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During most of her years on the University of Texas campus Mrs. Tullis
was identified with the work of the Association. She was Treasurer from
1927 to 1942, and in 1942, with the death of Charles William Ramsdell,
who had held the position of 'Treasurer from 1907, the Association com-
bined the offices into Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Mrs. Tullis
was elected annually to the position from 1942 until her retirement. The
growth and expansion of the Association in recent decades meant in-
creased work and responsibility for Mrs. Tullis, but her careful and
efficient manner of keeping up with Association finances was indeed a
service of incalculable importance. During the four decades at the Asso-
ciation Mrs. Tullis had contact with the outstanding Texas historians.
These persons-educational, professional, and lay people-had great
respect for Mrs. Tullis' knowledge of the Association and its Southwestern
Historical Quarterly. In 1937 the Association was forty years old, and the
editors of the Quarterly requested Mrs. Tullis to compile a list of all
articles printed in the magazine up to that year. The July, 1937, issue
(Vol. XLI, No. 1) carried her compilation of "Publications of the Texas
State Historical Association, July, 1897, through April, 1937." It has
remained a basic bibliographic tool for Texas and Association history.
Many adult members of the Association were unaware of the interest
Mrs. Tullis had in the Junior Historian movement. The organization had
her support as early as 1939, and for most of those years she not only
looked after the finances but served as chairman of the judges of the
Annual Junior Historian Writing Contest.
Mrs. Tullis' ability and performance in her work always brought a
flood of praise at Association meetings. Her reputation was described not
only as capable, efficient, and honest, but also with such warm words as
kind, generous, and lovable. The feelings of the Association were ex-
pressed beautifully at its last annual meeting when it honored Mrs. Tullis
and presented to her a silver tray with an appropriate inscription. Her
children, Mrs. W. D. White, Sr. and John L. Tullis, along with her grand-
children and family friends were in the audience. Her response was
typical of her attitude to her work: it was she who had reaped rich divi-
dends during the years in that she had been given the opportunity to
serve and to know the membership of the Association. The same love and
appreciation were expressed to Mrs. Tullis at the annual Junior Historian
luncheon when the young membership gave her a tumultuous standing
ovation.
Mrs. Tullis was preceded in death by her husband, an infant son, and a
daughter. She was buried in the family plot at Quanah. Next to her family
her great love was the Texas State Historical Association and its member-
ship and the history department of the University of Texas. Fortunately
she had a long and beautiful life. Her devotion to her family, her teach-
ing at the University, and her work at the Association have earned for
Mrs. Coral Horton Tullis a permanent place as a grand lady among
Texas women.
DORMAN H. WINFREY
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