The service committee and the Friends Fellowship Council kept and traded lists based on contact from members of these small groups as they sought others of like concern in the area. Friendswood Friends celebrated their 100th anniversary in July of 1995. Plans are now being made for a weekend gathering in Houston the end of January. . . . One feature of the program wil be a report by Marvin Fair of New Orleans, who attended the Friends World Conference last summer. A special meeting with a visiting speaker arranged in coorperation with the American Friends Service Committee is also contemplated.
Participation is open to other interested persons outside the two meetings.
Hospitality can likely be arranged. Although we have no minutes or reports in the archives from the first meeting of the Conference, the Austin newsletter reports that approximately 40 people attended from Houston, Friendswood, New Orleans, Austin, San Antonio, and Brownsville. The event was so well received that the Conference appointed a coordinator to plan the next Conference to be held in approximately one year in Houston. Walter Whitson was appointed clerk of the Conference and Houston Friends took responsibility for recreation. In 1955 the group felt a sufficient sense of solidarity and continuity to assume an official name and appoint several officers.