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Jack Bailey

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We're proud of our classmate, Jack Bailey, who was inducted into the Sam Rayburn Hall of Honor in 2015.

JACK BAILEY - Class of 1967 -
Sam Rayburn High 2015 Hall of Honor Inductee

Jack Bailey’s contributions to the Pasadena community reached a pinnacle in 2010 when he was elected to serve on the Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees. Since then, Bailey has served a pair of one-year terms as board president while becoming one of the most active members of the Pasadena ISD Education Foundation other school district-related groups.

Most notably, Bailey has played the lead role in organizing the annual Education Foundation Golf Tournament, now one of the foundation’s top revenue sources. He also serves on the organizing committees for the McDonald’s Texas Invitational Basketball Tournament and the Pasadena ISD Athletics Hall of Fame.

Pasadena, however, isn’t the only community on Bailey’s public-service plate. He currently serves on the board of directors of Operación San Andrés (OSA), an organization committed to relieving poverty in Collique, a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Bailey travels to Lima twice a year to help provide medical services and assist in home construction. Last fall Bailey helped to break ground on a church building in Collique.

Bailey can truly be called a blue-blooded Sam Rayburn Texan. Born in Alabama, he spent his schools days in the Pasadena ISD, arriving at Sam Rayburn as sophomore when the school opened in 1964. After graduating from the University of Houston, he married Kathy Corder, his high school sweetheart and a 1968 Sam Rayburn graduate.

Kathy Bailey went on to teach 26 year in the Pasadena ISD. She and Jack raised two sons, John and Stephen, both Sam Rayburn graduates. Both boys married Pasadena ISD graduates who took up education careers within the district.

During his boys’ youth sports days, Bailey coached and served on the boards of three Pasadena baseball organizations. He worked with the American Legion baseball program and assisted in coaching the team that represented Sam Rayburn High, including several squads that advanced to the American Legion Baseball state finals.

Most of Bailey’s working career was spent in the greater Houston area in association with the local J. I. Case heavy construction equipment dealership. He entered the dealership as a sales representative, served as sales manager and then finished as vice president and general manager.

Jack and Kathy Bailey are now retired. They remain active members of South Main Baptist Church in Pasadena, where Jack teaches an adult Sunday School class and serves with the deacon body.

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