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FROM DAVE'S DESK

Judy Fulbright is on her way home from the reunion, as I write this. Our new President of the Fulbright Family Association had no time to write a column for this newsletter. I am not writing as your president but as your new newsletter letter.

First, thanks to Jean for getting the newsletter started. It is a terrific amount of work. More work than anyone who has not done one of these things will ever know. Right, Jean? I did them for years in the church, but I had a secretary and lots of help. Fortunately, Carl Mounce and David and Patricia Herd have offered to help me. These cousins live within a short distance of me. No one has offered to be my secretary!

Second, I want to tell you why some things are true of this issue. It is not being done on good equipment. I had planned to get IBM compatible equipment, when I offered to do this for the next two years. On such a computer, one can use a "page maker" to lay out a good printed page. I had also planned to use the best proof reader anyone could have, my son, Dan. He has an uncanny eye for such work and is an excellent editor. Dan is in Australia and will be until June 12! I had planned to put out this edition in late August. Instead, I am doing it less than two weeks after the reunion--without my equipment or my editor. The rush is occasioned by the proposal about the History Museum in Springfield. Remember, we have until August 16 to make our pledges.

Third, thanks must be expressed to everyone who made the reunion a success, and I think we have to take our hats off to those who drove literally hundreds and thousands of miles and spent a lot of money and time to look at who we are, where we have been, and where we are going.

Fourth, we have several pieces that I could not include in this edition of the newsletter. I had to hurry too much to enter them into the text. The next newsletter will be by October 15, 1993 or very close to that date. We shall use these things then. Don't forget to send me your things for the Bulletin Board and your articles for the newsletter. I can't print it, if it on your desk and not on mine!

Fifth, pick up your check book right now and send us ten dollars to join the association for two years. It is the best buy anywhere for Fulbright family history and genealogy. Those of us who dig around for this information have spent thousands of dollars in travel, research, duplicating, telephone, and other expenses. You can get it delivered to your doorstep for almost nothing. It is also information which is as accurate as we can make it. If reason comes up to correct a position, we do it quickly. Don't buy your things from the slick looking publications which offer only lists of living Fulbrights or inaccurate information and charge you three prices. Slick looking we aren't, but we are authentic and the best source of information about this family.

Peace. It is great to be related to you.

--by David Fulbright