AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
The annual meeting of the Association, held at Lampasas on San Jacinto Day, was well attended, and in it an enthusiastic interest was shown in Association affairs. This meeting, according to the plan announced in the April Quarterly, was held jointly with the annual meeting of the Veterans and the Daughters of the Republic. It is hoped and intended that this shall become a permanent custom, for all three of the associations profit much by such an arrangement. As numerous individuals are members of more than one of the organizations, joint meetings insure good attendance with all its obvious advantages.
The citizens of Lampasas displayed a generous hospitality and secured for themselves a most kindly remembrance in providing accommodations and entertainment for the numerous visitors to their pleasant city.
The meeting was devoted exclusively to the transaction of necessary business. The President, Judge J. H. Reagan, being absent on account of ill health, ex-Governor Lubbock presided. Professor George P. Garrison spoke at some length on the purposes and present condition of the Association. He pointed out the importance to scholarship and to enlightened citizenship of the work being done by the Association in its efforts to collect and preserve historical records, and to direct along scientific lines the study of Southwestern history. He showed that this is a work in which Texas has peculiar advantages, hence, special responsibilities; and, indeed, one in which the outside world is coming more and more to look to Texas for guidance and leadership. He reported for the Association a sound financial status; a gratifying increase in desirable membership, a number of additions having recently been made outside the State; a rapidly widening influence for the Association through The Quarterly; and a number of valuable additions to the library. In conclusion, Dr. Garrison spoke feelingly of the irreparable loss which the Association has recently sustained through the death of some of its most able and active members, particularly Professor Lester G. Bugbee, Hon. Guy M. Bryan, and Dr. Rufus C. Burleson.
In the election of officers, all incumbents were re-elected, new ones being chosen only to fill vacancies caused by death. The following officers were elected: President, Judge J. H. Reagan; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Julia Lee Sinks, ex-Gov. F. R. Lubbock, T. S. Miller, Esq.; Professor David F. Houston (vice Guy M. Bryan); Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. Eugene C. Barker (vice Lester G. Bugbee); Members of the Executive Council, Professor John C. Townes, Professor S. P. Brooks (vice Rufus C. Burleson), and Mrs. Dora Fowler Arthur. This list does not include those positions held ex-officio.
A long list of names, reported for membership by Professor Garrison for the Executive Council, was approved by the meeting. This increase leaves the bona fide membership at about nine hundred. A number of additional applications for membership were referred to the Executive Council.
The concluding transaction of the meeting was the appointment of a committee, consisting of Professor Garrison, Mrs. J. B. Dibrell and Judge C. W. Raines, to draft resolutions, to be published in The Quarterly, expressing the regret of the Association for its loss in the death of Professor Bugbee, Colonel Bryan, and Dr. Burleson, and recording its appreciation for their invaluable services. The resolutions drafted by the committee are given immediately below.
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Resolved, That the Association hereby express its sense of the great loss it has sustained since its last meeting in the death of three of its most loyal and useful officers, namely, Vice-President Guy M. Bryan, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer Lester Gladstone Bugbee, and Councillor Rufus C. Burleson.
That Texas should honor the memory of Colonel Bryan and Dr. Burleson as devoted lovers of the State and its traditions and as eminent and effective workers, the one especially in political and the other in educational lines, in its behalf; while the Association should remember them with reverence as its influential friends in the days when it has most needed help.
That by the death of Professor Bugbee the University of Texas has lost one of its most efficient teachers and productive investigators, and the Association an official to whose faithful and valuable services has been due a large measure of its success.
Geo. P. Garrison, Mrs. J. B. Dibrell, C. W. Raines.
During the year the following persons have been made Fellows of the Association: Mr. I. J. Cox, of the San Antonio Academy; Mr. W. Roy Smith, now of Bryn Mawr College; and Mr. Eugene C. Barker and Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, of the University.
At a meeting of the Fellows, held at the University on Saturday, June 28th, last year's Publication Committee was re-elected. At a meeting of the Executive Council, held the same day, Mrs. Nellie Stedman Cox was awarded life membership, in return for her gift to the Association of the manuscript reminiscences of her deceased husband.
How to cite:
"AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION.", Volume 006, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 74 - 80. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v006/n1/back_8.html
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