By David M. Horton
Beto at first studied to develop into a Lutheran pastor yet as a substitute used to be known as to educate at Concordia Lutheran university in Austin, Texas. in the course of his two decades at that establishment he turned its president, accelerated it right into a junior collage, racially built-in it, made it co-educational, and improved its amenities. His successes confident the directors of the church to offer him with a problem to revitalize a seminary in Springfield, Illinois. He approved the problem in 1959, yet after 3 years of growth, he left the seminary to develop into the pinnacle of the Texas division of Corrections.
Although Beto had no genuine educational education in corrections and had by no means served in any administrative place in corrections, he had realized by the way. in the course of his final six years in Austin, he had served at the Texas legal Board, a volunteer board that supervised the total criminal method. As a board member he confirmed one of many earliest common schooling improvement checking out courses for prisoners. happily, his years at the board got here throughout the time while reform of the Texas prisons was once the watchword.
During his ten-year time period because the director of the Texas division of Corrections, Beto persevered the reform application. such a lot outstanding have been his efforts at rehabilitation of the inmates and his try out at refining a style of coping with prisoners, known as the Texas regulate version. He persuaded the Texas country legislature to enact a legislation requiring country firms to buy synthetic items from country prisons, which enormously extended and coaching for inmates. In 1969, at Beto’s urging, the Windham college district for instructing inmates grew to become a fact, the 1st of its style at any criminal within the United States.
Beto’s predilection to teach up taking walks in entrance of a given Texas felony, in any respect hours of the day and evening, prepared for an inspection and travel, earned him the nickname “Walking George.” After retiring as head of the Texas felony method in 1972, he turned a professor at Sam Houston nation University's university of felony Justice until eventually 1991. His management and participation propelled it to turn into the main esteemed software within the country.
Beto’s own strength and certain accomplishments outlined him as one of many most well known American penologists of the 20th century. this is often the 1st in-depth biography of the fellow and his contributions.
Walking George, authored by means of of his former scholars, David M. Horton and George R. Nielsen, examines the total lifetime of George John Beto (1916–1991) and his many achievements within the fields of either schooling and felony justice. in the course of his ten-year time period because the director of the Texas division of Corrections, Beto spearheaded many schooling and reform courses aimed toward rehabilitating inmates, reminiscent of the Windham university district for instructing inmates, the 1st of its variety at any legal within the United States.
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When he visited potential donors at their churches and in their homes he could easily converse with them about cattle ranching, farming, the weather, and religion. By the late 1940s and early 1950s everyone Beto visited knew he was there to ask for funds for the school. 55 A typical trip was reported in the student newspaper. Beto left Austin on November 22, 1947, for Menard and the ranch of Frank Wilkinson. On the following Sunday morning he preached at the 10:00 AM church services in Eden and the 11:30 services in Menard.
Then I return home where I read for a couple of hours. Finally I eat supper, go uptown for an hour or so, come home, read until one or two in the morning, go to sleep, get up, and do it all over again. The net result of this is that I am slowly going mad. 41 Unbeknownst to George, on July 28 the president of a small Lutheran preparatory school in central Texas submitted to the dean of the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis an “Application for Supply,” thus setting in motion the placement process whereby seminarians received their first position.
The seminary physical plant was impressive; living accommodations were commodious; academic demands were extremely moderate; the food was more than adequate; and companions were congenial. Generally, I found my fellow seminarians congenial companions. The camaraderie of the institution was one of its greatest assets. Manifestly, some were stuffy, pietistic, and old beyond their years. However, in that relatively large conglomerate of humanity, they could be avoided. My closest friends were Kurt Voss, Hartwig Schwehn, and Kurt Biel.
