The Junior Historian, Volume 7, Number 6, May 1947 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEX AS-1897President:
P. I. NIXON
Vice-Presidents :
EARL VANDALE
HERBERT GAMBRELL GEORGE A. HILL, JR.
CLAUDE ELLIOTTDirector :
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Secy. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TUILIS0
THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Box 2131, University Station, Garrison Hall 105,
University of Texas, Austin 12, Texas
Editor :
H. BAILEY CARROLL
"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of thie PRESENT
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People who are indifferent
to their PAST need hope to make their FUTURE great."Issued six times during the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription one dollar; club subscriptions (five or more to Chapter members) fifty
cents each. Entered as second-class matter February 21, 1945, at the post office at Austin, Texas, under
the Act of March 3, 1879.LIGHT ON TEXAS' PAST
From Editorial Section,n D)allas .hori/iNg .Nelcs, April 28, Ir947()n the printed program for its golden
anniversary meeting in Austin last Friday
and Saturdayv. the Texas State -istorical
Association appropriately pictured two anti-
quated lanterns, each hearing the word Texas
and a star. These were the lanterns l)orrowed
from the Capitol one night in I 897 in order
to continue the organization meeting after
the 1 n I'. turning off of Austin's electric
current. The Association's development has
bIeen marked by like determination, not only
to preserve the documentss and lore of Texas
history, but to make the study of history at-
tractive to "'exas people.
Never a stluffed-shirt organization or one
devoted to mere reminiscence and bIack-
scratching, the Association has set its aims
high and has maintained admirable stand-
ards of historical research and w riting. Its
principal organ. the .S'outhweslerni Historical
Quarterl'y, is one of the more scholarly peri--dicals in its field and is a mine of informa-
tion essential to every historian of this re-
gion. The Association has also published im-
portant books and in recent years has issued
the ,uior Historian, a periodical which does
much to encourage the study of Texas history
in high schools. It is now well along in the
preparation of a two-volume lHandbook of
Te.xas, which will bie a comprehensive cyclo-
pedia of Texas.
With about two thousand members, with
a distinguished San Antonio historian. Ir.
P. I. Nixon. as re-elected president, and with
an alle Austin staff headed by Prof. H.
Bailey Carroll as director, the Association
has a hopeful outlook. rowingg interest and
expanding membership should h!e more than
enough to offset increased printing costs or
other ol)stacles. Through its publications and
other activities, the Association can he count-
ed on to take much of the initiative in keeping
Lone Star history gleaming brightly.
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