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views. Kerwin noted in his remarks that they will tell at least four
different stories: political, technology-scientific, management, and
actual training and doing. Rice will seek additional materials from
retired space agency officials and from aerospace companies that have
been associated with the manned space program.
The materials are in chronological order but not yet indexed.
TSHA member Nancy B. Parker, director of the Woodson Research
Center at Rice, and her staff will index and inventory the material so
it can be more easily used by researchers. As the indexing takes place,
the collection will be made available to NASA via a remote terminal
to the data base at the Space Center. Rice library users of the collection
on site will also have access to the newer documents still at NASA via
the same computer set-up.
The first involvement of Rice with NASA took place in April, 1959,
with a grant to study ionization phenomena in hypersonic wind tun-
nels. In 1961 the Rice Board of Trustees and the administration un-
derlined their commitment to the future of space technology with the
donation of a thousand-acre tract of University-owned land on Clear
Lake for the construction of the Manned Spacecraft Center. On Sep-
tember 12, 1962, in Rice Stadium, President John F. Kennedy an-
nounced that the United States would place a man on the moon before
the end of the decade. The following year, the Rice Board approved
the creation of a department of space science.
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I have excellent news to report to you about the revised Handbook
of Texas. The University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech Uni-
versity have joined the project as cosponsors. Each is now funding a
senior researcher/editor. And both positions are occupied by men of
outstanding ability. Anders Saustrup, a scholar who brings a broad
knowledge of Texas studies to the Handbook project, and who joined
the Association's permanent staff on September 1, 1981, has been
named to the position of senior researcher/editor funded by the Uni-
versity.
Lawrence L. Graves, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at
Texas Tech University since 1970 and a member of the history de-
partment since 1955, is the senior researcher/editor in the position
funded by Texas Tech. Larry contributed a number of entries to
Builders of the Southwest (1959) and was editor of A History of Lub-347
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