The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 75, July 1971 - April, 1972 Page: 235
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lished a history of the Korean War (1965), prepared the report
of the Presidential Commission on the Selective Service (1966-i967),
and authored several government agency publications.
Evans Walker is assistant director of the library. Prior to his ap-
pointment, Walker had experience at the Office of Presidential Li-
braries in Washington, D.C., the Federal Records Center in Boston,
and the National Archives and Records Service. A local boy come
home, Walker was born in Brownwood and received B.A. and M.A.
degrees from the University of Houston.
Archivists for the LBJ Library are Charles E. Corkran and John
Fawcett. Both men served as archivists for the Herberbert Hoover
Presidential Library. Corkran returns to Austin, where he received
B.A. and M.A. degrees and worked at the University Archives and
the Archives Division, 'Texas State Library. Fawcett has experience
in the National Archives and Records Service and the Office of Presi-
dential Libraries, in addition to participation in projects related
to the development of the LBJ Library.
Gary A. Yarrington is museum curator. He previously has been an
exhibits designer for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and
curator at the Davenport, Iowa, Public Museum.
Mrs. Dorothy P. Territo is special assistant to the director of the
library.
E. C. Barksdale, venerable and venerated, has received all kinds
of honors as he retires from the chairmanship of the History Depart-
ment at the University of Texas, Arlington. Among other things,
the Arlington chapter of Phi Alpha Theta has designated a regional
series as the E. C. Barksdale Lectures. I must say personally that
Barksdale's retirement makes me feel a thousand years older.
Your director was named Alumnus of the Year by Phi Theta Kappa,
national honorary society for junior college students, at its annual
meeting in Biloxi this past April.
William R. Holman, more reverently known as Bill Holman to
just about everybody interested in fine printing, was the object of
a long feature by Bill Warren in the Austin American Statesman on
May 30, 1971. Holman turned out his first "book" when he was in
the seventh grade. The teacher asked for one of those over-long
notebooks of printed articles about the government, and Holman
went a step beyond his teenage colleagues. From that time forward235
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