The Spring meeting of the Texas Map Society will beheld on April 6^th and 7^th at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The Program Committee is currently finalizing plans for this our first meeting in the Panhandle on lands still referred to on maps as the "Llano Estacado." The area has been known more recently for fine Texas wines, and the committee is negotiating for tours of a winery or two. Texas Tech is the home of a fabulous Coronelli globe, and we will have an opportunity to view the globe and hear our own David Buisseret give a gallery talk on the 17^th century map and globe maker.

The Program Committee has lined up a slate of outstanding speakers again for the Saturday sessions. (see box to the right.)

The meeting is sure to be one NOT to miss. Registration flyers will be mailed out the end of February. While you are marking calendars, be sure to note our fall meeting will be back at The University of Texas at Arlington on Saturday, October 6, 2001.

Speakers
Saturday, April 7

• Shirley Applewhite of Mineola, Texas, who will speak on maps in fashion;
  
• James Bryan of Arlington, Texas, who will speak on maps of manifest destiny;
  
• Richard and Shirley Flint of New Mexico, who will speak on the Panhandle Entrada of the Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado;
  
• J. C. Martin of Austin, Texas, who will speak on the noted map collector and Stephen F. Austin descendant, J. P. Bryan, Sr.;
  
• Richard Proctor of Paris, Texas, who will speak on the west Texas expeditions of U.S. Army Capt. Randolph B. Marcy.

April 6-7, 2001
Lubbock Texas

The 6-foot Rand McNally topographical globe on display in the International Cultural Center is one of several globes TMS members will have the opportunity to view at Texas Tech University.