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Historic Preservation Committee
Monday, January 8, 2007
4-5 pm
2nd Floor Conference Room, City Hall
College Station, Texas 77840
Attendance: Chair, Hillary Jessup, Jane Hughey, Neal Nutall, Colleen Risinger, Meredith
Waller, Ernie Wright, Bill Lancaster and Haskell Monroe
Approved Absence: Marguerite Anthony
Staff Attendance: Olivia Burnside, Chief Information Officer and Peggy Calliham,
Interim Neighborhood Services Coordinator and Anne Boykin, Historic Preservation
Intern.
Agenda Item #1: Call to Order
Meeting was called to order at 4:08 p.m.
Agenda Item #2: Absence Request
Hillary reminded the group that Marguerite Anthony's absence was approved in
December for both December and January due to family illness.
Agenda Item #3: Hear Visitors
There were no visitors.
Agenda Item #4: Approval of the minutes
Haskell Monroe made the motion and Ernie Wright seconded the approval of the minutes
from the December 11, 2006 meeting. The motion passed unanimously.
Agenda Item #5: Report on Public Relations Planning
The topic of Public Relations planning was tabled from the December meeting. A format
of a Public Relations planning worksheet was provided by Peggy. She suggested that this
format might be used for future individual projects or for an overall program to be sure
that everyone agrees upon the goal of the project, the message to be delivered and to what
audience. It also allows for assignment of responsibility, a timeline and budget for
promoting projects. Hillary suggested that each committee might use this planning
format to determine how we want to publicize. The historic markers project might
benefit from using this format.
Project updates
Agenda Item #6 Exploring History Lunch Lectures
Next lecture is scheduled for January 24, on the Millican Riots. It will be presented by Dr.
James Smallwood of the East Texas Historical Commission. Anne will reprint the
newsletter on the Millican riots for this lecture. Becky might want a copy of this to
provide to the media.
Peggy asked to confirm the group's wishes for future lunch lecture speakers. She had
spoken with Jeff Carroll, a Texas History teacher at Blinn, whom Katie had previously
contacted. He is very willing to present on February 21 and develop a topic that would
work for this group. Ernie stated that he knows Jeff and he is very entertaining and
would be a good speaker. Ernie also asked if we had told Jeff he could sell his books. That
topic was never discussed; however the group felt that it would be okay for those speakers
who have books, to sell them at the lectures. Ernie agreed to re-contact Jeff and
determine a topic and confirm the speaking engagement.
Bill and Mary Lancaster had been tentatively on the lecture list for March 21, with the
topic of The Evolution of Student Housing. However Bill indicated, though they did want
to put their experiences into some documented form, he did not feel they had enough of
the bigger housing picture and they were not really prepared to do something this soon. It
was suggested that Ron Blatchley, formerly of Student Affairs, might be a good resource
from the standpoint of student housing. It needs further research. Others suggested who
might have some information were banker Bookman Peters and developer John Culpepper.
Also the heirs of Herschel Burgess, such as Red Cashion might have some information on
the topic. Peggy agreed to talk with Ron Blatchley to gather more information.
Marci Rodgers has spoken with Richard Adams about April 18 on the topic of the History
of the Vet School and that is confirmed. Anne mentioned a gentleman she spoke to at
TAMU on the history of the Parks and Recreation Dept. at TAMU who might be a
potential speaker. She will have to get the name. And it was suggested that maybe Steve
Beachy could go ahead and take the March 21 date and do the Evolution of CS Parks and
Recreation. Hillary and Ernie agreed to meet and try to firm up this list of speakers
in the next month.
Agenda Item #7 Project Hold
Anne has been asked to serve on the Brazos County Historical Commission and will be
bringing back reports to this committee from that committee in the future.
Anne reported that the scanning of items has been a bit slow during December.
The Panther Pride exhibit at the conference center has had good response and Rebecca
Hankins at the Cushing Library wants to do an oral history with Coach Delly.
Haskell suggested we might want to call upon Fran (Miss Dixie) and Charles Lamb and
find out more about what they are doing. They are on the radio and have a one minute
item.
Rebecca Hankins also wants to partner with Project Hold and linking the sites in the
future. Hillary asked that Anne keep Bill and Haskell in the loop on this because they
are working on the oral history project.
Mary Hamlin has done an oral history with Nell and Willie Pruitt and we now have that.
Agenda Item # 8: Committee Calendars
January13, 2007, 6:30PM - Martin Luther King Celebration at Lincoln Center
January 24, 2007, Exploring History Lunch Lecture, College Station Conference
Center.
February 5, 2007 Next HPC Meeting, 2nd Floor City Hall
March 2, 2007 Dedication of Veterans Memorial/American Mile
Olivia Burnside suggested committee might want to tie with another activity such as
Sparktacular and/or Earth Day which alternates cities and has a tremendous crowd.
Marguerite had also sent a note stating that perhaps the committee could make a stronger
impact in March than in May by working with the Parks and Recreation Department on the
American Mile.
Agenda Item #9: Other business
Anne's 40th high school reunion will be held in July 2007. Anne has set aside some time to
potentially get these 60's graduates to bring items that might be scanned in for Project
Hold. There is not a lot of information that has been saved from the A&M Consolidated
elementary schools. Anne asked if the committee would be interested in helping with that
scanning if this all works out. The group indicated an interest in helping Anne with this
project.
Peggy mentioned that her first grade teacher, Mrs. Knowles is still alive and in a nursing
home locally. Also that perhaps Mr. Horace Schafer and Mr. Riedel might be able
to provide some information. Neal Nutall's neighbor Agnes Baker was a secretary at the
high school for many years.
Peggy asked Anne if she had ever used some of the cities radio spots to seek information
for Project Hold and give a little one minute History of CS while there. Anne said she
used that in the past but might look into it further.
Hillary briefly went over the results of the Strengths Survey and handed out copies to the
group for future reference. She indicated this was a very strong group and very high
achievers.
Agenda Item #9: Adjourn
At 4:55 Bill Lancaster made the motion to adjourn and Jane Hughey seconded the motion.
APPROVED: ATTEST:
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Hillary Jessup, Chairman Peggy Calliham, Neighborhood Services