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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
same time and that they can't physically make both of them. They don't
like it. But I prefer a choice. And choices are here in plenty.
The 1966 book auction brought in $1,3oo. We have never fallen be-
low that figure since, with our peak being $3,466 in 1973. This after-
noon, largely because of the efforts of our speaker and president, Dan
Kilgore, we hit $6,331.50.
As soon as the first two volumes of the Handbook of Texas were pub-
lished in 1952, plans began for a new edition. In May, 1966, the plans
still existed, and material had been gathered in part. But no signs of
forward movement were in evidence. I determined that I would see the
Handbook into publication-though I never thought it would take
eleven years!
But we have a better book for the wait. We have recast it completely,
made it a new and additional volume rather than just a correction of
old errors and updating of old facts. With Eldon Branda I learned
never to hold a perfectionist to a deadline, but to take pride when the
nearly perfect product finally appears. And, I tell myself, no one will
care in 1978 whether the Handbook, Volume III, appeared in 1967 or
1977. It will be judged on its content, not on its publication date. I am
willing to stand by that judgment of history.
In 1966 the Junior Historian movement, perhaps the proudest orna-
ment of the Association, was in retreat. The number of active chapters
and active members was declining distressingly with each succeeding
year. Halting that downhill slide was difficult and took longer than
expected. But halt it we did. And turned it around-uphill. Over the
past decade we have nearly trebled the number of active chapters. In
fact, the annual meeting of the Junior Historians has grown large
enough to be embarrassing, if you can be embarrassed by success, so
that in April, 1977, we will hold two annual meetings, one for high
school students and one for junior high school students. We will prob-
ably attract 1,20oo to 1,400 students. We have enough prizes now that it
takes most of the afternoon to hand them out at the prize luncheon on
Saturday of each annual meeting. To my successor I hand the problem
of a smoother, swifter means of handling the prizes.
We have also reached out to a class of students who were ripe but
were being overlooked. We initiated the Walter Prescott Webb His-
torical Society, named for the former director who began the Junior
Historian movement. The Webb Society is aimed at junior and senior
college students. It shows signs of solid and continual building. Check
off another item.
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