of the San Jacinto Memorial Monument. The public address system was on loan from Gulf Oil Corporation; note the speakers on the roof of the gallery. Hill opened the event, after an invocation from Bishop A. Frank Smith. Dr. Barker, professor of American History at the University of Texas, presented the opening speech. "This beautiful and awe-inspiring monument is appropriate not only to the men who won victory here, but to the results which victory brought to pass."

At the opening session, the honorees on the platform were more numerous than the crowd in the public seats. But that soon changed. Two buses brought the honorees from the Rice Hotel, and arrangements were made to park cars along the new right-of-way, now known as Vista Road. 25 state highwaypatrolmen and Houston motorcycle officers regulated traffic to and from the battleground.

San Jacinto Monument Dedication

The noon session on April 20 took place over lunch at the San Jacinto Inn. Here Marcel Moraud of the Rice Institute outlined the part Texas has played in European history. "Texas, historically, grew out of a conflict. It had become the object of a vast duel between two European nations, Spain and France, equally proud and equally tenacious."

The afternoon session took place back at the Monument. Carlos Castañeda, at that time Latin-American Librarian of the University of Texas and President of the American Catholic Historical Association, spoke on the work of missionaries in bringing religion and civilization to Texas and the Southwest.

With no air conditioning until 1969, windows like this one into the