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A symposium, "Southern Agriculture since the Civil War," is to be held
in Starkville, Mississippi, in June, 1978. Persons wishing to present papers
at the symposium may correspond with Wayne D. Rasmussen, Agricul-
tural History Group, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250, or with Roy V. Scott, Department
of History, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762.
The Texas State Genealogical Society will hold its 1976 annual seminar
and workshop in Dallas, November 4-6, at the Baker Hotel. Those inter-
ested in registering should contact Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, 2515 Sweet-
briar Drive, Dallas 75228.
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About half of West Texas seemed to turn out for the eighty-fifth birth-
day party for Rupert N. Richardson in Abilene this past April 27. Time
may take its toll on other people, but Richardson seems oblivious. During his
eighty-fourth year he toured the Orient, rewrote and updated one of his
books, edited the latest edition of the West Texas Historical Association
Yearbook, and carried on his usual routine of research, speaking engage-
ments, and church work. That is not bad for a man who fifty-nine years
ago this past April began teaching his first classes at old Simmons College.
I wonder how many professors are still teaching at eighty-five. Richardson
regularly teaches two courses, one in "Trans-Mississippi West Since I950"
and the other a graduate seminar in Texas history. Since having taken a
Richardson course is a badge of honor around Abilene, older citizens
regularly enroll. This past spring two of Hardin-Simmons's trustees sat in
on the seminar-Sam Waldrop, an Abilene businessman, and Mrs. Lacey
(Agnes) Beckham, also of Abilene. Even while Richardson was president
of Hardin-Simmons from i943 to 1953, he kept his hand in teaching, and
after becoming president emeritus, returned to a full teaching schedule.
As Distinguished Research Professor in History at Hardin-Simmons,
Richardson has the privilege of setting his own teaching pace. He has
regularly taught six hours a semester since he was given that honor.
The Rupert N. Richardson Research Center for the Southwest, to be
known generally by the shorter title of Richardson History Center, has
passed the planning stage at Hardin-Simmons University and among the
friends of Richardson. The plan is to raise $I,ooo,ooo to house important
historical collections already in Abilene, and to obtain new archives that217
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