The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957 Page: 549
616 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Texas Collection
newscasts-one-third of the program time is devoted to showing photo-
graphic slides of early San Antonio events associated with the week
of the broadcast. The climax of the bank's historical activities for 1956
will come in November when the institution will celebrate its nine-
tieth anniversary.
For twenty-five years the West Texas Museum Association has been
serving the people of West Texas and the South Plains communities
in particular with a program of collecting, preserving, and vividly
telling the story in a variety of media, of Southwestern history, arche-
ology, ethnology, paleontology, and art. The museum was conceived
as a small general museum dedicated to preserving and encouraging
the traditions of West Texas, and to, fulfilling the cultural needs of
the people. In pursuing this objective the West Texas Museum Asso-
ciation has broadened the perspective of large numbers of people in
the region through the media of lectures, films, and guided tours.
The Museum has served as a clearing house for information on his-
tory and anthropology, while in the Art Galleries new exhibitions
each month present the work of artists of the past and of the con-
temporary scene. Particularly outstanding is the Peter Hurd painting
of pioneer frescos depicting the settlement and development of the
South Plains. Other museum facilities which promote local history
include exhibits of various kinds, programs for federated clubs, guided
tours for school students, and historical publications. Local history
was further promoted by the West Texas Museum Association during
the past year when the Southwest Collection of the Museum was
established for the acquisition and preservation of books and archival
material significant to the history of the American Southwest.
Louis Wiltz Kemp, a former president of the Association and
a person known to virtually every student of Texas History during
the last three decades, died in Houston on Thursday, November
15, 1956. Lou Kemp was always a tower of strength in the Texas
State Historical Association as he was in numerous other organi-
zations. He was a man of great character and wholly selfless in
his services to Texas and on behalf of Texas History. He was the
best informed man on the personnel of the Republic of Texas,
and it would seem unlikely that any other person would ever
achieve the proficiency which he did in this field.
Long before his death he was called "The Father of the Texas
State Cemetery." He did more to place the outstanding servants
of Texas in an honored and lasting repository than any other
score of Texans had ever done. Already there have been numbers549
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957, periodical, 1957; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101163/m1/593/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.