2015 Summer Remembrances Newsletter 1
Remembrances
Newsletter of the Schertz
Historical Preservation
Committee
Summer Edition
2015
Congratulations to the Saint Peter and Paul Catholic High School Girls’ Softball Team (Schertz, Texas) for winning the Texas 3A TAPPS State Championship May 15, 2015. . Two new members were welcomed to the committee this quarter. David Lynch and
Walter Turk joined the committee. This quarter’s Committee Remembrances Special Edition Articles 2015-3 titled: The Origins of Randolph Air Force Base, 1926-1931 is attached for your reading enjoyment.
Another cemetery journal has been published covering the Saint Paul Cemetery in Cibolo. Beverley Jobe did the research and publishing of the journal. The journal will be an excellent research tool for those searching for grave and family information on persons at rest in Saint Paul Cemetery.
The subcommittee assigned the task of evaluating the possibility of naming Schertz’s Aviation Heights Subdivision as the City’s second “Heritage Neighborhood” has set forth a plan for surveying the neighbors support for such a designation. The significance of the neighborhood as relates to the City’s early history is set forth in Remembrances Special Edition Article 2014-7.
The draft Schertz photo history book has been approved by City Council for final publication. Search is now underway for a suitable printer. The book should be available for sale in the fall of 2015. It will be available for purchase at the Schertz Library, Schertz Visitor’s Center and at City Hall (Water Dept. window). The book surveys
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(through photos and sketches) Schertz history from 1850 through 2010. It’s a great
Christmas gift and a coffee table addition.
The Outreach Subcommittee made two attempts to schedule student historic field trips during May, however, rain postponed each scheduled field trip. It has been decided to reschedule the event for the beginning of the next school year sometime in either
September or October.
The Outreach Subcommittee’s restoration/preservation project at the Vineyard Fellowship Church (207 First Street) has gotten restarted following a cold winter and a wet spring. This church building is a designated Schertz Landmark Property based upon
its early construction (sometime in the late 1890s or early 1900s) and its many uses in
support of Schertz community life. The churches new look is beginning to take shape. Replacement banners celebrating the Schertz Heritage Neighborhood at FM 78 and First Street have been put in place.
The Committee is preparing its records/photo inventory for placement in the files of the Schertz Public Library’s History and Genealogy Room as our archive repository station. These records/photos will be available to researchers and interested citizens searching for historic information regarding the City of Schertz and/or Comal Settlement.
Committee by-laws were revised and a new edition published.