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Southwestern Collection
Dora Elizondo Guerra is the head librarian of special collections at
the University of Texas at San Antonio Library. She is the director and
curator of the John Peace Collection of materials relating to the history
of the Southwest, Texas, San Antonio, and Spanish colonial Mexico.
Governor Clements appointed her to the Texas Historical Records Advi-
sory Board, and she was president of the San Antonio Historical Associa-
tion in 1990. She has done considerable research on Spanish colonial
women in Texas and is active in the Society of Southwest Archivists.
James McPhail is a member of the Texas Archeological Society, the
Western History Association, the Friends of the LBJ Library, and the Civ-
il War Roundtable, among other groups. He served in the U.S. Army Air
Corps in Europe and the Pacific from 1943 to 1946, and is a graduate of
Rice University. He dealt in cotton and foreign trade for Anderson, Clay-
ton and Co. in Houston from 1950 to 1955, and entered the field of
corporate finance in 1955. He has not slowed down since his 1990 re-
tirement; just last year, in fact, he volunteered to help us inventory and
reorganize our storage space in the basement of Sid Richardson Hall.
The apparently limitless energy he brought to that daunting task was
truly inspiring.
We are pleased to welcome these three outstanding members to the
Executive Council.
Program Chair Jesus F. (Frank) de la Teja and his committee had or-
ganized an excellent meeting of thirty-two scholarly sessions plus ban-
quets and other activities for our ninety-eighth meeting. Liz Carpenter,
author and former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, was on hand to
present the first Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of
Women in Texas at the Women and Texas History Luncheon on Thurs-
day. Appropriately, the winner of the $1,ooo prize was Debbie Mauldin
Cottrell, a recent UT Austin Ph.D. graduate (and former TSHA research
associate) now teaching at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri, who gave
the luncheon speech on Annie Webb Blanton, the subject of her recent-
ly published and award-winning book, Pioneer Woman Educator: The Pro-
gressive Spirit of Annie Webb Blanton (Texas A&M University Press).
Everyone was touched by Liz's remarks and reminded again of the enor-
mous opportunities in the field of women's history.
On Thursday evening, the spotlight was on Stephen Fuller Austin, the
"Father of Texas," as everyone moved to the Arno Nowotny Center on
the UT Austin "Little Campus" for a reception honoring incoming Presi-
dent Robert H. Thonhoff. The Nowotny Center was the original site of
the Asylum for the Blind, which opened in 1857, and later became
known as the "Custer House," for Gen. George Armstrong Custer and
his wife Elizabeth, who lived there in 1865-1866.1994
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