Chicot-Pike-Lonoke County ArArchives Biographies.....Holmes, Willis H. 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 July 23, 2009, 12:46 am

Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

WILLIS H. HOLMES.
    Among Arkansas' native sons who are devoting their energies to the work of
advancing the educational standards of the state is numbered Willis H. Holmes,
who although but twenty-four years of age has already attained a position of
prominence in the ranks of his profession, being superintendent of schools of
Dermott, and he is conceded to be the youngest incumbent in that position to be
found in any city of similar size in the state. He was born in Pike county,
December 11, 1897, and is a son of David P. and Pattie M. (Palmer) Holmes, both
natives of Amity, Arkansas. When a young girl of fifteen Mrs. David P. Holmes
removed with her parents to Texas and in Blossom, that state, her marriage
occurred. David P. Holmes is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, which
bestowed upon him the A. B. degree, and he has also done postgraduate work at
the University of Chicago. He is now a member of the faculty of the
Henderson-Brown College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and is one of the best known
educators in the state.

    After completing his public school course Willis H. Holmes became a student
at Hendrix College of Conway, Arkansas, from which he received the Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1921, and he has since followed in the professional footsteps of
his father, also proving an able exponent of educational interests. During 1920
and 1921 he was principal of the high school at Carlisle, Arkansas, and in the
latter year was called to his present position as superintendent of the Dermott
schools. They are included among the twenty-seven schools in the state which are
accredited with the Southern Association of High Schools & Colleges and now have
an enrollment of eight hundred and sixty-two pupils, of whom four hundred and
twelve are white, and four hundred and fifty are colored. They are housed in
separate buildings, a corps of twelve white teachers being employed for the
white pupils, while six negro instructors are engaged in teaching those of the
colored race. Mr. Holmes keeps in touch with the most modern ideas in regard to
the education of children and is exerting his influence to better school
facilities and better school conditions in his district. He seems to have
entered the calling for which nature intended him and inspires teachers and
pupils under him with much of his own zeal and enthusiasm in the work. He holds
to high standards in his professional service and his course has won the hearty
approval of the citizens of Dumas.

    Professor Holmes is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He is
a young man of marked intellectual attainments, whose enterprise and ability are
bringing him rapidly to the front in his profession, and judging from what he
has already accomplished the future holds for him large possibilities.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/chicot/bios/holmes316bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/

File size: 3.5 Kb