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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Encino Hills Neighborhood Crime Watch citizens help keep Dallas ISD schools safe

Neighborhood Crime Watch Meeting at Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School

Neighbors in the Encino Hills Community meet each month to discuss school and community safety and protection at a Neighborhood Watch meeting.

Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Middle School is their meeting site at 7:00 p.m. every second Wednesday. Homeowners are welcome and encouraged to gather at the school, which is regularly a center for community activities.

This evening, parents, students and community members learned valuable safety tips and received reports about neighborhood happenings.

It was good community meeting.

Thanks to Encino Neighborhood Association and Neighborhood Watch President Joel Campos for an informative meeting.

Barbara Moham is Principal of Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Middle School.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Dr. Harryette B. Ehrhardt Library celebrated by former First Lady Laura Bush and community

The full light of the sun and the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve accompanied Dr. Harryette B. Ehrhardt in welcoming guests to the library naming ceremony at Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Middle School.

Dr. Harryette B. Ehrhardt and Mrs Laura Bush with Students

Principal Barbara Moham, excited students, teachers and staff also greeted parents, the Ehrhardt family, friends and community at this Saturday morning dedication ceremony for the Dr. Harryette B. Ehrhardt Library.

Former first lady Laura Bush pays tribute to her former teacher - Dr. Harryette B. Ehrhardt

Former First Lady Laura Bush, who before becoming a famous librarian, was once a student in a Southern Methodist University children’s literature course taught by her former teacher, Dr. Harryette Ehrhardt. Mrs. Bush told how Professor Ehrhardt instilled in her a love for literature and children’s books.


Dr. Harryette B. Ehrhardt Library

Students served as helpers, presenters and performers, including: the Kimball High School JROTC Color Guard -- Maj. Johnny Manson, Director; The ZWH Middle School Musical Ensemble and Lionettes Dance Team – Yolanda Burton, Director; and student Shantee Alexander who introduced Mrs. Bush.

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Librarian Marie Irwin unveiled a beautiful, framed Harryette Ehrhardt portrait in tribute and appreciation.

Assistant Superintendent Mauricio Dominguez, present with Executive Director Tracie Brown, expressed congratulations on behalf of Dallas ISD Administration.

We thank all who helped make the library naming ceremony an occasion to remember on a special day in Dallas ISD.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Dallas ISD Officials To Break Ground On Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School

Ceremony set for Oct. 29 at site of new middle school
2810 St. David Drive Dallas, TX. 75223

DALLAS – Dallas ISD and community leaders will celebrate the beginning of construction of Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at 2810 St. David Drive. At more than 192,000 square feet, the new facility will accommodate up to 1,250 students in grades 6-8.

The building’s design comprises environmentally sustainable features such as a geothermal HVAC system, reduced water consumption and a system for easier separation of waste materials for recycling.

Speakers slated for the groundbreaking ceremony include Second Vice President of the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees Carla Ranger, District 6; Superintendent of Schools Michael Hinojosa; Cynthia Goodsell, executive director of the West Secondary Learning Community; Dallas County District 3 Commissioner John Wiley Price; and honoree Zan Wesley Holmes Jr.

Special remembrances will be provided by former member of the State Board of Education Eleanor Conrad, and Friendship West Baptist Church Senior Pastor Frederick D. Haynes III.

A civil rights advocate, theology professor and former state legislator, the Rev. Holmes was the first African American appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System.

He is Pastor Emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas, where he served for 28 years.

The event will feature the T.W. Browne Middle School Leadership Cadet Corps and the Jimmie Tyler Brashear Elementary School Glee Club.

Everyone is invited.

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A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

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