11th ANNUAL LEGACIES DALLAS HISTORY CONFERENCE
“Once Upon a Time in Big D:
More Forgotten Stories”
Saturday,
January 30, 2010
8:30
am Registration
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Conference
Hughes-Trigg Auditorium
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas
The
Eleventh Annual Legacies
History Conference
will be held on
Saturday, January 30, 2010. The
Clements Center is one of twelve
historical organizations jointly
sponsoring the conference.
The aim of the "Legacies"
conference is to rescue subjects
from obscurity and acknowledge their
importance in the development of
Dallas. Presenters will focus on
individuals, groups, sites, events,
or communities important to the
history of Dallas. To mark SMU’s
approaching centennial, one of the
papers being presented will look at
the SMU Medical Department, which
existed between 1911 and 1915,
before the present campus opened.
Other papers will focus on local
inventor Henry "Dad" Garrett, outlaw
"Shilo" Scrivnor, and the
"legalizing" of prostitution in
Dallas before World War I, as well
as the accomplishments of the Dallas
NAACP after World War II. The
Clements Center and the DeGolyer
Library are among a dozen sponsors
of the conference. Registration
brochures will be sent to everyone
on their mailing lists in December.
For more information, contact
conference coordinator
Dr. Michael V. Hazel at 214-413-3665 or mvhazel@sbcglobal.net.
From
SMU’s 1913 Medical College yearbook,
the SMU Medical College and
Pharmacy Building originally located
in downtown Dallas.
8:30 Registration and morning refreshments
9:00 Nancy Skochdopole “A Surprise Beginning: The Medical and Pharmaceutical Departments of Southern Methodist University, 1911 -1915”
9:30 Steven Butler “Henry ‘Dad’ Garrett: Dallas’s Thomas A. Edison”
10:00 George Cook “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of Long’s Lake”
10:30 Morning break, refreshments, book sales
11:00 Gwinnetta Crowell “Not in My Backyard: ‘Legalizing’ Prostitution in Dallas from 1910 to 1913”
11:30 Christopher Dugdale “The Dallas Branch of the NAACP after World War II”
12:00 Michael Tate “W. S. ‘Shilo’ Scrivnor: Gangster of 1920s Dallas”
12:30 Adjourn
