On November 9, 1925, Reagan Lodge No. 1037 conducted the cornerstone ceremony for John H. Reagan Senior High School at Thirteenth and Arlington, under the direction of the Grand Lodge of Texas. Boy Scouts saluted the flag, a Helms School pupil led the pledge, and Martin Lee Berryman of Heights Senior High delivered an address on the life of John H. Reagan.
Lodge and school shared a namesake and, from that afternoon on, a bond. The lodge’s Worshipful Master that year, C. C. Powell, presided during the ceremony.
The source
Houston Chronicle, Nov. 1, 1925, p. 61: “Masons Will Have Charge of Laying School Cornerstone,” the advance notice of the Reagan High School ceremony.
