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Credits

Special thanks to the following for making the symposium possible:

Hosts...

Texas A&M University-Commerce
    Dr. Dan Jones, president

TAMU-C Department of Educational Leadership
    Dr. Madeline Justice, chair

TAMU-C James G. Gee Library
    Gregory Mitchell, director

TAMU-C James G. Gee Library Special Collections
    Dr. James Conrad, head

TAMU-C James G. Gee Library Digital Collections
    Adam Northam, Digital Collections Librarian

Commerce Public Library
    Gayle Gordon, director
    Cheryl Westhafer, local history librarian

Dr. Harley Davis
    Cotton Belt Fireman, retired, 1959-1964

Dr. Jason Lee Davis
    Asst Professor, Dept of Educational Leadership
    Symposium founder

The 2008 & 2009 Symposiums were made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Austin, TX.

 

Presenters, Participants, & Partners...

Edwin Cooper, Shelbyville, KY

Dr. Otha Spencer, author, That Lonesome Whistle,
    Commerce, TX

Jonathan Gerland, author, Steam in the Pines: A History
    of the Texas State Railroad, and
    director, The History Center, Diboll, TX

2008 panelists:
 - Annie Golightly
 - Rheba Icenhower
 - Billy W. Reed

Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society, Pine Bluff, AR
    Bill Bailey, V.P. & Chief Mechanical Officer, engine #819

Arkansas Railroad Museum, Pine Bluff, AR

Northeast Texas Rural Rail District (NETEX)
    Hon. Paul Lovier, chair.

Blacklands Railroad, Sulphur Springs, TX
    Wayne Defebaugh, president

Railroad Partners, Inc., Dripping Springs, TX
    Myron Malone, secretary

East Texas Model Railroad Club, Commerce, TX
    Paul Fogle, president

Union Pacific Railroad Corporate Relations, Omaha, NE

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