Southwestern Collection

We would like to thank all of you who attended the 2014 Annual Meeting, which was held in San Antonio from March 6–8. Special thanks are due especially to the local arrangements committee chaired by Mary Margaret McAllen and composed of Patrick Butler, Albert “Boo” Hausser, Marise McDermott, John Miller Morris, Dianne Garrett Powell, and Rudi Rodríguez and the program committee chaired by Robert Wooster and composed of Stephen Bogener, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Albert Broussard, Michael Collins, Glen Sample Ely, Sam Haynes, Ana Martínez-Catsam, Wesley Phelps, Raúl Ramos, Eric Walther, and Heather Green Wooten. With this issue of the Quarterly, we would like to inform our readers of pertinent news from the Annual Meeting, including changes in officers, new Fellows, and award and fellowship winners.

President Theodore Roosevelt giving an address at the Alamo, c. 1905. Photo by Clogenson, Dallas. LC-DIG-ppmsca-36639, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

The Texas State Historical Association welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors at the 2014 Annual Meeting. They are Nancy Painter Paup of Fort Worth and Thomas R. Phillips of Austin.

Nancy Painter Paup is a fundraising consultant with more than twenty-five years experience in fund development. A Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), she has worked with a variety of institutions in the areas of donor development, corporate and foundation relations, marketing, strategic planning, and family philanthropy. Formerly, she was corporate relations and membership manager of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Paup serves on the Board of Regents at Texas Woman’s University and is a former board member of the Texas Woman’s University Foundation. In addition, she currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Schreiner University in Kerrville. Paup completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Texas Woman’s University and has done postgraduate work at Abilene Christian University. She is a member of the Junior League of Fort Worth, Leadership Fort Worth Alumnae Association, and the First Presbyterian Church Fort Worth.

Thomas R. Phillips is a lawyer in the Austin office of Baker Botts LLP, concentrating in appellate litigation and alternative dispute resolution. A native of Dallas, Phillips earned a BA from Baylor University in 1971 and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1974. After serving as a law clerk to Texas Supreme Court Justice Ruel C. Walker and practicing law in Houston, he was a district judge in Harris County from 1981 to 1988 and Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1988 to 2004. After leaving the bench, he taught at South Texas College of Law in Houston and the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas before returning to private practice. Phillips served on the Texas Historical Commission from 2005 to 2012 and is a longtime director of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society.

In addition to the new members of the board of directors, John L. Nau III has become President of the TSHA, Lynn Denton First Vice President, and Stephen C. Cook Second Vice President (all three have been featured in the Southwestern Collection in recent years). We would like thank them for their service to the organization and to extend special thanks to Gregg Cantrell, the 2013–2014 TSHA President, for his hard work.

New Fellows

The Texas State Historical Association welcomed two new Fellows at the 2014 Annual Meeting: Cary D. Wintz and Donald S. Frazier.

Cary D. Wintz is Distinguished Professor of History at Texas Southern University in Houston. He earned a BA at Rice University and MA and PhD degrees in history from Kansas State University, where he studied under the famed historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. Wintz is widely known as a historian of African American history, especially the Harlem Renaissance, and racial and political ideology in the early twentieth century. His most recent book, which was published in 2012 and edited with Bruce Glasrud, is The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro’s Western Experience (Routledge) He is the author...