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January 29, 2011

12th Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference
Celebrating Dallas: Tales from the Thirties

8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Hall of State, Fair Park Dallas

Conference Presentations:

"Artists and Models: Two Different Viewpoints about Women at the Dallas Centennial Celebration"
     Light Cummins, Austin College

"Hall of Negro Life: A Maceo Smith and the Origin of the civil rights Movement in Dallas"
     Paul L. Dunbar, Sr., University of North Texas

"When Frank Met Stanley: Frank Lloyd Wright and Stanley Marcus"
     Charles, Marshall, Dallas

"DeGolyer Comes to Dallas"
     Peter Flagg Maxson, Austin

"Texas Centennial Architects: 1936 and Beyond"
     Marcel Quimby, F.A.I.A., Dallas

"Ford Motor Company at the Texas Centennial Exposition"
     Willis Winters, Dallas Park and Recreation Department

For more information or to register, please contact conference coordinator Michael V. Hazel at 214-413-3665 or mvhazel@sbcglobal.net.


These presentations will be published in a subsequent issue of Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas.

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies (Southern Methodist University) is one of twelve nonprofit groups that jointly sponsor the conference including Dallas Center for Architecture, Dallas County Historical Commission, Dallas County Pioneer Association, Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park, Dallas Historical Society, DeGolyer Library (Southern Methodist University),  Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society, Preservation Dallas, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, and the Texas State Historical Association.