The Texas Historian, Volume 49, Number 5, May 1989 Page: 2
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words fifty years ago, the Junior Historian program
has been copied in a score of other states.
To commemorate the educational division's fif-
tieth anniversary, the TSHA planned a number of
special activities. Last fall sponsors received a 50th
anniversary commemorative poster. And, those stu-
dents who attended last year's annual meeting, are
still wearing their 50th anniversary t-shirts which
were given to the more than 800 students who at-
tended that meeting. In March of this year a special
session on the history of the Junior Historian move-
ment in Texas was held during the TSHA's Annual
Meeting in Lubbock. This session included presen-
tations by Dorman Winfrey, the former director
of the Texas State Library, Ken Ragsdale, the
Association's director of educational services from
1967 to 1977, and Amber Bailey, a student at
University High School in Abilene who showed her
award-winning media presentation on "Aging the
Arches." Perhaps the culmination of these special
anniversary activities, however, occurred on April
21-22 when the Junior Historians convened in Gal-
veston for this year's annual meeting. On San Jacin-
to Day, April 21, the Junior Historians held a joint
50th birthday party with the San Jacinto Monu-
ment and Museum. On the following day, April
22, the 900 or so Junior Historians gathered for
chapter presentations and their awards ceremony.
Several thousand dollars in prize money was givento students winning awards in the Association's
essay, historical exhibits, historical performances,
and media presentations.
This special edition of the Texas Historian is the
last activity planned to help us celebrate our 50th
year. In addition to the Winfrey and Ragsdale
essays delivered at the TSHA Annual Meeting in
Lubbock, this volume also includes a condensation
of an article entitled "The Junior Historian Move-
ment in the Public Schools." This article, published
in 1947, was written by H. Bailey Carroll, the first
director of the Junior Historian program.
Fifty years ago Webb wrote that the function
of the educational programs of the Association:
... will be to have [students] collect the history of
Texas as recorded in their respective communities.
They will do this by interviewing parents, early set-
tlers, and others as to past events. They will seek to
acquaint themselves with Texas history and literature
and thereby develop a richer culture upon the great
Texas heritage. From their membership should come
the future historians of Texas.
Undoubtedly, Webb would be exceedingly
pleased to know that fifty years after he launched
his new venture students are still researching and
writing the history of their communities and
thereby acquiring a tangible relationship with the
past. Webb would be delighted to know that to
these young Texans history is anything but dull.This cartoon by John Knott entitled "The Thrill-
ing Story of His Life"first appeared in the Dallas
Morning News in late 1940. The cartoon, which
was reprinted in the first issue of The Junior
Historian Magazine, came to symbolize the Junior
Historian program during the 1940s.Texas Historian
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