Group photograph of the Inquiry (US expert advisers) Paris 1919. Original text: Staff of the Inquiry at the Paris Peace Conference. Sitting (left to right) : Charles H. Haskins, Western Europe; Isaiah Bowman, Chief of Territorial Intelligence; S. E. Mezes, Director; James Brown Scott, International Law; David Hunter Miller, International Law; Standing: Charles Seymour, Austria-Hungary; R. H. Lord, Poland; W.L. Westermann, Western Asia; Mark Jefferson, Cartography; Colonel House; George Louis Beer, Colonies; D.W. Johnson, geography; Clive Day, Balkans; W. E. Lunt, Italy; James T. Shotwell, History; A. A. Young, Economics. Photo Credit: WikiMedia Commons
By Ken Bridges Special to the Herald Democrat The early 1900s was a formative time for education in Texas. Sidney Mezes, a one-time president of…