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MISSISSIPPI [STORY
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DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY • Jackson
Volume IX
March, 1967
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Introductory remarks by Charlotte Capers and Heber Ladner will open the program of the first Mississippi Symposium on Archival Administration to be held at the War Memorial Building, Jackson, from 8:30 to 4:00, March 17. Co-sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the National Archives and Records Service, and the Society of American Archivists, the meeting will present outstanding archivists in a program of interest to records officers in government and business and to librarians of special collections.
Participating in the symposium are A. K . Johnson, Jr., Regional Director, National Archives and Records Service, Atlanta; Dr. Woodrow W. Wasson, Archivist, Vanderbilt University; Dozier P. Willard, President, Southern Vital Records Center, Flora; Carroll Hart, Director, Georgia Department of Archives and History; Maxyne Grimes, University of Mississippi Medical Center Library; and Laura D. S. Harrell, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
The Mississippi Historical Society, at its annual business meeting, held in Natchez on February 18, elected as officers for 1967-68 Everette Truly, President; James H. McLendon, Vice-President; and Charlotte Capers, Secretary-T reasurer.
Board members elected to three-year terms by the Mississippi Historical Society are Dr. Martha Bigelow, J. P. Coleman, Claude Gentry, William C. Harris, Mrs. J. O. Jones, Mrs. Beulah Price, and William E. Stewart.
As part of the Sesquicentennial emphasis, four exhibits of documents, photographs, maps, and text have been added to the Museum displays. These exhibits give an account of the events immediately preceding the bid for statehood, the Constitutional Convention of 1817, and the granting of statehood, December 10, 1817.
Other Museum exhibits in the offing include "Hubert Creekmore: In Me-moriam,"and "Dutch Fliers in Jackson." Mr. Creekmore, Mississippi-born novelist, poet, and literary critic, died May 23, 1966, in New York City.