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Affairs of the Associatzon
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
More than 1,500 students participated in our educational programs
this spring. The fifty-third Junior Historian annual meeting was held at
the Doubletree Hotel in Houston on April 3-4, and the twelfth annual
Texas History Day was held at the Stouffer Hotel in Austin on May
8-9. We also have two programs for teachers this summer: the annual
Institute of Texas Studies, which, as usual, was held on the UT campus
June 8 through 26, and the History Awareness Workshop, which will be
held in Corpus Christi on July 29-31. We will probably have more than
250 teachers involved in these events.
David De Boe is working with Richard Bailey to try to increase the
number of Webb chapters-and, therefore, subscribers to Touchstone-
throughout the state. Using Richard's list of more than one hundred
persons who teach Texas history on the college and university level, we
are preparing letters inviting them to join the Association and to con-
sider sponsoring a Webb Society. If we have enough back issues of
Touchstone, we will send a copy with each letter.
David continues to monitor the State Board of Education's Task
Force on Social Studies in grades K through 12. Although the final rec-
ommendations for the elementary grades are not due until April, it ap-
pears that Texas history will remain at both grades four and seven.
(Amy Jo Baker, social studies coordinator for the San Antonio Public
School District, credits the work of the Summerlee Commission on
Texas History with saving this course.) The seventh grade course, ten-
tatively titled "Texas Studies: Our Changing State," will have more em-
phasis on multiculturalism and the twentieth century than in the past.
The fourth grade course, "Regional Studies: Texas and the Western
Hemisphere," will emphasize geography with a brief overview of Texas
history, particularly as it relates to Mexico and the rest of the Western
Hemisphere. Apparently the effort to remove Texas history from grade
seven has been stopped.
After April, the Task Force will focus its attention on the curriculum
at the high school level. We have two goals here: to keep the Advanced
Texas Studies course as an elective and to retain history as the core
component in the U.S. and World Studies course. David will continue
to watch the Task Force's work, and we will keep you informed.
OLD BUSINESS
President Max S. Lale appointed Paul G. Bell (chair), Richard Bailey,
and J. C. Martin to a committee to develop a plan to dispose of back
issues of the Southwestern Hzstorzcal Quarterly. We have so many issues on
hand that storage is a problem. The committee made several recom-169
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