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The TSHA annual meeting program committee is seeking proposals
for the 1998 annual meeting, to be held on March 5-7 in Austin. Com-
mittee chair Vista McCroskey and her committee are looking for papers
on any aspect of Texas history. Sessions at the annual meeting always
cover a wide range of topics, and the 1998 meeting should be no ex-
ception.
The committee prefers that you organize complete sessions, as it is
rarely possible to work a single paper proposal into the program. A com-
plete session proposal includes a chairman and either three paper pre-
senters or two presenters and a commentator. All proposals must
include 1) the session title; 2) the names, addresses, phone numbers, in-
stitutional affiliations (or hometowns), and brief (one-page) resumes of
the chairman, presenters, and commentator; and 3) the title and a short
summary of each paper. Please prepare two copies of your complete
proposal and send them to George B. Ward, TSHA, 2.306 Sid Richard-
son Hall, University Station, Austin 78712. Proposals for the 1998 meet-
ing should be submitted by February 15, 1997, to be considered at the
committee's first meeting, but no later than April 15, 1997, to be con-
sidered at the committee's final meeting. Please call us if you have any
questions.
We were saddened to hear recently of the death of TSHA member
William A. Brown. A fourth-generation Texas lawyer, Mr. Brown, born in
1921 in La Grange, Texas, died November 4 in Houston. He was a grad-
uate of the Harvard Business School (1943) and the University of Texas
Law School (1948). His education was interrupted with service in the
U.S. Army during World War II; he was a participant in the Normandy
invasion. He commenced his legal career in 1948 in Austin, joining the
firm of Powell, Wirtz, Rauhut and McGinnis. In 1983 he moved to
Bryan/College Station to assume a tenured professorship at Texas A&M
University. In 1991 he returned to Houston to begin a limited private
practice. His love and fascination with early Texas history was profound.
In 198o, he and his wife, Ann S. ]Brown, donated the handwritten diary
of Col. Jon Winfield Dancy 1836-.1854 to the TSHA. In recent years he
transcribed and indexed the diary, envisioning a published Texas history
covering the transition period of republic to statehood that would use
the Dancy diary as a primary reference. Colonel Dancy was Mr. Brown's
great-grandfather, a cousin to Gen. Winfield Scott, a lawyer, newspaper
publisher, senator of the Republic of Texas and the first Congress of the
state of Texas, a soldier in numerous Republic-era battles as well as in385
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