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possessed unusual skill as a designer, and an editorial eye that never
missed a grammatical flaw or failed to tune up a false note. I know
that this director never second-guessed her on any of her editorial
decisions, and I suspect the same would be true for his predecessor.
I particularly took delight in her puckish sense of humor, and her
ability to maneuver words into a pattern that was somewhere between
outlandish, outrageous, and hilarious. She has been a delightful as-
sociate, and the Junior Historian movement will never be the same
without her.
Ecumene is a new geographical publication being issued under
the sponsorship of East Texas State University. In their announcement
the editors state that they "wish to provide a vehicle by which . . .
comparatively small but well understood areas may be revealed to
and discussed with other students of the physical and cultural environ-
ments. . . Ecumene proposes to perform the task of communicating
some part of that information by publishing studies pertinent to the
discipline of geography." Authors are invited to submit manuscripts
to Box 3036, E.T. Station, Commerce, Texas 75428. This is to be a
quarterly publication, with periodic special issues; but quarterly fre-
quency will not be achieved until the third year of the publication.
Until it becomes a quarterly, Ecumene will remain a free publication.
So many of our good friends fall by the wayside that we can't begin
to give individual notice to them all. Consequently we usually reserve
mention for those who either have been officials of the Association or
have rendered it a particular service.
I will here use my editor's prerogative to notice the death last year
of Dr. James Gordon Bryson, physician, author, rancher, scholar,
columnist, former mayor of Bastrop, sunday-school teacher, and fine
conversationalist. He "birthed" nearly every baby in Bastrop County
for thirty-seven years, dispensing homely advice along with his medi-
cine. Still ready to work a sixteen-hour day, he retired at 63 to oper-
ate his farms in the Brazos bottoms. Then at 72 years of age he re-
turned to the University of Texas to study history and philosophy.
Like Roy Bedichek, he began writing in his 70's and turned out two
books, One Hundred Dollars and a Horse and Culture of the Shin
Oak Ridge Folk, both of them full of enticing local history.
Association members were saddened recently by the untimely death
of Earl W. Fornell, professor of government at Lamar State College
of Technology. Dr. Fornell, a fellow of the Association, was a memn-108
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