Campus Info
George T. Abell Jr. High was dedicated on Sunday, October 24, 1993. Jack Hightower, president of the MISD Board of Trustees, presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony and presentation of a portrait of Mr. Abell to the district.
George Abell would be proud of the vivid cobalt-blue, conical-shaped gales, the wide open interiors of the 150,000 square foot facility.
Abell Jr. High opened its doors to a student population of 850 in the 1993-1994 school year.
Abell has maintained its modern structure and has recently been upgraded with fresh paint throughout the building, a turf field, and a regulation track. Abell staff and students are proud of our beautiful campus!
Mr. Abell was chairman for the original fundraising effort to build Midland Memorial Hospital. One of Midland's original pioneer oilmen and philanthropists, Mr. Abell also served as president of the Board of Education of the Midland Independent School District when the Midland High School Auditorium was built. He also led the capital funds campaign for the Buffalo Trails Council of the Boy Scouts, which secured the 6,000 acre scout camp in the Davis Mountains. While serving as a director of the Midland Chamber of Commerce, he originated the idea for the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum. He personally researched and commissioned many of the oil paintings of historical events which are now displayed on the museum grounds.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Abell aspired to great hopes and dreams for their country and mankind and they envisioned the fulfillment of noble purposes for their own community. In 1954, they created the Abell-Hanger Foundation to further these noble purposes and forever touch the lives of the people they would never meet.
George Abell was a successful man not only because of his savvy in the oil business, but also for his love of the country in which he lived and his love for its people and its history. He was a self-made man who always felt obligated to return to the land part of what he had earned; he gave back far more than he had received.