Volume 6, Number 7 - Spring 1978
Minutes of the March 12 Meeting
Meeting-Place-Date-Time
The regular quarterly meeting of The White River Valley Historical Society held in the Good Memorial College Center Cafeteria on March 12, 1978 was called to order at 1:20 p.m. by President Helen Fletcher.
Invocation
The invocation was given by Stone County Director, Leonard J. Williams.
Welcome
Greetings were extended to all members and 25 visitors from 10 area towns. Fifteen of these guests came from Carroll, Boone and Marian Counties of Northern Arkansas. Forty-five members were present.
Happy Birthday was sung by the group to member Ed Brentlinger of Branson.
Minutes
Minutes of the Dec. 11 meeting were read and approved as read.
Treasurer’s Report
The treasurer’s report showed a bank balance of $220.16.
Correspondence
A notice of a Genealogical Seminar to be held in New Orleans in April was read.
Committee Report
Ralph Lucas, Museum chairman, announced that the story of the recently found stone with Celtic writing on it would be written for the quarterly by Marvin Tong.
Nominating Committee Report
A first reading on the Nominating committee’s report was presented by Kelly Edgington, chairman.
Program
A piano number, "The Wearing of the Green" played by Lydia Mourning Clark, opened the program.
Ella Dunn, a guest of Marie Corrington, told of her use of native herbs as medicine through the years she served as a mid-wife; and, told about the reprint of her book, "Granny Woman of the Hills."
Miss Christine Daniels, a junior at The School of the Ozarks and a chemistry major, gave a lecture on "Ozark Folk Medicine," She illustrated her talk with specimens from the school’s Herbarium of which our own Dr. Alice A. Nightingale is the founder and administrator.
Announcements
President Fletcher announced that the Annual Meeting would be held on June 12.
Adjournment
Meeting adjourned 3:55 p.m.
Ionamae Rebenstorf
Secretary-Treasurer
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