The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 76, July 1972 - April, 1973 Page: 325
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Some foods mellow and season with the years, and some just get
spoiled and rotten. Some wines improve with age, and others turn as *
sour as vinegar. One of the heartening facts is that Herbert Gambrell
gets better all the time. We heard him make a reminiscent talk last
spring at the annual meeting of the Texas Institute of Letters, and he
was in superb form, a precise blend of nostalgia and fact.
This deserved praise is by way of saying that Herbert recently sent the
director a copy of the 1933 annual meeting program. In those days it
was mimeographed on one side of yellow paper. The program opened
with a luncheon at the University of Texas cafeteria for the executive
council at Friday noon. In the afternoon Harbert Davenport talked
about the Cortinas war, Curtis Nunn about the state police in the E. J.
Davis regime, Captain Charles F. Ward about the El Paso Salt War, and
Chris Emmett about the camel experiment. Dinner that night featured
K. H. Aynesworth at the Driskill. The Saturday morning program was
held at the University Y.M.C.A. and featured Ralph Steen on the rise
of Texas industry, Frances Abernathy on the lore of Johnson County
colonists, and R. T. Hill on Cabeza de Vaca. The afternoon program
was held in Garrison Hall with Harold Schoen talking on the free Ne-
gro in the Republic of Texas, Mrs. Wm. Mary Bryant on Calhoun and
Texas, Samuel E. Gideon on preservation of the landmarks in Texas,
and no less than Herbert Gambrell on "Anson Jones, The Wandering
Physician." Nowhere on the program are such stalwarts as Eugene C.
Barker or J. Evetts Haley mentioned, although W. E. Wrather, the
president, gets his name on the program because he presided at dinner.
This 1933 meeting was Herbert Gambrell's first. It may also have
been Curtis Nunn's first appearance on a program.
The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is presenting a retro-
spective exhibit of Remington's work. The dates of the exhibit are
January 25 to March 18, 1973.
The Admiral Nimitz Center at Fredericksburg has moved out of the
planning stage and is launching a $5,ooo,ooo fund drive to finance the
project. Plans call for restoring the old Nimitz Hotel, where Chester W.
Nimitz spent his early boyhood, and developing on a city block a mu-
seum telling a three-part story: Admiral Nimitz's formative German-
American environment at Fredericksburg, his early naval career, and
the winning of the Pacific war. Funds are being sought from founda-
tions and private donors.325
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