TFS Meeting Number 82

TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY

Eighty-Second Annual Meeting

The Texas Folklore Society met in Sherman, Texas, April 9-11, 1998.
The meeting headquarters was in the Holiday Inn,

Program of Eighty-Second Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 9, 1998

2:00-6:00 p.m., Registration, Lobby, Holiday Inn, Sherman
(all sessions held in Austin Rooms I, II, & III)
8:00 p.m., Hootenanny, Austin Rooms I, II, & III

Friday, April 10

8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Registration, Lobby, Holiday Inn, Sherman

Session 1: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Joe Moore (Canyon Lake), Chair
Francis B. Vick (Denton), "The Roy Bedichek Family Letters: Some Views on Doctors, Cures and Animal Life"
Patrick Brannen Vick (Dallas), "The Founding and Traditions of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rockne, Texas"
Becky Matthews (Carlsbad, New Mexico), "The Roswell Incident -- 50th Anniversary Sell-Abration"

Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon

Cynthia Savage (Midland), Chair
Jean Granberry Schnitz (Boerne), "Echoes of Hope and Hebron -- The Songs of Amos and Minnie Granberry"
F.E. Abernethy (Nacogdoches), "Snakes"
John Lightfoot (Lake Jackson), "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"

12:00 noon, Officers Luncheon, Sherman Room

Session 3: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Jim Harris (Hobbs, New Mexico), Chair
Jim Hoy (Emporia, Kansas), "Kansas Cowboys' Influence"
Joy J. Burwell and Robert J. Duncan (McKinny), "Horse of a Different Kind"
Ken Untiedt (Lubbock), "The Police Language: The Lore of Law Enforcement Communication in West Texas"

Session 4: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Dick Holland (Austin), Chair
Robert Flynn (San Antonio), "Bound for Glory"
J.G. "Paw-Paw" Pinkerton (Stamford, Connecticut), "A Lesson to Last a Lifetime"
Patrick Dearen (Midland), "Roping the Wind: Cowboy Weather Lore of the Early Twentieth Century"

Cash Bar 6:30 p.m.
Banquet 7:30 p.m., Austin Rooms I, II, & III
Presiding: Rollo Newsome (Austin)
Speaker: Steven Hardin (Victoria College) "The Congressman, The Coonskin Cap, and the Creation of a Ring-tailed Roarer"

Hootenanny, Austin Rooms I, II, & III (following banquet),

Saturday, April 11

Session 5: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Tom Crum (Granbury), Chair
Olivia Murray Nichols (Dallas), "That'll be the Day: Festivals in Texas"
Business Meeting
Presiding: Rollo K. Newsom (Austin)
Melinda Williams (Denton), "The Barrow Gang: Ralph Fults and His Years with Bonnie and Clyde"
Kelly Mosel (Austin), "Growing Up Female in Texas: The Importance of Beauty Pageants"

Closing Ceremony
Rollo K. Newsom (Austin)

President:

Rollo K. Newsom (Austin)

Vice-President:
Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon)

Secretary-Editor:
F.E. Abernethy (Nacogdoches)

Treasurer:
Carolyn Satterwhite (Nacogdoches)

Directors:
Faye Leeper (Irving) 1998
George Ewing (Abilene) 1999
R.G. Dean (Nacogdoches) 2000
Margaret Waring (Comanche) 2000

Councilors:
Ira Blanton (Alpine) 1999
Tom Crum (Granbury) 1999
W.C. Jameson (Conway, AR) 1999
Henry Wolff (Victoria) 2000

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