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Margaret Davis Teague

Margaret Louise Teague was born Decmber 27, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Davis in Snyder, Texas. She graduated from the Rotan High School, Rotan, Texas in 1939, and entered McMurry College, Abilene, Texas [1] that fall. In her junior year she transferred to West Texas State College, Canyon, Texas [2] and continued there until January, 1942 when she withdrew to travel with her husband, Lt. Harold A. Capelutto, a pilot of the United States Air Force. Lt. Capelutto [3]was killed during the invasion of Europe in 1944. Maragret and her young son returned to Colorado City, Texas, where she was employed in a refinery of Standard Oil Company during World War II. In 1946, she was employed by the Rotan Independent School District [4], Texas to teach Biology and Chemistry.

In 1947 she married Elmo A. Teague. She earned a B.A. degree in Chemistry in January 1959, from Howard Payne College [5] Brownwood, Texas.

She was the head of the Science Departments at both Killeen High School [6] and Ellison High School [7] in Killeen, TX, where she taught biology, chemistry, physics and general science from 1964 to 1981. Later she entered Texas Woman's University [8] on the A.Y.I. Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation [9] and earned her Master’s of Science Degree in Science Education in 1963, and her doctorate in radiation biology [10] in May, 1971 from the same university in Denton, TX. Her dissertation was on, Morphology and Function of the Gonads of Rats Exposed to Acute Prepubertal Postnatal Irradiation. During her tenure with the Killeen Independent School District [11], Dr. Teague was active in the high school Science Clubs, the American Association of University Women [12],the Texas State Teacher’s Association [13], the University Interscholastic League [14], the Business and Professional Women’s Association, Delta Kappa Gamma [15], Texas Classroom Teachers Association [16], and National Education Association [17]. Dr. Teague’s roster of former students includes many doctors, lawyers, scientists, teachers and other professionals, as well as businessmen and women, clergy, civic and community leaders and extraordinary citizens. She inspired her children, and her students, to become worthwhile contributors to society, good stewards of the environment, active participants in the democratic process and believers in the power of love and prayer, the importance of family, and the gratifying rewards of self-determination.