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[Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston - August 17, 2003] (open access)

[Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston - August 17, 2003]

Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to congratulate him for receiving a 2003 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a fifteen hundred dollar award with no restrictions as to its use. A second letter is included that reads as a press release for the award, with mention of other award winners and the award history.
Date: August 17, 2003
Creator: Cisneros, Sandra
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Edward D. Garza to Sterling Houston - August 6, 2003] (open access)

[Letter from Edward D. Garza to Sterling Houston - August 6, 2003]

Letter from Edward D. Garza, mayor of the city of San Antonio, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. He writes to invite him to join the Cultural Collaborative Steering Committee, a group composed of leaders in the arts community. The members, chosen from the private and public sector, would have a say in the growth and support of San Antonio's cultural sector.
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: Garza, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Michele Autenrieth to Sterling Houston - May 6, 1997] (open access)

[Letter from Michele Autenrieth to Sterling Houston - May 6, 1997]

Letter from Michele Autenrieth, account executive of Guerra DeBerry & Company, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to invite him to be a judge for the Annual Citicorp Employee Art Contest, where Citicorp employees present sculptures, paintings, and other forms of art.
Date: May 6, 1997
Creator: Autenrieth, Michele
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston - September 5, 2003] (open access)

[Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston - September 5, 2003]

Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes sending him a list of information regarding medication and treatment of the HIV virus. His last item on the list is the contact information of a physician, Dr. Luis Alfredo Cisneros.
Date: September 5, 2003
Creator: Harford, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Kjersti Sweger to Sterling Houston] (open access)

[Letter from Kjersti Sweger to Sterling Houston]

Letter from Kjersti Sweger, copy editor of The Trinitonian - campus newspaper of Trinity University - to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to thank him for his photos, which were used in a story published by the newspaper.
Date: unknown
Creator: Sweger, Kjersti
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Midge Graybeal to Sterling Houston - December 27, 1990] (open access)

[Letter from Midge Graybeal to Sterling Houston - December 27, 1990]

Letter from Midge Graybeal, executive director of the San Antonio Business Committee for the Arts, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. She writes to inform him of his nomination for the 1991 Artist of the Year. The award event will encompass a daytime luncheon where the winner will be announced.
Date: December 27, 1990
Creator: Graybeal, Midge
System: The Portal to Texas History
[E-mail from Claudia Ladensohn - October 9, 2002] (open access)

[E-mail from Claudia Ladensohn - October 9, 2002]

E-mail letter from Claudia Ladensohn of the Texas Commission on the Arts to Jon Hinojosa, Catherine Cisneros, Lyn Bobbitt, and Sterling Houston. She is writing to confirm an event that will take place in a couple of months, and to send a tentative schedule of the day's event.
Date: December 27, 1990
Creator: Ladensohn, Claudia
System: The Portal to Texas History
[E-mail from Amy Wegener, Tanya Palmer, and Michael Bigelow Dixon to Sterling Houston - February 2001] (open access)

[E-mail from Amy Wegener, Tanya Palmer, and Michael Bigelow Dixon to Sterling Houston - February 2001]

Letter from Amy Wegener, Tanya Palmer, and Michael Bigelow Dixon of the Actors Theatre of Louisville to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. They are writing to inform him that they picked one of his plays for inclusion in that year's Humana Festival of New American Plays.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Wegener, Amy; Palmer, Tanya & Dixon, Michael Bigelow
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Judith Zaffirini to Sterling Houston - May 24, 1993] (open access)

[Letter from Judith Zaffirini to Sterling Houston - May 24, 1993]

Letter from Judith Zaffirini, state senator from Texas, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes back as a response to a letter by Houston, noting that she, like Sterling, fully supports funding for the arts. This includes funds for the Texas Commission on the Arts and the SB 778 bill, which she co-sponsored with twenty-seven other members.
Date: May 24, 1993
Creator: Zaffirini, Judith
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joyce Lambrecht - June 1995] (open access)

[Letter from Joyce Lambrecht - June 1995]

Letter from Joyce Lambrecht, special projects chairman of the Alamo Theater Arts Council. She writes to invite photograph submissions by local theater groups for the 1995 Globe Awards, an event celebrating achievements by San Antonio theaters. She would also like presenters and asks for volunteers.
Date: June 1995
Creator: Lambrecht, Joyce
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - November 8, 1995] (open access)

[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - November 8, 1995]

Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is writing on behalf of Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright, so that he may be awarded a fellowship with the Center. Diaz notes that Houston has been instrumental in establishing alternative theater and wholeheartedly recommends him to their program.
Date: November 8, 1995
Creator: Diaz, Eduardo
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dr. Charles A. Taylor to Sterling Houston - August 28, 1995] (open access)

[Letter from Dr. Charles A. Taylor to Sterling Houston - August 28, 1995]

Letter from Dr. Charles A. Taylor, president of St. Philip's College, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He informs him that he would be pleased to host a reception to one of Houston's adaptations - On the Pulse of the Morning by the world-renowned poet Maya Angelou - before the production goes up. However, he is unable to provide additional funds to underwrite the event.
Date: August 28, 1995
Creator: Taylor, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Arturo Madrid to Sterling Houston - September 27, 1995] (open access)

[Letter from Arturo Madrid to Sterling Houston - September 27, 1995]

Letter from Arturo Madrid of Trinity University to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to invite him to a reception and dinner for Judith F. Baca, an artist-in-residence at the university, at Magnolia Gardens Restaurant. He asks that he please RSVP as soon as possible.
Date: September 27, 1995
Creator: Madrid, Arturo
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - May 14, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Eduardo Diaz to Sterling Houston - May 14, 1999]

Letter from Eduardo Diaz, director of the Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. His department has benefited from a one hundred thousand dollar allocation by the Community Revitalization Action Group. The funds were given with the intention of supporting art and cultural programs in neighborhoods, and the letter asks of Sterling to participate in a meeting to decide on guidelines for funding and selecting projects.
Date: May 14, 1999
Creator: Diaz, Eduardo
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Edward D. Garza to Sterling Houston - April 25, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from Edward D. Garza to Sterling Houston - April 25, 2005]

Letter from Edward D. Garza, mayor of San Antonio, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to thank him for his participating in the Steering Committee for The Cultural Collaborative (TCC): A Plan for San Antonio's Creative Economy. The committee was put in place to find solutions to support art and cultural programs in the city. With its planning stage over, he discusses the future of the committee, including a new committee to be formed. He invites him to submit nominations for members.
Date: April 25, 2005
Creator: Garza, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Grace to Sterling Houston] (open access)

[Letter from Grace to Sterling Houston]

Letter from Grace to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. On the front page, she has quoted a passage from the book The Thorn Birds, a mythical bird who searches for a perfect thorn tree when born. When it finds it, it impales itself on its sharpest spine and sings the most beautiful song before it dies. On the back, she appears to have written a short poem.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Igo to Sterling Houston - July 11, 2000] (open access)

[Letter from John Igo to Sterling Houston - July 11, 2000]

Letter from John Igo to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. The handwriting makes the content of the letter difficult to read, but John appears to be sending details about an event at a San Antonio art gallery.
Date: July 11, 2000
Creator: Igo, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Mr. Moreno - July 12, 1978] (open access)

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Mr. Moreno - July 12, 1978]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to Mr. Moreno of the Booker T. Washington Foundation. He writes to thank him for a packet he sent, and for further help in organizing a model ordinance and perhaps even a representative to help with some negotiations.
Date: July 12, 1978
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Members of the TMCLC - January 28, 1975] (open access)

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Members of the TMCLC - January 28, 1975]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to members of the Texas Ministers and Citizens Leadership Council. He sends them a packet of information regarding a dispute between his organization - the BCMM - and KAPE radio. In the rest of the letter he writes about the struggle to correct the instruments of oppression endured by the black community.
Date: January 28, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Reverend Claude Black - March 10, 1975] (open access)

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Reverend Claude Black - March 10, 1975]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to Reverend Claude W. Black of Mount Zion First Baptist Church. He writes about the struggle to correct the instruments of oppression endured by the black community.
Date: March 10, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - November 13, 1974] (open access)

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - November 13, 1974]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to William B. Ray of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is writing to file a formal complaint against KAPE radio after they refused to provide any coverage on a press coverage that the BCMM held.
Date: November 13, 1974
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter of Complaint from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - November 13, 1974] (open access)

[Letter of Complaint from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - November 13, 1974]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to William B. Ray of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is writing to file a formal complaint against WOAI TV and KAPE radio for neglecting to provide equal and adequate coverage of a press conference held by the BCMM. The event is seen as one in a long line of attempts made to discredit the black community.
Date: November 13, 1974
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Emerson Marcee - March 12, 1975] (open access)

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Emerson Marcee - March 12, 1975]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to Emerson Marcee, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He requests the opportunity to make a presentation to the NAACP, so that the BCMM may receive support for their ongoing dispute with KAPE radio, which they have consistently criticized for discrediting the African-American community.
Date: March 12, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Unknown Publication - May 29, 1975] (open access)

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Unknown Publication - May 29, 1975]

Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to an unidentified publication. It is written in response to a letter that was sent by "C.O." in which he proposed that mixed marriages be stopped. Mr. Salas hopes that such blatant racism will one day be eradicated.
Date: May 29, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
System: The Portal to Texas History