The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 75, July 1971 - April, 1972 Page: 236
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
he was hooked on bookmaking, although he first became a pro-
fessional librarian. He was reference librarian at the University of
Kansas, director of the Pan American College Library, and in 1954
was named director of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston. In 1957
he moved over to be director of the San Antonio Public Library,
and three years later he hit the truly big time as head of the Library
system in San Francisco.
Then came the opportunity to return to the University of Texas,
not as a librarian but as a professor of the History and Art of the
Book. His sideline had become the central force in his working life.
With an artist wife he had begun publishing books while in San
Francisco. His wife did the wood blocks and other design, and Hol-
man handled the type.
His book design for Edward Dahlberg: American Ishmael of Letters,
edited by Harold Billings of the University of Texas Library, won
the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award in 1968. For the As-
sociation Holman designed Nancy N. Barker's The French Legation
in Texas. The transparent jacket which has aroused so much com-
ment among collectors of fine boks is his idea. He also designed The
Texas Historian, successor to The Junior Historian; the two most
recent programs for the annual meeting; and a new letterhead for
the Association stationery. At the moment he is at work on a forth-
coming book on Santiago Vidaurri by Ronnie Tyler of the Amon
Carter Museum, which the TSHA will publish in 1972.
A pamphlet received from the Texas State Library announces the
presentation to the state of paintings by Granville Bruce of six Texas
missions. A donation from John B. and Veree McFadin Godfrey of
Austin made possible the paintings of La Bahia of Goliad, and
Concepci6n, San Jose, San Francisco de la Espada, San Juan Capi-
strano, and the Alamo, of San Antonio. The paintings are on ex-
hibition in the Reference Division of the Texas State Library.
W. Eugene Hollon came home to Texas this past May 15 to be
designated as Distinguished Alumnus of East Texas State University.
On that occasion W. Eugene Hollon Day was declared by the city
of Commerce.
Long an expatriate from Texas, Hollon has nevertheless continued
his scholarly and writing interest in his home state and the great
Southwest. After teaching in the public schools he moved to Schreiner
Institute and then to the University of Oklahoma, where he remained236
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