AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
The Association has sustained a great loss in the death of its president, Judge John H. Reagan, which occurred at his home near Palestine on March 6. He has been for nearly fifty years a notable, and during the latter part of the time almost a unique, figure in State and National politics. For robust strength of character, for uncompromising integrity, and for self-sacrificing devotion to his ideals he has stood second to no man in all the list of his great contemporaries.
A sketch of Judge Reagan by Dr. Walter F. McCaleb, editor of his forthcoming memoirs, is expected to appear in the July number of The Quarterly.
The executive council met at the University of Texas on March 2, 1905, Judge C. W. Raines presiding. Mr. E. T. Miller and Miss Ethel Zivley Rather were elected fellows of the Association, and a number of applications for membership were approved.
Immediately after the adjournment of the council there was a meeting of the Association, over which Governor Lubbock presided. The literary program consisted of a sketch of Dr. R. M. Swearingen, by Prof. George P. Garrison, and a paper on “The Beginnings of San Antonio,” by Miss M. A. Austin. In the business session which followed, the Treasurer's report was read and approved; Judge W. D. Wood, of San Marcos, was elected second vice-president in place of Mrs. Julia Lee Sinks; Judge John C. Townes and President S. P. Brooks were elected members of the executive council for the term expiring in 1910, and the following persons were elected members of the Association:
Mr. Walter Bremond, Austin; Mr. C. D. Gustavuse, Oakwoods; Mr. J. K. P. Hanna, Calvert; Prof. J. P. Hollis, Georgetown; Mr. J. F. Johnson, Austin; Mrs. George Langston, Cisco; Mr. Frank C. Patten, Galveston; Mr. A. J. Robinson, Hubbard; Mrs. James C. Rudd, Owensboro, Ky.; Mr. S. S. Sayers, Austin; Mr. John Lang Sinclair, Artesia; Miss Harriet Smither, Georgetown; Miss Nancy Lee Swann, Tyler; Miss Edith C. Symington, San Antonio; Mrs. Mary C. Welder, Victoria; Rev. T. J. Windham, Houston; Mr. James Wyman, Austin.
The following are the resolutions concerning the death of Mrs. Sinks, drafted by the committee appointed for the purpose at this meeting:
Whereas, The eventful and exemplary life of Mrs. Julia Lee Sinks, second vice-president of the Association, came to an end at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Cook, in Alvin, Texas, October 24, 1904, therefore be it
Resolved, That by the death of Mrs. Sinks the Association has lost one of its most loyal, enthusiastic, and valuable supporters.
Resolved, That in the character and influence of Mrs. Sinks were manifest those high ideals of womanhood which were the finest product of the Old South, and which constitute the best inheritance of the New.
Resolved, That these resolutions be communicated to the surviving son and daughters of Mrs. Sinks, and that copies be furnished the daily papers of the State for publication.
George P. Garrison, Bride Neill Taylor, Dora Fowler Arthur, Committee.
How to cite:
"AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION.", Volume 008, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 353 - 356. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v008/n4/back_2.html
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