WELCOME!  The Woman’s Club of Collegeport invite you and your family or guest to celebrate the 97^th Anniversary of the founding of Collegeport.  The annual homecoming will be held at the Mopac House on Saturday, May 28, 2005 .  Dinner will be served at 12:00 Noon .  Please bring a side dish, salad, or dessert to compliment barbecued beef.  Please use the parking area behind the building if able.  Help celebrate our heritage and continue this community tradition.

We’re expecting YOU!

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

       MEAT DONORS:

            Daniel & Gertrude Ryan

   Elaine (Hendrix) Shows

   U. S. McMillan     

      FIREWOOD DONOR:  

            Geren Rusk

  COLLEGEPORT AREA VFD and ALL who   make this event a success.

PERSONS WISHING TO CONTRIBUTE toward the purchase of beef for the barbecue next year should contact Ida Mae Franzen.

CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!

         Amanda Corporon

         Lindsay Corporon

         Lee Williams    

A Senior Party was held on May 4, 2005 at Mopac House honoring these local graduates.

COLLEGEPORT TREASURES cookbooks will be available at the registration table for $25.00.    Proceeds benefit the Woman’s Club, who sponsor Collegeport Day.

COLLEGEPORT CEMETERY has recently been surveyed and fenced.  The group is in the process of reorganizing, and encourage your participation.  Recent expenditures related to the fencing project are:

         Surveying…………………….$1,250.00

         Fencing materials and labor …$4,156.40

Legal fees for organizational documents              have not yet been incurred.  Persons interested in participating in these improvements or in volunteering for maintenance of the cemetery should contact Cemetery Association president

                     Victor Corporon

                     1156 CR 385

                     Palacios , Texas 77465

                     Phone: (361) 972-5515

Cemetery documentaries containing maps, burials and obituaries compiled by the Matagorda County Historical Commission will be available for your viewing.

“Tradition is the bond of affection which binds generations.”                                                               (Unknown)

Mopac House provided the setting for a picnic lunch for a group of Tidehaven Junior High School students in the Spanish & Science Club on March 19, 2005 .  The group is involved with the Gulf of Mexico Foundation which is a conservation organization that monitors the Gulf of Mexico and the coastal areas that adjoin it. They were in Collegeport studying the watershed of the Tres-Palacios River and Bay.  The tour involved photographing areas along the river and bay and noting uses of the resources—fishing, boating, shrimping and also the wildlife and birds in the area.  G. W. Franzen was on hand to relate the history of Collegeport and answer questions about the exhibits in the Mopac House and Library.  The tour concluded with a visit to Oyster Lake where the students enjoyed the surf and sand.______________

NEW RESIDENTS:

We welcome two families to the area:

Jared and Tobi Laing reside in Collegeport.  Jared is manager of The Nature Conservancy’s Clive Runnells Mad Island Marsh Preserve southeast of Collegeport.  Tobi teaches school in Bay City .

Danny and Mary Sue Estes purchased the home of U. S. McMillan and will reside at Tin Top.

COLLEGEPORT , TEXAS IS ON THE WEB!

Collegeport is included on the TXGenWeb site for Matagorda County .  The site is co-sponsored by the Matagorda County Historical Commission and Matagorda County Genealogical Society.  Carol Sue Gibbs of Bay City is the site coordinator, and has transcribed countless items to post on this site.  We invite anyone to share photos and information about Collegeport.  Thank you to all who have already contributed!  To go directly to the Collegeport page:  www.txgenweb.org/txmatagorda/collegeport.htm

On the site are newspaper articles, photos, histories, historical marker texts, cemetery lists and obituaries.  It is a gem for the genealogist or for anyone wanting to learn about our history. 

Thank you Carol Sue!

PIONEERS REMEMBERED

Pioneer Marker Dedication— May 29, 2004

Pictured front l-r:  Margaret Ann Holsworth Hodge, Rosalie Nelson Ellis, Ethel Nelson Williams, Ida Mae Franzen.  back l-r:  Fred Law, Jim Bob Murry, Pct. 3 Commissioner Leonard Lamar, G. W. Franzen.

Next year we will need your Physical (911) Address to send your newsletter if you receive mail on a rural route.  Please record your address in the Attendance Register on Collegeport Day.