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Southwestern Collection
er National Pow-Wow. For more information contact Texas Christian
University Press, Box 3o783, Fort Worth 76129 or call 817/921-7822.
We recently received a notice for the third conference on Recovering
the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, to be held on December 2-3, 1994,
at the University of Houston, University Park. Titled '"The Legacy of a
Literature: Impact and Implications of the U.S. Hispanic Contribution,"
the conference will focus on the literary legacy of Hispanics in what has
become the United States from colonial times to 1 96o. The conference
will feature papers on such topics as analytical studies of recovered au-
thors and/or texts; bibliographic methods; archive accessions; critical
approaches to recovered texts; curriculum development; folklore and
oral histories; historiography; language and linguistics; and preservation
and access. For more information contact Recovering the U.S. Hispanic
Literary Heritage, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun, E. Cullen Per-
formance Hall, Room 254, Houston 77204- 172 or call 713/743-3128.
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TSHA member Paul Gervais Bell wrote the following about the late A.
Frank Smith Jr., one of the Association's most dedicated and best-loved
members.
Angie Frank Smith Jr. was born on November 3, 1915, in Detroit,
Texas, and died on July 1, 1994, at the Methodist Hospital in Houston.
He was a distinguished Texan whose life and career had many facets
and touched many people. He was a prominent attorney, faithful
churchman, civic leader, naval officer, and Texas patriot.
He graduated from Rice Institute in 1937 and from the University of
Texas Law School in 1940 and joined the firm of Vinson and Elkins. He
became a name partner in what was known as Vinson, Elkins, Connally
and Smith and from 1972 to 1981 served as the firm's managing part-
ner. He specialized in natural resources law and was a member of several
important corporate boards.
His devotion to his church was a major factor in his life. His father,
the late Bishop A. Frank Smith, was a much-loved leader in the
Methodist Church. Frank was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist
Church, which he served as chairman of the administrative board and
Sunday School superintendent and from which he received the Distin-
guished Life Award.
He served on many boards, including those of the Baylor College of
Medicine, the Cullen Foundation, the Girl Scouts, the Houston Speech
and Hearing Center, the Houston Symphony Society, the South Texas1994
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