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HERITAGE PROGRAMS PROGRESS REPORT Parks & Recreation Department Anne Boykin November 1-30, 2008 EXTERNAL Acquisitions for Project HOLD –364 pages scanned • Photos from Vietnam, c. 1968
from Jerry Cooper Contacts -3 • Nika Hancock, AbouTown Press; interview about “Honoring Our Mayors” • Mike Luther, Southside Resident; information about Southside history • Linda & Joe
Douglas; Vietnam War photos and memorabilia Presentations – 4 • Nov. 8-9 -Veterans Day Museum, Downtown 202, Bryan – Presented Project HOLD and the website through photos from the website,
a PowerPoint slide show, and laptop access to the website; 5,000 in attendance • Nov. 10 -Worth Remembering, Friends Congregational Church – Public reading of correspondence, poetry
and prose pertaining to war; 50 in attendance • Nov. 11 – Veterans Day Ceremony, American Pavilion, Veterans PAC -• Nov. 19 -Exploring History Lunch Lecture – History of the EOC, presented
by Michele Meade; 55 in attendance Research Requests – 2 • PARD Theme Song – Transferred the the song from cassette tape to .wav file for Mike Neu (Public Communications) and Pam Springfield
(PARD) • CNN London – Found two families of deceased veterans who were on opposing sides of military legislation barring media coverage of war related deaths (Cary Bell, reporter, is
my niece.) Publicity –1 article; 16 viewings • “Seventy Years of Leadership” article in AbouTown Press, Oct. 21. • Exploring History Lunch Lecture showing on CSTV-19 on Tuesdays, 10
am and 10 pm. Oral History Interviews – 0 Publications –2 • Sent a press release concerning the Exploring History Lunch Lecture • Sent a press release concerning 70th Birthday Art Contest
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Historic Markers – 0 • Currently, 85 Historic Home Markers, 8 Building Markers and 2 Historic Subject Markers Community Outreach -2 • Nov. 5 -Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Board Meeting;
ACBV • Nov. 20 – “History of Terrell Farms From the Mid 30s to Mid 60s” at Millican History Center; presented by Bill Terrell with photographs by Kathleen Blackshear; possible Exploring
History Lunch topic INTERNAL Intern –0 hours No intern at this time. Volunteers – 6.25 hours KUDOS Attached is a list of the Brazos Valley Veterans I have found listed on the Memorial
in DC. Thanks for all you do to support our Veterans Tom Powell LCDR/MSC/USN(Ret) A&M Consolidated Class of ‘65 Thanks again for all you do for seniors and for remembering me so many
times. I am truly grateful for your thoughtfulness. Sincerely, Joanna Yeager Thanks for sharing your fathers story and Tom’s part in his gathering a veterans story. My Husband Jim was
an 18 year old boy when he went into service in WWII. He won't give his story because he jokes that he was Key man in the first Remingtons (A typist with the Fleet Records Office). My
reply to this is that every man and woman’s job was required. None would have got their mail if not for those who served in menial tasks. Thanks for sharing. Joan Teer Thanks for your
good historical work. I've missed the seminars due to trips and sloth. Have enjoyed all I've attended. Carl Shafer