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The first West Texas Symposium of History will be held in Room 101 of the F. Marie Hall Academic Building on the Midland College campus on April 13, 2013, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Registration fee is $2.50 for students (ID required) and $5.00 for others.  Lunch will be provided.

 

All registered persons will receive a free copy of the West Texas Journal of History.

 

Planned presentations and articles are:

 

 • Paula Marshall-Gray, "The Saint of the Impossible Smiles on West Texas:  Memory, Myth and

   the Making of the Big Lake Oil Field"

 

 • William Morris, "Railroads and the Presidential Election of 1924"

 

 • Cecilia Miranda, "An Old, Grainy Photo:  "Alfredo Rueda Quijano and the Mexican Revolution of 1911"

 

 • Christopher Buck, "Before and Beyond Spindletop:  The 'Other' Texas Economy"

 

 

The planned schedule is as follows:

 

 

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon – Registration

 

9:00 a.m. – Introduction and opening remarks by William Morris, Henry Professor of History

 

9:15 a.m. to 12:00 noon – Papers and questions from audience

 

12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. – Lunch

 

1:30 p.m. to closing (about 4:00 p.m.) – Papers and question from audience