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Inez Foster first became a reality on the planning board of the San Antonio Independent School District on April 13, 1960 and was completed on August 1, 1961.  When the 1961-1962 school year opened, fifteen of its twenty-one classrooms were staffed to accomodate an enrollment of four hundred seventeen students.

The rapid growth of the Pecan Valley area had caused surrounding schools to become overcrowded.  Children of elementary school age who resided at Brooks Air Force Base as well as the Pecan Valley Community needed to have a school closer to their homes. Thus, Foster Elementary was established.
 

Inez Foster was one of the most significant educator-adminsitrators of this century in San Antonio.  She served the San Antonio Independent School District for more than forty years, the last fourteen as Assistant Superintendent in charge of Elementary Education. 

She taught at Columbia University, the University of Alabama, Sul Ross State University and Our Lady of the Lake.  She was the author of a number of texts in English, Mathematics, History, and Reading.  She also served as an officer in a long list of civic organizations in education, health and culture.  Her name is well-known in education and lay circles as she exhibited that kind of professional expertise which brought honor to her profession and that kind of personal ladyship and understanding which made her a friend to every schoolchild and every parent. 
She was immemsely proud to have the school named after her and visited it often.  Inez Foster died June 30, 1982.