Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009 Page: 321
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THE TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY:
GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN
by Lee Haile
One of the things that I have always liked about being a member of
the Texas Folldore Society is the fact that the annual meetings are
always in a different place within the state each year. Ever since our
family's first meeting in 1982 in Fredericksburg, we have looked
forward to the TFS meeting in the spring. But for us, getting there
is half the fun-or challenge-depending on how you look at it.
That first meeting I was still in college at A&M in College Sta-
tion. I was asked by Dr. Silvia Grider to present a paper on folk-
toys. This stemmed from a demonstration of folktoys that I gave to
the folklore class I was in the year before that Dr. Earnest Speck
taught at Sul Ross in Alpine. Even going to that first meeting had
its challenges. I missed a big lab test in my major (entomology) on
that Friday. I had OK'd it with my grad student lab teacher, but
that didn't fly with the professor whose reputation as a hardnose
was legendary in the entomology department. When I came back,
I found out I was in trouble with the prof. I was told to go meet
him in his office. Everybody wished me luck in the "lion's den"
and off I went. Man, I was nervous; this guy had never shown any
quarter whatsoever. But when I informed him why I had missed
the lab test, providence was with me. It just so happened that he
was from Fredericksburg and had kin there as I do. He also had a
big interest in folklore and had collected "insect folklore" for years.
He even talked about some of the toys he had played with when he
was young!
After an amiable discussion for most of the period I went back
to the class. After being gone so long everybody assumed I had
really been chewed up and spit out and would get a zero on my
test. I told them no, we had a nice visit and talked about toys,
bugs, and folklore. The prof. came in and informed the class that it321I
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Texas Folklore Society. Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009, book, December 15, 2009; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/m1/334/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.