TWU DEDICATION CEREMONY

My camera can't handle my shaking hands, so these are not archival quality photos but provide a little insight into the dedication ceremony dedicating the Woman's Collection to Lou. Ann Stuart, Chancellor chaired the meeting attended by a lot of Lou's friends active and retired from TWU. Most of the Library staff were there that Lou worked with on a lot of her research. Phyllis Bridges reviewed Lou's life. Dawn Letson told about her gifts of her papers and books on Texas Women to the Library that are being processed. Kathy Wilcox responded for the family.

Kathy Rodenberger looks at the display that will be changed occasionally.
This is out of focus but Ashley with her mother and dad is looking at the permanent display of Lou's books and papers under the sign commenorating her.

Sue thanks Dawn Letson for her work on the displays.

This is the sign above the permanent display, but is hard to photograph because of the lights and reflections but it says WOMAN'S COLLECTION NAMED IN MEMORY OF LOU HALSELL RODENBERGER University Archives - Cook Book Collection.

I hope that all of Lou's friends will find the time to visit the displays. Her papers are in the archives for research. Dawn took us into the humidity controlled room where Lou's papers are stored. She is working on logging in all of Lou's books on Texas Women Authors that they didn't have in the collection and will have them on the shelves shortly.

Mark, Kathy and Ashley, Kathy and Val Wilcox, Sue and Ike Neal were all family members who were seated in the front at the dedication and then treated to the luncheon for Kevin Moriaty who is the Artistic Director for the Dallas Theater and the Joyce Thompson lecturer. After the luncheon we all were seated on the stage for Moriaty's talk. He said he was celebrating the day in November 546 BCE (I may have the date wrong) when Thespius in Athens gave the first appearance in a stage play. He then brought us up to date in his thinking of the importance of the theater today. His current production of MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT is being played in Dallas now at the Wyly (SP?) theater and is recieving rave reviews. He is a dynamic speaker for a little fellow. We enjoyed him and Paul Thompson, Joyce's nephew, who flies in every year that he can for the lectures. He wanted to meet the family because he has been Lou's friend since the lectures started. Lou and I attended all of them up to the last couple of years.

I spent the night with Mark and Kathy, drove in this morning and during my two mile walk I treated fire ant beds along the right-of-way. I filled the deer feeder and put another charged battery to run it. So tomorrow I can go to spend the weekend in San Antonio to celebrate Mandi's baby shower and Keith has arranged for me to go to an air show Sunday afternoon, so I won't be back till Monday.