“We have a tub full of applications,” Mr. Luther (L.O.) Ramsey said. “We know about your work here. We’ve already checked you out. The Round Rock superintendency is yours if you want it.”
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REGULAR MEETING OF ROUND ROCK SCHOOL BOARD Sept. 4, 1957 The motion was made by Pete Hester that...
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During the spring of 1954, the polio vaccine was released for children, Bill Haley and his Comets released “Rock Around the Clock,” and Civil Rights leaders were celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka when Justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Back in Round Rock, Texas however, the outlook wasn’t so optimistic.
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Round Rock ISD was a small, rural school district with a student population under 1,000 students for the first sixty years of its existence. Although several smaller districts in the area consolidated with Round Rock ISD during the 1940s, a significant increase in student population did not occur since the land acquired was sparsely populated.
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Even with all those students, the school was a close-knit family. Teachers steered and nurtured kids. We knew who was who. We had an environment where everybody had the best chance of learning. We had dedicated administrators and teachers. I remember Joe Lee Johnson and his wife, Mellownie Johnson, and Petronella McConico.
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