Formation of the Alumnae Association on January 2, 1920. The Alumnae Association starts with the first 45 graduates at the invitation of Miss Hockaday. During the luncheon, it is decided that these graduates will organize an Alumnae Association. Maud Emily Tenison Stewart ’16 is the first President.
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1931 The Junior College opens with a class enrollment of 15.
1900
1913
A row of cottages on Belmont is acquired for use as dormitories.
The Hockaday School for Girls is established.
1941
1915
1938
Miss Hockaday purchases eight acres on Greenville Avenue and begins construction in the spring on the new school building. The cost of constructing the main building, which contains dormitory space for 52 girls, twelve classrooms, a study hall, sitting room, and kitchen, is $135,000. The new campus is ready to receive students by the fall of that same year. The newly formed Board of Directors meets on August 30, 1919 to establish the school as a private corporation. Miss Hockaday buys the first share. The members of the Board includes four members of the teaching staff and five stockholders: Miss Ela Hockaday, Miss Sarah Bassima Trent, Miss Mary Miriam Meredith Morgan, Miss Minnie Ruth Kerr, Mr. Mike Thomas, Mr. Rufus W. Higginbotham, Mr. Charles C. Huff, Mr. Charles Kribs, and Mr. Herbert Marcus.
Hockaday Trustee Herbert Marcus begins Hockaday’s first endowment fund with a check for $5,000.
1938–1939
The Board of Trustees is formed.
Hockaday celebrates its 25th Anniversary. The Board of Directors includes Ela Hockaday, Miriam Morgan, Sarah B. Trent, Ruth Kerr, Charles Huff, Charles Kribs, Herbert Marcus, Karl Hoblitzelle, Jake Hamon, and R.E. Vinson.
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The School celebrates the ground-breaking for construction of the Junior College building on Oct. 13, 1934.
The Alumnae Association celebrates its tenth anniversary. To celebrate, the alumnae decide to have a portrait painted of Miss Hockaday by Miss Content Johnson.
1942 Ela Hockaday gives The Hockaday School to its Alumnae and the citizens of Dallas through the transition from a private corporation to a non-profit institution.