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Richard S. Slocomb

YHS Class of 1942

Businessmen build cities. Richard S. Slocomb’s leadership left a lasting mark on a still growing area in Greater Houston.

He holds distinction among graduates of C. H. Yoe High School as the only known founding chairman of the board of a now flourishing community college that serves more than a half million students yearly. He led earliest growth of San Jacinto College for 11 years from its beginning in 1960. SJC provides higher and vocational education in the Harris County communities of Pasadena, Pearland, LaPorte, Channelview, Galena Park, Clear Lake, Deer Park, and parts of Houston proper on three campuses and seven extension centers.  SJC trustees recognized Dick’s leadership with a lasting namesake, Slocomb Auditorium. Then in 1971 Gov. Preston Smith appointed him for 7 years to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.  SJC was not the only institution he grew from the ground up. Slocomb Insurance Agency in Galena Park, founded by Dick and his brother Guy V. Slocomb, continues in operation after 57 years. Additionally, he was founding president of Universal Savings and Loan in Houston and building chairman for his church.  His leadership skills appeared when he was elected president of his 1942 YHS senior class. He then graduated from Southwestern University and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps before entering the business world.