Members of the Premont Elevian Study Club
3 linear feet
A2006-005
1890-1945 (unknown)
On April 21, 1955 eight women met at the home of Mrs. Brown Thompson of Premont, Texas for the purpose of organizing a study club. Mrs. J. C. Grantham was the first elected president. In a newspaper article, forty years later she stated, “Elevian means to learn in Latin,” the name the members chose to call their club. The first vice president was Mrs. Cecil Dodd; the second vice president was Mrs. Bill Reagan, secretary, Mrs. Charles Gandner, treasurer, Mrs. Merchant, parliamentarian, Mrs. Paul Reid and reporter, Mrs. Brown Thompson. The club met monthly for lunch and educational programs. The average number of members over the years was twenty-five. One of the main focuses was to raise money for civic and individual projects. Equipment was purchased for the public library and raised to support the town’s new ambulance service. Scholarship money was donated by the club members for Premont High School seniors. Some of the original members were involved for over forty years.
Meeting reports, descriptions of civic projects and scrapbooks with correspondence, photographs, publications, and illustrations are housed in six document boxes.
The collection is arranged in folders chronologically, a scrapbook for each years.
South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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A2006-005 Gift of Linda Jean Hamilton, Secretary of Premont Elevian Study Club on February 5, 2006.
Phyllis Juranek created records for the collection, Lori Atkins created the finding aid and Daniel Thacker created the EAD document and uploaded the files to the South Texas Archives website in 2017.