Texas State Historical Association One Hundredth Annual Meeting, 1996 Page: 4
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Welcome to the
Annual Meeting
One hundred and fifty years ago, on February 19, President Anson
Jones lowered the flag of the Republic of Texas at Washington-on-the-
Brazos and watched as it was replaced by the stars and stripes of the
United States of America. "The final act in this great drama is now per-
formed," he told the small crowd in his valedictory. "The Republic of
Texas is no more."
Paul Lack, vice-president for academic affairs at McMurry University
and a recently elected TSHA Fellow, will focus on the annexation ques-
tion in "Failed Texas Nationalism and Annexation," which he will present
to the Fellows' Luncheon on Saturday, March 2. But the sesquicentennial
of Texas's admission to the Union is only one of the topics we will consid-
er during our looth annual meeting. Mary Beth Rogers of the LBJ School
of Public Affairs will discuss "My Brush With History" at the Women and
Texas History Luncheon, and David E. Narrett of the University of Texas
at Arlington will tell the "Tale of Two Republics" at the Awards Luncheon.
TSHA President Felix D. Almariz Jr. will talk about "Texas Governor
Manuel Salcedo and the Court-Martial of Padre Miguel Hidalgo" at the
Presidential Banquet. In addition, we will feast on such heady topics as
former University of Texas Regent Frank Erwin's role in the hectic 196os,
with a comment by John Silber, former dean of the School of Liberal Arts
at UT Austin and president of Boston University.
The two lanterns pictured on this page first appeared in the
Association's program at its golden anniversary meeting in April 1947.
They have been used frequently during the ensuing years and have
become our unofficial logo.
As we plan for our centennial observance next year, we reintroduce
these lanterns in the hope that their light will guide our path just as it has
for others for almost a century. Lester G. Bugbee, a founding member of
the Association, told of the significance of the lanterns in the manuscript
minutes of the Association's general organization meeting on March 2,
1897. Interested parties had gathered in the office of the Commission of
Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics, and History in the capitol to draw up the
organization's constitution and elect officers and fellows. The meeting ran
past closing time for the capitol light plant, and the lights were turned
off. Bugbee recorded that "the remaining business was hurriedly transact-
ed by the light of two lanterns that had been procured from the janitor."
Welcome to Austin for our looth annual meeting.
Ron Tyler
Director
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