The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, July 1978 - April, 1979 Page: 304
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about forty other persons left shortly afterward for an audience with
King Juan Carlos of Spain. While in Spain Barrera presented Juan
Carlos a copy of Association member Filix D. Almaraz, Jr.'s Tragic
Cavalier: Governor Manuel Salcedo of Texas, z808-1813.
A contingent of the Granaderos under Barrera, in full eighteenth-
century uniforms, will put on a performance immediately after the
Saturday luncheon at the forthcoming TSHA annual meeting,
March i o.
David C. DeBoe, who stepped into Ken Ragsdale's shoes when the
latter retired a year ago in December, has been spending most of his
time on the road the past few months. David has worked tirelessly in
his efforts to increase interest in both the Walter Prescott Webb His-
torical Society, the Association's affiliated organization designed to
encourage the study of local and state history among Texas college and
university students, and the Junior Historians.
The Webb Society continues to develop activities and programs with
a zest and creativity which delights its well wishers. This past October
27-28, at the University of Houston Downtown campus, the group
held its second multi-chapter student-sponsor conference. More than
seventy students and eight sponsors from eleven chapters attended the
meeting which was cohosted by Garna Christian and Tom Linklater,
sponsors at the Downtown Campus. Friday's activities included a tour
of the exciting new complex of the Houston Metropolitan Research
Center guided by the Center's director Don Carleton. Robert Haynes,
director of libraries at the University of Houston, gave the Friday night
banquet address: "The Houston Race Riot of 1917."
At a Saturday business meeting delegates adopted a constitution for
the state-wide organization, and elected the Society's first permanent
state officers. As president the delegates chose Michael Williams of
Stephen F. Austin State University; as vice president Gary Harwell of
the University of Houston, Downtown Campus; as newsletter editor,
Linda Sarles of the University of Texas at Austin; and as secretary Jodye
Dickson of Texas Christian University.
During the conference David announced the formation of a state ad-
visory board for the Webb Society. Leading academicians, archivists,
college administrators, and Texana collectors make up the twenty-
member board. The Society's spring meeting will be held in San An-
tonio March 8-10o in conjunction with the TSHA annual meeting.
David is experimenting with a project designed to increase contacts304
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