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superintendent spoke to her about her failure to attend the
teachers' monthly meetings, she replied that she "attended teach-
ers' meetings when she had nothing more urgent to attend to."7
The matter was referred to the grievance committee for investi-
gation, but Miss De Zavala must have had the situation well in
hand. On March 9 she was granted an "authorized" leave of
absence."
Miss Driscoll, born into the rich Robert Driscoll family on
April 2, 1881, was reared on a ranch near Corpus Christi, Texas.
The vivacious and volatile young beauty, once described as "a
restless redhead of 22," made good newspaper copy.9 She found
time in Texas to have a wildcat for a pet and to apprehend rust-
lers, so said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which reported that she
once singlehandedly covered a group of cattle thieves with her
pistol. Since her womanly instincts would not allow an inter-
ruption of the menfolks' meal-the dinner consisted of one of
her father's steers-she sat down to eat with them.0
Young Clara attended private schools in San Antonio and New
York and spent a number of years studying at a Roman Catholic
school in France." Upon completion of her studies, Miss Dris-
coll and her mother traveled in Europe and Asia and for a time
lived on a houseboat on the Godavari River, Bombay, India.
There Miss Driscoll met an Indian woman who, she confided
to friends, had a great influence upon her life. 2 While return-
ing to the United States by way of England, illness felled Mrs.
Robert Driscoll, and she died on May 23, 1899. Miss Driscoll re-
turned to San Antonio, where her mother was buried in the
family mausoleum on December 2, 1899.13 In May of the fol-
lowing year she again left Texas for Europe, not to return to the
Alamo City until "the early winter of the year 1903."14
7Board of Education meeting, January 16, 19o4, ibid., E, 86.
SBoard of Education meeting, March 9, 19go4, ibid., 112.
'Time, XLVI (July 30o, 1945), 23-24-
10St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 29, 1905.
"Margaret Elizabeth Goodson, "Clara Driscoll, Philanthropist-Politician" (un-
published M. A. thesis, Texas College of Arts and Industries, 1950), 11.
"Ibid.
s"San Antonio Express, December 2, 3, 1899.
"uDRT Report, 19o6, p. 44.374
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