4/1: International Trade, 1987-1990
Miscellaneous publications including an issue of The Economist containing an article on the economy of Italy, a news release regarding and a copy of the Competitiveness Index for 1990, scattered issues of the National Governor's Association newsletter Governor's Weekly Bulletin with articles on trade, 1987-1990, and Shearson Lehman Brothers newsletter international economic Developments in Review, August 4, 1987

4/2: Jobs and Opportunity Blueprint, 1989
Letters, memos, notes, press release, drafts of legislation, brief reports on bills in the Governor's legislative package, and Governor Clements' remarks to the Texas Chamber of Commerce

4/3: Jobs and Opportunity Blueprint, Clippings, 1989

4/4: Manufacturing Equipment, 1988
Sales & Use Tax, Letters, memos, notes, tables, and report titled Job Creation/Economic Development Legislation

4/5: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 1987
Correspondence, memos, notes, and clippings regarding bringing the center to Texas

4/6: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, April 24, 1987
Proposal from the State of Texas to locate the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

4/7: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, July 23, 1987
Proposal from the State of Texas to locate the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

4/8: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 1988
Information Packet for Cooperative Agreement Program, Manufacturing Technology Centers Program, National Bureau of Standards

4/9: Rural Development Councils, Federal--USDA, 1990
Letters, memos, press release, brief background report on state rural development councils, list of Texas federal officials at the Texas Federal Rural Development Council organizational meeting, and report titled Rural Economic Development for the '90s: A Presidential Initiative, the findings and recommendations of the Economic Policy Council Working Group on Rural Development

4/10: Santa Fe Railroad
List of names of individuals, organizations they represented, addresses and telephone numbers, possibly of those who attended a meeting about the railroad

4/11: Senior Tour Players, Inc./River Place, Austin, Texas, 1990
Letters about Senior Tour Players, Inc. acquiring and then reselling River Place, a 1400 acre master-planned community in Austin

4/12: Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Device (SMEs), 1988
Letters, memos, notes, and a clipping about locating the facility in Texas

4/13: Texas Defense Forum, 1988
Correspondence, memos, notes, clippings, press releases, list of suggested members, suggestions of goals and objectives, copy of HB 1511 relating to the creations, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission, reports on defense spending and military personnel in Texas and federal government contracting by KPMG Peat Marwick, and record of prime federal contract awards in 1981 to Dallas, Harris, Nueces, Tarrant, and Travis counties, and a list of cities in which defense contracts are in force

4/14: Texas First, 1989
Letters, notes, brief reports, report on background questions and answers, and report containing a summary of the proposal of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to maintain or reduce telephone costs and letters and newspaper articles of support from a representative sample of Texas individuals, companies, and governmental units

4/15: Tourism, 1987-1989
Letters, memos, notes, clipping, press releases, remarks of Governor Clements, brochure, recap of the governor's job creation/economic development legislative program, and draft agreements between the United States of America and the United Mexican States on the development and facilitation of tourism and on cooperation for the protection and improvement of the environment in the metropolitan area of Mexico City

4/16: Tourism, 1986-1988
May 1987 issue of Southwest Hotel Motel Review devoted entirely to increasing tourism in Texas, an issue of the National Governors' Association's Governors' Weekly Bulletin, a report to the governor and people of Florida on the importance of increasing tourism advertising, and a copy of a bill introduced in the Florida legislature creating the Florida Tourism Commission

4/17: Trans World Airlines (TWA), 1989
Memo and two versions of a letter from Governor Clements to the president of TWA regarding relocating its reservation center to San Antonio or Houston

4/18: Unemployment Tax Credits, 1990
Press release regarding Governor Clements pointing to unemployment tax credits as a significant indicator of a stronger Texas economy

4/19: Wal-Mart Program (New Braunfels), 1988
Letters, report on the economic impact on Texas of Wal-Mart Stores, and other information on the opening of a Wal-Mart regional distribution facility in New Braunfels

4/20: Welcome Letters, 1990
Letters, usually with some accompanying documentation, from Governor Clements to representatives of companies from outside Texas who have visited the state and are considering relocating a part of their business to Texas

4/21: Economic Indicators, Abilene Economy, 1988-1990
General statistics for these years

4/22: Economic Indicators, Austin Economy, 1987-1990
General statistics for the years 1988-1989, notes, clippings, fact sheet, and single or scattered issues of newsletters including the Austin Skyliner, Texas Business Review, Growth Watch, Perryman Report, and Austin Perspective

4/23: Economic Indicators, Beaumont Economy, 1987-1990
Letters, memos, notes about general economy and Governor Clements' visit to Beaumont and the visit of a delegation to Governor Clements from that city, and a single issue of Beaumont Commerce monthly

4/24: Economic Indicators, Border Economy, 1987-1990
Weekly issues of Border Business Indicators produced by Laredo State University, October 1987-January 1989, statistics of commercial airline boardings in the lower Rio Grande Valley, 1989-1990, and two clippings, 1990

4/25: Economic Indicators, Border Economy, 1990
Report titled Paso Del Norte Regional Economy, Socio-Economic Profile prepared by El Paso Foreign Trade Association, Leadership El Paso, and University of Texas at El Paso

4/26: Economic Indicators, Corpus Christi Economy, 1987-1990 (?)
Notes, general economic statistics, copy of an article on the bulk loading dock, fact sheet, and a brief report on the estimated impact of the U. S. Navy Battleship Surface Action Group on the border economy

4/27: Economic Indicators, Dallas Economy, 1989-1990
Memos, notes, clippings, copy of an article about the best cities for business from Fortune, and statistical information, primarily from The Dallas Partnership

4/28: Economic Indicators, Dallas Economy, 1988
Reports including 1990-91 Membership Directory and Buyers Guide of the Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Professional Services Journal for 1990 of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, and Dallas-Fort Worth: Selected Business Climate, Cost of Living, and Quality of Life Indicators by the Texas Department of Commerce

4/29: Economic Indicators, Dallas Economy, 1989-1990
Scattered issues of The Dallas Letter providing a summary of current business activity in Dallas, September 1990 issue of Texas Labor Market Review, and an economic development brochure produced by the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce

4/30: Economic Indicators, Harlingen Economy, 1988-1989
Press release about three companies moving to the city and statistical report of commercial airline boarding in the lower Rio Grande Valley

4/31: Economic Indicators, Houston Economy, 1988-1990
Letter, notes, brief reports, clippings, two issues of Landmarks of the Friendswood Development Company, single issues of Houston Update, Houston Profile, and NASA Update, and Port of Houston magazine and Houston Magazine, which is devoted to the economic outlook of the city

4/32: Economic Indicators, Houston Economy, 1987-1990
Scattered issues of the newsletters Houston Economic Newsletter, Houston Economic News, and At Work, all published by the Greater Houston Chamber of Commerce

4/33: Economic Indicators, Richardson Economy, 1989
Public Relations package prepared by the Richardson Chamber of Commerce including a high-tech industries map, a summary report on the city, a report titled High-Tech Richardson, and copies of articles about the city from the Dallas Morning News

4/34: Economic Indicators, San Antonio Economy, 1989-1990
Notes, clipping, newsletter of the Discovery Texas Association, and schedule for the San Antonio Economic Summit on Strategic Initiatives for Economic Development

4/35: Economic Indicators, Gross State Product, 1990 & 1991
Notes, copy of a chart from It's Texas, Here's Why published by the Texas Comptroller, and the September/October 1990 issue of Economic Research including The Pocket Chartroom: The 1991 Business Outlook: Stagflation

4/36: Economic Indicators, Office Space Surveys, 1990
Copy of an article or report from an unidentified source

4/37: Economic Indicators, Department of Commerce
Educational Visuals, Notes, collection of charts and graphs, clippings, and copy of March 1988 Texas Key Economic Indicators

4/38: Economic Briefs, November 1990
[Note: These files typically contain some or all of the following: clippings, newsletters, press releases, remarks or statements by Governor Clements, statistics, charts, graphs, issues of Economic Briefs prepared by the Texas Department of Commerce, and a brief report of Texas Economic Indicators]

4/39: Economic Briefs, October 1990

4/40: Economic Briefs, September 1990

4/41: Economic Briefs, August 1990

4/42: Economic Briefs, July 1990

4/43: Economic Briefs, June 1990

4/44: Economic Briefs, May 1990

4/45: Economic Briefs, April 1990

4/46: Economic Briefs, March 1990

4/47: Economic Briefs, February 1990

4/48: Economic Briefs, January 1990

4/49: Economic Briefs, December 1989

4/50: Economic Briefs, November 1989

4/51: Economic Briefs, October 1989

4/52: Economic Briefs, September 1989

4/53: Economic Briefs, August 1989

4/54: Economic Briefs, July 1989

4/55: Economic Briefs, June 1989

4/56: Economic Briefs, May 1989

4/57: Economic Briefs, April 1989

4/58: Economic Briefs, March 1989

4/59: Economic Briefs, February 1989

4/60: Economic Briefs, January 1989

4/61: Economic Briefs, December 1988

4/62: Economic Briefs, November 1988

4/63: Economic Briefs, October 1988

4/64: Economic Briefs, September 1988

4/65: Economic Briefs, August 1988

4/66: Economic Briefs, July 1988

4/67: Economic Briefs, June 1988

4/68: Economic Briefs, May 1988

Economic Briefs
5/1: Economic Briefs, April 1988

5/2: Economic Briefs, March 1988

5/3: Economic Briefs, February 1988

5/4: Economic Briefs, January 1988

5/5: Economic Briefs, November 1987

5/6: Economic Briefs, October 1987

5/7: Economic Briefs, September 1987

5/8: Strategic Economic Policy Commission, 1988
Announcement, December 15, 1988, Letters, memos, report on a meeting with Governor Clements, strategic objectives, clippings, statement before the commission by the American Electronics Association, remarks by Governor Clements at the unveiling of the commission's report, and report titled A Blueprint for Tomorrow's Texas (an overview of the strategic plan for diversifying and developing the Texas economy, and a copy of the report of the commission

Texas Department of Commerce, Nuevo Laredo, and State Development Division
5/9: Department of Commerce, Referrals, 1990
Correspondence and memos

5/10: Department of Commerce, Plant Closing, 1988-1990
Notification, Letters about layoffs, reductions in personnel, and closing of businesses in Texas

5/11: Department of Commerce, Product Commercialization Fund, 1989-1990
Letters, memos, clippings, minutes of a meeting of the Product Development Fund Advisory Committee, press releases, copies of HB 1860, HB 362, and HJR 51 relating to establishing and funding the Fund, list of appointees to the Product Commercialization Advisory Board, and draft program rules for the Product Commercialization Fund

5/12: Department of Commerce, Research Centers, 1990
State/Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (S/IUCRC), Memo regarding the criteria for State/IUCRC proposal evaluation November 1990, and list of IURC Centers as of October 1, 1990

5/13: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, Project Background, 1989-1990
Letters, memos, clippings, information on counties eligible under Senate Bill 2, listing of counties with average per capita income of 10 percent or more below the state average, proposed Texas Water Development Board rider, report on average per capita income and unemployment rates for all Texas Counties, and copy of HB 1862 relating to financial assistance for wastewater projects to improve water discharged into the Rio Grande

5/14: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, Project Background, 1989
Copies of SB 2 relating to the authorization, administration, and funding of the financial assistance program to provide water supply and sewer service in economically distressed areas and to provide adequate local regulation of those water supply and sewer services as drafted by Senator Santiesteban, et al, copy of the Senate Committee Substitute for the bill, copy of a Senate floor amendment to the bill, analysis of the bill by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, analysis of the bill by a staff member in the Texas Department of Commercial Affairs, and an Attorney General's opinion on the authority of Harris County to provide certain potable water facilities

5/15: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, Sewage System Project
Letters, memos, notes, memorandum of understanding between the Texas Water Development Board and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission regarding improving the quality of the water in the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, list of people attending a meeting in Nuevo Laredo, report on the Texas Water Development Board's financial programs to resolve Nuevo Laredo waste discharge problems, list of cities with the population of each which get water from the Rio Grande, and copies from statutes on water assistance program

5/16: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant
International Boundary and Water Commission documents including a draft environmental assessment on the international agreement for improvement of the quality of the waters of the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas-Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; finding of no significant impact on the international agreement; Minute No. 279 on the joint measures to improve the quality of the waters of the Rio Grande; and report of the principal engineers concerning measures that should be undertaken to improve the waters of the Rio Grande

5/17: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant
Unnumbered drafts of Texas legislation relating to financial assistance for wastewater projects to improve water discharged into the Rio Grande and to Texas participating with federal agencies in that improvement

5/18: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant, 1987-1988
U. S. House Resolution 2046 100th Congress 2nd session to authorize the Secretary of State to conclude agreements with appropriate representative of Mexico to correct pollution in the Rio Grande and U. S. Senate bill 1796 100th Congress, 1st session to provide for the establishment of the Special Committee on Rio Grande water quality

5/19: Nuevo Laredo/Laredo Sewer Plant
Note and computer printout of all public water systems from Webb County to Cameron County, Texas that use treated water from the Rio Grande

5/20: State Development Division, Economic Accomplishments, 1987-1989
State Development Division, Periodic brief reports and fact sheets (mostly undated), one multi-page report that may be an end of term report, a press release, list of bills related to economic development introduced in the 70th Legislature, a copy of Texas Fiscal Facts published by the Texas Research League, and reports titled Texas Jobs and Opportunity Blueprint, Texas Five-Point Plan for Agricultural Development, and A Strategic Economic Plan for Texas by the Strategic Economic Policy Commission for the 71st Legislature

5/21: State Development Division, Hispanic Affairs, 1986-1989
General, Letters, memos, notes, resolutions, and clippings primarily of Cynthia A. Ramirez Garza as Director of Hispanic Affairs in the Office of State Development, 1987-1989. Also includes the program for an international Trade Breakfast at the Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce convention in Houston, 1987, and Final Report & Recommendations of the Border Economic Development Task Force, 1986

5/22: State Development Division, Memos Received, 1990
Mostly by Margaret Spearman as Assistant Director for Agribusiness & Rural Development in the Office of State Development

5/23: State Development Division, Memos Sent, 1990
Mostly by Margaret Spearman

Border Governors' Conference Files
5/24: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, May-August 1987
Letters, memos, notes, press release, and clippings relating to followup and planning for conferences that were held before this one

5/25: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, September-October 1987
Letters, memos, notes, list of invitees by Governor Clements, agendas for a conference in Las Cruces October 5-6, 1987

5/26: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, November 1987
Letters (primarily about rescheduling the conference to December), memos, notes, and agenda for a roundtable on border issues

5/27: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, November 1987
Report titled Briefing Materials on U.S./Mexico Border Economic Development prepared for Governor Clements by Donald Hagans and Donald Michie

5/28: Las Cruces, New Mexico - December 10-11, 1987, December 1987
Letters, memos, press release, clippings, tentative and final agendas, agendas for and notes on private meetings of Governor Clements with the governors of Mexican States, paper titled "Industrialization of the U. S. and Mexican Border Areas" presented at the conference by Arturo D. (Tito) Torres (also includes three exhibits titled "The Economic Impact of Maquiladoras on Border Development: A Rio Grande Valley Case Study-Some Preliminary Findings," "Proposals for Special Economic Zones on the U.S.-Mexico Border" by Harvey Rosenblum and William C. Gruben, and "Proposal for a Bilateral Framework Agreement on Trade and Investment Between Mexico and the United States" by Trade Subcommittee of the Mexico-U.S. Business Committee) to accompany the paper, and brief reports on issues for Governor Clements to discuss at the conference

5/29: Austin, Texas, March 1988
Letter and application of the Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc. for a certificate of convenience and necessity for proposed transmission lines and associated substations to be discussed at the meeting in Austin

5/30: Austin, Texas, February-April 1988
Cooperative agreements between Texas and the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas regarding industrial, commercial, and tourism relations and a memorandum of understanding with Chihuahua regarding higher education. Includes both English and Spanish versions.

5/31: Sautillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 1988 & 1989
February 15-17, 1989, Letters, memos, notes on a planning meeting, report on meetings in Mexico City between November 29 and December 4, 1988, copy of a report of the 1981 conference in El Paso attended by President Ronald Reagan, report on U. S.-Mexico Industrial Development, A Texas Project from the U.S.-Mexico Border Conference in Monterey, California, July 27-9, 1988, report on the conference in Monterey, and clippings, May 1988-January 1989

5/32: Sautillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 1989
February 15-17, 1989, Letters, memos, notes, clippings, press release, lists of Governor Clements' invitees, program, tentative agenda, agendas for Governor and Mrs. Clements, joint resolution of the U. S.-Mexico Border Governors on several issues, cooperative agreement between Texas and Chihuahua, text of an address by Donald F. Hagans, brief reports on a variety of issues, and follow-up reports on issues raised or discussed at the conference, January-April 1989

5/33: Sautillo, Coahuila, Mexico, 1989
February 15-17, 1989, Clippings and brief information reports on a variety of issues for Governor Clements' meeting with President Carlos Salinas de Gorhart of Mexico, February 15, 1989

5/34: Working Group Meetings, 1989-1990
Memos and agendas concerning planning and other meetings of governors' support staff concerning several meetings of border governors

5/35: Planning Meeting, 1990 & 1991
Memos, list of attendees, planning chart, timeline, lists of tasks to be accomplished with individuals or agencies responsible for them and dates they need to be accomplished, list of individuals to contact, report of items to be considered in developing a budget for meetings

5/36: Resolution, 1990
Joint resolution adopted by the United States-Mexico Border Governors on trade and investments, industrial development, tourism, agriculture, and health and environment, adopted March 30, 1990. Includes English and Spanish versions as well as several drafts between November 1989 and January 1990

5/37: Resolution, Background Materials, 1989-1990
Letters, memos, notes, reports on various issues included in the above resolution as well as copies of agreements between the government of the United States of America and the government of the United Mexican States relating to protecting the environment and the development and facilitation of tourism

5/38: 8th Border Governors' Conference, 1990
Resumes and statements of the governors of each state for the program for the Conference in Austin, Texas

5/39: Staff Liability Insurance, 1990
Memo, clipping, invoice, and policy for the conference in Austin, Texas

5/40: Austin, Texas - Texas Association of Business, 1990
Letters, memos, notes, lists of tasks with names of individuals responsible for accomplishing them and dates by which they should be accomplished, drafts of the agenda, list of the members of a fundraising committee, memo from the General Counsel's office on the legality of the fundraising plan, draft contract with the hotel, record of responsibilities of the hotel, and draft invitations to the conference held March 29-30. The Texas Association of Business undertook the task of raising approximately $200,000 to fund the conference.

5/41: Austin, Texas - Texas Association of Business, July 1989-March 1990
Financing, Letters, memos, notes, progress reports on contributions received and anticipated, list of members of the fundraising committee, procedures for handling the money raised, report of funds needed, lists of potential contributors, record of levels of gifts anticipated, and memo from the General Counsel's office on the legality of the fundraising plan

5/42: Austin, Texas - Proposals to Texas Association of Business, 1990
Costs, Proposals are for costs of floral decorations at meal functions and for menus for meal functions. Also includes a floor plan for what appears to be a press room and a registration plan of the hotel.

5/43: Austin, Texas - Volunteer Plan, 1990
Developed by the Texas Association of Business for the conference

5/44: Austin, Texas, June 1989-February 1990
Correspondence, memos, notes, clippings, timelines, agreement with the conference hotel, and brief reports on issues related to planning for the conference

Program summary on CHANCE [Companies Hiring Available women Needing a Chance in Entry-level jobs], note, and brochure about CHANCE

Letters, list of participants for the dinner and fashion show, and copies of invitations to three events in the event in Houston

Letter, note, Texas Economic Briefs for October-November 1987, U. S. Economic Briefs for October 1988, clipping, August 1989 Texas Business Review, March and April 1989 Texas Perspective, Texas Business Guide: A Handbook for Foreign Manufacturers and Service Industries, and a Heritage Foundation report titled Making America More Competitive: A Platform for Global Economic Success

This scrapbook contains memorabilia, photographs, and biographical information from when Edgar Perry Jennings was at A&M College from 1912 to 1917.

Memo explaining why the decision makes local enrichment impossible and a report on the Constitutional Framework for Legislative Response to Edgewood v. Kirby, a lawsuit about funding of public schools in Texas

Pages 1 and 2 are missing.

Copies of editorials reflecting views of the U. S. Government apparently aired on Voice of American

Letters including one cover letter with which Governor Clements sent a statement The Facts about the Governor’s Education Budget to all the superintendent of schools in Texas, a memo report from the Texas Foundation for Higher Education chairman Jess Hay about Texas Education: The Momentum Is Restored, table comparing education appropriations for 1987 with those for 1988-89, talking points for Mrs. Clements at Tarleton State University, speech by Governor Clements titled The Challenge of Higher Education, an op ed piece by Governor Clements on School Financing, table comparing resident and nonresident tuition rates in institutions of higher education, 1986-1996, and reports titled The Education Crisis: Washington Shares the Blame by the Heritage Foundation, Tracking Higher Education by the Texas and Higher Education Finance: A Decade of Growth by the Texas Research League, Excellence in Texas—Higher Education: Report from Texas Women’s Alliance Second Annual Conference, draft of A Review of Governance and Management Practices in Texas Public Higher Education—Executive Summary to the Select Committee on Higher Education by Coopers & Lybrand, tables providing averaged budget faculty salaries in Texas institutions of higher education, and clippings

Reports titled The Purposes of American Education Today: Conceptions of Schooling, What Works: Research about Teaching and Learning, Texas: The State and Its Educational System, and Return to Greatness: Strategies for Powerful Improvements in Our Schools

Letters, clippings, memo comparing distinctions between the original decision in Edgewood v. Kirby and the decision of the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Austin on the case, reports and resolution of the Texas State Board of Education, program for the awards luncheon in Dallas for the US Academic Decathlon winners, speech on restructuring public education by Xerox Corporation chairman and chief executive officer David T. Kearns, speech titled Education and the Future: A Need for a Consensus for Excellence by U. S. Commissioner of Education, and newsletters

Agenda for the January 30, 1990 meeting of the Governor’s Task Force on Public Education, letters about and copy of a report on the Grand Prairie Independent School District, a proposed scope of a performance audit of the Texas Central Education Agency, brief notes an numerous education issues, brief report and chart on public school finance options, draft report of the Governor’s Task Force on Public Education titled The Path to a Quality Education for all Texas Students, position paper on public school finance by United Way of Texas, brief report on national education goals by the National Governors’ Association, press releases, article titled Saving the Schools: How Business Can Help from the November 7, 1988 issue of Fortune, National Governors’ Association newsletters, and clippings

One page update on Project Teach and notes by Mrs. Clements, press release, clipping, brochure, and article from the January/February issue of ATPE News about the PAYS [Preparing Area Youth for Success] school in San Angelo

Press releases from the Office of the Governor, speech by Governor Clements to the Texas Research Seminar in Dallas, commencement address by Peter O’Donnell, Jr. at the University of Texas at Austin, remarks by President Gerald Ford, governor Terry Branstad, and Education Secretary Lauro Cavasos at the University of Virginia, opinion of the Texas Supreme Court in the case of Edgewood v. Kirby, information packet by the University of Texas at Austin regarding benefits for graduate student assistants, copy for a news article on a ruling of District Judge Scott McCown on the constitutionality of the public school financing system, National Governors’ Association newsletters, articles titled Dallas and Its Public Schools: A Critical Juncture by Marvin Edwards and Schoolhouse Equality by Julie Kosterlitz, program for a Texas Women’s Alliance conference titled Texas Public Education Reform: Reality or Illusion?, proposal titled An Internationally Competitive Workforce for Texas by the Year 2000 by Texas Business and Education Coalition, proposal and report on Educational Excellence Programs in Texas by Governor Clements, and clippings

Speech titled Education Goals: An Action Plan by Ernest L. Boyer at the National Governors’ Association meeting

Report titled Efficiency and Inefficiency in the Texas Public Schools by Michael L. Davis and Kathy J. Haynes

Notes about Mrs. Clements responding to questions for a televised interview on educational subjects at the Region 20 Education Service Center in San Antonio on an unspecified date in late 1988

Letter, note, memo providing Mrs. Clements information to use at the School Counselors Conference, report on education initiatives by the Family Resource Coalition, report titled HB 72 Two Years Later by the Speaker of the House, newsletter Capital Ideas by the National Governors’ Association, and reports on education by the Governors of Rhode Island and Arkansas

Short reports titled Pre-School Education for the Disadvantaged: Executive Summery Maximum Class Size in Grades Kindergarten through Grade Four, and Influence of Class Size on Educational Achievement and Quality: A Review of Current Literature

Box 5

• 5/1: Chireno Independent School District; Chireno, Texas

correspondence; sketches; photographs

• 5/2: Hardin-Simmons University; Abilene, Texas

"Architectural Consultation on Mary-France Hall" correspondence

• 5/3: Panola College; Carthage, Texas

"Alterations and Additions to Panola College" specifications

• 5/4: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Preliminary Plans on Westside School" Architectural services billing; correspondence; property survey; sketches; photographs

• 5/5: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Alterations and Additions to the Elementary School Building" M. H. Thomas (contractor): Owner-Contractor Agreement; specifications; certificates of payment; architectural services billing; quotes; product and material brochures and information; San Augustine Facilities Study; sketches, photograph

• 5/6: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Alterations and Additions to the Lincoln School" specifications; bidder proposals; contractor certificate of payment; architectural services billing; invoices; photographs

• 5/7: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Alterations and Additions to the Lincoln School Building" Louis Runnels (contractor): Owner-Contractor Agreement; specifications; bidder proposal sheet; architectural services billing; information from contractor

• 5/8: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Alterations and Additions to the Lincoln School Building Cafeteria" Louis Runnels (contractor): specifications; architectural services billing; contractor certificates of payment

• 5/9: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Alterations and Additions to the San Augustine High School Building" M. H. Thomas and Son (contractor): partial specifications; architectural services billing; certificates of payment; correspondence; miscellaneous; sketches; photograph negatives

• 5/10: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"New Football Fieldhouse" Louis Runnels (contractor): architectural services billing; contractor's request for payment; subcontractor correspondence

• 5/11: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Renovation of San Augustine Schools" Thurman Livingston Construction (contractor): Owner-Architect Agreement; Owner-Contractor Agreement; specifications; addenda; contractor's application for payment; contractors guarantees; roof subcontractor's request for payment; correspondence; architectural services billing; newspaper articles; photographs; contractor's bid bond; invoices; product information

• 5/12: San Augustine Independent School District; San Augustine, Texas

"Bookkeeping and Typing Building" Louis Runnels (contractor): architectural services billing; subcontractor quote; sketch

• 5/13: St. Dennis School; Victoria, Texas

"Milpitas Hall" Kathryn O'Connor Foundation: architectural services billing

This series contains all educational materials, order forms, surveys, college course outlines, slide scripts, and slide sets.

3/69
Housing Educational Survey - (1968)
(labeled 5/1 on folder)

3/70
Audio-Visual Update - (1971)
(labeled 5/2 on folder)

3/71
Colleges and Universities offering a major in Housing List - compiled (1971, 1974, 1977, 1980)
(labeled 5/3 on folder)

3/72
Progress Report of Education Committee - (1974) - Denver Meeting - (1975)
(labeled 5/4 on folder)

3/73
Educational materials purchase orders - (1976-1978) - correspondence concerning orders - (July 1978 - November 1978)
(labeled 5/5 on folder)

3/74
Educational materials purchase orders - (1979)
(labeled 5/6 on folder)

3/75
Educational materials purchase orders - (1979)
(labeled 5/7 on folder)

3/76
Correspondence - concerning an AAHE exhibit - (1979)
(labeled 5/8 on folder)

3/77
Educational materials purchase orders - (1980)
(labeled 5/9 on folder)

3/78
Educational materials purchase orders - (1981)
(labeled 5/10 on folder)

3/79
Educational materials purchase orders - (1981)
(labeled 5/11 on folder)

3/80
AAHE Course Outline Packet - (1981) - Curriculum subcommittee report - (1981-1982)
(labeled 5/12 on folder)

3/81
AAHE Course Outline Packet - original - (1981)
(labeled 5/13 on folder)

3/82
Educational materials purchase orders - (1982)
(labeled 5/14 on folder)

4/1
Educational materials purchase orders - (1983)
(labeled 5/15 on folder)

4/2
Educational materials purchase orders - (1984)
(labeled 5/16 on folder)

4/3
Educational materials purchase orders - (1985)
(labeled 5/17 on folder)

4/4
Midwest Photo Company receipts for Education Committee - (October 1980 - August 1985)
(labeled 5/18 on folder)

4/5
Housing Education Ideas Book - (1985)
(labeled 5/19 on folder)

4/6
Housing Education Ideas Book - original - (1985)
(labeled 5/20 on folder)

4/7
Educational materials purchase orders - (1986)
(labeled 5/21 on folder)

4/8
Various order forms for educational materials.
(labeled 5/22 on folder)

4/9
AAHE symbol
(labeled 5/23 on folder)

4/10
Correspondence concerning Education Committee - (October 1980 - February 1986)
(labeled 5/24 on folder)

4/11
List of Visuals - including Energy Conservation Policy
(labeled 5/25 on folder)

4/12
Slide Script - "Finding Your Place - - - The Renter's Guide"
(labeled 5/26 on folder)

4/13
Slide script - "Uses and Abuses of Uniform Building Codes: Some California Cases"
(labeled 5/27 on folder)

4/14
Correspondence relative to "Uses and Abuses..." - (1981)
(labeled 5/28 on folder)

4/15
Slide Script - "Decorating For Energy Efficiency"
(labeled 5/29 on folder)

4/16
Slide Script - "Housing For The Future"
(labeled 5/30 on folder)

4/17
Slide Script - "Housing Is..."
(labeled 5/31 on folder)

4/18
AAHE Family Housing Course Outlines for ten universities.
(labeled 5/32 on folder)

4/19
Real World Housing Order Form (for videotape)
(labeled 5/33 on folder)

6/17 - 6/21
Educational Slide Sets - "Decorating For Energy Efficiency" - 6 sets, 63 slides each.

6/22 - 6/24
Educational Slide Sets - "Uses and Abuses of Uniform Building Codes" - 3 sets, 71 slides each.

6/25
Educational Slide Sets - "Housing For The Future" - 1 set, 62 slides.

6/26
Educational Slide Sets - "Renter's Guide" - 1 set, 50 slides.

6/27 - 6/28
Educational Slide Sets - "Housing Is..." - 2 sets, 75 slides each.

10/1
VHS Tape - #1 "Marketing Yourself as a Housing Professional" - 1985.

Report and Recommendations of the Committee, June, 1980. Also includes the Report and Recommendations of the Governor’s Task Force on Higher Education, May, 1982

Letters, memo, list of members of Coordinating Board Advisory Committees, table of funds appropriated for higher education in 1985 and 1990-91, a portion of CSSB [Committee Substitute Senate Bill] 222 appropriating money to support higher education, copies of CSHB [Committee Substitute House Bills] 2181, 2182, and 2183 relating funding for higher education, testing reading, writing, and mathematics skills of college and university students prior to admission, and submission of a statement of the content, rationale and objectives of core curricula, copy of portions of the executive summary of A Review of Governance and Management Practices in Texas Public Higher Education as reported to the Select Committee on Higher Education by Coopers & Lybrand in December 1986, the April 15, 1988 issue of Capital Ideas titled Effective Statewide Coordination of Higher Education: What Is It?, and clippings

Memos and press release about and list of members of the Governor’s Committee on education

This collection consists of two typescripts from the acclaimed science fiction author Edward Bryant (1945-2017). The materials include a photocopied typescript of Bryant's 1984 story "Dancing Chickens", with edits; and the first four chapters of an unpublished novel by Bryant, No Limits. The chapters also contain handwritten edits from Bryant.

This collection dating from 1846 to 1906 (bulk: 1846-1847) consists chiefly of handwritten letters, journal entries, a memoir, a proof copy of a report from the U. S. Secretary of War on Army operations in Texas and on the Rio Grande during the Mexican War (1846-1848), as well as plans, maps and nine hand-colored copies of lithographic engravings drawn by Everett, which vividly chronicle southwest Texas cultural as well as military history during the late1840s.

Series 1, Letters (1847-1863), mainly handwritten in ink by Edward Everett to his brother, Samuel W. Everett, from 1846-1847, while Everett was serving in San Antonio de Bexar with the U. S. Army during the Mexican War. A few letters from other correspondents pertain to Everett's disability and eventual official discharge from the Army. Three letters written in the period 1852-1863 are about business or from family members.

Series 2, Journal and Memoir (1846-1899) contains three sets of journal entries for Sept. 1846-Jan. 1847. All are handwritten in ink on loose sheets of paper. The memoir, also handwritten in ink, on machine-ruled paper measuring about 8 x 5 inches, covers the years 1846-1848, with additional material added and dated, on at least one page, with 1899. This memoir is edited in pencil by Everett, evidently for publication, since one note suggests that the memoir was donated in 1899 to the Quincy Historical Society, later known as The Illinois Historical Society. The memoir was actually published, at least part, or possibly all of it, under the title "Military Experience," in Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society for 1905.

Series 3, Engravings, Maps, and Plans (ca. 1846-1849) includes nine copies of lithographed illustrations drawn by Edward Everett and engraved by C. B Graham Lithographers in Washington, D.C. The engravings were to be published in a report on U.S. Army operations in Texas during the Mexican War. A proof copy of this 67-page report, titled Report of the Secretary of War, communicating ... the Operations of the Army of the United States in Texas and the Adjacent Mexican states on the Rio Grande (31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate. Executive Document 32), published in 1850, is annotated throughout by Everett in pencil. For this publication Everett was at least responsible for eight illustrations: seven engravings of the San Antonio de Bexar area, including the Alamo church, as well as locations in Mexico; a plan of the ruined Alamo as it was in 1846, before being renovated according to Everett's direction, as a U. S. Army supply depot and workshops.

Engravings include nine copies of the lithographed prints. Notations made in ink on the separate prints, and on p. [4] of the proof copy of the published government report, indicate that: illustrations numbered for publication 2, 3-6 were engraved from original drawings made by Everett; those numbered 1, 7-8 were engraved from drawings made by Everett based on pencil sketches by other individuals, particularly no. 1 titled "Watch Tower Near Monclova," which was drawn by Everett from a sketch by Lieutenant McDowell of the U.S. Army.

Everett's proofs of the lithographic prints have all been exquisitely hand-tinted, in contrast to the severe black-and-white reproductions in the printed report. Of the nine hand-colored prints, two are duplicates of two illustrations, one titled "Church Near Monclova," and the other "Watch Tower Near Monclova." These identical prints are each hand-colored in two versions, apparently to represent the depicted buildings' appearances during the daytime, as well as at dusk or sunset.

Maps include one copy of a published map, possibly also by Everett, though it has been attributed to Josiah Gregg, which also appeared in the 1850 Army Operations report, titled "Map Showing the Route of the Arkansas Regiment from Shreveport La. to San Antonio de Bexar Texas," which is annotated with a penciled in route drawn from San Antonio to Austin, and a town location labeled "New Braunsfels." Also included are two manuscript versions of a map by Edward Everett, one copy titled "Plan of the Vicinity of Austin and San Antonio, Texas."

Plans are represented by two copies of an illustration drawn by Everett for the 1849 Army operations report showing plans of the Alamo before the renovation, titled "Plans of the Ruins of the Alamo near San Antonio De Bexar, 1846." Also present is one manuscript plan, titled "Plan of San Antonio de Bexar, Texas, 1848," which is labeled as "Drawn from recollection by E. E." The legend states that locations number 1-5 on the plan show, for instance, the spot near the Plaza in town where Everett received his disabling gunshot wound in the leg, the Hospital where he convalesced, and the Quartermaster's Office, to which he was assigned to work after being declared disabled from active service in the field.

A handwritten loose-leaf page kept with the proof copy of the report is titled "Index to Col. Hughes Report," and lists subject divisions and page numbers, though these divisions are not present in the published report by Hughes.

Thus Everett's accounts of frontline actions in the Mexican War mainly rely on reports from occasional volunteer soldiers or scouts, or Mexican nationals, returning back to Texas from the front lines of battle in Mexico. As much as he is able, however, Everett produces very detailed accounts of the various battles and skirmishes in and around the Texas-Mexico border, including battles at Monterrey, Saltillo, San Luis, Camargo, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, and Tampico, recording a large number of casualties on both sides.

Of particular interest is Everett's extensive first-hand description of the ruins of the Alamo, and how it was converted for U.S. Army use as a military headquarters, according to plans drawn up by Everett. He deplores the vandalism already wreaked by relic seekers and stressed the respect shown to the mission church by the U. S. Army restorers, who refused to plunder it for building stone but instead merely cleaned away the debris. In the process, skeletons were uncovered, which Everett assumes to be from the time of the siege and Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Everett's accounts of frontier life in the rather rambunctious confines of San Antonio, complete with ambushes, shootouts, rough and ready court trials, and various local characters are often riveting.

Everett also pictures the moods and attitudes of the soldiers toward a variety of issues. Everett describes their arduous marches, unsavory living conditions, often dire medical care, and the cruel climate tormenting them. Having been left behind in San Antonio with all the stores rejected by the army, which had proceeded on into Mexico, Everett's men were faced with nursing broken down mules and horses back to usefulness, salvaging wagon parts from several damaged ones to make a serviceable one, and generally, trying to make do with what could be had in the vicinity, or easily transported from the Quartermaster at New Orleans.

According to Everett, communications on the Texas frontier often proceeded through "solitary express riders." He describes Mexican culture co-existing with "the Indians" and their horse-stealing. He also gives an excellent but pejorative account of the Texas Rangers and their activities, calling them desperados. Everett describes Mexican Generals Santa Anna, Torrejón, and Woll, the exceedingly unpopular U. S. Army Colonel Churchill, officers George W. Hughes, 1st Lieutenant W. B. Franklin, 2nd Lieutenant F. T. Bryan, General Zachary Taylor ("Old Rough and Ready"), General Winfield Scott, and General James Morgan, Captain J. H. Prentiss, Brigadier General John E. Wool, Major General Worth, Captain James Harvey Ralston, Captain L. Sitgreaves, as well as Edward Everett's own two brothers Charles Everett and Samuel W. Everett (Sam).

Full of absorbing narrative and elusive details often lost in larger historical works, the content of Everett's narratives and letters may be summed up in his own words from the handwritten memoir: "Mine is not a tale of battles, or of the movements of great armies, but the details will show some of the hardships and vicissitudes of a soldier's life, the exposure to which causes a greater sacrifice of life than that ensuing from wounds of death received from the enemy."

This collection consists of letters written by or about Edward Thomas, an English author, and one manuscript of a foreword written by his wife, Helen Thomas. The subject of each one varies from Edward Thomas' death, a rejection letter for a short story he later published elsewhere, to general correspondence with a photographer friend, Frederick Evans, and Mrs. Thomas' foreword which was added to a new edition of her then-late husband's children's book, Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds.

The collection came with detailed notes on each item, as well as a transcription of what is written on the original pieces of paper. Thus, it was copied to this finding guide, as a helpful aid to deciphering the handwriting.

Letters, newsletters, clippings, campaign literature, and a county leader’s handbook regarding his campaign for Governor of Texas

Lists of people to be invited to and thank you notes from a few people who attended the dinner Governor and Mrs. Clements gave for Julie and Steve Eggers in the Governor’s Mansion

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