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Monday, June 8, 2015
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Howe grad is mayor of Arlington front of the high school. My dad was on the school board at that time and that was a special memory. We set records for the amount of money that a class would raise."
Howe High School Graduate and Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams He's the mayor of the city that has the most known professional football team in the universe. One of the star players on the Dallas Cowboys is veteran Jason Witten who wears the jersey number 82 and is one of the most known players in football history. But Arlington, Texas Mayor Jeff Williams once wore the number 82 and played his games, not at the new legendary Cowboys Stadium, but at one of the oldest football stadiums in all of Texas - Bulldog Stadium in Howe. The Leon and Linda Williams family lived in the north edge of
Sherman for a specific reasons so that their three boys and a daughter could attend Howe schools. Jeff Williams, the oldest of the four started school in Howe in the fifth grade in 1970. Williams' class of 1977 was the first to start the tradition of the ribbon-cutting ceremony which is still a part of outgoing senior activities at the end of each year. "Our class was really close." said Williams. "We did a lot of good projects and actually helped start the fall festival. We also raised money to put a marquee sign in
Williams went to state in UIL speech and served as class president for several years. Those leadership skills that would later make him mayor of a major city were being honed and developed in Howe. While at Howe High, he Four teachers at Howe High School took a test that would tell a student stood out to Williams as being what they might be suited for in a major influences at his time there. career field. Williams tested high Janie Finney, Pat Stewart, Bettye for becoming an attorney. His Mullins and Norman Bennett. score was so high in math, that the school counselor, Norman Dickey, "Those are just some of the told him to consider getting an examples of the quality teachers engineering degree before law that we had." said Williams. school. "When I left Howe and went to Texas Tech, I didn't know hardly Williams, with his family deeply anyone, but they had prepared me trenched in the construction very well. That was a big step to business went on to get his civil go from 48 in our graduating class engineering degree from Texas to go a university of 24,000." Tech and while there was elected vice president of student body. Williams said that being in a small school meant that almost everyone "The reason I ran for that instead of was involved with a lot of projects president was because the vice and activities, which made president was the student lobbyist everyone feel needed. said Willliams. "So I spent my senior year in Austin and "I think that translated into our Washington D.C. a whole lot." lives realizing that we needed to contribute to the community and Seeing so much corruption in both the schools for our kids." said of those high-powered capitol Williams. "It taught us a lot of cities soured him in politics. But responsibility." he wasn't soured by a girl he met Continued on Page #5
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