Texas Map Society

Program Details

Fall 2007 Meeting

 

 

 

Friday Evening, October 5, 2007

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

 

[Bus departs the Hilton Arlington Hotel,
2401 East Lamar Boulevard, Arlington, TX 76006, at 6:00 p.m.]

 

Reception

DeGoyler Library, SMU

Host Russell Martin, Director

 

The Edwin J. Foscue Map Library

Tour/Preview of 65th Anniversary Exhibition

 

Presentation:

Youngblood, Dawn
Dallas, Curator, Edwin J. Foscue Map Library,

Southern Methodist University

Topic: World War II Maps

 [Bus returns to Hilton Arlington Hotel]

 

 

 

Saturday, October 6, 2007

The University of Texas at Arlington

Central Library

702 Planetarium Drive

Arlington, Texas

 

8:30 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

 

9:10 a.m

Reinhartz, Dennis
Arlington, History Professor
Title: "What Is a Map?"
[You will never view a map in the same way again!]

 

10:00 a.m.

   Break

 

10:15 a.m.

Barnes, Randy
Fort Worth, School Teacher and Graduate Student
Title: "The Maps of Ramusio's "Navigationi et Viaggi"
[The Program Committee is always on the lookout for outstanding graduate students in cartographic studies to bring to the attention of the membership and this year’s young scholar is UT Arlington’s  Randy Barnes, a private school teacher]

 

11:05 a.m.

Break

 

11:15 a.m.

Cobb, John
Stafford, Businessman and Collector
Title: “Texas Railroad Pocket Maps, Land Promotion Maps and Brochures of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries; A Story of Texas”

 

12:15 noon

Lunch in the Atrium
 

1:30 p.m.

Tyler, Ron
Fort Worth, Director of Amon Carter Museum
Title: "Bird's-eye Views of Texas"

 

2:30 p.m.

Break

 

2:45 p.m.

Duty, Michael
Dallas, Historian and Executive Director of the Dallas Historical Society
Topic: Maps Preserved by Dallas Historical Society

 

3:45 p.m.

Break

 

4:00 p.m.

Finfrock, David
Fort Worth, NBC5 Head Meteorologist and Collector
Title: Members Map Forum
[Make plans to bring your favorite map]

 

 5:00 p.m.

Jeff Dunn

President of the Texas Map Society

 

 

 

Saturday at UT Arlington includes:

Presentations and Registration Packets

Continental Breakfast

Lunch

Breaks with snacks and drinks

 

 

Introduction    Hotel Information    Directions to UT Arlington

Registration   Texas Map Society Home Page

 

 

 The Texas Map Society
For information please contact
Kit Goodwin at goodwin@uta.edu
Last date this page updated: 09/05/2007