Weldon Doyle Dacus was the first All-State End in football at Brady High School and won State in pole vault. He also played basketball and tennis. Georgia Grace Osbome Dacus played volleyball and softball at Abilene High School. Mr. and Mrs. Dacus began their Jim Ned journey in 1976 and not only supported their children in all their athletic activities but spread their love of sport watching by contributing to athletic programs following the gradu-ation of their children. As athletes themselves, the Dacus' understood the value of the ded-ication needed to achieve individual and team goals.
The six children of Mr. and Mrs. Dacus will serve as the "Selection Committee." Neither the Athletic Director nor any JNCISD Coaches will have any vote in the selection process. When a scholarship applicant has a parent or grandparent relation to a member of the se-lection committee, that member will not participate in the selection process of any appli-cant.
Dacus Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization made up of an action-oriented group of Weldon and Georgia Dacus family members and alumni of the JNCISD, and volunteers from the Jim Ned Valley community.
Barbara Marceille White McIntyre was a 1945 graduate of Tuscola High School. She married Ernest Donald McIntyre, 1936 Tuscola High School graduate. Marceille's contri-butions to South Taylor County were numerous and wide reaching. She was born into a family with deep roots in the Jim Ned Valley dating back to the 1880's. She contributed to the community through her work with the Taylor County Historical Commission, Rural Taylor County Senior Citizens, South Taylor County Lions Club, Tuscola United Method-ist Church, and Jim Ned Valley Heritage Preservation. As well as her work at the McIn-tyre Grocery and First State Bank in Tuscola, now First National Bank. She was a long-time contributor to the Jim Ned Journal writing articles of historical interest.
The six children of Mr. and Mrs. Dacus will serve as the "Selection Committee." When a scholarship applicant has a parent or grandparent relation to a member of the selection committee, that member will not participate in the selection process of any applicant.
Dacus Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization made up of an action-oriented group of Weldon and Georgia Dacus family members and alumni of the JNCISD, and volunteers from the Jim Ned Valley community.
Beginning in 2009, JNVHP collected south Taylor County, TX photographs of individuals, groups, schools, churches, businesses and communities, collected school yearbooks and imaging of shared yearbooks, graduation programs and invitations, old newspaper articles, funeral service programs and imaging of funeral records, photographing cemetery headstones, as well as recording oral histories of early pioneers. Jim Ned Valley Heritage Preservation was formed in 2009 and later restated as Dacus Foundation in 2022. www.dacusfoundation.org
Continuing the early efforts of preserving these collections, the Dacus Foundation has begun sharing some of this collection and expounding up on them through Facebook pages titled "Dacus Founda tion-Preservation Archives", "Tuscola, Texas Friends, Neighbors, and History", and collaborate with "Lawn, Texas Friends, Neighbors and History" and "Ovalo Texas History".
You may be or know someone who is the lucky one to have been entrusted with generations of photo-graphs or historical records pertaining to Buffalo Gap, Cedar Gap, Tuscola, Ovalo, Lawn, Guion, Bradshaw, Moro, Bluff Creek, Shep, Happy Valley or Jim Ned. As you go through your collections, consider sharing with or donating to the Dacus Foundation archives collections program. Please con tact Debbie Dacus Stewart (512) 633-9642 or Kelly Tomlin Sherley (325) 721-7059.
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