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STIRPES
IMA BLUEBLOOD GOES
TO FORT WORTH, TEXAS!
12-i- 67....
Special, Fort Worth: Ima Blueblood, the well-known fan of
Texas royalty, rode into Cowtown, U. S. A. (better known to the
world as Fort Worth, Texas), last weekend on one of Dick Kleberg's
King Ranch"'Brama' steers to attend the annual Texas State Genealogical
Convention in Hotel Texas. The red carpet, decorated
with cattle brands of Texas Kings, Barons, and Burgesses, wilted
under the heat of television camera lights and whistles from visiting
firemen.
The hotel desk clerk handed Ima Blueblood a plastic, Texassize
worm, stapled onto an invitation from some local promoter
to tip his bottle after dark. In horror Ima fled with her French
maid (from Paris, Texas) to her sweet suite overlooking the BeefSteak-On-the-Hoof
Room on the mezzanine.
Ima had just removed her boots and spurs and helped her maid
clean the Thanksgiving turkey feathers from her bed when the air
was filled with the sound of Scotch bagpipes. A tall, good-looking
Texas Scot, one Johnny Ross, blew into the suite to ask the
loan of a room for a little kilt-changing and practice on the bagpipes.
His music shook the lantern and nearly blew out the center
light, but it was so gay that Ima, French maid and a few waiters
who had followed the music did a merry dance before the Manager
arrived to halt the noise and the shooting.
Next morning bright and early after a night of much visiting
and turkey-stuffing, Ima joined the parade on the mezzanine to
the TSGS Hospitality Room where Chairlady Norma Rutledge Grammer
and her good committee were serving Texas coffee and TSGS 7 year
old birthday cake. The table of pretty things registering the
guests looked like a conference of Junior DAR members with pretty
Betty Mattoon directing traffic.
Sharply at 10 a.m., Ima followed the famed trail-blazer and
genealogy prof, Jean Stephenson, to the TSGS Bored of Directors
meeting in the Shorthorn Room, where Mrs. Deckler, TSGS work-horse,
was passing out crying-towels to all at the mention of the American
Assn. of State and Local History's neglect to include TSGS in their
latest directory,.
At the opening luncheon in the Grand Ballroom, Ima Blueblood
announced that a new award which will no doubt replace the Hollywood
"Oscar" and the Television "Emmy"--the "Ima Blueblood Award"--
will be bestowed on the Blood Royal present.
In the Longhorn Room at the annual TSGS business meeting that
delightful cowboy from Amarillo was as usual the star of the show.
This Claud McDaniel always does a good job for TSGS.
The Convention went on and successfully survived the TRUTH
from Milton Rubincam's talk, "The Critical Genealogist." By the
time it was all over many had been stripped of their coats of arms!99999Y99391l
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Texas State Genealogical Society. Stirpes, Volume 7, Number 4, December 1967, periodical, December 1967; Fort Worth, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29581/m1/40/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Genealogical Society.