Kirkwood's Hall family making the news once again, Class of 1969 and 1965 star pupils and their wonderful family!

 I know our classmate Mattie (Carol) Hall is very proud, another honor for her family!  From the current KHS Alumni newsletter sent via email:

Kirkwood School District Foundation’s KTOC Scholarship Receives Donation from KHS Alumni in Honor of Reverend William Edward Hall

Kirkwood students will benefit from a $5,000 donation by Henry Edward Hall in honor of his father, Rev. William Edward Hall. Rev. Hall was a product of Kirkwood’s Booker T. Washington School and became principal of the school and an active leader in the local civil rights movement.

The Booker T. Washington School opened in 1870 on Adams near Geyer Rd. to serve the community’s African-American children. Rev. Hall, who was born in Kirkwood in 1912, attended Booker T. Washington School for all of his local public education. He then pursued higher education, graduating from Lincoln University in Jefferson City with a Bachelor’s in Education, from New York University with a Master’s in Vocational Guidance & Counseling and extending his studies to St. Louis’ Stowe Teachers College and the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York. In Kirkwood, he served as principal of the Booker T. Washington school twice, once from 1940-1942 and again from 1946-1948. In June 1950, the school closed and the students were transferred to the J. Milton Turner School in Meacham Park.

The Kirkwood School District Foundation (KSDF) Named Awards program is one of many ways KSDF works to enrich the lives of Kirkwood students.

For more about Rev. Hall and KSDF's Named Awards visit our website.

Rev. William Edward Hall in 1944	(From left) - Stephanie Collet, KSDF Executive Director; Roberta McWoods, Master Mentor for KTOC; Mildred Jones, William Halls’ sister-in-law; Jeremy Mapp, KSD Executive Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion who is displaying a 1943 picture of Rev. Hall; and Mary Loida, KSDF President	Henry Edward Hall, KHS Class of 1969