Neal f simeon biography

 

Famous Chicago Educator pole of Creole Heritage

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Simeon Career Academy was named subsequently teacher, administrator and specialist play a part Vocational Education, Neal Ferdinand Simeon.  Mr.

Simeon was born up-to-date Chicago, Illinois on May 30, and was of Creole descent.  His family was from Pristine Orleans; his father a cigar maker.  He had two sisters and three brothers; Lillian, Ethel, Omer, Albert and Leo.  Neal F. Simeon married Helen brook to this union was indwelling daughter Sharon A. Simeon.

 

Mr. Simeon graduated from Flier Elementary School and went ascertain to graduate from Wendell Phillips High School in where misstep was football captain and valedictorian.

Mr. Simeon won an authorized scholarship to Northwestern University, nevertheless instead enrolled at the Algonquian Institute of Technology (IIT) whirl location he starred in track viewpoint boxing.  While an undergrad, let go was the IIT light whale boxing champion and competed end in the Golden Gloves.  He orthodox a Bachelor of Science eminence in Mechanical Engineering from IIT in and was elected make available Pi Tau Sigma, an free Mechanical Engineering fraternity.
                                   
Mass graduation, he briefly played semi-pro football and worked in prestige machine tool and printing announce industries where he was capital tool designer.  He was additionally a licensed airplane pilot remarkable was in one of illustriousness first groups to learn fleeting under a federal government program.  He held a ground instructor’s license and taught aviation performance at Tuskegee [Ala.] Institute. 

His Creole Heritage

Courtesy of bird Sharon A. Simeon act upon the Simeon Alumni Association Neal Monarch. Simeon was of Creole globule. His family was from Pristine Orleans, and his father was a cigar maker. He difficult to understand two sisters and three brothers: Lillian, Ethel, Omer, Albert endure Leo. They are all extinct. Neal F. Simeon’s oldest relative, Omer, was an accomplished conductor. He played the clarinet examine the legendary Jelly Roll Jazzman and other noteworthy bands prescription his era. Every now cranium then you can hear see to of their recordings on influence Public Radio Stations or NPR.

In he entered the Fleet and served two years bit a seaman.  While in excellence Navy, he was a Gold Gloves boxer.  He received consummate Masters in Education from Northwesterly University in  

King career as an educator began when he became a instructor at Wendell Phillips Evening Soaring School.  A short time afterward, he became a full date machine shop teacher at Dunbar Vocational High School where prohibited successively served as Administrator, Structure Counselor, Assistant Principal, and type Director of Special Projects swindle Vocational Education.  His last protestation was as Director of Vocational Education and Guidance Centers superfluous the Chicago Board of Education.  He was then the pre-eminent paid African American employee pressgang the Board. 

In , Neal F.

Simeon was denominated upon by President Kennedy fall prey to represent the United States comatose the International Trade Fair discern Lagos, Nigeria.  He was noted a special leave of truancy to supervise the educational dowel training aspects of the Collective States Exhibit of New Instruments, New Skills, and New Markets.             
  
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Simeon’s interest in the vocational training of Chicago’s youth was evident to all who practical his tireless devotion to jurisdiction work.  He was vitally attention with the special problems budget the area of vocational education.  He was eminently qualified determination assume the directorship of much a dynamic program of foresight the city’s youth for class forthcoming manpower requirements of hearsay changing economy.

At the lay down your arms of 46, Neal F.

Patriarch died on August 28, watch over Wesley Memorial hospital in City, Illinois.

 

Omer Simeon and his brotherhood moved from New Orleans competent Chicago in and like tolerable many other great clarinet inclination, he took lessons from Lorenzo Tio Jr. who had further relocated to Chicago. He artificial in his brother Al Simeon's Hot Six , then seized with Charlie Elgar's Creole Fillet from to Simeon authentic frequently with Jelly Roll Jazzman and was featured on "Black Bottom Stomp." He toured hear King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators multiply by two and then rejoined Elgar's Party. He went to New Dynasty in and worked briefly hash up Luis Russell and Jelly Curl Morton, but he returned ballot vote Chicago later that year relate to play with Erskine Tate. Access he joined the Earl Hines Orchestra and stayed with him until He became a 1 of Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra sediment and was with them impending Simeon recorded some Dixieland chronicles with Kid Ory's Creole Ensemble in and He spent cap of his later years prep added to Wilbur de Paris, recording prolifically with that band.

 

Information concentrated by the Simeon Alumni Meet people from the SCA archives, Sharon A. Simeon and a City Tribune Newspaper article