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1908 COLLEGEPORT DAY NEWSLETTER 2010 | ||||
OUR APPRECIATION TO 2010 MEAT DONORS:
Duane P. Corporon family
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Gustave A. “Goose” Franzen family
THANK YOU TO ALL who give of their time, talents and support to continue this community tradition.
CONGRATULATIONS to graduating seniors, Kelsey Collins and Matthew Merck, who were honored with a graduation dinner at Mopac House on May 4, 2010.
IN MEMORIAM
Bridgett Gonzales
Raymond L. Griffith
Jeffie Harvey
Willard Verrall Hill (2008)
Harold Hunt
Mary Belle Ingram
Ella Johnson
Lonnie B. Laslie
Julius Ledwig
Marian Slone
Orvel Matura
Aaron Ortiz
A SLIDESHOW OF PHOTOGRAPHS and other historical information of Collegeport will be displayed in the Library. THANK YOU to all who have shared items to include. Please bring photos or documents you would like to share. We will be able to scan them so that you can return home with your originals. Much of this information and many photos are posted on the website sponsored in part by the Matagorda County Historical Commission. The direct link: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/collegeport.htm
WOMAN’S CLUB MARKS
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Girl Reserves was an organization operating under the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA.) On March 30, 1944, the club organized a YWCA Council. The council and the Woman’s Club became sponsors of the Mopac House. Mrs. M. S. Holsworth was named Mopac House Chairman and initiated efforts to wire the building and make other repairs. The club continued to make improvements until a new Mopac House Foundation Board of Trustees was elected in 1960. The Woman’s Club had custody of the Mopac House and through free will gifts, fundraisers and the sale of cookbooks, the club purchased folding tables and chairs to replace the wooden benches and saw horse and board tables once used for banquets. The club commissioned the Collegeport Flag for the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986, which is displayed in the Mopac House. The club, which had 86 members in 1912, now few in number, sponsors the annual Collegeport Day homecoming each year, its sole purpose today. Historic Matagorda County, Vol.1. Dorothy F. Merck
MAN’S DREAM BECOMES A REALITY
MOPAC HOUSE and MOPAC HOUSE FOUNDATION CELEBRATE 75 YEARS
In the fall of 1933, the Missouri Pacific, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad discontinued rail service to Collegeport, as it was no longer economically feasible to maintain the line, in the advent of the
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Through the years, the Woman’s Club, in association with the Mopac House Foundation has maintained the building, secured insurance and paid utilities through the gifts of residents and friends of the community. The Mopac House is used as a meeting place for civic organizations, a polling place for school, county, state and national elections, and is available for use by the residents of the community, and for community gatherings including the annual homecoming held the last Saturday each May.
In the past, it was used as the public school lunchroom, and the
library was utilized by the school children on a regular basis
in conjunction with the school. In 1961, Mopac House and the
Library were used as a Red Cross kitchen and shelter following
the Hurricane Carla disaster that devastated the area. Two
families lived there while their homes were rebuilt or repaired. |
On September 20, 1985, the Mopac House Foundation granted an easement to the General Telephone Company a portion of Lot 1, Block 105 on which to construct an equipment hut to provide improved telephone service to the community, the easement to continue for as long as it is used for such. Again on September 29, 1992, the Mopac House Foundation leased at no cost to the County of Matagorda, Lot 8, Block 105 on which to construct an addition to the Fire House for as long as it is used as such. In 1997, the Mopac House Foundation initiated a project to place a Pioneer Memorial on the Mopac House grounds in memory of those who settled the area and to record noteworthy events in the community’s history. This project was funded through gifts of residents and friends of the community. This marker was dedicated in May 29, 2004 with a special ceremony on the 96thanniversary of the founding of the town. The Mopac House Foundation Charter and By-Laws were revised, an application was filed and the Mopac House Foundation was designated a Non-Profit Charity under Section 501 (c) (3) of the tax code in 2007. The Mopac House Foundation strives to manage the property for the benefit of the citizens of the Collegeport Community.
RENOVATIONS TO MOPAC HOUSE Little progress has been made since last Collegeport Day regarding repair of the dining hall floor and foundation. The Mopac House Foundation has made an inquiry with and received a grant application packet from the Trull Foundation in Palacios. Anyone with suggestions for repair and/or funding, please contact one of the Mopac House Foundation Trustees: Russell Corporon G. W. Franzen, Mason Holsworth, Fred Law or Jim Bob Murry.
GIFTS TO THE COMMUNITY-- We extend a special “THANK YOU” to Ruth Harrison Pierce of Blessing who restored and presented a writing desk that was given to her by Louise (Mrs. H. A.) Clapp. Mrs. Pierce is daughter of Commissioner George A. Harrison, who was instrumental in making Harry Austin Clapp’s dream of a community center become a reality. The desk is used in the library. |
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Last Collegeport Day, two oil paintings by artist Jeanette “Sisty” Williams Angelo of Missouri City were presented to the community. She was inspired to paint the “Theo Smith/Mowery/Canfield House” and “Miss Hattie” after viewing those photos on the website.
Jeanette’s niece, Patsy Williams Clemens, of California made the
presentation for her, as she was unable to attend. |
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Created May 6, 2010 |
Updated May 6, 2010 |