TFS Meeting Number 84

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Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting

The Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting was held April 20-22, 2000 in Nacogdoches, Texas at the Hotel Fredonia
All sessions were held in Convention Center B, Fredonia Hotel.

Program of Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 20, 2000

2:00-7:00 p.m., Registration, Foyer, Fredonia Hotel, Nacogdoches
8:00 p.m., Hootenanny, Banita Ballroom

Friday, April 21

8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Registration, Foyer, Fredonia Hotel, Nacogdoches

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

Francis B. Vick (Dallas), Chair
Welcome: TFS President-Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM)
Lucy Fischer West (El Paso), "Folklore by Osmosis: Three Decades with John O."
Thad Sitton (Austin), "Now You Hear My Horn: Uses of the Blowing Horn in the Southern Big Woods Lifeway"
Larry Warburton (Alice), "Violence in the Diamond of Texas"

Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon

Rollo Newsom (San Marcos), Chair
Archie P. McDonald (Nacogdoches), "The Making of a Househusband"
Linda Majors Clark (Georgetown), "Grampa's Passion: Baseball"
Dallas Cothrum (Tyler), "Just Pain Mean: Louis T. Wigfall"

12:00 noon, Officers Luncheon, Angelina Room

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

Phyllis Bridges (Denton), Chair
Jerry Turner (Mt. Calm), "The Great Imposter Comes to Texas"
Becky Matthews (San Antonio), "E-lore, or Even if You Don't Read This Please Forward it to Everyone You Know"
Ty Cashion (Huntsville), "Seeing Red over Varsity Blues"

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

Peggy A. Redshaw (Sherman), Chair
James Winfrey (Houston), "The Cottonseed Oil Mill"
Mary Joe Clendenin (Stephenville), "Joe Fitzgerald, Nurseryman and Philosopher"
Nita Thurman (Dallas), "Texas Tombstone Inscriptions"

Cash Bar 6:30 p.m.
Banquet 7:30 p.m., Convention Center A
Presiding: Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM)
Entertainment: East Texas String Ensemble (Nacogdoches)

Hootenanny, (following banquet) Convention Center B

Saturday, April 22

Session 5: 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon), Chair
Jean Schnitz (Boerne), "New and Recycled Songs about Texas"
Jack Duncan (McKinney)& Joy J. Burwell (Dayton), "Pioneer Angel: Uncle Gus Wilson"
Business Meeting
Presiding: Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM)
Ken Untiedt (Lubbock)& Lee Haile (Bandera), "Robert Earl Keen: Texas Folk Traditions in Popular Music"

Closing Ceremony
Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM)

President:

Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM)

Vice-President:
Jerry Lincecum (Sherman)

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

Treasurer:
Carolyn Satterwhite (Nacogdoches)

Councilor:
William Stokes (Dallas)

Directors:
Margaret Waring (Comanche) 2000
R.G. Dean (Nacogdoches) 2000
Rollo K. Newsom (Austin) 2001
Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon) 2002
John Lightfoot (Lake Jackson) 2002

Councilors:
Henry Wolff (Victoria) 2000
Tom Breedlove (La Grange) 2002
Cynthia Savage (Midland) 2002
Jean G. Schnitz (Boerne) 2002
Kenneth L. Untiedt (Lubbock) 2002

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