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Charles Rutledge Dyer, Jr
September 11, 1930 - July 12, 2014

DYER JR., CHARLES RUTLEDGE, Longtime Dallas ISD educator and Dallas resident CRD passed away at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas on July 12, 2014. Dyer served as a teacher, coach, principal, and administrator in DISD for 38 years, the last 26 of which were in the Athletic Department. Dyer was born in Greenville, Texas and attended Greenville High School and East Texas State Teacher's College (now Texas A&M Commerce). After graduating from college in 1951, Dyer served as a Physical Education teacher and coach at Preston Hollow Elementary School and Franklin Junior High School. He then served as an assistant principal at Thomas Jefferson Rusk Junior High School from 1960 until 1968 when he moved to the Athletic Department central office. Dyer was an Area Athletic Director at the time of his retirement in 1989. During his time in DISD, Dyer organized and conducted innumerable sports events including the annual Dr. Pepper basketball tournament. He was most proud of witnessing Michael Carter's herculean throw of 81 feet, 3 and a half inches in 1979 to shatter the national high school shot put record by more than nine feet, all while being coached by Dyer's son-in-law James Neeley at Thomas Jefferson High School. Dyer considered Carter, Franklin Roosevelt sprinter Roy Martin, Woodrow Wilson footballer Tim Brown and Thomas Jefferson pitcher Jimmy Jones among the greatest high school athletes he ever watched.

Dyer was also instrumental in developing and implementing DISD's swimming program which became a national model. Dyer was passionate about teaching every child to swim and during summers he personally taught hundreds of school children in the Preston Hollow area to swim. He was also passionate about implementing Title IX in DISD so that girls could have the same opportunities as the boys to play interscholastic sports.

During the 1970's and 80's, Dyer, along with legendary college football coaches Bud Wilkinson and Duffy Daugherty, ran the annual Coach of the Year Football Clinic in Dallas. From the inception of the Dallas Cowboys in 1960 until the sale of the team to Jerry Jones in 1989, Dyer also ran the program sales for the Cowboys, giving dozens of teenage boys their first employment and the opportunity to attend the games for free.

Dyer served as president of the Texas High School Athletic Directors Association and on many committees of the National High School Athletic Directors Association. He was elected the Texas High School Athletic Director of the Year in 1982 and was inducted into the Texas High School Athletic Association's Hall of Honor in 1990.

Dyer also served as an infantry officer in the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard from 1949 to 1964. He is survived by his wife Martha, daughter Debbie Neeley, son David Dyer and his four grandchildren and great-granddaughter.

Family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 pm on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at Restland Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be held at 2:30 pm on Thursday, July 17, 2014 at Restland Memorial Chapel.