TFS Meeting Number 83

TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY

Eighty-Third Annual Meeting

The Texas Folklore Society met in Midland, Texas, April 1-3, 1999.
The meeting headquarters was in the Holiday Inn,

Program of Eighty-Third Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 1, 1999

2:00-6:00 p.m., Registration, Lobby, Holiday Inn, Midland
8:00 p.m., Hootenanny and birthday celebration for Paul Patterson

Friday, April 2

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

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

Karen Haile (Bandera), Chair
Carolyn Norgaard (Dallas), "Women A-Horseback, Side or Astride"
Kenneth Davis (Lubbock), "Extracts, Spices, and Soothing Ointments: Peddlers in Central Texas in the Thirties and Forties"
Tony Clark (Georgetown), "History or Hearsay: Some Dubious Assertions about Bat Masterson and Bob Ford"

Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon

John O. West (El Paso), Chair
Wildwood Dean Price (Bonham), "Survival Value in Fannin County, Texas: Then and Now"
Faye Leeper (Irving), "Technology and Fast Foods Can Speed up the Aging Process"
Julia Kumor Hambric (El Paso), "La Charreada: The Traditions and Folklore of the Mexican Rodeo"

12:00 noon, Officers Luncheon

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

Linda Clark (Georgetown), Chair
Rollo Newsom (Austin), "The Oatmeal Festival: Folkways, Inventedways and Fakeways"
George Ewing (Abilene), "Mother's Model T"
Mildred Sentell (Snyder), "Funeral Homes in Small West Texas Towns in the Early Part of the Century"

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

Jim Byrd (Commerce), Chair
James Ward Lee (Denton), "Talking Fancy"
Patrick Dearen (Midland), "Somewhere Over the Pecos: A Patterson Oz"
Elmer Kelton (San Angelo), "Paul Patterson: Teacher, Mentor, Friend"

Cash Bar 6:30 p.m.
Banquet 7:30 p.m.
Presiding: Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon)
Entertainment: Rusty Hudelson and "The Bum Steers"

Hootenanny (following the banquet),

Saturday, April 3

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

Lee Haile (Bandera), Chair
Phyllis Bridges (Denton), "La Quinceanera: Hispanic Folk Custom"
Henry Wolff, Jr. (Victoria), "Ghosts of Goliad"
Business Meeting
Presiding: Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon)
Joyce Roach (Keller), "Baby Lore: The Why and Wherefore of It"
Hazel Abernethy (Nacogdoches), "Grandmother Lore: The Deep and Wide of It"

"The High, Low and More of it," Audience participation

Closing Ceremony
Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon)

President:

Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon)

Vice-President:
Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM)

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

Treasurer:
Carolyn Satterwhite (Nacogdoches)

Directors:
George Ewing (Abilene) 1999
R.G. Dean (Nacogdoches) 2000
Margaret Waring (Comanche) 2000
Rollo Newsom (Austin) 2001
Jerry Lincecum (Sherman) 2001

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

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