Independent Schools Association of the Southwest - Tmi - The Episcopal School of Texas, St. John's School, Albuquerque Academy, Greenhill School (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas, St. John's School, Albuquerque Academy, Greenhill School, St. Mark's School, Sandia Preparatory School, Hockaday School, The Kinkaid School, Parish Episcopal School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Episcopal High School, Holland Hall, Cistercian Preparatory School, Trinity Valley School, Episcopal School of Dallas, Selwyn School, Annunciation Orthodox School, The Winston School, Awty International School, The Post Oak School, Southwest Preparatory Conference. Excerpt: TMI - The Episcopal School of Texas (in full Texas Military Institute) is a selective coeducational Episcopal college preparatory school in San Antonio, Texas for boarding and day students. It is the flagship school, and sole secondary school, of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.TMI is the oldest Episcopal school in the American Southwest and one of the oldest independent schools in the State of Texas. Founded in 1893 by the Rt Revd James Steptoe Johnston, DD, first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese in the southwestern United States as the West Texas School for Boys, the name was almost immediately changed to West Texas Military Academy. At the time of the school's foundation, San Antonio lay on the edge of the American Old West, and Bishop Johnston was used to traveling about his diocese by horse or stagecoach as there were not yet any railways. In such an environment, Bishop Johnston saw the need for a school that would provide young men with a classical education that would enable them to go on to careers in the Church, the civil service, and the officer corps of the United States Army, the occupations needed to administer the Southwest and, as he put it, to develop "Christian character amongst the rising generation ... for character is the only true wealth." The school was largely funded by donations from wealth...