Superintendent of Schools
Biography of O.B. Powell

Forney Herald
Friday, 14 April 1939, Page 27

Oscar B. Powell, the present superintendent of the public schools, has served in this capacity for the past six years. The board recently extended his contract for another year.

Mr. Powell is finishing his twenty-eighth year as a school man. He began his first school experiences in a two-teacher rural school in Lubbock County. After one year here he resigned to accept a position as teacher of history and science in the Commerce, Texas, public schools. After three years in this capacity he was elevated to the high school principalship where he served another five years. In 1920, he resigned as high school principal at Commerce to accept the superintendency of schools at Jacksboro, Texas, where he remained for thirteen years. In 1933, he was elected superintendent of the local schools where he has served to the present.

Mr. Powell is a graduate of John Tarleton College, and of the old Denton Normal College. He received the Bachelor of Science degree from George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee in 1924. After coming to Forney, he began graduate work in Southern Methodist University and was awarded the Master of Arts Degree in the spring of 1938.

He is a native Texan, having been born in Hood County, of hardy pioneer stock who migrated to the frontier at an early day.