LOU IS ANOTHER FELLOW
In addition to being a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Society, last night Lou received her certificate for being named a Fellow of the Texas Folklore Society. Their website doesn't list all of the Fellows of the Society but Lou is either #12 or 13 in the 99 years of the society's life. This is where I wish I were more computer agile and I would post photos, videos and sound bites from the meeting. Ken Davis read the presentation and did an excellent job. Kathy, Keith, Valerie and Vanessa all came to the dinner and they let us all sit at the front table with Lou. The entertainment was a Celtic group from the TT music faculty playing authentic Irish instruments and singing a number of Irish ancient songs.
I failed to mention in the last post about Lee Haile helping me carry our bags to the room when we came in. Lee and Karen Haile have been bringing their two daughters to the TFS meetings for over 12 years. The daughters have become nationally known story tellers appearing all around the nation. This last year they each made trips to Europe. One spent several weeks in Great Britain visiting England, Ireland and Scotland. The other spent weeks in Italy with a choral group who sang for the Pope.
We also visited with Dawn Cox, a long time friend and widow of Sid Cox who was an English prof at A&M who hired Sylvia Grider and was active in TFS. Dawn is 83 and still lives alone and takes care of a small cow and calf herd in the Hill country. She is bent over more than Lou and said she is four inches shorter than she was. We enjoyed the last paper of the session. James Ward Lee is always irrelevant and unorganized but a great stand up comic. He holds nothing sacred and covered the literary scene from Elliot Hubbard to Walden Pond and J. Frank Dobie. His talk was on Sages, Pundits and Spinners and he holds most of what is taught in literature as Spinners.
Lou also spent some quality time with her editor at TT Press, Judith Keeling, who told her to start sending each chapter of her memoir and start soon. We ate breakfast this morning with Judith, her boss, Noel Parsons, Lucy West and Meredith ? (whose name I should remember). She teaches at UTEP and is a Mexican native who is naturalized US.
After the meeting we ate lunch with the family at Olive Garden because it is close to Val's birthday and that is her favorite restaurant.
Lou got through the meeting with some difficulty and had to take pain pills to make it, but really enjoyed talking to all of her old friends. The TFS is a real family event and Lou is well known. In her acceptance comments she reminded the society the last time they met in Lubbock she was president, Ken Davis was VP and arranged the program and Elmer Kelton gave his famous talk on fiction writers are liars and theives because they are creating fiction and steal stories from anyone. Elmer has always been a member of TFS and always has a notebook during the paper sessions because folklore makes up a lot of his novels.
It has been an interesting day. The drive back had thin clouds that helped keep the sun out of our eyes and tonight rain is falling West of here and heading our way. Also as of right now the Aggies are ahead of UCLA. Lou has gone to bed totally worn out.
In addition to being a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Society, last night Lou received her certificate for being named a Fellow of the Texas Folklore Society. Their website doesn't list all of the Fellows of the Society but Lou is either #12 or 13 in the 99 years of the society's life. This is where I wish I were more computer agile and I would post photos, videos and sound bites from the meeting. Ken Davis read the presentation and did an excellent job. Kathy, Keith, Valerie and Vanessa all came to the dinner and they let us all sit at the front table with Lou. The entertainment was a Celtic group from the TT music faculty playing authentic Irish instruments and singing a number of Irish ancient songs.
I failed to mention in the last post about Lee Haile helping me carry our bags to the room when we came in. Lee and Karen Haile have been bringing their two daughters to the TFS meetings for over 12 years. The daughters have become nationally known story tellers appearing all around the nation. This last year they each made trips to Europe. One spent several weeks in Great Britain visiting England, Ireland and Scotland. The other spent weeks in Italy with a choral group who sang for the Pope.
We also visited with Dawn Cox, a long time friend and widow of Sid Cox who was an English prof at A&M who hired Sylvia Grider and was active in TFS. Dawn is 83 and still lives alone and takes care of a small cow and calf herd in the Hill country. She is bent over more than Lou and said she is four inches shorter than she was. We enjoyed the last paper of the session. James Ward Lee is always irrelevant and unorganized but a great stand up comic. He holds nothing sacred and covered the literary scene from Elliot Hubbard to Walden Pond and J. Frank Dobie. His talk was on Sages, Pundits and Spinners and he holds most of what is taught in literature as Spinners.
Lou also spent some quality time with her editor at TT Press, Judith Keeling, who told her to start sending each chapter of her memoir and start soon. We ate breakfast this morning with Judith, her boss, Noel Parsons, Lucy West and Meredith ? (whose name I should remember). She teaches at UTEP and is a Mexican native who is naturalized US.
After the meeting we ate lunch with the family at Olive Garden because it is close to Val's birthday and that is her favorite restaurant.
Lou got through the meeting with some difficulty and had to take pain pills to make it, but really enjoyed talking to all of her old friends. The TFS is a real family event and Lou is well known. In her acceptance comments she reminded the society the last time they met in Lubbock she was president, Ken Davis was VP and arranged the program and Elmer Kelton gave his famous talk on fiction writers are liars and theives because they are creating fiction and steal stories from anyone. Elmer has always been a member of TFS and always has a notebook during the paper sessions because folklore makes up a lot of his novels.
It has been an interesting day. The drive back had thin clouds that helped keep the sun out of our eyes and tonight rain is falling West of here and heading our way. Also as of right now the Aggies are ahead of UCLA. Lou has gone to bed totally worn out.
posted by Dr. Rodenberger at 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Papa! I just wanted to tell you that I had a great time at the TFS baquet! I am so proud of Grandmother. It was amazing to see how many lives she has touched and all the accomplishments she has worked for. I love you guys!
~Ness
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