The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 617
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Texas Collection
EUGENE C. BARKER CENTER
The board of regents of the University of Texas took a constructive
step when it set aside the old university library building as a repository
for Texana.
There the university's magnificent Texas collection of books and writ-
ings, many of them rare and priceless, will have a spacious permanent
home. There future generations of historical students will find the richest
trove of Texas lore all in one library devoted exclusively to Texana.
In creating this repository the regents did the peculiarly appropriate
thing of designating it as the Eugene C. Barker center. This in recog-
nition of the man generally acknowledged to be the State's foremost his-
torian. A native Texan, Doctor Barker has taught history at the univer-
sity for forty-six years, and has been researching and writing books and
articles on Texas historical subjects all that time. The library named for
him will be a lasting monument to his great work.
December 29, 1945, was celebrated in Austin with appropri-
ate ceremonies as the centenary of Texas' being accepted as the
twenty-eighth state in the Federal Union. Governor Coke R.
Stevenson made a historical address in the House of Repre-
sentatives in the Capitol. In part the Governor said:
The Texas State Historical Association, the Junior Historians, the
Sons and Daughters of the Republic, the Sons and Daughters of the
American Revolution and all other kindred bodies of men and women
throughout the State are to be congratulated because of their inspiring
services, not only in the interest of the Texas centennial, but also because
of their labor of love all through the years on behalf of a better informed
citizenship. Upon them has been placed a heavy burden which every
citizen should be proud to help carry. That burden is to preserve the best
and noblest in our State and National existence and to point out the
defects and dark spots in our history so that our youth may be the
beneficiaries and thereby become a greater asset to and friend of good
government now and hereafter. Allied with these noble organizations
should be our educational institutions, museums, libraries, religious bodies,
and the press, whose prime duty it is to build a better citizenship. Knowl-
edge of history-the history of Texas and the United States of America-
cannot fail to have one good result: it will instill in all hearts a greater
love for our country. We cannot neglect to mention here the mighty
influence for good in the teaching of our country's history to the youth
of the land in the debates, declamations, and other activities of the
Interscholastic League of Texas schools. Parent-teacher organizations.also
have wrought well in this connection, as have all veteran groups. Texans
are a grateful people and proud of their heroic history.
The entire membership of the Association will join in ap-
plauding the governor's remarks regarding history and in ap-
preciation of his appraisal of the work of the Association for
the preservation of the history of Texas.617
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