Friday, Saturday in MSC
The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
Thursday, April 19, 1956 PAGE 3
Texas Folklore To Be Featured Here
Two Day Schedule
Schedule for the two-day meet
ing is as follows:
Registratiort from 8 until 10 Fri
day morning. Group 1 meeting
.with John Q. Anderson of A&M
as chairman from 10 until 12.
George D. Hendricks of North
Texas State College will read the
'honorable mention student papers.
They are “The Pebble in the Dev
il’s Shoe” by Faye Deeper of San
Marcos State College and “The
Wolf Girl in Zulch” by Noah L.
Cryar of A&M.
Also to be presented at this time
are “Dialogue in Folktale and
Song” by Robert C. Stephenson of
the University of Texas, “Texas
Folk Songs” by Margaret Yelving-
ton of Seguin, “Hoofbeats of Old
Steel Dust” by Wayne Gard of The
’ Dallas Morning News and “Walk
ing on Borrowed Land” by Wil
liam O. Owens of Columbia Uni-
. versity.
Group II meets Friday after
noon from 2 until 4 with Hermes
Nye of Dallas as chairman. Pre
sented at this time will be “Some
Aspects of British Ballad Tunes”
by Hallie Wood of Austin, “Frolic:
Folkfun on the Southern Fron
tier” by John Q. Anderson, “Snake
Yarns” by Lloyd N. Jeffrey of
North Texas State and the reading
of the prize winning student pa
per, “Home Remedies for Arthri-
tus”, by Walter Taylor of SMU.
Papers receiving honorable men
tion in the student contest will be
read at this time also. They are
“Sam Bass and The Stocking
Coins” by Kay Williams of TSCW
and “The Denton Mare” by Nancy
Howard of North Texas. They will
be read by Elton R. Miles of Sul
Ross State College.
The program Friday evening
will begin with a Smorgasbord at
7 in the assembly room of the Stu
dent Center. Toastmaster will be
Martin Shockley from North Tex
as.
Papers to read at this time in
clude “Tails: Functional and Folk
lore” by Roy Bedicheck of Austin,
“Recollections of an Itinerant Folk
lorist” by Stith Thompson of the
University of Indiana. At this
time Taylor will receive his $25
award for having the best student
paper on folklore.
In addition to the reading of the
papers, a play entitled “Napoleon
Crossing the Rockies” by Percy
Mackaye will be presented by the
Aggie Players under the direction
of Vic Wiening.
Sessions start at 9 and last un
til 11:15 Saturday morning with
Mody C. Boatright as chairman.
(See SCHEDULE, Page 5)
IT’S ALWAYS fair weather,
when folklorists get together—and
get together they will tomorrow
and Saturday as members of the
Texas Folklore Society gather here
for their 40th annual meeting. All
meetings except the smorgasbord
tomorrow night are open to the
public. Meetings will be held in
the assembly room of the Memorial
Student Center.
Seventeen 15-minute papers are
to be read over the two-day meet
ing, as members will sing and re
count Texas tales, legends, bal
lads and songs. Papers will be
presented by several well-known
state and national folklorists, prize
winning college student papers will
be read, and a folk play will be
given.
The Society will honor Dr. Stith
Thompson, internationally famous
folkloidst, who was the first editor
of the “Publications of the Texas
Folklore Society in 1916. Dr.
Thompson, now guest lecturer at
the University of Texas, will re
count some of his experiences in
“Recollections on an Itinerant
Folklorist” at the Friday night ses
sion. His talk will follow that of
Roy Bedichek, Austin natm-alist
and author of “Adventures of a
Texas Naturalist.”
BEDICHEK WILL discuss in his
paper “Tails: Functional and Folk
lore” fact and folklore of animals
which he has gathered over the
years. Also that night will be
given by five members of the Aggie
Players a folk play, “Napoleon
Crossing the Rockies,” by Percy
Mackaye. Featured in the play
will be Vic Wiening of the Eng
lish Department, and students Jer
ry Neighbors, John Kessinger, Ara
Haswell and Ted Castle. Music
will be provided by Mrs. Chris
Groneman.
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Walter Taylor, senior English
major at Southern Methodist Uni
versity, will receive a $25 awai
for winning first place in the stu
dent paper contest sponsored b\
the Folklore Society. His P a P e ^;
“Home Remedies for Arthritis,
will be read at the afternoon ses
sion tomorrow, and the award will
be made tomorrow night. Included
in Taylor’s “remedies” are such
ideas as these: tie nine knots in a
piece of twine, soak it in kerosene,
and wear it for nine days; and an
other, carry a raw Irish potato in
the left hip pocket.
TFS To Honor Thompson
Honor guest for the 40th annual
meeting of the Texas Folklore So
ciety meeting here Friday and Sat*
urday will be Dr. Stith Thompson,
first editor of “Publications of the
Texas Folklore Society.”
An internationally famous au
thority on the folk tale, Dr. Thomp
son will speak at the Friday night
session about his experiences as a
folklorist during the 40 yeais since
he edited the first volume for the
society in 1916. He was at that
time a member of the English De
partment at the University of Tex
as. When Dr. Thompson left, in
1918, his colleague, J. Frank Dobie
became editor.
From 1921 until last year, Dr.
Thompson was a member of the
English faculty at the University
of Indiana. During that time, his
work on the folk tale took him to
(See THOMPSON, Page 5)
TAYLOR, WHO has suffered
from arthritis for 20 years, accu
mulated his material by writing
letters to the editors of four south-
em newspapers requesting old and
new home remedies. Hundreds of
letters poured in, and although this
was a year ago Taylor says he still
is receiving cards, wires and phone
calls.
Wayne Gard of the Dallas Morn
ing News will recount some of the
tales connected with one of the
most notorious of all rodeo horses,
“Old Steel Dust.”
And three members of the A&M
English Department will read pa
pers on the program. Charles Lee
Hurley, widely published poet and
author of sonnets currently appear
ing in the Dallas News, will dis
cuss how he used a south Texas
folktale for a long narrative poem.
(See FOLKLORE, Page 5)
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tions will take an active part in the
40th annual meeting of the Texas
Folklore Society Fi’iday and Sat
urday at A&M.
Members of the English Depart
ment and the A&M English Club,
the Campus Study Club, the Brazos
Valley Folklore Society and the
Aggie Players will assist in various
ways with the two-day program.
Committee on local arrangements
for the meeting include Mrs. John
Q. Andersou, Mrs. Stewart Mor
gan, Mrs. Walter Delaplane, Mrs.
Milton Huggett, Mrs. Dan Hudson
and Miss Sadie Hatfield.
Campus Sttsdy Club members as
sisting in registration include Mrs.
John Ashton, Mrs. George Hueb-
ner, Mrs. Flake L. Fisher, Mrs.
Ernest Langford, Mrs. W. L. Wil
son and Mrs. Davis R. Ergle. Miss
Jennie Oliver is club president.
From the Brazos Valley Folklore
Society will be Miss Hatfield, pres-
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Famed Canadian
To Be at Meeting
The dean of Canadian folklorists,
Dr. Marius Bai*beau, will be among
the distinguished visitors here
Friday and Saturday for the folk
lore meeting.
Associated for 40 years with
the National Museum of Canada at
Ottawa, the Canadian is an anthro
pologist as well as folklorist. He
is founder of a significant collec
tion of Indian and French-Cana-
dian folk material which numbers
in thousajids of items. Dr. Bar-
beau is author of articles in both
French and English published in
the “Journal of American Folk
lore. An entire issue of the maga
zine in 1950 was dedicated to him
and his work in Canadian folklore.
His most recent publication is
The Tree of Dreams, a collection
of legends of French Canada.
Dr. and Mrs. Barbeau are vis
iting Dr. Elizabeth Brandon, mem
ber of the faculty of the University
of Houston and a member of the
Texas Folklore Society. Mrs.
Brandon is a former student of Dr.
Barbeau at Laval University in
Quebec.
ident, Mrs. Huggett and Mrs. Hud
son.
The English Club, student organ
ization of English majors will en
tertain Walter Taylor of SMU,
first-prize winner of the student
paper contest sponsored by the
TFS. Bill Willis, president, Dave
Bi-others and Bob Manning will as
sist in registration.
Aggie Player members Vic Wei-
ning, English Dept., Ara Haswell,
Jerry Neighbors, John Kessinger
and Ted Castle will present the
folk play “Napoleon Crossing the
Rockies” Friday night. Mrs. Chris
Groneman will furnish violin ac
companiment for the play.
(See MEETING, Page 5)
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