1960
25th Anniversary Year, March 4, Houston
(This is the first time since 1941 that the TIL meets in a city other than Dallas.)
Officers
President: Frank Wardlaw
Vice President: Frank Vandiver
Secretary-Treasuer: Wiliam M. Hudson
Councilors
Unknown
1961
Feb. 25, Driskill Hotel, Austin
Officers
President: Frank Vandiver
Vice President: Allen Maxwell
Secretary: William H. Hudson
Councilors:
Unknown
1962
Feb. 17, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel
Officers
President: Frank E. Vandiver
Vice-President: E. Hudson Long
Secretary: Llerena Friend
Councilors
Unknown
1963
Feb. 16, San Antonio
(This the first TIL meeting in this city.)
Officers
President: Hudson Long (1963-65)
Vice President: Herbert Gambrell
Secretary-Treasurer: John Edward Weems
Councilors
Frank Vandiver,
Mabel Major
Martin Shockley
1964
Feb. 15, Dallas, Hotel Adolphus
Officers
President: Hudson Long
Vice President: Allen Maxwell
Secretary-Treasurer: Martin Shockley
Councilors:
Unknown
1965
Feb. 20, Hotel America, Houston
(The 1965 program was dedicated to Dobie, who died in September, 1964, and his work. It was announced at Council business meeting that a project had begun to buy Dobie’s Paisano Ranch as a refuge and retreat. The Council “undertook to provide a $2,000 J. Frank Dobie Fellowship annually, and Carr P. Collins, donor of the Institute’s Collins Award, agreed to contribute $1,000 a year through the TIL toward a fellowship fund,” according to William H. Vann in his The Texas Institute of Letters: 1936-1966.)
Officers
President: Herbert Gambrell
Vice President: Joe B. Frantz, Austin
Secretary-Treasurer: Martin Shockley
Councilors
John Graves
Hudson Long
Mody Boatright
George Williams.
Also at this meeting, the widows of J. Frank Dobie, Roy Bedichek, and Walter Prescott Webb were made honorary members, while a life membership was bestowed on William H. Vann, a founder of TIL and its secretary-treasurer for its first twenty-one years.
1966
Feb. 19, Sheraton – Dallas Hotel
Officers
President: Herbert Gambrell, Dallas
Vice President: Joe B. Frantz, Austin
Secretary-Treasurer: Martin Shockley
Councilors
John Graves Hudson
Long Mody Boatright
George Williams
1967
March 18-19 – Austin
Officers
President: Joe B. Frantz, Austin
Vice President: A. C. Greene, Dallas
Secretary-Treasurer: Martin Shockley, Denton
Councilors
Herbert Gambrell
Diana Hobby
Mody Boatright
John Graves
1968
March 23, Baker Hotel, Dallas
Officers
President: Joe B. Frantz, Austin
Vice President: A. C. Greene, Dallas
Secretary-Treasurer: Martin Shockley, Denton
Councilors
Unknown
1969
March 15, Menger Hotel, San Antonio
Officers
President: A.C. Greene, Dallas
Vice President: Unknown
Secretary-Treasurer: John Edward Weems, Waco
Councilors
Laura Furman
Lockhart Elmer Kelton, San Angelo
Beverly Lowry, San Marcos
C.W. Smith, Dallas
Marshall Terry, Dallas
William D. Wittliff, Austin
Four members were appointed Fellows of the Institute:
John Graves, Glen Rose
A. C. Greene, Dallas
Tom Lea, El Paso
Frank Wardlaw, Fripp Island, S.C.
