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The Back Bay, eight hundred square feet of our new 5,300 square feet at Spicewood Springs Road. The Handbook file cabinets run in a double row, back to back, down the center of this large room. On the side visible here are three Handbook workstations and a small conference area; on the other side of the file cabinets is another equal space in which there are two work stations, two large windows, and one ofour two back doors (the other leads from Bill Knox's mail station and supply room to a loading dock outside). Beth Bow, Sandra Gilstrap, Ann Smith, and LaurieJasinski work in the Back Bay, with an additional workstation set up there for a Handbook graduate student assistant. Our Spicewood Springs quarters are in the shape ofa square, with two long halls ofoffices connected by a third hall and a corridor kitchen. The offices are spacious and all have large windows. The view isn't much to speak of from most of the offices, but the light is beautiful and soft, reflecting as it does off the white rock of neighboring buildings. We do not know quite what accounts for the calm of the space (perhaps in part our recent past) , but we have been like Ulysses to his siren in its charm. Southwestern CoiUcäon 336Southwestern Hütorical QuarterlyJanuary On March 5-8, the 1 12th annual meeting of the TSHA will be held in Corpus Christi at the Omni Bayfront Tower Hotel. This year the Hispanic History of Texas Project will be meeting with us, adding an additional fifteen sessions to our usual number. To accommodate the extra sessions, the meeting will begin on Wednesday this year instead of on Thursday as usual. Our traditional joint sessions with the Texas Catholic Historical Society, Texas Oral History Association, Texas State Historical Commission, Texas Baptist Historical Society, Texas Archaeological Society , and Texas Parks and Wildlife, will also be on the program, along with the Webb Society Annual Meeting and our various workshops and committee meetings. The printed program for the 2008 annual meeting will be mailed inJanuary. For information about our Silent Auction ofTexana or to make donations to the auction, contact David Degnan, 512/6971210 ; daviddegnan@TSHAonline.org. Proposals for the 2009 annual meeting of the TSHA are now being accepted for consideration. Proposals should be submitted by February 26, 2008, to be considered at the committee's first meeting, but no later than April 1, 2008, to be considered at the committee's final meeting. Complete sessions should be organized. A complete session is 75 minutes long and consists of ( 1 ) a chairperson, two paper presenters, and a commentator ; or, (2) a chairperson and three paper presenters. All proposals must include (a) the session tide; (b) the names, addresses , phone numbers, institutional affiliations (or hometowns), and brief (one-page) resumes of the chairperson, presenters, and commentator ; and (c) the title and a short summary of each paper. Please see our website at http://www.TSHAonline.org/about/meeting/progcomm .html for a copy of the Program Worksheet. Complete the worksheet and send one hard copy of the proposal to the chair of the Program Committee , Caroline Castillo Crimm, Box 2239 History, Sam Houston State University , Huntsville, TX 77341-2239; send another copy to Janice Pinney, P.O. Box 28527, Austin, TX 78755. Please contact Janice Pinney at 5 1 2/697-1 2 1 2 with any questions. -kirk At this year's annual meeting, the membership will vote on several changes to the Association's Bylaws, the most significant of which will be changes to the office ofPresident of the Board ofDirectors and the office of Director. The President of the Board will no longer be the Chief Exec- 2??8Southwestern Collection337 utive Officer of the Association, that office devolving to the Director. The Director will be responsible for all operations of the Association including supervision of all personnel, oversight of the annual budget and of fundraising activities, and oversight ofpublicity; the Director will also represent the Association with the public. Some of the traditional responsibilities of the Director will now be performed by a new position named the Historian. The Historian will...

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