Jew Don Boney (March 28, 1928 – August 1979) was a Texas educator who served as an administrator in the Houston Independent School District. He assisted in the planning and establishment of two colleges in

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, and was president of the .

Biography

Dr. Boney was a native of Calvert, Texas, which is located between

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, and

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. It is about 30 miles north of

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and 90 miles northeast of Austin. He was the son of David Boney and the grandson of Wright Boney—the first person to own an automobile in a county near Calvert. J. Don Boney attended Prairie View A&M College of Texas, from where he earned a

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degree in 1948. He earned his

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in Education, in 1957, and

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, in 1964, from The University of Texas. Dr. Boney was married to Clara Payne Boney. His son, the Rev.

Jew Don Boney Jew Don Boney Jr. (born November 16, 1951) was a member of the Houston, Texas, Houston City Council, City Council from 1995 until 2001, representing the historically African-American District D. In addition, he served as Mayor Pro Tem of Houston ...

, is a well-known former

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and civil-rights activist in the city of Houston.

Career

Dr. Boney was an associate professor of educational psychology at the

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(UH) from 1967 to 1969, and the UH's College of Education associate dean of graduate studies from 1970 to 1971. He took the position of acting General Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, in 1971, and was the Houston Independent School District's chief instructional officer in 1971-72. He assumed the presidency at the fledgling

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System in 1973, and he held that position until 1975. In 1974, the System had 16,495 students enrolled. Dr. Boney had been an associate professor of education at the

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. He served on

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’s Special Committee on Human Services Delivery. At the time of his death in 1979, he was on the Board of Directors of Entex, Inc., Riverside National Bank, the Better Business Bureau for Metropolitan Houston, Inc., and other corporate boards. Dr. Boney also held the Chancellorship of the from 1975 to the time of his death.

Scholarly writings

"Some Dynamics of Disadvantaged Students in Learning Situations"
J. Don Boney, '' The Journal of Negro Education'', Vol. 36, No. 3, The Higher Education of Negro Americans: Prospects and Programs (Summer, 1967), pp. 315–19.
"An Analysis of the Participation of Racially Integrated Guidance Groups of Culturally Different Children in Elementary School"
J. Don Boney, Charleta Dunn, Thomas Bass, '' The Journal of Negro Education'', Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 390–93.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boney, J. Don 1928 births 1979 deaths Education in Houston History of Houston Educators from Houston University of Houston faculty University of Texas at Austin College of Education alumni Presidents of the University of Houston–Downtown Prairie View A&M University alumni People from Calvert, Texas 20th-century American academics