M. R. Wood
M. R. Wood Alternative Education Center
M.R. Wood was the Imperial Sugar Company engineer who designed the Lakeview Auditorium. He was also appointed to the Sugar Land Independent School District Board of Education on May 10, 1920, succeeding C. B. Gillespie in an unexpired term. His popularity among fellow board members earned him the appointment of Board president shortly thereafter. Wood was re-elected to the Board of Education on April 11, 1922, and again served as president of the Board. On July 27, 1939, he resigned from his seat on the Sugar Land ISD Board of Education.