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4/17/2007
One of our graduates, Heather Wooten, Ph.D., has just informed us that she recently signed a book contract with Texas A & M University Press. The title of the book will be Battling a Terrifying Unknown: The Polio Years in Texas. The complete manuscript is due the first of March 2008.

In addition, the Texas State Historical Association presented Dr. Wooten with the 2007 Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship for the best research proposal in Texas History. The $1,000 award was presented to her last month at the annual Texas State Historical Association Meeting.

She will be leaving her position as the Local History Librarian at the Helen Hall Library in League City, TX to devote the next ten months to researching and writing her new book.

Heather graduated in 2006 and she will be attending commencement this May to formally have her diploma bestowed. She will be hooded by her advisor Dr. Harold Vanderpool. The title of her dissertation was The Polio Years in Harris and Galveston Counties: 1930-1962.

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