On March 6, Humanities Texas hosted a Dallas screening of the documentary film Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter in partnership with The Sixth Floor Museum, KERA, and the SMU Center for Presidential History. Liz Carpenter was a member of the Society, inducted in 1979, and Humanities Texas' director, Eric Lupfer is also a member.

In February, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th Anniversary “Live from New York”, but Texas and Stephen Enniss had a surprising and more lasting impact by attracting the permanent archives of the show to the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Read this Texas Monthly story and what Enniss had to say about the acquisition. Harry Ransom was also a Society member, inducted in 1955.

Mel Klein of Corpus Christi passed away February 12th. Mr. Klein was founder of Melvyn N. Klein Interests, an attorney, an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, a life member of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, and wrote guest columns in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Mr. Klein was inducted into the Society in 1997 and was still an active member when he died. His obituary in the Caller-Times can be read here. 

Tom Palaima was featured in an Athenaeum Review podcast on war and the truth, which can be heard here. He also wishes all a happy new year through this poem.

In January, Liz Rogers went to Antigua and Lake Atitlan in Guatemala with a friend, where she tried to buy up all the textiles on the market. She journeyed on solo to Panama, where she saw the Canal, Casco Viejo, the Frank Gehry Biomuseo, and went to Bocas del Toro, Boquete, and El Valle de Anton.  Liz had never been to either country and enjoyed them both immensely.