George A. Meadows, Smith Co, MS., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller Date: 1999-2000 ************************************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ George A. Meadows. In the training of ambitious young men and young women to secure a good start in business life, and in making them self-reliant, self-supporting and independent, Draughon's Practical Business College has been a recognized factor at Shreveport for a quarter of a century. More recently this institution has received added impetus in its work through the acquisition as president of George A. Meadows, who brought with him the new life, the advanced ideas and ideals it needed to keep pace with the wonder growth of "The city of Opportunities." Mr. Meadows has devoted his entire life to the development of successful business schools and to training young people for the bigger positions in modern business, and has gained recognition not only as a successful business educator but as a prolific writer on subjects of an inspirational character. George A. Meadows was born in Smith County, Mississippi, June 10, 1892, and attended the public schools of his native community, following which be pursued a course in Draughon's Business College at Jackson, Mississippi. Since then he has taken post graduate work in accountancy, and he holds the degree of Bachelor of Accounts. He began teaching bookkeeping and other commercial subjects soon after his graduation at Jackson, and business college teaching and management have combined to form his profession ever since. He eventually became manager of the Draughon College at Jackson, and from there went to Draughon's School at San Antonio which was under his charge for four years. On August 15, 1923, he took charge as president of Draughon's Practical Business College at Shreveport, to which city he came with the determined purpose of making this one of the best and more successful business colleges in the South. He d once put new life into the institution, which had been established originally at Shreveport in 1900, and within a comparatively short time the college showed that result of his ambition and unflagging energy and purpose, entering upon the most prosperous and useful period of its career. Mr. Meadows is associate editor of the Journal of Commercial Education of Philadelphia, to which journal he is a regular contributor, as well as a valued contributor to other magazines, his articles being largely of an inspirational character that have attracted wide attention. He has served as chairman of the Text Book Committee of the Draughon Managers' Association; also as secretary-treasurer of the association. He is deeply interested in the cause of commercial education, and in seeing the standards of business schools raised everywhere. He is a member of the Baptist Church, a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a Rotarian. This speaks for his character, his ideals of service, and his public-spiritedness. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 42-43, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.