A Story About Our Dear Robin McCorquodale from Heather Wren Welder

[I] remember how whenever Robin began to speak, we would all listen but with our mouths open in rapt & adoring attention ( my mother one time had to tell me to close my mouth while staring adoringly at Robin). A year or so ago, my Beeville book club invited Robin to come to visit and talk about her books, how she came up with ideas, where & who were her muses and etc. My living room was filled and crowded and as Robin spoke, oh my gosh, I realized, everyone in the room was staring at Robin, spellbound and…with their mouths wide open, in absolute rapture!!

Later when I laughed and told Robin & Bill, Robin, in characteristic fey amazement, played her, as we all can attest, straight man role, unbelieving what I had said. I can hear her now, ” oh Heather!” I have received so many calls from my friends in Bville who have heard that I had lost my dearly beloved Robin. She touched so many lives with her sweetness and zest.

The Sherman Brady Brick Yard supplied the bricks for the Rice University Admin Bldg.

Rice University

 

Letters from Cram to President Lovett became quite positive after
the resolved crisis late in March 1910. This followed a request from
Lovett that must have caused some final anxious moments. He wanted
copies of all six earlier versions of the general plan. Fortunately, the
copies were returned promptly by Lovett, with only minor changes
noted. Watkin started almost immediately on a large “presentation
drawing.” Cram wrote that he “. . . [took] no exception whatsoever
to [your] final ideas regarding development of the General Plan ….
working plans for the Administration Building are developing admi-
rably …. Mr. Watkin [is busy with] a tracing showing precisely how
the whole thing works out.” And there was further good news: Frank
Ferguson, in Houston for some on-site studies and a survey of the
possible availability of construction materials in the city or area, had
discovered a “distinctly promising, quite pink” local brick at the
Sherman Brady Brickyard.

http://archive.org/stream/williamwardwatki00nich/williamwardwatki00nich_djvu.txt

 

 

 

Judge speaks at San Jacinto Day 1935

Judge gave a speech on San Jacinto day, April 25 1935, at about 3:45p.m.  The text of the speech has not been found but the speech is referred to on page 33 of  “Here Comes Texas: A Centennial (1935)” by Ralph Selle.

Click here to read the whole thing in plain text. For a version easier to read (a scan of the original, including the library date stamps), see the pdf version at You can download a copy from http://www.archive.org/details/herecomestexasac001629mbp.

Thanks Internet Archive!

Judge Hunt Sworn In

Judge Hunt Sworn In
IT'S "YOUR HONOR" NOW--Just after this picture was taken Saturday, Harris county had two new civil district judges. Taking their oaths are judge Dan jackson of the 129th court, left, and Judge Wilmer B. Hunt of the 133rd. Judge Ewing Boyd swore them in. The courts were created to speed the heavy case load in the county. Judges Jackson and Hunt were appointed by Governor Beauford Jester. They will start work Tuesday in the court rooms of vacationing judges.

The Houston Chronicle printed this article in 1947 showing Wilmer Brady Hunt being sworn in as a judge for the State of Texas.  He claimed later that during that year, on the day that his son Sperry was born, that he told a room full of his prisoners that he would free all who also celebrated that day as their own birthday.