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FROM DAVID'S DESK

It was great to see so many of you in Springfield. You have written, called, and let the Executive Committee and General Board know that you want more Fulbright events in the future. We have come up with an agenda which we believe reflects the interests and directions about which we have heard the most.

First, we are planning the next reunion for the last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in June, 1993 Mark it on your calendars! Debra Kitchen wrote me a thoughtful letter with her comments about this last reunion with suggestions for the future. Other members of the board have received feed-back. We value your letters and those suggestions. We shall be keeping in mind what you have shared with us. If you are like Debra and have things you wish to say, write to us without fail.

Two, we are making preliminary steps toward developing more written materials about our family, including genealogy, historical data, and stories. Every Ful-bright can help by passing along what you have in those areas. It is important for our large1 wonderful family that the information and memories not be lost.

Three, Del Bishop is leading a small group which is negotiating for the Museum of the Ozarks to be a central repository for Fulbright materials. We need an ar-chives. I know from what several of you have shared with me that we have a lot of things for the archives. A step down the road may also include a Fulbright room at the museum for Fulbright memorabilia.

The three fold agenda is being helped along by this little publication. You are sending us delightful things for the newsletter. Witness the two stories in this issue. Keep sending things. In this issue, we have an interesting possibility presented by Jim Fulbright of Arlington, Texas that we may not be as German as often thought. Wait until you get to Chief Quanah Parker's association with family members in Ruth (Fulbright) McDonnald's "How Dear To My Heart". This stuff is fun, family. It really is!

We need your news! If you change jobs, get promoted, move to a new area, have a marriage in the family, write a book, mourn the passing of a family member, or have any other bench mark event, send us a note for the "Bulletin Board".

It is time for a work of gentle warni-ng. We have a number of things in the newsletter this time which carry a cost. Ed Stout is offering the "John William" materials, with any profit going to the association. David Herd is offering a copy of the 1929 reunion photo. They cost money! Please, remember that these people are sharing hard-to-find materials with all of us. Materials alone are costly, they are receiving nothing for their labor or their time. I give the warning only because I have heard some talk by those who had thought that folks were profiteering in the past! They are losing money, if any-thing, and they are helping all of us!

We are putting together a quarterly newsletter, as an experiment. If you like it, and if you want it, let us know. We may have to increase the membership dues this next year to support printing and mailing cost or mail fewer times a year. We shall make that judgment based on what you seem to want.

It is great to be related to you.

David Fulbright