness
to extend to us the helping hand in our difficulties and perplexities,
and the zeal and efficiency you have ever shown as president and
member of the Board in all things affecting favorably the public
schools of Austin. The father of the public school system here, you
have been unremitting in your labors for the establishment, main-
tenance and development of our schools, and this not only without
pay, but against adverse sentiment, and under discouragements
that might well dishearten most men; yet with faith in yourself, and
faith and heart in the cause of popular and free education, you
overcame all obstacles, and left as a legacy to Austin, and to your
successors, the best and most successful system of public schools of
any city in the state-a system to which all citizens point with pride
and satisfaction. A grateful people will not hesitate to accord to
you the chief credit for this result.
We regret that you find it desirable to sever your connection with
the Board, and therefore necessary to sever the official relations that
have subsisted between you and us, and which we have always found
to be pleasant and profitable; but we will faithfully endeavor to
profit by the advice and sympathy so freely given us by you in the
past, and to merit by faithful discharge of duty, the good opinion
formed of us by you, and which you have so often expressed and
recorded. Respectfully, H. T. Kealing
H. B. Fry E. D. Blackshear,
Com.eB"
WeH. B. Fry, H. T. Kealing, E. D. Blackshear to Hon. A. P. Wooldridge, Austin,
December ie, 1889 (original in possession of Mabel Wooldridge Benson, Austin).345
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