TFS Meeting Number 85

TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY

Eighty-Fifth Annual Meeting

The Eighty-Fifth Annual Meeting was held April 12-14, 2001
in San Angelo, Texas, at the LaQuinta Motel
All sessions were held in San Angelo Room of the LaQuinta Motel.

Program of Eighty-Fifth Annual Meeting

Thursday, April 12, 2001

1:00-7:00 p.m., Registration, Foyer, LaQuinta Motel, San Angelo

1:00-5:00 p.m., Tour of Fort Chadbourne, north of San Angelo

6:00-8:00 p.m., Reception and Buffet at
Dr. Ralph R. Chase West Texas Collection, ASU campus (No Charge)

8:00 p.m., Hootenanny, San Angelo Room, LaQuinta Motel

Friday, April 13, 2001

8:00 a.m. - NOON, Registration, Foyer, LaQuinta Motel, San Angelo

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

Jack Duncan (McKinney), Chair
Welcome: TFS President-Jerry Lincecum (Sherman)
Phyllis Bridges (Denton), "Clementine Hunter: Folk Artist"
Tom Breedlove (La Grange), "A Fly Paper"
James Ward Lee (Fort Worth), "Hell is for Heroes"

Session 2: 10:30 - 12:00 noon

Jean G. Schnitz (Boerne), Chair
Peggy Carter (Spring) & Melvin Mason (Huntsville), "A Musical Family Tree"
Jim Harris (Hobbs, NM), "Texans on the Road: The Folklore of Travel"
Delight Roach Hardee (Fort Worth), "Just Looking for an Excuse to Die: Goat Folklore"

12:00 noon, Officers Luncheon

Session 3: 1:15 - 3:00 p.m.

Margaret Waring (Comanche), Chair
L. Patrick Hughes (Austin), "Praising Potted Pork Parts: The One and Only Spamarama"
Margaret Cox (Austin), "Pecos Pate Boone"
Kenneth Davis (Lubbock), "Pepe's Panaderia: Bread Folklore"
Charles Williams (Dallas), "Dispatches From the New Frontier: The Folklore of an Electronic Company"

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

Karen Haile (Tarpley), Chair
Georgia Caraway (Denton), "Texas Kitsch and Other Collectibles"
George Ewing (Abilene), "Where'd You Get that Scar? Home Medical Folklore"
John O. West (El Paso), "J. Frank Dobie"

Wine & Cheese 6:30 p.m. in the San Angelo Room
Banquet 7:00 p.m., San Angelo Room
Presiding: Jerry Lincecum (Sherman)
Entertainment: Preston Lewis (San Angelo) "Bluster's Last Stand"

Hootenanny, (following banquet) San Angelo Room

Saturday, April 22

Session 5: 8:45 - 11:30 a.m.

Ken Untiedt (Lubbock), Chair
Henry Wolff, Jr. (Victoria), "Madame Blackley: Seer of South Texas"
Evelyn Stroder (Crane), "Paul Patterson: Master Teacher"
Business Meeting
Presiding: Jerry Lincecum (Sherman)
Tony Clark (Georgetown), "Who is Buried in Jesse James' Grave?"
Joyce Roach (Keller), "Phrynosoma Humanitus: The Horny Toad in Fact, Folklore, and Fiction"

Closing Ceremony

Jerry Lincecum (Sherman)

President:
Jerry Lincecum (Sherman)

Vice-President:
John Lightfoot (Lake Jackson)

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

Treasurer:
Carolyn Satterwhite (Nacogdoches)

Councilor:
William Stokes (Dallas)

Directors:
Rollo K. Newsom (Austin) 2001
Sylvia Mahoney (Vernon) 2002
Mary Harris (Hobbs, NM) 2003
Henry Wolff, Jr. (Victoria) 2003
Laura B. Garrison (Utopia) 2003

Councilors:
Tom Breedlove (La Grange) 2002
Cynthia Savage (Midland) 2002
Jean G. Schnitz (Boerne) 2002
Kenneth L. Untiedt (Lubbock) 2002
Phyllis Bridges (Denton) 2003

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