The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-03-15
DALLAS TEACH
ERS RANK N
CLASS Al
Teachers Who Make
Record Mrs. Chase Har-
Tis, MIS-. M. 7. Grove, Mrs.
F. Chester Rutherford, Mrs.
N. {. HaIIun and Mrs. Lula
Mason.
\. W. Harllee.

When truth shall get a hearing: I:
when justice shall be enthroned in
the hearts and minds of the Nation;
when the light of the seven golden
candle sticks shall illumine the up
per sky of fairness and reason, then,
and not until then, will the true
worth Of the American black woman
be seen and appreciated. It was she
who has stood side by side with
her husband in every class of work
whether at home, in the field of cot
ton, or in the rice swamp, or amidst
the waving grain, she has never de-
serted her post.
AS home maker, or a church
builder, her mind has ever been afire
in her breast that burns with that
ferver and unabated zeal till the
home stood forth, the church with
its steeple pointing heavenward
chimed with the sweetest music in
praise and songs to our Father. It
is she who ever gives inspiration and
cheer to the men who keep their
faces to the rising sun of hope, look
ing for thai better time and for that
light Of joy and fruition that Is about
to burss .exEh. SO - s''s4-s q
She has ever been anxious that her
children should be the pride of the
great American people, the true pride
that animates and encourages to the
manhood and to those higher quail
ties so essential in the make up of
a people, whose aims are to reach
the goal of final success.
Again her efforts have not been
idle. in the work along other lines.
She has been frugal as well as in
dustrious, she has been alert along
educational lines, often through self
denial, bearing her burden for the
education of her children. No class
of work has been too mental for
her when she has thought of the
requirements of her sons and her
daughters whom she wish to be ac-
complished and refined, honest and
upright. She has been trustworthy
in he school room as elsewhere. Her
genial influence has been like the
rays Of the morning sun dispensing
the darkness Of the night and at the
same time bringing good cheer to
all. All classes of our women have
been straightforward as q general
thing whatever their calling or pro
fession. Whether as a house maid.
or as seamstress, a nurse, or a
governess, the same fidelity of pur-
pose has written itself in the result
that merits the we'll done approval.
When the history of the Dallas CITY
q fc writ - n.
fret grade teachers, will occupy a
page entwined with an emblem of
evergreen around it as token Of
the true devotion of these faithful
teachers who have served for more
than a score of years giving in
structions to the children coming
fresh from the arts cf their mothers
to be taught the first fundaments of
school
Mrs. Chaise-Harris is the Oldest
primary teacher by service. 1t was
she who aided in the formation of the
first class that marked the day of
the beginning of the Colored high
school. She is what we. may call
e charter member. She saw the be-
ginning, and was instrumental in
giving encourabement to the girls and
boys who wished to reach higher in
the search for better things, and for
a. broader manhood and usefulness.
It was her voice that bade them
God speed IN their laudible ambi-
tion. Mrs. Harris, before coming to
Texas, taught in the high school in
her home town, and as she had done
high school work there. she was in
position to advise the young people
Of Dallas in those early days when
advise and announcement were so
necessary to those who contemplated
making a higher step toward higher
achievem ents. Did her vision take
In the present time, and the present
Dallas modern high school course for
the members of her people. Neither
Is this all. She has not neglected
the education Of her daughter, the
accomplished Fredie Chaise, who holds
a diploma from the college course
Of Howard University and teachers
certificate good throughout the United
States. Her daughter Is now teacher
in the high school department which
her mother helped to establish over
a score of years ago. We never can
tell what great things little be-
ginning may produce.
But there are others whom we
need to mention The following first
grade teachers have each served over
l score of years:
Mrs. Chaise-Harris, Mrs. VI. f..
irove, Mrs. Lula Mason, Mrs. f.
Chester Rutherford and Mrs. M. r.
HalluIu. What q marvellous result
nave these teachers whose combined
services make one hundred years in
,ur city. One hundred years OF un-