The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 88
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
2:oo P.M. JUNIOR HISTORIAN TOUR OF AUSTIN
Texas Memorial Museum, the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, and other
historic and interesting places to be open to the Junior Historians on Saturday
afternoon. The Association will be happy to furnish guides for the various groups.
Buses will be available at a nominal fee for those desiring them. It is hoped that
in the informality of the tour the junior members of the various groups may get
acquainted with each other.
The Junior Historians will also be welcome at all meetings of the senior Asso-
ciation, either Friday or Saturday afternoons.
Earl Vandale, president of the Association, has been ill and had
not recuperated sufficiently to be able to attend the meeting. In
his absence Vice-President Herbert P. Gambrell, who was later
elected the new president of the Association, presided at the
dinner on Friday night and at the executive council and business
meetings. J. Evetts Haley read the paper on "The Passing of the
Longhorn" for T. R. Havins, who was prevented by illness in
the family from attending the meeting.
Decorations for the Junior Historian luncheon were provided
by Mrs. Sybil Jordan and the Junior Historians of Robert E. Lee
High School at Baytown. Red and white checked tablecloths and
ranch figures gave a real West Texas flavor to the occasion. Favors
were pots of candy cactus growing in salted peanuts.
The auction this year was allotted slightly less time than in
years past, but it resulted in an income of $632.75 to the Asso-
ciation. George P. Isbell, regular high sheriff of the auction, an-
nounced that the "Vandale system" of auctioning the books in
the order listed would be followed and introduced the auc-
tioneers. They were Dr. Wilbert H. Timmons, professor of his-
tory at Texas Western College at El Paso, who in his graduate
student days at the University of Texas became a favorite auc-
tioneer for the Association; David M. Vigness, a University grad-
uate student who takes his doctorate in history in June; Ben
Procter, the University's Phi Beta Kappa football hero who has
begun graduate work in history with the expectation of becoming
a history teacher; and Alfred J. Jackson, cadet colonel of the
University's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps who, after
his military service, plans to continue in graduate history work
at the University. The thanks of the Association are due not only
to those who participated in the work of the auction but also to
all the following persons who gave books. If any contributor's
name has been omitted, please notify the office.
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