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The Town of Highland Park turns 100 this year. All year Park Cities People has been presenting stories about some of town's most prominent and interesting characters. Prep for Sunday's Centennial Celebration with a few of our favorites stories from the series and with a few new ones.TRANSCRIPT
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2:00 p.m. Music Stage: SMU Mustang Alumni Band Screen Stage: Levee Singers2:30 p.m. Screen Stage: Opening Ceremony Presiding: Hon. Joel Williams, III, Mayor of Highland Park Highland Park High School pipers and the North Texas Caledonian Pipes and Drums Color Guards: BSA Troop 68 and Troop 82,
Pledge of Allegiance: Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Highland Park Invocation: The Rev. Mark Craig, former Senior Minister, Highland Park United Methodist Church National Anthem: Camp Collins, Highland Park Honoring Highland Park: The City of University Park, Hon. Dick Davis, Mayor Southern Methodist University
County of Dallas, Hon. Clay Jenkins, County Judge State of Texas, Senator John Carona and Representative Dan Branch Meet the Founding Families3:00 p.m. Music Stage: Hit Parade/Elvis Screen Stage: DJ Lucy Wrubel HPHS String Quartet: Classic Car Concourse Make your Mark in History - handprints in concrete blocks to be used in parks; add your color to the community quilt; 3:30 p.m. Philadelphia Place Marker Ceremony ( near the bridge ), hosted by the Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society Honoring the Founders
4:00 p.m. University Park and Hyer schools: " What Life Was Like in 1913 in Highland Park " Screen Stage: DJ Lucy Wrubel4:30 p.m. Screen Stage: Happy Birthday Highland Park Presiding: Hon. Joel Williams, Mayor, Salute to a Century of Leadership: Hon, Michael Rawlings, Mayor, City of Dallas
The HP100 Virtual Choir5:00 p.m. Music Stage: Hit Parade Screen stage: Three Fools on Stools Sign registers that will go in the Time Capsule HP DPS Night Out department and personnel
Shuttle transportation throughout the town starts Sunday at 1:00 pm. For routes, go to highlandparkcentennial.com. The lake side will be sculpted with fabric andgiant illuminated spheres will be on the lake as well as topping the sound towers. The Screen stage's LED screens will highlight onsite activity plus historical vignettes. The Music Stage will feature A Hundred Year Hit Parade. Classic Cars of the Century are on display.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIGHLAND PARK!
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What Makes This TownSuch a Special Place?
The People.
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BY DAN KOLLERPeople Newspapers
By now, the only High-land Park residents who could possibly not know
about the towns 100th birthday party are those who never go outside.
On Oct. 12, three small teams of volunteers began putting signs promot-ing Sundays Centennial C e l e b r a t i o n i n f r o n t of houses in Highland Pa r k s n o r t h e a s t a n d northwest corners. The Highland Park Quality of
Life Foundation printed enough signs to put one in front of nearly every home in the town, and they were all distributed by Oct. 17.
Participation was light on Day One, because of the Texas-OU game, the threat of rain, and previous com-mitments to various youth activities. On the east side of town, Cub Scouts Casey
Fuller and Michael Roever of Bradfields Pack 71 were placing signs alongside their moms, Sharla Fuller and Meredith Roever. Not far away, Sharlas hus-band, Kevin, and older son, Cody, were represent-ing Boy Scout Troop 82, based at Highland Park Presbyterian Church.
Meanwhile, across the
Tollway, Highland Park Department of Public Safety Sgt. Lance Koppa was working up a sweat as he put out signs with help from Highland Park residents Pat and Wynne Snoots.
I work for Lance, Pat said with a laugh. He was asking for volunteers, and whatever he wants us to
do, well do.If you didnt lend a hand
to the signs distribution, you can still get involved. Volunteers will be also be needed to collect most of the signs at months end.
We hope that people keep them as souvenirs, Koppa said.
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WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?Highland Park is a small town in the midst of a big city. Its kid-centric, family-focused, and civically engaged. Highland Park is a well-led city, and its leaders were strong partners in ending the West Nile Virus epidemic of 2012.
CLAY JENKINS, Dallas County Judge
Party Will Cap Yearlong Centennial Celebration
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Shuttle Location Map
Shuttles will be running continually from 1:45pm - 6:30pm at these pick up/drop off locations
MAP: HIGHLAND PARK CENTENNIAL COMMITTE
Color-coded shuttle buses will ferry Highland Park residents to Sundays celebration from diff erent areas of town.
PHOTO: HEATHER HELEN RAY
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STAFF PHOTO: DAN KOLLER
Michael Roever and Casey Fuller helped place yard signs.
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WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?Highland Park still represents some of that small town feel where fences do not separate neighbors, and the town village is a common gathering place. Not only are our schools top-notch, but our small group of police officers keep us safe and sound.
GINA GINSBURG, Dallas Countys representative in the 2014 Mrs. Texas America pageant
Imagination isEverything
Students at Highland Park ISDs four elementary schools were asked to imagine
what life in the community was like in 1913.
John McGowan, Brad eld Elementary, third grade
Briar-Claire Bundy, Armstrong Elementary, fourth grade
Caroline Bixby, Hyer Elementary, fourth grade
Jack Berger, Armstrong Elementary, kindergarten
Arabella Armanini, Brad eld Elementary, rst Grade
Lindsey Hosch, University Park Elementary, fourth grade
Baker Long, Armstrong Elementary, second grade
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WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?Every year, I see at least three or four groups of kids, young entrepreneurs, selling homemade drinks along the streets of Highland Park. Where else in the world would you find that? Highland Park is a small town in the middle of a big city. So you get Norman Rockwell with the amenities of a large, urban area.
HARRY HUNSICKER, novelist and former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America
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Jake Kelton, Hyer Elementary, third grade
Jacqueline Clarkson, Armstrong, rst grade Will Romeiser, University Park Elementary, third grade
Luke Clark, University Park Elementary, fourth grade
Caroline Roeder, Hyer Elementary, rst Grade
Max Swartzendruber, University Park Elementary, second grade
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WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?There remains a developers dream that we can still contribute in creating a unique, worldly, yet small-town-like community, while supporting the entities and needs of our town, as well as the surrounding city of Dallas. We are not an island but a good neighbor. Thats the spirit!
JENNIE REEVES, co-founder of La Fiesta de Las Seis Banderas
BY DAN KOLLERPeople Newspapers
If youre in trouble and youre in Highland Park, dont call the police depart-ment there isnt one. Nor does the town have a fire department.
Highland Park has a Department of Public Safety. All of its officers must be certified as fire-fighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians. Sgt. Lance Koppa, the departments spokesman, said Highland Park is one of 70 munici-palities nationwide that fields a force of such triple threats.
Department of Public S a f e t y o f f i c e r s w o r k 24-hour shifts, going off-duty for 48 hours before returning to work. Those shifts are divided into eight-hour units (7 a.m. to 3 p.m., 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.). Most offi-cers will put in eight hours as a patrol officer, with the other 16 spent on call as a firefighter or EMT.
The officers change their uniforms depending on their primary duties. Koppa said he was once in the middle of booking someone on a warrant or traffic violation when he got called out to a fire as backup. So he had to lock up the perpetrator, gear up in his firefighter uniform, help out on the scene, return to headquarters, shower, change back into his patrol uniform, unlock the perpetrator, and pick up where they left off.
Another interest ing aspect of this arrangement: When an officer is coming off an overnight patrol, but still has duty hours left in a 24-hour shift, he or she is assigned to the secondary ambulance, i.e. the emer-gency vehicle that is least likely to be activated. That means the officer is more likely to get his or her much-needed sleep.
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BY DAN KOLLERPeople Newspapers
Highland Park must be a great place to work, because the towns em-ployees do tend to stick around.
Librarian Bonnie Case has been on the staff since 1974. Ronnie Brown, the director of town services, came on board three years later. When Chris Vinson became director of the Department of Public Safety in 2008, hed already been patrolling Highland Park for 25 years.
This has been a hands-on job not clouded by bureaucracy, George Pat-terson said in 2008, when he retired after 29 years as the town administrator. Here, you get a clear focus of the community and what its needs are.
These longtime employ-ees are usually sent off instyle. Patterson was thegrand marshal of the ParkCities Fourth of July Paradethe year he retired. WhenHarry Lantz stepped downin 2009 after managing theHighland Park pool for 34years, several of his formerlifeguards returned forCoach Lantz AppreciationDay. Last month, MayorJoel Williams presentedBill Pollock, who is retiringafter 33 years as financedirector, with framed cop-ies of the proclamationsapproving his first andfinal budgets.
M y friend Don S m i t h a n d I must have been about 12 years old when weekends found us fish-ing in Turtle Creek along Lakeside, in the stretch of water below the dam, which we referred to as the Big Spillway, forming Exall Lake, and southward to the Armstrong bridge.
On this particular Sat-urday morning, before we got arrested, we had waded well above our shorts through some veg-etation to a clear chan-nel with a sandy bottom covered with spawning sunfish. Using the top two sections of some old fly rods with string rolled up on their tips, we dangled wiggling worms we dug from the creek bank on weighted bream hooks in front of the fish.
Don and I could have wet our pants at the size of the first fish we caught. They were large blue-gill, green with red ears and blue tips to their fins. Much larger than the sun-fish we usually caught, t h e y w e r e t r o p h i e s ! Secured on stringers tied to our belt loops, they kept us hopping, trying to escape while scratching our bare legs.
I t w a s a b o u t t h i s time when a uniformed Highland Park policeman standing on the creek bank
said, OK, boys, you all come up out of there. You know youre not supposed to be in that creek! Really scared, we made our way out the way we had come in, this time dragging our heavy stringers, our legs covered with scratches and black slimy things we learned were leeches.
The policeman herded us into his police car and drove us the several blocks to Town Hall, into where the f ire trucks were. Expecting the worst, we stood outside in the big doorways with our fish as firemen and policemen started gathering around, oohing and aahing our catch. Whered you catch em? What didja catch em on? They made over us and our bluegill pretty good, and someone took our picture!
Driving us back to our bikes with our catch, the officer explained to us why wading and swim-ming werent allowed: broken glass, tin cans, runoff water, leeches, and more. Don and I never saw the picture taken. No one thought of calling about it.
Don lived in the 4500 block of Bordeaux, and I lived at 4405 Westway, phone number 55750, later to be Lakeside 5750, then LA 1-5750 as more people moved to Highland Park. Today, Don, an only child, lives in Tyler. And I, also an only child, live in University Park.
That was a long time ago, and Highland Park has changed, but the people at Town Hall the policemen, firemen, librarians, service crews not all that much.
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Officers Kept Tabs on us Tadpoles
Safety Officers Perform Multiple Roles
PHOTOS: DANIELLE OLSON
Sporting a variety of uniforms, Highland Park Department of Public Safety offi cers perform a drill outside their station on Saturday afternoon.
Patrolmen who catch burglars also fight fires
Offi cer Jason Greer spent time in his patrol uniform during Saturdays shift, then switched into his re ghters gear before his work was through.
COMMENTARY Towns EmployeesStick With The Job
BONNIECASE
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Front Row (L to R): John Hartig, Gerri Robeson, Yvonne Avina, Litsa Valis, Gayle Kirby2nd Row (L to R): Rusty Prewitt, Mike Rangel, Beth Jones, Kristen Kidder3rd Row (L to R): Bill Lindley, Tom Nguyen, Tempest Thompson4th Row (L to R): Heath Haseloff, Bill Pollock, Jose Reyes, Javier Salas, Antonio Lopez, Alfonso Palomo, Juan Borja, Martin Reyes5th Row (L to R): Brad Boganwright, Frankie Melendez, Jim Williams, Roberto Moreno, Gerald Burroughs,6th Row (L to R): Tom Devitt, Ronnie Epperson, Ronnie Brown, Ron Richardson, David Ferguson7th Row (L to R): Chris Jackson, Alan Aulenbach, Shone Doville
Front Row (L to R): Lisa Bridges, Mary Kuebler, Wendy Santos, Kathy Hannon, Rene Woods, Rusty NanceMiddle Row (L to R): Janet Sandman, Paul Vermeer, Chief Chris Vinson, Cody SimpsonBack Row (L to R): Kirk Smith, Don Young, Marc Rossini, Lance Koppa
A Shift: Albert Newhouse, Capt. Tom Wendling, Jerry Remington, Jeff Hightower, Lt. Greg Reynolds, John Barber, Mike Cothern, Sgt. Joe Garber, Chad Chadwick, Aaron Wallace, Jolanta Gusev and Whit Dale
B Shift: Tim Lednicky, Mike Donahoe, Jason Morden, Jason Greer, Duane Wade, Sgt. Rodell Byrd, Mark Shearer, Tracy Reves, Stephen Julian, Rick Koeninger and Mariah Carter
C Shift: Front Row: Brant Ballard, Ryan Pursley, Justin Davis,Cliff KingBack Row: Chad Chadwick, Lt. Chuck McGinnis, Mike Stapell, Capt. Mike Miller, Zach Sitton, Eddie Avalos, Jr., Alan Miller
Highland Park: What's the Difference?First: Our Town enjoys a low key but deeply felt democracy. Citizens care what and how the Town is doing. Resident participation in municipal government is consistent and effective.
Second: This much-envied citizen involvement is guided and nurtured by committed elected officials who view public service as an honor, not a chore. Town officials are not politicians, rather, like our nation's founders, they exercise the responsibility of citizenship.
Third: All are supported by a skilled, caring, stable staff. Our Town staff is marked by longevity and low turnover. For many, it's not just a job - it's a calling. The staff quietly garners awards for its management expertise and results while establishing day-to-day solid relationships with residents of all ages.
True, these elements are found in other communities - but they simply coexist. In our Town, residents, officials and staff cooperateand collaborate for mutual benefit, using common sense for the common good.
That's the difference in Highland Park.
And that's why Highland Park since founding has made a difference in the community at large - Dallas, Texas and the nation.
THANK YOU, STAFF FOR 100 YEARS OF SERVICE!
Left to right: May Chao, Pam Hatcher, Nancy Ruderand Bonnie Case
Left to right: Janie Pettus, Esther Gllagher, Sharon Beran and Rebecca Dellinger
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WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?I have great appreciation for Highland Parks enduring architecture, green spaces, and generational residency. Or to put it in plain-speak from a rurally educated Canadian: I like the mansions, trees, lawns, and families. Cant think of a finer community to raise my girls in.
DARYL REAUGH, Dallas Stars broadcaster
BY DAN KOLLERStaff Writer
H ere are a couple of factoids that m a y t u r n t h e stomach of one of Highland Parks most famous resi-dents, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The man who named the town was a packer, and the com-munitys original moniker was Philadelphia Place.
These are some of the revelations one finds when researching the life of John S. Armstrong. Although he didnt live long enough to see it incorporated in 1913, Armstrong was the father of Highland Park.
In 1906, the Tennessee n a t i v e a n d o w n e r o f the Armstrong Packing
Company purchased the land that would become the town for a bargain: $276 per acre. Seventeen years earlier, a group of investors from Philadelphia had paid $377 per acre for the prop-erty that their Dallas agent, Henry Exall, intended to develop into a residen-tial community called Philadelphia Place. But the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1893 slammed the brakes on those plans.
Armstrong sired more than just the town. He also had two daughters, Minnie a n d Jo h n e t t a , w h o s e re s p e c t i ve h u s b a n d s , Edgar Flippen and Hugh Prather, became business partners with their father-in-law. Their Flippen-Prather Realty Company continued the develop-ment of Highland Park after Armstrongs death in 1908.
Highland Park was not Armstrongs first stab at
residential development. In 1887, he and business partner Thomas Marsalis bought 2,000 acres on the western banks of the Trinity River that they called Oak Cliff. But their partnership dissolved after a dispute, and Marsalis further exploits as a devel-oper were halted by the same crisis that derailed the plans for Philadelphia Place.
Before they set their eyes on Oak Cliff, Armstrong and Marsalis were two of the businessmen who cre-ated the Dallas State Fair and Exposition, a precur-sor to the State Fair of Texas. According to Dallas Morning News obituary, Armstrong was the fairs president for two years.
Beginning in 1888, when the Fair was new and in a very shaky condition, it is said, he opened the exhi-bition once with his own financial backing and his
courage was wonderfully rewarded, the obituary said. He placed the enter-prise upon a solid basis and its credit has never since been questioned.
Armstrong died at the age of 57, after he was attacked suddenly with a sinking of the heart, according to his obituary. Although his residence was at the corner of Ross Avenue and Pearl Street, he died at the Prathers home.
Mr. Armstrongs last hours were spent in the beautiful Highland Park addition north of the city, his obituary said, upon which he was in the pro-cess of expending more than $300,000 in making it one of the most modern and attractive suburbs.
In 1914, six years after his death, the Highland Park Independent School District opened its first campus. A painting of the
schools namesake (shown here) still hangs in the back of the auditorium.
Oh, one more not-so-fun fact for Mr. Jones:
Armstrong Elementarys mascot is an eagle a green eagle.
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Schools Namesake Dreamt Up Towns MonikerFor a time, this land was namedfor Philadelphia
Parks Named For Noteworthy Figures
CONNOR PARK (5)PRATHER PARK (7)DAVIS PARK (8)
STAFF ILLUSTRATION AND PHOTOS: ELIZABETH YGARTUA
Hackberry Creek, which runs through both Prather and Davis parks, pools as the lake at Connor Park and ows underground via the glory hole to join Turtle Creek.
CONNOR PARK (5)W.O. Connor served as the towns second mayor, from 1914 to 1915. The Connor family willed the majority of its farm to the town, so this park is a tribute to its generosity.
PRATHER AND FLIPPEN PARKS (7, 2)When Highland Parks founder, John Armstrong, conceived the towns layout, he enlisted son-in-law Hugh Prather to assist him in attracting Beverly Hills landscape architect. Although Armstrong died before he could see his vision realized, his sons-
in-law Prather and Edgar Flippen carried his dream out, and a park was named after each.
DAVIS PARK (8)Henry Roberts Davis served as the towns fourth mayor, from 1920 to 1924.
ABBOTT, FAIRFAX, AND DOUGLAS PARKS (14, 1, 3)These parks are named because of their proximity to the streets that border them. John Armstrongs wife, Alice, named Abbott Street after classical scholar Dr. Frank Abbott, so the park that borders the street
shares his name, too.
BARTHOLOW SQUARE (9)This plot of land by Town Hall is actually a triangle, formed by Gillon and Eton Avenues. Its named for former Town Councilman J.W. Bartholow, who was in uential in preventing Highland Park from being annexed by the city of Dallas.
LOCKART PARK (12)This park is dedicated toJames E. Lockart, a councilman and a master of the Highland Park Lodge.
DYCKMAN PARK (11)This small park is named for W.A. Dyckman, an early civic leader.
CAVE PARK (13)Dr. Harrison B. Cave came to Dallas from Missouri in the 1890s and settled on Abbott Street in the early 1900s. An active Mason, he served as a master of the Highland Park Lodge.
LAKESIDE PARK (4)This park isnt named for a historic gure, but the lake that follows it is. In 1890, Henry Exall built the dam across Turtle Creek, forming Exall Lake.
BY MICHELLE SAUNDERS ANDELIZABETH YGARTUAPeople Newspapers
I t comes as no surprise that a town with the word park in its name would be filled with lush spaces. From the towns inception, parks were a crucial element of the development, with around 20 percent of the original townsite designated parkland. Today, the towns Park Department maintains 22 different locations, ranging in size from multi-acred lots to tiny slices of land . Here we take a look at the parks namesakes.
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NOTABLEPARKS/PARK AREAS1. Fairfax Park2. Flippen Park3. Douglas Park4. Lakeside Park5. Connor Park6. Jester Park7. Prather Park8. Davis Park9. Bartholow Square10. Hackberry Creek11. Dyckman Park12. Lockart Park13. Cave Park14. Abbott Park
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WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?Decade after decade, you make friends, and you keep seeing the same people through the long term. As weve had children and theyve grown up, theyre friends with some of our friends children. Its kind of a special ingredient.
LARRY NIXON, Highland Park Town Council member
BY SARAH BENNETTStaff Writer
W h e n t h e m a n w h o n a m e d Highland Park, John S. Armstrong, died of a heart attack in 1908, his two sons-in-law, Edgar Flippen and Hugh Prather, were left to develop his vision of an exclusive com-munity. They formed the Flippen-Prather Realty Co. and finished out Highland Parks development.
Once they took over their father-in-laws proj-ect, they wanted to attract classy folks. How would they do that?
In 1912, they offered the owners of Dallas Golf and Country Club 50 acres out of Highland Parks origi-nal 1,350 to move the club from its Oak Lawn home.
The success of the deal apparently caused quite a stir, and made buyers gobble up nearby property before all the cotton was cleared or the golf course was finished.
Basically, it was the first development built around a golf course, said Highland Park resident
Alan Prather, grandson of Hugh Prather.
W h e n F l i p p e n a n d P r a t h e r d e c i d e d t h a t Highland Park needed a shopping center that could function as a town square, most bankers and mer-chants offered them dis-couraging words. Business was expected to stay down-town.
But with exceptional foresight, the developers traveled to Spain, Mexico, and California to study the architecture in order to plan a retail center for Highland Park. Prominent architects Marion Fooshee and James Cheek created the Mediterranean Spanish masterpiece, which today has become the heart of the town.
T h e r e w e r e s o m e stories told about [my grandfather] when Hunt Grocery went into the Village, Alan Prather said. He wanted all the alcohol sold to go out the side door and not the front door.
After the death of Hugh Prather in 1959, manage-ment of the Village was taken over by his sons, John and Hugh Jr., until Howard Corp. acquired it in 1966.
Each of the brothers-in-law is commemorated via a namesake park.
Flippen Park was desig-nated in 1930, at the cor-
ner of Lomo Alto Drive and Versailles Avenue. Neighbors often call it Echo Park because of the echoes heard under the gazebo.
Prather Park is across Euclid Avenue from Town
Hall, between Lexington Avenue and Drexel Drive. A tennis court is located along the creek among the towering trees.
Flippen and Prather even played a role in Highland Parks beloved
pecan tree. Joseph Larkin Cole, the Civil War vet-eran who planted the tree, stipulated in a sale that the tree wasnt to be disturbed. The developers laid out Armstrong Parkway in order to preserve its lot.
Edgar was more the finance guy, and my grand-father was more the idea guy, Alan Prather said. And, together, they fig-ured out how to do it.
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Portraits of Edgar Flippen (left) and Hugh Prather, sons-in-law of John S. Armstrong, are in Alan Prathers Highland Park house.
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J ust a week after W i l l i a m P e r r y Clements Jr. gradu-ated from Highland Park High School in 1934, as the president of his class and an all-state football star headed for SMU, he got a call from his father. The family had run out of money.
So he got on a bus to the South Texas oil fields within a month after grad-uating from high school and started roughnecking at age 17, grandson George Seay said.
He learned how to live on just half of his $200 paycheck, sending the other half back home to his family, daughter Nancy Clements Seay said.
The gruff, intelligent man, who was honed by his early struggles, went on to found Southeastern Dri l l ing Co. , serve as the deputy secretary of defense, and become Texas first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
George Bayoud worked with Clements for years, as an advance man for his first gubernatorial campaign, as his secretary of state from
1989 to 1991, and lastly as his business partner.
Im awfully proud that I had the opportunity to work for him, Bayoud said. The governor was a tough business person, but he had a lot of young people who worked for him, and he gave us plenty of room to either succeed or fail, and I appreciated that very much. ... He had a wonderful heart.
George Seay got to know his grandfather well when he served as his travel aide during his 1986 campaign for re-election. He said he was not the avuncu-lar grey-bearded type of grandfather. Clements was tough on his family mem-bers, especially when they
were not doing their best.While he was no-non-
sense, George Seay said, he was also very loyal to family under all circum-stances, and always avail-able.
Despite founding and running SEDCO when his kids were young, hed set aside time to lead his sons Boy Scout troop, and he dedicated at least a month each summer for a family road trip, Nancy Seay said.
On the familys tours of state capitals, Clements passed on his passion for history a passion that would one day lead him to found the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU, which includes one of the worlds largest
libraries on Texas history.Although Clements was
not a natural politician, George Seay said, he liked being a leader and doing good things for his state and his country.
He always said that he was a Texan, an American, a patriot, before he was anything else, including a Republican, George Seay said. He told me that in 1964 this was his quote he held his nose and voted for Lyndon Johnson because it was good for Texas.
Clements never did get used to working the room, his family recalled. He didnt schmooze well, George Seay said, instead preferring to let his actions
do the talking.When Clements retired
in 1991 as the longest-serving governor of the state, until Rick Perry came along he never really looked back to poli-tics, George Seay said.
I dont think people today understand just how dynamic, powerful, and effective he was, because he didnt talk about him-self, and he didnt try to write a legacy for himself, George Seay said.
Clements continued to work hard, dedicating his time to friends, family, and philanthropy. Clements would go into the office once or twice a week, and Bayoud often had the chance to have lunch or
coffee with him. Clements was never too busy to talk.
He was still my mentor, and although we were no longer business partners, I would seek his advice and counsel in some of the things I was doing, Bayoud said. He was like a father to me.
W h e n N a n c y S e a y became the executor of his estate after he died in 2011, she said she found personal notes filed away, evidence of who he was: a person who really cared about people.
He could be brusque with people, she said, but he could also be a real softy.
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Bill Clements played for the Scots in the 1930s.
WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?I love the Fourth of July Parade. I love the sound of kids playing Marco Polo at the HP pool. I love the summer memory of riding my bike through Turtle Creek, catching tadpoles and discovering fireflies. And I LOVE the fact that my 8-year-old is doing the VERY same thing.
DJ LUCY WRUBEL, who will perform at Sundays Centennial Celebration
PHOTO: COURTESY OF GEORGE BAYOUD
Gov. Bill Clements and assistant George Bayoud (just left of the governor) review National Guard troops at Fort Hood in the 1980s. The HPHS graduate was the deputy secretary of defense under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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BY ELIZABETH YGARTUAPeople Newspapers
W hen Henry and Joe Lambert Jr. came to Dallas around 1933, to add azaleas to the lawn of a prospec-tive client, they changed the landscape of North Texas.
We didnt even know that azaleas werent sup-posed to grow in Dallas, Henry Lambert said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News in 1971. We just dug down two feet and filled up with loam.
That job begat their sec-ond, at the current estate of Gene and Jerry Jones, and their legacy as the landscapers of Highland Park was born, according to Paul Fields, president and director of design for Lamberts Landscaping.
The brothers brought colorful plants they d
used in Shreveport, where theyd trained with their father and brother. With azaleas, boxwoods, live oaks, Japanese maples, dogwoods, and camellias, they set about transform-ing Dallas cotton fields and prairie lands into lush oases.
Through the years, peo-ple have tried to emulate Lamberts design, Fields said, and when you look at some of these gardens, its like, Thats the plant pal-ette that Lamberts uses.
Joe and Henry quickly cult ivated their busi-ness and rooted them-selves. Henry lived with his wife, Grace, and four daughters on the corner of Mockingbird and Fairfield, surrounded by azaleas and seasonal plantings, daugh-ter Susan White said.
Senior foreman Evaristo Mora Jr. has worked for the company for 44 years. He said clients would drive on Mockingbird and then request whatever was planted in Henrys yard.
At home, Henry man-aged his gentlemans gar-
den, where he grew mini- roses in suspended boxes.
In the mornings, he would putter around and prune a little this, a little that, and if there was some-thing in bloom hed bring it in, and hed ... take the hose and wash off the walk in the morning to make it all presentable, White said.
Joe was an avid arts sup-porter, world traveler, and civic leader who helped save Turtle Creek from being paved over, which resulted in Lamberts land-scaping creek areas.
He lived with his wife, Evelyn, in a penthouse.
It had way-high ceilings and was gorgeously deco-rated, White said. They tended to go more for modern art. And we loved to go visit and just stare at all the fascinating things.
Joe had a driver and limo, wore custom suits, and was friends with peo-ple such as Sam Wyly and Rose Lloyd. He was known to wear a cape to parties, Mora said.
When I met Mr. Joe and Evelyn ... I thought I was
seeing a big star, a super-star, Mora said. There were all these beautiful people expecting him to be who he was.
Joe would host parties and decorate with pot-ted camellias or maples. At the end, hed give them out as party favors, each with a small tag identifying Lamberts Landscaping.
It was one way of cre-ating an open invite, Mora said. His clients or his friends would say,
Why would you give me a camellia? or Why do you give me maple? and Mr. Joe would usually say, Because I already know where Im going to put that one if you let me plant that for you.
T h e i r w a r e h o u s e s , where they displayed chandeliers and antiques that Joe picked up on his travels, were legendary locations for photo shoots, weddings, and receptions.
They never made any
money, but it was hugely successful as a market-ing tool for the company, Fields said.
The companys yellow trucks were just as impor-tant to branding as their signature Lambert Green paint was. The color was so popular it could be see n on porches and fences across town, and even on Neimans products.
I love Lambert Green! White said. The story I remember is that Henry and Joe were having a party in their backyard and everyone stood around and helped mix the color.
Joe died in 1970 of leuke-mia. Henry sold the com-pany in 1980, but he would regularly advise on big projects until his death in 1993, Mora said. Their leg-acy of excellent customer service continues to shape the company today.
Joe and Henry brought a real traditional, classi-cally inspired design influ-ence with them to Dallas when they came, and that has carried through the decades, Fields said.
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AU S T I N The legend ofScottie Scheffler grew by about14 4 ya r d s o nT u e s d a y a t
Onion Creek Club.T h e H i g h l a n d Pa r k
junior repeated as Class 4Astate champion and helpedthe Scots win their firstteam state title in threeyears. He put the icing onthe cake by firing a hole inone on the 144-yard No. 17.And he did all of that on abum ankle.
It feels really good,said Scheffler, who hadpreviously fired a pair ofholes in one but never in atournament. Im just gladI get to enjoy the victorywith my team this time.
Scheff ler, who hurthis ankle playing basket-ball after regionals, fin-ished with a 135 (71-64)to win by three strokes.His final round of 6-underincluded six birdies, twobogeys, and one magnifi-
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Scottie Scheffl er shakes hands with a Scots supporter after repeating as Class 4A state champion and helping the Scots win the team title.
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District Enrollment Surpasses 7,000BY DAN KOLLERPeople Newspapers
Highland Park ISDs enrollment has surpassed 7,000 students for the first time, but district officials say they have no plans to
build another school.T h e m i l e s t o n e w a s
announced Tuesday in an email from Joe Taylor, the finance officer for the dis-tricts Board of Trustees. He wrote that the total enrollment was 7,022 stu-
dents as of Oct. 4. That represents a 50-percent increase compared to the 4,682 children served by the district 20 years ago.
The biggest campus is the one shared by Highland Park Middle School and
McCulloch Intermediate School , which have a combined 2,201 students. H i g h l a n d Pa r k H i g h School houses 2,112 teen-agers. Hyer has the most elementary students (727) while Armstrong has the
fewest (581).Although every campus
is filled to capacity, Taylor said a new campus is not in the works.
We want to plan care-fully and intentionally for the future. And as more families flock to HPISD, we realize the need is imme-diate, Taylor wrote. We
are not planning to build a fifth elementary school. Our goal is to preserve our historic campuses and the traditions that are such an important part of each of them.
Coincidentally, on the same day that Taylors
Trustee: There are no plans to build a new school
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Special-needs students flourish at football games
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R o b e r t B o b Cullum and his brother Charles didnt sell success at the flagship Tom Thumb store that opened on Lomo Alto in 1948. But they certainly stocked the store with the ingredients to create it.
I cannot define it pre-cisely, Charles was quoted as saying in Tom Thumb: The Little Giant . But some of the ingredients were faith, mutual trust, sharing, high aspirations, a pinch of creativity, and, of course, the old reliable, hard work.
And, perhaps, just a dash of good luck.
When [the Cullums] started the company, they competed with the three largest grocery chains in America, which were A&P,
Safeway, and Kroger, said Bobs son Brooks, who began his own grocery career working a package boy. They thought that if you gave better service, took better care of the customers and employees, that you could compete with these giants. And they competed very success-fully, until they became the
largest [chain] in Dallas. On the road to creat-
ing a booming business out of a small store, how-ever, the Cullum brothers and partner J.R. Bost were often confronted by a bit of the bizarre. Consider the chains cinematic begin-nings, when the owner of Toro supermarkets the biggest customer at the
A.W. Cullum & Co. grocery supply firm skipped out on his bill, not to mention the United States.
The man that ran Toro ran off to South America and left [A .W. Cullum & Co.] holding the bag, recalled Brooks sister, Sally Holmes. They were owed so much money by [Toro] that they ended up buying the [six] original supermarkets and renam-ing them Tom Thumb.
A b u t c h e r s t r i ke a t Safeway would go on to introduce a new wave of unexpected customers . And then there was that surprisingly fortuitous accident on Lomo Alto.
A car came along and, instead of putting it in reverse, [the driver] acci-dentally put it in drive and smashed into the front of the store, Holmes said.
What could have been a nightmare turned into a dream thanks to a bit of ingenuity.
My father was a very creative guy, Brooks said. He took a picture of it
and ran an ad in the paper immediately after that. It said, We know you love Tom Thumb, but please dont go this far.
Customers loved Tom Thumb so much, in fact, that by the 1950s the chain had expanded to 20 stores.
The openings were a great festival, said Lee Cullum, Charles daughter. Often, people would line up in the morning to get in the door because the spe-cials would be terrific.
For Lees father, success was most often measured by the sale of a very spe-cific product: bread.
Im sure Bob would have had other measures, but for my dad, it was a matter of checking the loaves of bread, Lee said. If the bread shelves were pretty well empty, that was a good sign that business had been good that day.
Through the years, the Cullum brothers went on to shelve as many acco-lades as they did apples, thanks to their deeply held personal and professional
commitment to civic lead-ership and philanthropy.
The legacy, of course, is a standard of excellence in the business they did, not only in the service and products they pro-vided, but also their busi-ness practices and also enormous involvement in the community, Lee said. They were of a gen-eration that believed that if Dallas grew, their company would grow.
In 1992, the company merged with Houston-based Randalls. The origi-nal Tom Thumb stores have all since closed, and that neighborly feeling is harder to come by at one of todays expansive super-markets. Which is pre-cisely what makes the Tom Thumb in Highland Park Village so special.
Thats where I shop, and thats where my phar-macy is, Holmes said. Its small, but its a friendly place where you see every-body you know. So it still has that kind of hometown feeling.
Cullums Grew Tom Thumb Into Grocery Giant
PHOTO: CHARLES CULLUM ARCHIVES
Charles and Bob celebrate topping $500 million in sales in 1976.
WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK?It reminds me of a small town surrounded by a big city: friendly and safe environment, wonderful place to raise children, with a great public school system. Also, the beautiful flowers, such as the azaleas our town plants every year, are awesome!
GERALDINE TINCY MILLER, State Board of Education member
Every store in chain was heldto high standard
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Joe and Henry Lambert, who offi cially opened their franchise in 1935, sculpted the look of North Texas by landscaping homes, parks, and even Six Flags Over Texas.
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The first street to be paved in Highland Park was Maplewood.
In 1906, Wilbur David Cook, who had just laid out a community named Beverly Hills, was commissioned to
create a master plan for Highland Park. Cook completed the plan in six months, using 20 percent of the land for parks and green space. The new residential
development was named Highland Park.
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The Park Cities community is unique because everyone invests in the experience of raising our families here. It is through that common interest that we create great memories every single
day through sports, band, academics, civic involvement, volunteerism, or simply spending time with neighbors at a block party.
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