Evening Event
7:00 p.m. -- Dr. Joseph G. Dawson, III, Professor of History at Texas A&M University and past director of A & M's Military Studies Institute, will speak on "America's Soldiers & America's Veterans: Military Service in America"
in the James S. Olson auditorium, on the 2nd floor of Academic Building 4 on the SHSU campus.

Admission to both events is free and open to the public. 
Please direct questions to Dr. Susannah U. Bruce, SHSU Department of History,
#936-294-3659 or sbruce@shsu.edu

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In Case of Rain on Tuesday morning, Dr. Olson's 9:00 a.m. talk will move into the auditorium
in the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr. Education Center at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.

NOTE: The sketch above and many of those used in the posters to advertise this event are the work of Colonel John W. Thomason, Jr.   He was a U.S. Marine, native son of Huntsville, veteran of the First World War, and grandson of Captain Thomas J. Goree, a member of Confederate General James Longstreet's staff during the American Civil War.  Nearly 2000 of Thomason's sketches are held in the John W. Thomason Room at the SHSU Newton Gresham Library, as are all of his works of literature, which include a celebrated biography of General J.E.B. Stuart, a collection of short stories pertaining to the First World War called Fix Bayonets! and a brilliant work of historical fiction, Lone Star Preacher: Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxiteles Swan, M.E. Church South Sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment Confederate States Provisional Army.

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Last Update: November 6, 2003