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mission. A reception for incoming president A. Frank Smith was held
immediately afterward in the lobby of the Texas State Library. William
Gooch, director of the library, and Chris LaPlante, director of the
Texas State Archives, were co-hosts with the Association.
The session on the Destruction of Mission San Sabd painting, which was
confiscated by the U.S. Customs Service from Austin bookseller Doro-
thy Sloan in November, attracted an overflow audience on Friday
morning. Robert S. Weddle of Bonham and Sam D. Ratcliff of South-
ern Methodist University gave papers on the mission and the painting,
and Dan L. Flores of Texas Tech University provided a comment. A
press conference followed the session, during which a representative of
the U.S. Attorney's office announced that the painting was being placed
on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for exhibition and safe-
keeping. Association director Ron Tyler has contacted Peter C. Marzio,
director of the museum, to arrange for a scholarly symposium on the
painting in Houston sometime this fall.
The Association's annual prizes were awarded at Friday's Presidential
Luncheon, following Robert Calvert's talk on "Sisters of the Grange."
Andreas V. Reichstein, a program consultant for North German Broad-
casting living in Hamburg, West Germany, won the $2,000 Kate Broocks
Bates Award for Historical Research for his book entitled Rise of the
Lone Star: The Making of Texas, translated by Jeanne R. Willson (Texas
A&M University Press). Randolph B. (Mike) Campbell of the Univer-
sity of North Texas won the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize of
$ 1,500 for his book, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in
Texas (Louisiana State University Press). Mike also won the H. Bailey
Carroll Award of $500 for the best article in volume 93 of the Southwest-
ern Historical Quarterly with his article entitled "The District Judges of
Texas in 1866-1867: An Episode in the Failure of Presidential Recon-
struction," which was published in the January 1990 theme issue on Re-
construction in Texas. Bonnie Truax, the education curator at the In-
stitute of Texan Cultures, won the $i,ooo Leadership in Education
Award for her work with teachers, especially the summer program for
teacher training that she has conducted for several years. Katherine B.
Adams of the Barker Texas History Center and W. Thomas Taylor of
Austin won the Coral Horton Tullis Research Fellowship of $1,ooo for
their project on Revolutionary-era broadsides printed in Texas. This
award was announced last December.
Immediately following the luncheon, everyone gathered in the lobby
of the Hyatt Hotel for the first annual "Toast to Texas," which was or-
ganized in cooperation with Frank Lively, editor of Texas Highways
magazine, and the Summerlee Foundation in Dallas. The foundation,
which is dedicated to Texas history and the care of and prevention of

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