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Hollace Weiner authors a biographical sketch and description of the The Papers of Robert Hanks Brister, a Waco school superintendent during the Great Depression, in this timely article. Brister, a prolific writer and photographer, documented his student days at Decatur Baptist College, and his experiences as a Texas soldier during World War I, as well as expounding on issues facing educators during the first half of the twentieth century in the papers.

The article, written by UTA librarian Bobbie Stevens Johnson, highlights an illustrated poem written by Barnard Elliott Bee, a Brigadier General in the Civil War. The manuscript pages are from Special Collections' Mexican War Collections and several pages of the illustrated poem are included in the article.

The column written by the Special Collections' manuscript archivist is a popular item in the Compass Rose. This issue features a description and photos from the William J. Bardin Family Papers. A longtime Arlington, Texas, resident, Bardin was a surveyor, field engineer, and superintendent of many notable built landmarks, including the Houston International Airport, Casa Manana, the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, Arlington Downs Racetrack and countless highways and roads for the Texas State Highway Department.

In this new feature, the Compass Rose asks for the assistance of its readers in identifying a picture from its collections. This first unknown photograph is of an unidentified, presumable Texas courthouse. Take a look and see if you have seen it before.

Saxon, Assistant Director of Libraries, reports on the status of the fund raising efforts for the Garrett Endowment Fund. The article notes the many supporters, both foundations and individuals, who generously contributed to the campaign.

An advance notice of the forthcoming Third Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. The lecture series will be held in conjunction with the joint meeting of the Texas Map Society and the Philip Lee Phillips Society from the Library of Congress on October 4 and 5, 2002. Includes a list of speakers and presentations.

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A.C. Green, 1987

In this article, Saxon pays tribute to Greene, and recounts how he met the author in 1980. Saxon outlines Green's career beginning with his service in WWII, his life as a newspaper columnists and later editorial page editor, his owning a bookstore, driving a Coke truck in Dallas, graduate studies at UT-Austin and spending a year at J. Frank Dobie's Paisano Ranch.

A.C. Greene, 1987

Ohan, Greene's personal archivist and friend, remembers the author first from the papers donated to UTA's Special Collection and later as his friend and mentor. Ohan uses Green's own words to reveal the Texan's passion for this work, his views on the world and himself.

Downtown Fort Worth, corner of Seventh and Main Streets, 1950

Dwyer and Gross report on the grant received by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve the W. D. Smith, Inc. Commercial Photography Collection housed in Special Collections. The grant will be used to re-house the Fort Worth photography firm's negatives from the 1950's. A selection of the photographs are included in the article.

Toenjes, Photograph Curator for Special Collections, describes the recent acquisition of postal issues for the Texas Sesquicentennial by the division. The collection of materials relating to the issuance of the Texas Sesquicentennial stamp in 1986, includes a number of stamp collecting cachets with cancelled stamps of numerous designs as well as items related to the stamp's release. Toenjes also writes about Cohn's collecting interests and his passion for philately.

In the last issue, Rodnitzky asked readers to help identify the courthouse pictured at the left. See who came up with the identification and how the mystery was solved.

"Confederate Cavalry Returning from a Successful Raid,"
from Marcus Joseph Wright,
Battles and Commanders of the Civil War (Washington, D.C. 1906). Battles and Commanders of the Civil War (Washington, D.C. 1906).

In her final column prior to her retirement, Rodnitzky describes the Texas Confederate Gravesite Project Records in detail compiled by Jimmy Bryan, a former UTA graduate student. In addition she list, with a brief summary, the collections in the division that contain letters, diaries, and journals by soldiers whose home was Texas, or elsewhere in the Confederacy, during the Civil War, 1861-1865.

Shirley Rodnitzky, 2002

Long time archivist and author of the feature column "Seek and You Shall Find an Aid" in the Compass Rose retired on August 31, 2002. Gross, her supervisor in the division writes about the popular staff member recounting here accomplishments.

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