The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-05-18
PROF. I. L. TRAWIcK. Of MISSISSIPPI
the NAN.

Hon. j. B. Aswell, superintendent
OF education for the State Of Louisi
ana, appointed some few weeks sine,
Chancellor of the University OF MisSis,
| sippi, has addressed = letter to th.
Board of Trustees Of the University
asking to be released from the contrac
incidental to his acceptance Of th,
commission.
Governor vardaman has called th<
Board of Trustees in special session d
Jackson to-day, ahd the resignation o.
Prof. Aswell will be discussed and con.
sidered, and it is possible = successol
might be suggested and decided upon.
For the responsible and honorable
position Mississippi needs not 20 be.
yond the confines of her own bounds
ries, and, while We would deplore the
loss of 80 valuable a man, who il pre-
eminently fitted for the position, Mis-.
sissippi can well do thegraceful act in
relinquishing the appointee to Louisi
ana, since this State stands below Mis-
sissippi in the list of illiteracy. and fol
the reason as well, that We have at home
a man who, equipped. with scholarly
instinct, classical and brilliant attain
ments and great executive ability, ID
to be highly commended as subject for
the vacancy. The Echo refers to mono
other than Professor Thomas Lawrence
Trawick, of Mississippi.
In educational circles no man is better
known than Prof. Trawick, and his per
sonal friends and acquaintances are le-
gion oyer the entire State and in Loui-
siana as we'll. He is born educator, a
graduate in law and a man whose force
as an educator stamps him firmly. For
fourteen consecutive years he held the
position of principal and city superin-
tendent Of schools at Crystal Springs,
Miss, and when he left there, some two
or three years since, to move TO the
Gulf Coast (the health OF his family de-
manding the change), every inducement
to retain his splendid services-that had
been so long tested and found impossi-
BILE to be improved upon-was held out
to him, but with tho vital interest OF
those dear and close to him at hea rt, he
was compelled to reluctantly decline,
and with much feeling he tore himself
away from the people who had loved
and honored him with every confidence
as the guardian of the educationa in.
terests of their boys and girls, their
grown up sons and young ladies. Com
ing to Bay ST. Louis, he took the helm
of the city school, with its small attend
ance, and, due to his executive ability,
his methods and manner, it was only q
short time before he had more than
trebled the attendance and improved
the curriculum, and at the close of the
first session the services of more teach
ers became necessary, and the accom-
modations of the building SO crowded
that the city. to meet the demand for
additional room, built = 5000 annex.
Leaving Crystal Springs, Prof. Ira
wick was appointed by Governor Lon
gino Commissioner of Education from
Mississippi to the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis, trust that, like all others. he
filled with distinction and exemplary
credit to Mississippi and to himself.
Mississippi would make no mistake in
placing the affairs of the University in
the hande of Chancellor Trawick, and
The Echo rises to make the nomina tion.