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Heritage Programs Progress Report
Parks & Recreation Department
Anne Boykin, Coordinator
November 1-30, 2009
EXTERNAL
Acquisitions for Project HOLD – 3 pages scanned
• Photographs from “Hot Rocks Cook-Off”
Contacts - 2
• Walter Bradford, Museum Curator, US Army Center of Military History
• Kathy DeLeon, Sales Counselor, Waldenbrook Estates
Presentations – 7 to combined audience of 965+
• November 2 – Conducted tours of Dia de los Muertos altar for TAMU Spanish students (30 present)
• November 6 – New Hire Orientation Bus Tour (40 present)
• November 9 – Presentation to Council on Hot Rocks Cook Off (75 present)
• November 11 – Veterans Day at Veterans Park (500 present)
• November 13-15 – Hot Rocks Cook-Off (150 present)
• November 17 – GIS Mapping Day (50 present)
• November 18- Exploring History Lunch Lecture, “Bryan Air Base” (120 present)
Research Requests – 4
• Kathryn Lindsay, CHS ‘59, requested an original CHS tiger logo. (Completed in 30 minutes.)
• Rebecca Coleman, England, requested help in researching her grandfather’s WWII military service
• Karl Goldapp, COCS, requested technical information on early Carter Creek area
• Karen King, requested history of home at 500 Ayrshire
Publicity – 5 PSAs & 20 programs
• KAMU-TV Magazine show with Sharon Colson (Anne B. and Dorothy Hernandez were guests) featured the !Siempre! Otra Vez exhibit
• COCS AccessENews featured the !Siempre! Otra Vez exhibit
• COCS Press Release “Hot Rocks Cook-Off”
• Insite Magazine listed the Exploring History Lunch Lecture in their calendar
• The Eagle displays the Exploring History Lunch Lecture notices in the events calendar
• CSTV-19 airs the Exploring History Lunch Lecture weekdays 4am & 4pm
Oral History Interviews – 0
Historic Markers – 1 application pending for 118 Pershing (re-submitted)
• Currently, 85 Historic Home Markers, 9 Building Markers and 2 Historic Subject Markers
Community Outreach - 2
• November 4, Attended Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Board of Directors meeting (17
present)
• BVVM Lynn Stuart Pathway interpretive panels – Work continues on the 23 panels that I am
designing for the pathway. Fourteen are I the final draft stage.
INTERNAL
Intern –0 hours
No intern at this time.
Volunteers – 0 hours
KUDOS
RE: Dia de los Muertos Altar
Thank you very much for the wonderful time that we've had visiting the College Station Conference Center. The Dia de los Muertos altar was wonderful, and my students were able to understand
the Dia de los Muertos celebration very clearly. What a lovely ofrenda...just wonderful. Thank you for sharing your loved ones with us...You were knowledgeable and extremely pleasant,
and I personally loved the “oregano” in your altar. We also enjoyed your "College-Station-TAMU" expertise!!
We all enjoyed it so much! Thank you again. Carmen Villa, TAMU professor
I am in one of the Spanish classes you talked to this morning. Thank you so much for showing the altar and teaching us about Dia de los Muertos. I learned a lot and found it very interesting.
I grew up in Ft. Worth so I am not from College Station, but I love hearing about the history and great times people have had over the years here. Again, thank you so much for your time!
I hope you have a wonderful week!
Natalie Valenta, TAMU student, Political Science '11
Would you add me to your e-mail contact and distribution list please? Joe Muguerza, my good friend, has been generously forwarding some of your alerts to keep me informed of things he
knows I have a decided passion for, e. g. the Hot Rocks Cookoff. I'm studying Anthropology/Archaeology at Blinn and this alert was and is of tremendous interest for me and my classmates
with whom I've shared it. I hope to see you there :-) Steve Morgan
RE: Hot Rocks Cook-Off
Great flyer! Steve Beachy, Chair, BVVM Board of Directors
Ah, lass, if I were just 30 years younger, I could jump in and compete with the rest. I think I will just watch. This is a great idea. Keep up the good work. Dorthea Robinson, College
Station resident
Congratulations to the Historic Preservation Committee and the Parks Department for a very successful Hot Rocks demonstration of Native American Food preparation. It was fascinating! Kudos
for Dr. Thoms and his graduate students! How appropriate that it took place where real Native American food preparation sites have been found.
I look forward to a Native American Pathway there at Veterans Park, and a permanent educational exhibiton on food preparation. It would enrich the park even more.
Good job! Susan Irza, HPC, BCHC
You and Dorothy should be very proud of your display. It is certainly keeping the culture alive.
Thank you, Regina (Opersteny, BCHC
RE: Bryan Air Base, Exploring History
Bill was stationed at Bryan AFB and Mary Jo gave birth to their first daughter at the Bryan AFB Hospital. We are anxious to learn more about the history of the base. Mary Jo and Bill
Lay
I cannot make the 11/18 luncheon, but I would greatly appreciate a copy of Kerry Chandler's remarks if possible. My father was stationed at Bryan Field as part of the first class of
Army Air Corps pilots to receive training in instrument flying from NAVAL AVIATORS sent over from Pensacola, Florida.
Mike Newman, Newman Printing
Thanks for all of the work you do all year long to support and promote the heritage of this great County. David Gerling, COCS
RE: Veterans Day Event
Great job on last night's event. Loved the program and noticed they
were quite popular with everyone. People were actually reading it
since you went to the trouble to put so much information in it.
Get some rest...Becky Nugent, former PIO, COCS