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Searle Crate

Position: Computer Lab Supervisor, Information Technology Dept.

Hometown: Kerrville, TX

How long have you been with Schreiner? Where were you prior?
I've been employed here since July 1997, but also grew up here. My wife (also a Kerrville native--we met in Band at Tivy High School) is a nurse and teaches in Schreiner's Vocational Nursing program. We have three daughters and seven grandchildren. We moved back to Kerrville from Austin, where I taught high school math, science, and physics. Schreiner is my home since birth, because my dad taught here for 40 years, and I grew up living on campus. During my junior-high days, we lived in Delaney Hall (the new dorm on campus at that time!) and I practiced trumpet in the garage down behind the dorm.

 

From there, we moved to a house which stood at the edge of today's Cailloux Hall parking lot and planted the Sycamore trees which are still there. (My mother taught piano in our living room.)  My first memory of the campus dining hall was downstairs AC Schreiner Hall, with long wooden tables where meals were served family style, and metal rings around the edge of the tables served as napkin holders. From a loudspeaker atop the "Administration Building" (now the Weir building), bugle calls announced meals, the raising and lowering of the flag, and bedtime.

pictured below:  historical view of campus with Weir Academic Building far right ...

 

 

What do you like best about Schreiner University? The people.

What do you like best about your position at Schreiner?
I get to work with two of my favorite things: young people and computers.

What Schreiner events do you enjoy? Meals

Favorite food: Lasagna

Favorite books: "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett (excellent overview of emerging diseases, like Ebola, etc.)

Favorite vacation spot: The mountains in Colorado or New Mexico

What do you like to do during your weekends?
Well, sleep would be nice, but that's not usually the plan...

Is there any particular advice you would give to students?
Expect the best of yourself, but be gentle in enforcing your expectations. Actually, apply the same rule to others, also.


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