J. Don Boney

Dr. J. Don Boney (March 28, 1928 - 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 Houston, Texas, and was president of the nowrap|University of Houston–Downtown.

Biography

Dr. Boney was a native of Calvert, Texas, which is located between Dallas, Houston, and Austin. It is about 30 miles north of Bryan-College Station 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.Fact|date=May 2007

J. Don Boney attended Prairie View A&M University, from where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1948. He received his Masters Degree in Education, in 1957, and Ed.D, in 1964, from the University of Texas at Austin.cite web | title=Dr. J. Don Boney| work=Past Presidents, University of Houston–Downtown (2000), www.uhd.edu|url=http://www.uhd.edu/about/president/boney.htm | accessdate=2007-05-07]

Dr. Boney was married to Clara Payne Boney. His son, the Rev. Jew Don Boney, is a well-known former councilmember and civil-rights activist in the city of Houston.

Career

Dr. Boney was a University of Houston associate professor of educational psychology from 1967-69, and the College of Education associate dean of graduate studies at the University of Houston in 1970-71.

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 Houston Community College System in 1973, and he held that position until 1975. In 1974, the System had 16,495 students enrolled.cite web | title=Houston Community College System| author=Nancy Beck Young | work=Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Assoc. (April 9, 2002), www.tsha.utexas.edu |url=http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/kch13.html | accessdate=2007-05-07]

Dr. Boney also served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Houston and had been an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois. He served on Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby’s Special Committee on Human Services Delivery.Fact|date=May 2007

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 was also the president of the nowrap|University of Houston–Downtown at the time of his death.

cholarly writings

* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2984(196722)36%3A3%3C315%3ASDODSI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 "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.

* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2984(197123)40%3A4%3C390%3AAAOTPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 "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.

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