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ing April 6-7 in San Angelo. Some of the sessions will be held at Fort
Concho and the others at the Holiday Inn. For further information,
contact Dr. Kenneth R. Jacobs, Department of History, Hardin-
Simmons University, Abilene 79698.
The Program Committee for the Association's 1985 annual meeting
is now receiving suggestions for sessions and papers. That meeting
will be held in Fort Worth at the Hilton Hotel, February 28-March
2, 1985. If you would like to present a paper, contact a member of
the committee: Ben H. Procter, chairman (Department of History,
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth 76129); Jo Stewart Randel;
Lawtie Adams; Roger M. Olien; Sharon R. Crutchfield; Henry J.
Hauschild; Robert A. Calvert; or William J. Brophy.
The 1984 Confederate History Symposium will be held at the Hill
Junior College library, Hillsboro, on April 14. Registration is twelve
dollars for members of sponsoring organizations and fifteen dollars
for others, and will take place from 8:oo to 8:50 A.M at the library.
Speakers at the symposium, which focuses on Robert E. Lee, include
James W. Pohl, Grady H. McWhiney, Harold B. Simpson, Frank E.
Vandiver, and Ralph W. Widener, Jr., with remarks by Elbert
Hutchins and B. D. Patterson. Other activities include the ninth
biennial reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade Association, an autograph
party for six authors of Civil War studies, Confederate firing and
skirmishing demonstrations, and a concert of Civil War songs. Spon-
soring organizations are Hood's Texas Brigade Camp 1324, Sons of
Confederate Veterans; Confederate Research Center, Hill Junior Col-
lege; Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans; and Hood's Texas
Brigade Association. For further information contact Confederate Re-
search Center, P.O. Box 619, Hillsboro 76645 (817/582-2555)-
A ccessions
Papers of Adele Lubbock Briscoe Looscan and her husband, Major
Michael Looscan, have been given to the Harris County Heritage So-
ciety. Adele Looscan (1848-1935) was a charter member of the Asso-
ciation and its president from 1915 to 1925. A respected amateur
historian, Mrs. Looscan contributed articles to the Quarterly and to
other journals, as well as to Dudley G. Wooten's A Comprehensive
History of Texas (1898). She was a founder of the Daughters of the299
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