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Volume 62, Edition 6, The playground at the Howe Intermediate School campus will be closed beginning today for renovations. It will be closed for approximately four weeks.

I had the pleasure of coaching Jacob Campbell as a 3rd-6th grader in football. He was our quarterback that helped lead us to three Super Bowl championships.

My nickname for him was “Clyde” due to the fact that he got up off the ground like a 75-year-old man. Even though he would have made a dynamic impact at Bulldog Stadium on both sides of the ball, I’m so happy to see him living out his dream and accomplishing his goals. Here’s to you, Clyde!

Howe Boy Scouts Troop 45 are reaching those for sign ups and renewals for the 2024-2025 Flag Program. The Troop would like to increase the participation throughout the city and District. Residents and businesses within Howe ISD are invited to subscribe. If interested, please remit payment to @howetroop45 on Venmo. Troop 45 will place a flag at your address six times from Memorial Day to President's Day."

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Jacob Campbell signs to play basketball Touch-A-Truck event at Blue Mountain Community College pushes through at

library despite rain

Jacob Campbell (middle) alongside parents Robin (left) and Chris (right) officially signs to play college ball. Staff photo.

Howe High School’s second all-time leading scorer Jacob Campbell has officially signed to continue his basketball career past Ponderosa.

He signed Tuesday to play for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, OR. Camp-

bell’s 1,674 points while at Howe for four varsity seasons trails only Dwayne Emmons’ 1,790 from 1995-1998.

Blue Mountain was one of the first colleges to seek interest in Campbell and the first school to

offer him a scholarship.

“It really seemed like a place where I could grow as more than just a player and find my next destination,” said Campbell.

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Kids get to see the inside of a Howe ambulance.

Staff photo.

Despite the rain, kids were able to climb inside fire trucks, police cars, backhoes, farm equipment and more on Monday morning at the Howe Community Library. Today’s event is

“Monkey See, Monkey Do” where at 10 am kids can see live animals up close.

The address for the library is 315 S. Collins Freeway, Howe, TX.

38th Annual Founders Day Festival

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The view of the 3rd Annual Hot Dog eating contest sponsored by Turkey legs and sausage-on-a-stick by the chamber. Staff photo.

Don’s Smokehouse. Staff photo.

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce’s 38th Annual Founders Day Festival was postponed due to threats of rain in May and eventually held the event Saturday in Downtown Howe. The event was a complete sellout for vendors which were lined up in overflow in the alley. 903 Brewers was the sponsor of the event with two of

their products available for purchase. Also, lemonade, kettle corn, bundt cakes, sausage-on-astick, turkey legs, popcorn, and many other treats were available. Also, patrons could find anything from knives, caps, t-shirts, jewelry, soap, and much more.

Kids could enjoy a ride on the kid train, carnival ride, and a dunk tank.

Sponsors were Guns N More, Rapid Electric, HIT Roof & Exteriors, Brother Plumber, Rethink Wealth, Don’s Smokehouse, KMKT, KMAD, Howe Enterprise, and Howe Metal Works. Albert Bravo, the 2022 Hot Dog eating champion, reclaimed his title after last year’s champion Ben Zorawowicz.

Albert Bravo (right) won the Hot Dog Eating Contest. Pictured with Ben Zorawowicz who was the 2023 champion. Staff photo.

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Inflation: Smaller cities seeing flat or negative growth in sales tax revenue Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts $1.1 billion in local sales tax allocations for June, 6.8 percent more than in June 2023. These allocations are based on sales made in April by businesses that report tax monthly.

A quick analysis in comparison to last June shows that the severe inflation is having an impact on local spending.

Coupled with commercial developments at FM 1417 and Anna, flat and negative

growth seems to be trending more in the smaller communities and lesser in the larger cities. Cities like Melissa (+77%) and Celina (+30%) are still on a very good trend compared to last June, however, cities like Howe (-12.9%), Van Alstyne (-0.7%), Pottsboro (-7.03%), Whitewright (-4.6%) are significantly down.

On the flip side from last June’s total to this month’s total, Sherman is up by 18.34 percent and Anna is up 17.39 percent.

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$3,356,060.65 $884,431.81 $841,186.15 $815,981.22 $749,490.62 $647,636.44 $278,018.86 $266,069.33 $176,559.46 $125,295.82 $86,423.61 $52,011.54 $48,710.39 $45,106.87 $41,395.47 $40,474.85 $32,054.32 $25,582.03 $13,691.90 $7,984.07 $7,153.18 $3,056.05 $1,402.31

Sherman Denison Celina Gainesville Melissa Anna Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro Whitewright Southmayd Howe Leonard Collinsville Bells Tioga Oak Ridge Tom Bean Savoy Ector Dorchester

$18,728,215.12 $5,441,605.24 $4,963,402.59 $4,936,720.88 $4,393,175.52 $4,023,699.31 $1,726,849.42 $1,602,707.31 $1,091,644.67 $652,882.79 $559,957.01 $331,248.56 $330,182.92 $316,263.29 $268,219.62 $229,772.02 $197,347.82 $156,394.19 $92,282.56 $92,110.95 $56,484.77 $23,705.16 $8,434.42

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Howe ISD board agenda A Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Howe ISD will be held on Monday, June 17, 2024, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Howe ISD Administration Office located at 105 W. Tutt St, Howe, Texas.

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CALL TO ORDER/DETERMINATION OF QUORUM INVOCATION/PLEDGES PUBLIC FORUM PUBLIC HEARING A. Presentation of the Howe ISD Proposed 2024-25 Budget and Tax Rate Information B. Public Comments/Questions Related to the Howe ISD Budget and Tax Rate Presentation REPORTS A. Superintendent Report 1. Enrollment 2. Personnel 3. TASB SLI 4. Other Information THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER, DISCUSS, AND/OR TAKE AP PROPRIATE ACTION REGARDING THE FOLLOWING: A. Consent Agenda Items 1. Minutes for May 20, 2024 Regular Meeting 2. Monthly Financial Reports 3. Update 2023-24 Vendor List 4. Initial 2024-25 Vendor List 5. Resolution Regarding Annual Review of CDA (LOCAL) Investment Policy and Strategies B. Budget Amendments C. Policy Update 123, affecting the following LOCAL Policies (see attached) D. Adopt 2024-25 Budget E. Personnel 1. Elementary Principal

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Howe City Council agenda CALL MEETING TO ORDER INVOCATION PLEDGE TO FLAGS CITIZEN COMMENTS MAYOR COMMENTS CONSENT ITEMS: These items consist of non-controversial, or “housekeeping” items required by law. Items may considered individual by any Council member making such request prior to a motion and vote on the Consent Items:

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Discuss, consider, and act upon consent items which are marked by an *. * Minutes of Regular Council Meeting May 21, 2024. * Bills being paid for the month * Detailed check register report * Statement of Revenue and Expenditures * Independent Financial – Secured Deposits, May 30,, 2024 * Recap and Standings – May 2024 ACTION ITEMS: 1.

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Discuss, consider, and act upon authorizing City staff to designate official email and address to receive Public Information Act requests and to establ ish related postings and procedures.

Discuss, consider, and act upon removing Sarah Myrick from all bank accounts and adding Mayor Pro-Tem Billie Ingram.

Discuss, consider, and act upon approving and authorizing the Mayor and or City Administrator to sign Pre-Development and Professional Services Agreement with Centurian American Acquisitions.

Discuss, consider, and act upon opening an interest-bearing account with Independent Financial entitled “Development Escrow Funds.”

Budget Workshop

Keep Howe Beautiful Yard of the Month

EXECUTIVE SESSION: The City Council will convene in closed session pursuant to the provisions of the Open Meeting Act, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code. Executive Session as authorized by Texas Government Code Sec. 551.071, Consultation with Attorney on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter (Open Meetings Act); Texas Government Code Section 551.072-Deliberation regarding real property; Texas Government Code, Section 551.074 – Personnel Matters.

Personnel Police Chief Public Works Director 205 E. Davis Street.

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Walker speaks to FBC XYZ

A large crowd gathered at the Fellowship Hall of the First Baptist Church on Thursday. Courtesy photo.

Submitted—Monte Walker, Howe's City Administrator, presented a very interesting and informative program Thursday at the First Baptist Church Howe's XYZ Senior Citizen's June meeting. A "full house" in the First Baptist Church Howe's Fellowship Hall was given information about "What's Happening In Howe". Monte filled the group in on housing developments, businesses, streets, water problems, TXDOT, and lots of plans for Howe. He reviewed Howe's "Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats" as he has done so for other groups. Some in the group have lived in Howe all their lives and all were anxious to hear the "moving forward" plans presented as we anticipate and grapple with inevitable growth, trying to be ready for it rather than

have to "catch up" because of it. Questions were answered and further clarifications made. We appreciated Monte's factual and explanatory presentation.

Monte Walker. Courtesy photo.

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and in the weightroom that no one ever saw was working towards this goal.”

One of those goals is still yet to be attained as he has his sights on Division I college basketball. He said this first step playing at a junior college gives him the best chance as opposed to some other options he had.

Before Campbell arrived on varsity, the last time Howe had won a playoff basketball game was prior to his birth.

Howe beat Godley in the 2004-05 state tournament and went winless until a 2021 win over Prairiland, 5832. The Bulldogs have gone on since then to become back-to-back bi-district champions with Campbell running point guard.

“I’ll be able to come back here and bring my kids and show them those trophies with my name on there.

That’s definitely a big reason for our work because we were trying to make Howe basketball something to be proud of again,” said Campbell.

Campbell said what he’ll remember about Howe was the support and his teammates.

“I’ve been here for 12 years and guys I used to play with in first grade, I was playing with some of them as a senior,” said Campbell also credited the Howe fans and those who have supported him throughout his life.

“They’ve always been there to support me, and I know they’ll keep supporting me after I’m gone,” said Campbell.

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Elma Jo Gray, 1931-2024 Elma Jo Cain Gray, 92, of Howe, Texas entered heaven on the night of June 12, 2024. Jo (also known as Mother, Mama, Grandma, Mawmaw, Mama Jo, Aunt Jo, and Jodie) was known for her love of the Lord, the close relationship she had with her loving family, the delicious meals and desserts she shared at her table, and how she modeled an extremely strong work ethic to all who knew her.

The youngest child of Chester and Elma Grantland Cain, Jo was born on September 30, 1931 in Tom Bean, Texas. She attended school in Tom Bean, where she was very active in all sports. Jo graduated from high school in 1948 and soon after married the love of her life, Wayne Gray. They continued to live in Grayson County for their 63-year marriage, with the exception of the year Wayne served in the U.S. Navy. When he returned home, they purchased a small farm east of Howe. It is there that they raised their three sons, Garry, Lenny, and Joe, and where Jo still called home until she passed.

Jo worked for Safeway stores over a span of thirty years, where she made many friends. She often commented on how those friends made her life so enjoyable. Jo and Wayne loved to travel, spending time in the cool mountains of Cloudcroft, New Mexico over many summers. They were also able to visit all 50 of the United States as they traveled with the Good Sams Club and other friends. Jo continued to travel with her family after Wayne’s passing, most recently traveling to Europe for her first time.

Jo is survived by her sons Garry Gray and wife Karla of Howe, Lenny Gray and wife Debbie of Pilot Point, Joe Gray and wife Honey of Allen; by her grandchildren Allan Gray and wife Stephanie, Kevin Gray and wife Dawn, Sean Gray and wife Ashley, Brad Gray and wife Melissa, Brent Gray and wife Margot, Chelsea

Jo Gray Farmer and husband Matt, Chance Gray and wife Courtney; by her great grandchildren Riley Hargrove and husband Paul, Sydney Bush and husband Jacob, and Garrett Gray; Cheyenne Wooten and husband Ronnie, and Mika Gray; Jase and Janie Gray; Skylar, Landry, and Cooper Gray; Zoey and Reese Gray; Dylan and Grayson Farmer; Shepherd, Josiah, and Isaac Gray, with Walker Gray due in October; and numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family members.

She was preceded in death by her parents Chester and Elma Cain, her loving husband Wayne Gray, her siblings Mary Asbill, C.A. Cain, Lavada Smith, Jim Cain, Cecil Cain, and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at the Howe Methodist Church, with Pastor J.B. Bryant officiating. Interment will follow at Akers Cemetery in Sherman.

The family will receive friends during a visitation from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at Scoggins Funeral Home in Van Alstyne. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Howe Methodist Women group of Howe Methodist Church, a group that was close to her heart.

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Crazy conspiracy theorist articles by the Howe Enterprise—Socialism Originally published on November 5, 2018 in the Howe Enterprise.

With important elections coming up, some of you need to be educated as to what in the world is really going on.

There's a lot of talk from people who think they know what they're talking about. They've dug in on Team Red or Team Blue and have not done the research to understand the real truth or even know who the real enemy is.

There is no time to beat around the bush. Let's get to the meat on the bone quickly to catch you up to speed. We lost our country on Nov. 22, 1963, to evil individuals that are the same people that oppressed people enough to float the Atlantic to search for freedom.

The United States lived as a free society ruled and governed themselves until the early part of the 20th century. That very group of sick and devious communists took over our country on that fateful day only 60 miles south of your tiny little town. Those behind the heinous act are the very deep state socialist swamp asses the battle is raging against now. And total war was declared the day anti-socialist Donald Trump was elected president.

This is a war of deception. Those that speak truth are called liars. Those that are liars claim to be the upright. This is a war to take back America from the New World Order globalists/socialists of Gerald Ford, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and so many more. And if you think they will lay over and die, just take a look at their back pocket media coverage. Take a look at what extremes they’ll go to for gun control. Take a look at what extremes they’ll go to cause a border crisis. Take a look at what they’ll do defend Roe v Wade. How many unanswered Vegas shootings? How many Justice Kavanaugh accusations? How many immigration-planned events do we need to see before we understand and wake up?

This isn’t really Democrats versus Republicans because both sides have their sordid creeps. The enemy is the underneath the parties. It’s a covert Washington society that has run the country in secrecy since even before 1963. They just seized complete power that day in Dallas.

It takes a lot of studying to understand what’s going on and when you read and study, you'll find a link between Yale, Harvard, and the military. Those that become great at taking orders move up quickly through the ranks and will have enough embarrassing information on them that would be released if they don't follow orders.

Once they are trained as mega order takers, they take high rank in the underbelly. Some reside in Congress, some in the media, and some in the Department of Justice. Some even end up as presidential candidates and even presidents.

What is the government? It is a con-

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tract signed by the founding fathers which is called the Constitution of the United States of America. That is the government. It says what the government can do, can’t do, when it can do it, when it cannot do it. Let's go back to the original pact of the 13 sovereign states that formed a union for their individual benefit and protection. It wasn’t formed as a democracy. It’s not a democratic country. It was never meant to be a democratic country.

Why do we always hear about democracy? The reason is that it is the agenda to brainwash the American populist of accepting democracy which is the first step into socialism. If it is one man, one vote – the majority will vote themselves everything. Take a free people, make them into a democracy and they will vote themselves into slavery every time because they are weak. They want the check from the government and the job from the government.

They want medical care from the government. They want a phone from the government. They want everything from the government.

“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” – Vladimir Lenin.

The underside of our government has created a victim class of society. The reason is that victims need care. Once you create a victim that needs care, you have another vote for socialism.

As far as immigration, no one can blame those wanting to get to America to have a better life. The only one to blame is the government because it is illegal and unlawful to do so improperly. We always say we have to follow the law, but the truth is, we only have to follow the law that they think is okay. The deep state wants these people coming across our borders because they are helpless. They are a new crop of victims without money, homes, and jobs. Victims give you the vote to socialism. That’s why they don’t try to stem the flood of immigration. It further extends the agenda of socialism.

The immigrants are being used and their only thought is to try and provide a better home for their family. They don’t speak English; therefore, they can’t find the job they want. They don’t get the pay they desire. So, they look to the government to provide for them. In the end, they all become good little Democrats and vote socialist and want their handouts from Uncle Sam. What they seek is the American Dream, but what will end up happening is that they are helping bring about socialism which will put them back in slavery. With that said, there are immigrants who have come to America and have become Americans and have established themselves with American

ideals. We need more of those immigrants.

You have to understand the agenda and who’s bringing it about and why they are doing it before you can see the manipulations and see who’s being used to bring it about. You can start to identify these people by the way they speak. They use terms like "the masses." In example, "The masses say that open borders will help our economy."

Those people that play on those terms are Marxists, socialists, or communists. Americans say, "the people", "the American people", "My fellow Americans." Check for this term when listening to talk radio or watching your favorite cable news program. Dan Rather made a living on "the masses."

The Texas journalism major who was once a marine, then stationed in August 1963 to set up a southern bureau for CBS in New Orleans. Rather had only recently moved from Dallas to New Orleans in November and would not have been in Dallas except for the need to get film to Dallas CBS affiliate KRLD-TV (now KDFW) to feed to New York. Although he had no assigned reporting role in Dallas, Rather happened to be on the other side of the railroad tracks, beyond the triple underpass, thirty yards from a grassy knoll that would later figure in so many conspiracy theories.

Sounds completely legit, right? There is at least one significant error in Rather's 1976 book: "Within an hour of the arrest the police disclosed that a paraffin test of Oswald's hands and face showed that he had fired a gun."

Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested in Oak Cliff at 1:50 p.m. Texas time, but the paraffin test was not administered until 8:55 CST, according to expert Pat Speer, who has explained the tests done and their results. In his autobiography, he also claims to be one of the first to see the Zapruder film showing the assassination and the first to describe it on television. The film was never shown on television to the general public, and Rather reported the fatal headshot as forcing Kennedy's head to be thrown violently forward, when it was thrown backward. Still sounds completely legit, right? It's easy to control the narrative when you own the narrators When 150 of the world's most powerful people can meet in secrecy in Baden Baden, Germany and plot the fate of billions and no one even cares about it. But Kanye West speaks and it's across the country in minutes, you have a reflection of the society in which it exists.

Question everything.

How has COVID-19 affected the upcoming presidential election?

Originally published on April 13, 2020 in the Howe Enterprise.

Thanks to the impeachment process of President Donald Trump, the media was honed in one that subject and not the Coronavirus pandemic that began in China. On Jan. 15 the patient who became the first confirmed US case left Wuhan and arrived in the US carrying the disease. It was also the same day that Nancy Pelosi finally delivered the Articles of Impeachment to the US Senate.

The effects of the Coronavirus have impacted the Trump rallies that pack stadiums across the country. They also wiped out a lot of Trump’s economic gains, hampered US/China trade negotiations, all but cancelled debates with opponent Joe Biden, and negated public appearances by Biden. It also has put aside all mention of Hunter Biden and the grossly under-spotlighted corruption with Ukraine and China.

Coronavirus has completely changed the upcoming election. Even so much as to now have Democrats calling for mail-in ballots and for federal control of the election process.

Democrat lawmakers are discussing options to withhold future aid to Americans for in exchange for ways to change the entire way we elect officials and even advocate for the mail-in ballots to be accepted even after the tallies have been read.

New negotiations from Democrats in the upcoming aid package could see a holdout for the Green New Deal which Republicans say would wipe out Americans with high taxes and government control.

2020 proves that this is not just another election. Voting matters.

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Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.

City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient. Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be resumed.

The following information is required to add a telephone number into the "CodeRED" database: first and last name; address (physical address, no P.O. boxes); city; state; Zip Code; and primary phone number. The system works with cellular phones but requires a valid street address. When entering information, please fill out all of the screens because the newest data entered will replace the old data. Sign up by visiting http://www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/oem.cred

2023-24 Local taxation

City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Karla McDonald City Council: Michael Hill, Sarah Myrick, Billie Ingram, Shawn Tyler, Ricky Price.

City Administrator: Monte Walker City Secretary: Michelle Hewitt Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk:/Permit Clerk: Amy Bond (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Benjamin Fuhr Howe Fire Department/EMS 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903-813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman City Council meets third Tuesday at 100 E. O’Connell St. at 6 pm.

State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

6.25 % 1.25%

Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed

0.75 % 8.25 %

City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)

$0.53 $1.05 $0.31 $0.15 $2.04

Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation 903-532-6080 Howetexas.org EDC Director: Monte Walker Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org

Cityofhowe.org City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill

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Texas History Minute The early 1900s was a formative time for education in Texas. Sidney Mezes, a one-time president of the University of Texas, rose to the foreKen Bridges front to serve as such a leader as well as a diplomat and a thinker. In the process, the son of a pioneer gold prospector in California became one of the most respected philosophers in the nation and a leader in Texas education.

Sidney Edward Mezes was born in September 1863 in Belmont, California, then a tiny village nestled between San Francisco and San Jose in the years after the Gold Rush. His parents were both immigrants, with his father having arrived from Spain and his mother from Italy. His father, Simon M. Mezes, was an attorney who arrived with the early wave of gold prospectors and other fortune-seekers.

His father had helped several Spanish families in the San Francisco area keep the claims on their lands as pressure from settlers and miners as well as various con artists sought to thrust them off their property. In the process, Mezes was able to buy some of this land and set it aside to form what became Redwood City, the county seat of San Mateo County in the 1850s, and for whom a city park is named. This helped provide a comfortable childhood for the future scholar, which included trips to Europe.

He graduated from what was then the University of California in 1884 (now the University of California at Berkeley) with a degree in engineering. After his father’s death that year, Mezes took a different path and began studying philosophy. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1889, receiving a second bachelors degree in 1890 and a masters degree in philosophy in 1891.

While he was completing his doctorate through Harvard, he spent the 1892-93 school year teaching philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

After finishing his Ph.D. in 1893, he spent a year teaching at the University of Chicago.

He was offered an adjunct teaching position at the University of Texas in 1894. In 1898, he took a look at ideas and perceptions of God with The Conception of God. He took on questions of spirituality and the existence of God. At the same time, he touched on ideas of time, memory, and reality.

Mezes argued that God lives in an eternal state of the present, with all things happening in one everlasting moment and that time as mortal men understand it, is meaningless to God. “Time is no reality; things seem past and future, and, in a sense, non-existent to us, but in fact are just as genuinely real as the present is,” Mezes wrote. “Every reality is eternally real, pastness and futurity are merely illusions.”

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He became a full-time professor in 1898. In 1901, he wrote an influential work on ethics, titled Ethics, Descriptive and Explanatory. He earned a promotion to dean in 1902, serving as a philosophy professor simultaneously.

In 1908, Mezes was appointed president of the university. He was the fifth person to hold the position. He was widely respected for his work as a scholar and administrator. The college expanded steadily. He added a new library and a new Department of Economic Geology. Within five years, enrollment expanded 20%, from 2,500 students to 3,000.

In 1913, the newly-inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson asked him to become U. S. education commissioner, but he declined. Instead, Mezes decided to take a new position as the fourth president of the City College of New York. He assumed his new post in 1914. He left the university on good terms, and the board of regents asked him his opinions on the direction of the university. He published this as The Future of the University of Texas in 1914, which helped form a blueprint for expansion. The same spirit of innovation he brought to UT he brought to CCNY. Here, the college added schools of civil administration, business, education, and engineering, becoming a respected institution in New York.

At the request of Wilson, Mezes became the director of a committee of scholars informally called “The Inquiry” to investigate the causes of the war and to identify and evaluate possible solution to prevent a future war.

These suggestions were later formulated into Wilson’s Fourteen Points, which he outlined in a speech in January 1918. At the end of the war, Mezes served as a diplomat as part of the American delegation negotiating the Treaty of Versailles, the shape of the peace to come. He wrote a section from a 1921 series of recollections titled What Really Happened at Paris.

By the mid-1920s, Mezes began experiencing serious health problems. The situation became so bad that he retired as the CCNY president in 1927 at the age of 64, having seen enrollment quadruple from 5,200 to more than 20,000. He returned to California; and when his health permitted, he traveled to Europe and different parts of the U. S. The University of Texas honored him with the special title of president emeritus in 1929. He died at his home in Pasadena, California, in 1931.

The university remembered his many contributions and dedicated a new building in his memory in 1953. Mezes Hall today is a multi-use classroom building used by various departments and organizations on campus, including the Texas Politics Project, the Spanish Department, the Government Department, and the European Studies Department.

Cherished memories about my father May God bless each and every father as we wish you a Happy Father’s Day. Fatherhood is a theme within scripture, and we know that Dr. Billy Holland God is the best Father who loves His Son Jesus Christ, and all of His children so much that He provided a way for them to spend an eternity with Him. My dad passed away in 2016. I miss my father, I admired him and always will.

There are lots of stories about Father’s Day and recently I was curious about how the special day began. According to one historian, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of honoring and promoting fatherhood was initially met with resistance. Not that fathers were not loved and respected, but some folks thought it was too sentimental as with Mother’s Day, and were attempting to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving. The story begins with a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane, Washington, who was inspired by her widowed father. She and her five siblings were raised by him, a Civil War veteran and single parent. Wanting to establish a special day for all dads, she worked diligently and the first celebration was on June 19, 1910. However, it took several decades of efforts by individuals and organizations to establish Father’s Day as an official holiday.

In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by unfurling a flag in Spokane, and in 1924, President Coolidge urged states to recognize the day. It was not until 1972 that Father’s Day was officially recognized as a national holiday in the United States, signed into law by President Richard Nixon. I think about my dad and as I’m older now I understand more clearly how difficult it was for him and mom to raise a family. I’m a part of the old school generation where my dad worked and my mom was a housewife similar to the old television shows like “Leave it to Beaver, and Ozzie and Harriet.” Their parents were poor and uneducated, and the idea back in those days was if you had any type of job, you were doing good.

I’m not sure they knew how to help us

kids.

I did not really think about it at the time, but I remember as a kid how hard my dad worked to provide for his family. He owned his own construction company and as a custom home builder, he was very talented and creative. I have two younger sisters and we always had everything we needed.

Sometimes dad would take me to work with him and give me some type of odd job to do and would pay me which was very exciting. He was trying to teach me the rewards of hard work and how to be responsible. As I grew up and started having children of my own, he was always trying to help me and as the only son, I know he loved me and was proud of me. We hear about amazing people and are praised for their accomplishments, but a true hero is someone who has personally invested their time and resources to help us become the person we are today.

My dad was a large man, a physical specimen of strength and endurance.

His framing contractors would say they had never seen a person who could lift one side of a house center beam by themselves like he did. He could pour 20 yards of concrete by himself and come in late at night after finishing huge basement floors. But, beyond his obsessive-compulsive disorder and relentless drive to succeed, I remember his sensitivity and compassion. Underneath the rugged persona, I knew him as a softhearted affectionate father who throughout my life would always wrap his arms around me and hold me. I miss those hugs.

Sadly, my dad’s life was cut short by a hereditary kidney disease (PKD), and ended up spending his last 20 years on dialysis. He became very weak and was in pain yet would never complain.

He was always smiling and a source of wisdom, hope, and encouragement. He asked me to officiate his celebration of life service and insisted that I keep it positive and make it clear that he had lived a wonderful and blessed life. He said no one wants to hear about what it was like to suffer all the time. This is the type of caring person he was.

Dr. Holland lives in Central Kentucky with his wife Cheryl where he is a Christian minister, chaplain, and author. Read more about the Christian life at: billyhollandministries.com

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Attend the Church of Your Choice

Each Sunday...

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

First Baptist Church Dorchester Zach Poling, pastor 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Worship service Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Evening Service Summit View Church Brett and Deb Hetrick, pastors

Community Bible Fellowship Jeremy Moore, pastor

Howe Methodist Church of Howe JB Bryant, minister

415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service

810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Tuesday: 8:30am - 1:00pm WeeCare Daycare (Registration needed) 9:30am - Women's Bible Study 6:30pm - Boy Scouts Wednesday: 9:00am - Wednesday Workers 6:00pm - 1st and 3rd Wednesdays Family Night Thursday: 8:30am - 1:00pm - WeeCare Daycare (Registration needed) Saturday: 9:00am-12:00pm - Feed My Sheep (1st & 3rd Sat. of each month) Sunday: 8:30am - Coffee and Donuts 9:00am - Sunday School 10:00am - Worship Service 3:00pm Cub Scouts

First Baptist Church Howe Roger Tidwell, pastor 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-5325504 Wednesday 5:30 pm—Free Meal 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service 6:00 pm—Potluck Fellowship and Bible Study

910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church Howe Church of Christ Aaron Alsbrook, minister 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service

Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”

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