Newsletter - Lethbridge Chapter of the Historical Society of Alberta (1988)

              LETHBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
THE LETHBRIDGE CHAPTER
Of the Historical Society of Alberta
P.O. BOX 974 LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA. TIJ 4A2
Number   1
NEWSLETTER   ISSN   0382-9812
January 19?
Membership in the Historical Society of Alberta, including a subscription to the quarterly ALBERTA HISTORY, can be obtained for $15.00 per year. Those members residing from Nanton south are also registered with the Lethbridge Historical Society and receive the newsletters and notices. Newsletter subscription only: $7.50.
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Copyright 1988
Historical Society of Alberta Box 4035. Station "C" Calgary, Alberta T2T 5M9
OR   Lethbridge Historical Society P.O. Box 974 Lethbridge, Alberta TIJ 4A2
President Past President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Executive Director Council Member (1990) Council Member (1990) Council Member (1989) Council Member (1989) Council Member (1988) Council Member (1988)
LETHBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS FOR 1988 Telephone (403) 320-3957
D. Tracy Anderson, 953 - 21 Street South TIJ 3L4 Alex Johnston, Park Plaza Hotel, Mayor Magrath Drive Jean Potts, 1051 Lakeway Boulevard South TIK 3E3 Douglas J. Card. 1051 - 13 Street South TIK 1S6 James H. Carpenter, 2117 - 14 Avenue South TIK 0V3 Alex Johnston, P.O. Box 974, Lethbridge TIJ 4A2 Beatrice Hales, 2002 - 15 Avenue South TIK 0X3 Robert Shore, 937 - 16 Street South TIJ 3C1 Donna Coulter, Box 1001, Fort Macleod TOL 2G0 Carlton R. Stewart, 1005 - 23 Street North TIH 3T2 Ralph Erdman, 1115 - 17 Street A South TIK 1Y2 Ross Bertrand. 3718 Oak Drive South TIK 4H4
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WINTER PROGRAMS
Meetings will be held in the Theatre Gallery of the Lethbridge Public Library at 7:15 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
JANUARY 26. 1988
'IRRIGATION IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE' by Russel Lunney.
Mr. Lunney is a recognized authority on the design and application of sprinkler irrigation systems on farm fields and golf courses. He has been an active con¬ sultant to the Canadian International Development Agency in third world development (India. Pakistan, the Sudan). At present Russ is employed at UMA Engineering in Lethbridge.
FEBRUARY 23, 1988
Dr. David C. Jones, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, will speak on 'VIGNETTES OF THE EMPIRE OF DUST'. Some years ago, Dr. Jones became interested in the drive, that began in the 1920s, to consolidate the one-room country schools of Alberta. He found that the first attempts to consolidate such schools took place in the driest parts of the province. And he found that con¬ solidation was forced on the districts involved because the tax base would not support a one-room school per township. Dr. Jones' book EMPIRE OF DUST describes the sociological aspects of the 1920s drought on the (now- ghost) town of Alderson. He will tell the tragic story of the human misery, crop failure, land abandonment, and depopulation that followed.
MARCH 22, 1988
Dr. Bruce Naylor. Assistant Director, Display and Public Programs, Tyrrell Museum, will speak on the recent dis¬ covery of dinosaur eggs in the Stirling/Warner area.