Tasbo.net
Title
Tennessee Association of School
Description
In 1965, John Freeman, Assistant Superintendent, Business Affairs, Bob Davis, Director of Accounting, and Pat Wills, Director of Purchasing and Warehousing, all from Memphis City Schools, attended the ASBO Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
During that conference, the three of them met with Jim McCullough, Assistant Superintendent for Business Affairs for the Chattanooga School System, and discussed the feasibility of forming a state organization. The original idea was that a state organization would be of benefit to all school business people in the state, so that additional resources could be made available. They all considered it a good idea.
In 1966, at the Tennessee Superintendent's Conference in Gatlinburg, twenty-two business officials met at the Mountain View Hotel and put together the details of the organization, which would become known as the Tennessee Association of School Business Officials (TASBO).
