Preservation Texas
P.O. Box 12832, Austin, TX 78711tel: 512/472-0102, fax: 512/472-0740
e-mail: preservtex@aol.com
Send your preservation news throughout the
year. We'd also like your feedback about the newsletter
to help us continue to make it an even greater benefit
to you. Telephone, fax, or e-mail
article information to:
Elizabeth Ann Gates, Editor.
Tel: 512/472-0102, Fax: 512/472-0740
Vice President, Development
Ed Allday, Houston
Vice President, Planning
Lynn Vogt, Dallas
Vice President, Public Policy
Jean W. Kaspar, Shriner
Secretary
Lunelle Anderson, San Marcos
Treasurer
Thom Canfield, Mason
Immediate Past President
Janet Francis, San Antonio
Executive Director
Elizabeth Ann Gates
Directors
Jane Barnhall, Brenham
Roxanne Bell Casscells, Houston
James N. Castleberry, Jr., San Antonion
John Cuellar, Dallas
Tim Ellison, Austin
Suzy Juncker, Austin
Mary Ann Perryman, Athens
Peter Flagg Maxson, Austin
Danelle Baldwin Smith, Ft. Worth
Jill Harrison Souter, San Antonio
Kim A. Williams, Austin
Janice Woods Windle, El Paso
Director Emeritus
Richard Meyery, Austin
Ex-officio
Larry Oaks, Austin, Director,
Texas Historical Commission
Marcel Quimby, Dallas
National Trust Advisor
Betty Massey, Galveston
National Trust Advisor
The Satisfaction of Belonging
We are all joiners. Not in the sense of craftspersons, who put together pieces of fine wood and create smooth joints, fashioning useful and beautiful cabinetry and furniture. We do our joining to make ourselves part of something worthwhile, to identify ourselves with an organization or cause we think important, and to belong.
There are many satisfactions, some more tangible than others, that come with belonging. Belonging to Preservation Texas gives each of us an identity to add to the other identities we treasure. We become identified as persons who value the buildings and artifacts and sites which our unique Texas culture and history have produced or shaped. Our concern to shepherd the richness of the past thoughtfully through the present and gracefully into the future becomes apparent.
Belonging to Preservation Texas also makes us part of the worthwhile business of advocacy for the retention and re-use of the buildings we have created. Some of those structures will merit a citation in history books or chronicles of architectural style. But most of what we find worth preserving has value simply because of its place in the fabric of daily community life. Worthiness doesn't need to be spectacular; our preservation advocacy doesn't need to be high profile.
If we join because we value action and identity and the beauty of the commonplace, then perhaps we ought to think of ourselves as craftspersons after all. What we are crafting is a viable future whose physical appearance and whose cultural patterns are based partly on a careful appreciation of the architectural past. What we are building is an organization that can do this construction work more effectively than we can do it as individuals.
If you are not already a Preservation Texas craftsperson, we invite you to become a member!
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Please print out or copy this membership form,
indicate your choice of membership level,
print your name as you would like it to appear on
the mailing list, and send the completed form,
along with your check payable to: Preservation
Texas, Inc., P.O. Box 12832, Austin, TX 78711.
Questions: 512/472-0102. Gift Memberships
are also available.