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The DeGolyer Library, 

the Friends of the SMU Libraries 

and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies

co-sponsor:

The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-2003

A Bicentennial Exhibition & Lecture Series

DeGolyer Library, S.M.U.

October 2003-February 2004

Oct. 16, The Tornado and the Treasure: Thomas Jefferson

and the Louisiana Purchase, James Ronda, University of Tulsa

Nov. 20, “In Territories So Extensive and Fertile”: Spanish and

English-Speaking Peoples in Louisiana Before the Purchase,

Light Cummins, Austin College

Jan. 29, How the French Quarter Became Spanish Before

Becoming American in 1803, James Early, S.M.U.

Feb. 17, Multicultural New Orleans, Jeremy Adams, S.M.U.

The exhibition, curated by Ben Huseman, features books, maps,

and prints from DeGolyer’s permanent collections,

telling the story of the clash of empires and cultures in the Trans-Mississippi region.

All lectures are at DeGolyer Library (McFarlin & Hilltop.)

Free and open to the public.

 Receptions begin at 6:00 pm., lectures at 7 pm.

 For additional information, call 214-768-3231.

• October 14, 3pm at ISEM
•  November 17, 10:30am in the Texana
•  December 15, 10:30am in the Dean's Suite

Please join LEAD for this once in a lifetime event!  We will gather at 9:50 am in the main foyer of the Meadows Museum.  The tour will begin at 10:00am.

Come one, come all to the World War II Propaganda Film Festival on Friday evening, November 7 and all day Saturday, November 8. Sponsored by the Friends of the SMU Libraries and NCMIT. For details, see below.

This is a new section in which a new CUL staff member will be featured each month.  The purpose is to get to know each other a little better.  Please feel free to send me the profiles of your newest staff members (tvangoet@mail.smu.edu) so that we can introduce them to the rest of CUL.

International Studies: A World Learning Experience, October28, 2003-January 10, 2004.

Homecoming: It's in the Cards, October 27th, 2003 - November 14, 2003.

JFK: Forty Years--A Time to Remember, November 15, 2003- December 5, 2003.

Dawn Youngblood of the Edwin J. Foscue Map Library generally does not like it when people write on maps, but sometimes a personal note on a historic map gives us a feeling for those who have gone before; their personality and tribulations -- and sometimes, a feeling of just how important maps were to them. A wonderful example of this came up at the last meeting of the Texas Map Society last month. A historian reported he had discovered the following note hand written on the back of an 1832 map of Texas purchased in Indiana:

My name is Tom Johnson

this is my knife (picture of bowie knife)

Take my map

and I'll take your life!

Certainly Mr. Johnson must have fit in very well with Texans of his day.

The next meeting of the Texas Map Society is in Abilene the first week-end of April. E-mail Dawn if you would like further details.

And don't forget to drop in to see our map exhibit at the Hawn Gallery in Hamon Arts:

Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University

Exhibit open October 23 through December 30, 2003Many thanks to Ellen Buie Niewyk for painstakingly framing most of the pieces in the exhibit; to Sam Ratcliffe for pounding nails in the wall with 1/8-inch precision and fine-tuning our installation plan; to Ganesh Devappa for help with meausring this all out; to Hannah Watson for formatting and cutting out the labels; and to Nayera Sadek for watching over the Map Library while all of this was going on. It was truly a team effort, and the Hawn Gallery, under the care of Tim Silcox and Sam Ratcliffe, is truly a state of the art facility. We are grateful to have its use to promote the importance of maps both historically and geologically. The change in ideas and understanding that these maps represent truly does impact us all.

According to the 2003 Chase's Calendar of Events November is:

• October Astrological Signs:
  • Libra: September 23-October 22
  • Scorpio: October 23-November 21
• October Birthstones: 
  • opal
  • tourmaline
• October Flower
  • Calendula