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Junior
Historians
Anyone
for
Folklore?
Growing
Staff
Another
Birthday
Hard
Times
On the Mend
The Junior Historical Society, founded in 1961 at Mississippi College, will hold its annual meeting April 15 at Mississippi College, Clinton. The AdineLampton Wallace Award will again be presented for the best paper on Mississippi history by a junior historian.
The Mississippi Folklore Society has been reactivated after thirty dormant years. Through a state-wide academic council, the society was reorganized at the University of Mississippi in December, 1966, with Dr. George W. Boswell named as president. The society will hold its first annual meeting at the University of Southern Mississippi on May 6. Membership is open to anyone interested in the study, collection, and publication of Mississippi folklore.
New additions to the Department's staff are Mrs. D. Carl Black, Jr., special projects assistant; Mrs. Ellen Cameron, Museum secretary; and Mrs. Genie Hyde, Museum receptionist.
This issue of the Newsletter marks the seventh anniversary of publication. Reporting on historical activities within and related to our state, and furnishing a calendar of events to interested Mississippians, the Newsletter has gained an enthusiastic and wide audience. With this issue, seventy editions have gone out since the initial Newsletter of March, 1959.
From the Washington Republican and Natchez Intelligencer, March 5, 1817:	“A southern writer speaking of the hardness of the times,
says - It is hard to get a good wife - hard to get a good husband -hard to live single and exceedingly hard to get good markets and money."
The Newsletter goes out this month without the inimitable imprint of our director, MissCapers is recuperating at home from major surgery ar«i we are looking forward to havfng her back at her desk before long.
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