Clayton Library Friends

Clayton Library Friends, General Meeting

May 17, 2008 Clayton Library Friends General Meeting
Note: this is the 3rd Saturday of May, not the usual 2nd Saturday

Location: Jungman Branch Library, 5830 Westheimer [between Chimney Rock and Fountainview]

This month the nominating committee will be elected. Election of new Board will be at the November meeting.

Program: The Adams Jefferson Letters –

Shirley Wettling, Narrator, Walter Hansen reading John Adams, Nancy Hansen reading Abigail Adams, and Ron Lohec reading Thomas Jefferson. They are all members of the University of Houston Clear Lake (UHCL) Seniors Program (CLASP).

Description: Here is a story, of which the material is a collaboration between two of our greatest Americans. In their earlier years these two men had been friends. Then they were tossed apart in the fork of politics, each believing the other to have been at the end of the handle, each blaming the other in the silence of years, until brought together toward the end of their long lives; not together in the corporeal sense, not that they ever saw each other again, but in the better and fuller sense of understanding. The reconciliation came to one in his seventy-seventh year, to the other in his sixty-ninth year. The highest honors that their country could have bestowed had been theirs. Ambition had no further bait for them; they had no further favors to ask. They waited in the twilight, and gossiped, and speculated, and criticized and gave their ideas and convictions such free rein as only completely liberated men dare.

See CLF Calendar on this date for updates on location and time.

CLF Membership Year Changed

At the CLF Annual meeting on Saturday, November 10, the membership voted to change the bylaws regarding the membership year.

As of that date the Membership year has been changed from January through December and is now April through March. Members who have paid for 2007 will have 3 “free” months. Dues notices will come out in late February for payment by April 1.

Any payments received after January 1 will be for 2008.

Clayton Town Crier Subscription

Susan Kaufman, Manager, Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
Announces an Exciting New Email Newsletter brought to Your Inbox

The Houston Public Library (HPL) and the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research announce the introduction of HPL's newest email newsletter, Clayton Town Crier. The staff at the Clayton Library offers this newsletter to broaden readers' knowledge of the exciting genealogy research resources available at Clayton. The timely and easily readable information is delivered quarterly to friends, genealogical society members, the genealogical community or anyone interested!

You are invited to receive a free subscription at: http://www.houstonlibrary.org/nextreads. [Click on Genealogy to get the Clayton Town Crier—total time to do this and get the newsletter in your Inbox is approximately 1 minute]

Susan Kaufman, Manager of the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, states "We see the introduction of the Clayton Town Crier newsletter as an important part of our outreach to the local, state and national genealogical and to the Houston community. This newsletter will serve as a first step in connecting with many library patrons who want to know more about the Clayton collection and event information before coming in person to browse the shelves or attend a training event. It will also keep all of our dedicated genealogical researchers well informed about all the new tools Clayton offers for them."

The Houston Public Library invites you to subscribe to this new newsletter offering and any of our other 15 newsletters that interest you. Visit http://www.houstonlibrary.org/nextreads, select the newsletters you want, and provide your name, email and a password. After you confirm your email address, we will deliver the first issue to your Inbox.

If you have any questions, please contact the Houston Public Library at 832-393-1313 or the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research at 832-393-2600.

Susan D. Kaufman, Manager
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research
Houston Public Library
5300 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
832-393-2602
http://www.houstonlibrary.org/clayton

Angels Needed for 2008

Clayton Library’s 2008 Angel Subscriptions

“Angels” are needed for the following subscriptions for Clayton Library.

Contact Liz Hicks at erootrot@usa.net to see if the subscription is still available for adoption and information on how you can do so.

American-Canadian Genealogist (French Canadian, Franco-American & Acadian Gen.)$50
Argyll Colony Plus (NC Scottish Heritage) $30
Bluegrass Roots (Kentucky) $25
Branching Out (Marissa Historical and Gen. Society) $15
Carolina Herald and Newsletter (South Carolina) $8
Chicago Genealogist (Illinois) $20
Family Tree Magazine (British Isles) & CD monthly $95
Foothills Inquirer (Colorado) $15
Greenville County Genealogical Society Journal (South Carolina) $21
Idaho Genealogical Society Journal $19
Indiana Genealogist $30
Kith 'n Kin (Sandusky, Ohio) $10
Lifelines (Northern NY American-Canadian) $30
Mississippi River Routes (Vicksburg Gen. Society) $25
Montgomery Genealogical Society Quarterly (Alabama) $12
Redbone Chronicles (Kentucky) $12
Ross County Gen. Society Newsletter (Ohio) $15
St. Louis Gen. Society Quarterly (Missouri) $28
The Times (North Carolina) $15
Upper SC Genealogical and History $20

Donations may be made in memory or honor of someone(s), and will be acknowledged in the CLF Newsletter.

**NEW subscriptions requested by Clayton for 2008

Clayton House Renovation

STATUS REPORT
8 August 2007
by Charlie Gardes, CLF Renovation Committee Chair

23 July 2007 view from north side of Clayton Campus showing (clockwise from left) the temporary construction entrance and drive, material storage units (background), and demolition debris being collected in front of porte cochere. (photo by Charlie Gardes)