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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, July 18, 1963
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“With university status and coeducation, it seems only
fitting that I come out with a ‘new look’ too!”
TAES Veteran Of 38 Years
Will Retire At End Of August
Dr. Kate Adele Hill, a 38-year
veteran with the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service, is retiring
on August 31. The widely known
and respected extension worker be
gan her extension career as home
demonstration agent rh Cameron
County in 1925.
She was transferred to the head-
qj\arters staff in 1929 to begin 21
years of service as a district home
■demonstration agent in four differ
ent, areas of the state, involving
187 different counties. In 1951 she
was named studies and training
leader for the state and in 1958
was transferred to the position she
now holds, reports analyst. She is
responsible for the filing, distri
buting and analyzing of monthly
and annual reports submitted by
the county extension workers of
Texas.
The retiring veteran is a native
of Travis county but did her grow-
in up on ranches in Kerr, Schleicher
and Tom Green counties. Her
parents were the late Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Hill, and her grand
father, Sam H. Hill, along with his
son established in 1903 one of
Texas’ earliest herds of purebred
Angus cattle.
In announcing the retirement,
Director John E. Hutchison, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service,
said “Dr. Hill has served with dis
tinction on every assignment and
has made many outstanding con
tributions to the literature dealing
with Extension Service work.
“Her leadership abilities are
widely recognized and she has been
a moving force in the development
and maintenance of the Regional
Extension Summer School at Prai
rie View A&M College. She has
taught in seven of the 14 annual
sessions and last month was pre
sented a plaque by this year’s stu
dents in appreciation for services
rendered. They came from eight
states and five foreign countries.”
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TREA TS LITTLE KNOWN PERIOD
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Professor Writes ‘After San Jacinto]
The “little knotvn and largely
unwritten” history of Texas-
Mexican frontier relations from
San Jacinto to the Republic’s wan
ing days has come to light in a new
book by a A&M history professor.
The author is Dr. Joseph M. Nance,
head of history and government,
who began collecting material for
the book, “After San Jacinto,”
shortly after receiving his doctoral
degree in 1941.
“After San Jacinto” deals with
Texas-Mexican relations from 1836
to 1841. It is the first of three
volumes which will take the story
down to the annexation of Texas
to the United States.
THE AUTHOR., describes his
work as neither fiction nor text
book, but rather “an objectively
written and thoroughly documented
book for those student^ of Texas
history who really want to know
what happened.”
Hobart Huson of Refugio, who
has worked extensively in South
Texas history, said “Professor
Nance’s book is an exceptionally
outstanding historical work. It
has been thoroughly researched, in
telligently digested and splendidly
and entertainingly written.”
The book contains pictures and
four historical maps. The maps,
incidentally, were done by the auth
or’s wife, Mrs. Eleanor H. Nance,
who has prepared illustrations for
several publishing houses.
The Lone Star State’s past be
fore the Civil War has long been of
special interest to Nance, and his
many years of research into the
period revealed a lack of reliable
published material. The situation
was impetus for “After San Jacin
to.”
“THROUGH MY study of Texas
history, I realized that nothing of
significance and dependability had
been done on the Southwestern
frontier from the time the Mexican
army withdrew from Texas to the
end of the Republic,” the profes
sor said.
“The foolheartedness of the Mier
Expedition always fascinated me,
and I was determined to see why
such an expedition could take place
and write an objective history of
it,” he added.
“As I got deeper into the story,
I realized that the background was
very important. So I decided to
Editor’s Note: James Ray, a
senior English major from Con
roe who wrote the letter below,
is one of four Aggies participat
ing in Peace Corps-type activi
ties abroad this summer. He
plans to send a series of these
letters on his work in Africa to
The Battalion.
Dear Friends:
Our flight to Nairobi, Kenya
via an Air France 707 jet was
just perfect. We spent an hour
at the Orly Airport in Paris
but did not get to go into Paris.
We flew over Alexandria just
before dawn and saw the out
line of the coast along the city’s
waterfront by streetlig-hts. We
landed in Cairo to dispatch a
Crossroads group assigned to
Egypt just in time to see a beau
tiful sunrise over the desert
which borders the Cairo airport.
The Cario airport is very beauti
ful and an interesting mixture
of ancient and modern Egyptian
architecture. The government
troops around the airport pre
vented any thorough tour during
our hour layover there. It seem
ed very suspicious to us.
As we took off from Cairo we
passed over the pyramids and at
tempted to photograph them
from about 10,000 feet. The
desert and the Nile Valley pro
vided some very interesting pat
terns and contrasts which held
our attention until clouds obs-
curred them. /Incidentally, the
clouds also provide interesting
captivating patterns from 40,-
000 feet, which was our cruising
altitude for most of the trip.
We arrived in Nairobi to be
g’reeted by a representative of
Kenya Prime Minister Kenyatta
and a curious group of transient
Africans at the airport. With a
Polaroid camera, provided by the
Polaroid Company, and a few
baloons we quickly won a great
number of friends among the
African children and their par
ents.
Except for the great predomin
ance of black-skinned people of
Africa there was little to remind
us that we were several thou
sand miles from the U.S.A. It
is still hard for us to realize this.
1 don’t know exactly what we
were expecting, but whatever
misconceptions we had (and
there were many) are rapidly
disappearing. The educational
level of the people, of course, is
far below that in the U. S. but
not as low as most of us ex
pected. In fact, in common
sense and straightforwardness
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many Africans surpass many
Americans.
From the Nairobi airport we
were transported by bus to the
YMCA where we forced down
our first African meal. Actual
ly the food looked very good —
not much unlike American food
— but we had had an Air France
breakfast less than three hours
earlier and were not very hun-
gry. The next item on our
agenda was an afternoon session
at the USIS fbiffice in Nairobi
which was about as useful as the
meal at the YMCA. Having had
only about six to eight hours
sleep in the last 2Vz to 3 days
most of the group drowsed
through the propaganda. The
Information Service officer rec-
ogmized the situation and let
us off after only 30 minutes, set
ting the world’s record for bre
vity for this type of ‘groilp wel
come.” By this time all the
East Africa Crossroads groups
which shared the 707 flight to
Nairobi had separated excxept
our group and a group going to
another part of Africa. We spent
the night at the Limaru Con
ference Center about 20 miles
south of Nairobi. Most of us
were to tired to realize that this
was our first "night on the Afri
can continent. There was no
celebration, I can? guarantee!
Most of us went to bed before
7 p.m. We were to rise at 5
a.m. Tuesday to leave for Kam
pala, Uganda.
So until later,
James E. Ray
p.s. For anyone wishing to
write, the aerogramme air let
ter form is the cheapest and the
fastest form of communication to
Kisiizi.
write as full, as possible the vt:
story of the Texas-Mexican fits
ier relations after San Jack
using- primarily original so®
materials on both sides and p
suing the study as objectively
possible.’
IN SUMMARIZING the k
Nance said the withdrawal of I
Mexican armies from Texas
beyond the Rio Grande early
June 1836 was the signal for mi
loyal Mexicans in the Victoh
Goliad-Refugio area and the rep
between the Neuces and Rio Gw
to abandon their homes and prop
ty for the safety of northern Met
co.
Although the historic bonnfc
of Texas was the Nueces Eire
the state’s First Congress lie
the Republic arbitrarily set h
Rio Grande as the dividing la
In time, many of the Mexie
returned to their former
but were soon driven out by Tea
“cowboys” who raided into tl
area below the Nueces. The res;
was counter raids by Mexican ar;
units and by brigands.
More bad feeling was brought'
by invasion threats from Mai
by participation of Anglo-Texia
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