Hall of Fame: Sandy (Meyer) Crawford

Crawford is pictured above with her family.

When Sandy (Meyer) Crawford’s son was in junior high, class sizes within the Lennox School District were getting too big and the district was not interested in building in Tea.

Crawford was one of five to be inducted into the Tea Area School District Hall of Fame during homecoming in September.

At the time, Crawford ran for the Lennox School District school board to get some representation on the north end of the district. 

“Wayne Larsen and I were elected to the school board and that’s kind of where the biggest part of this for me came into play because we had numerous attempts to persuade the district into building a high school somewhere in the middle rather than down in Lennox because of the growth and to no avail,” she said. “The next step was to petition and put to a vote to the public to redistrict.”

Crawford got involved in redistricting by gathering petition signatures and establishing boundary lines. She stayed on the Lennox School District board until the district’s split and then she switched to helping with fundraising efforts for the Tea Area School District like the golf tournament, omelets in a bag and Krispy Kreme donuts.

“It was pretty much a full-time job for a while,” she said.

Crawford lived in between Tea and Lennox from 1986 until 2005. Her son graduated from Lennox in 2005. Since they do leatherwork for a living, Crawford had planned to move to a more western area after he graduated from high school. In 2005, she moved to Penrose, Colo., where she does leatherwork and western and wildlife photography.

On being named to the Hall of Fame, she was surprised and humbled.

“I don’t live there anymore and haven’t for a time. I am immensely proud of what has become of the district, but I was very surprised. I think there are many others that I think would be much more worthy of that than me,” Crawford said.

She wishes she had the words for how it makes her feel to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

“It gives me a great deal of pride to know that the work that we did so many years ago had a part in what has become of this district,” she said.