Frank Peirce
Awarded
For Writing
J. Prank Peirce, associate pro
fessor of English, has been
awarded a $5,000 National En
dowment for the Arts Creative
Writing Fellowship Grant.
The grant will enable Peirce,
chairman of creative writing, to
spend three months writing and
studying trends in contemporary
fiction. These grants are open
only to published, professional
writers.
Peirce has pubished articles and
short stories in professional jour
nals, magazines and commercial
publications. Eight of his stories
have been published in Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and he
is a member of The Mystery
Writers of America, Inc., and a
number of other professional
English and speech organizations.
Three of Peirce’s short stories
and one of his poems have been
anthologized. A fourth story, “The
Hot Tamales Murder Case,” will
appear in The Mystery Writers
of America anthology to be pub
lished later this year.
Some of his recent publications
include “The Heart of the Matter:
Writing Precis,” in the Winter is
sue of English in Texas; “The
Car as Symbol in Hemingway’s
‘The Short Happy Life of Francis
Macomber,’ ” in the Studies issue
of the South Central Bulletin, and
“39 Shakespeares,” in the March
1973 issue of The College English
Association Critic.
Peirce read his article on precis
to the Pedagogy Section of the
Conference of College Teachers
of English and the Hemingway
article to the American Literature
II section of the South Central
Modern Language Association.
He was the speaker at the an
nual banquet of the Byliners, a
professional organization for
women writers.
His poem, “The Colors in Shad
ows,” is to be published soon in
The Round Table, and his short
story, “The Double Death of Nell
Quigley, or Two Views of Mur
der,” will be published in the
November issue of Ellery Queen’s
Mystery Magazine. The latter is
the first of a series pf stories in
which Shakespeare is the detec
tive.
Peirce is the author of two
books, The Devil to Pay and Oth
er Stories, a collection of his
short stories which won the South
and West award, and Organiza
tion & Outlining, a writing hand
book.
He has been a member of the
staff of the Southwest Writers
Conference and the Pineywoods
Writers Conference. Peirce re
ceived his bachelor’s degree from
the University of Illinois and the
master’s degree from the Univer
sity of Iowa.
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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, May SO, 1913
THE B
Urban And Regional Planning Set For Confab “
Final plans are taking shape
in the Department of Urban and
Regional Planning for the Amer
ican Institute of Planners (AIP)
Spring Conference set May 31-
June 2.
City officials, Councils of Gov
ernment planners and govern
mental planning agency personnel
will join private business devel
opers to discuss current trends
in planning and land use controls
and the outlook for planning and
the environment.
Texas Land Commissioner Rob
ert Armstrong and State Rep.
Fred P. Agnich, R-Dallas, will be
among the speakers featured at
the conference, sponsored by the
Gulf Southwest Chapter of AIP.
Members of the chapter task
force will meet Thursday after
noon prior to general registration
for the conference to discuss the
program for next fall’s short
course for planning commission
ers. This has been an extremely
successful short course, according
to course officials, and next fall
Professor Jack Kemp from the
University of California at Berk
eley will be featured speaker.
John R. Joyner, executive di
rector of the American Institute
of Planners, Washington, D.C.,
will lead off discussions in the
conference Friday morning with
a talk concerning new directions
for AIP. Joyner will be followed
by Commissioner Armstrong dis
cussing new planning legislation
and land use controls.
Rep. Agnich, author of the Tex
as Land Management Bill, will
deliver a dinner address Friday
evening on “Managing Our Land
Resources for the Future.”
Other speakers at the event
will include R. H. Basden, senior
vice president of 1st General Real
ty in Houston; Dr. Earl Cook,
dean of the College of Geosciences
at TAMU; Dr. Vergil Stover,
Texas Transportation Institute,
and faculty members from Texas
A&M, Southwest Texas State Uni
versity and LSU at New Orleans.
Architecture and Environmental
Design Building during the cm.
ference, and films on environmett
and planning will be shown fol
lowing Friday’s session.
Displays on urban planning will
be set up in the lobby of the
A $5 admission fee will \n
charged to non-participants in tit
conference for each of the discus
sion and lecture periods. Tickets
may also be purchased for the
Friday evening dinner event
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