Tejas Coffee Featuring Michael L. Gillette Executive Director, Humanities Texas

On behalf of the Tejas Club it is my honor to invite you this week's Tejas Coffee featuring Dr. Michael L. Gillette. Please join us at 8:45PM for refreshments and good company to be followed by our speaker at 9:00PM sharp. Michael L. Gillette has been Humanities Texas’s executive director since 2003. He previously directed the LBJ Library’s Oral History Program from 1976 to 1991 and served as director of the Center for Legislative Archives from 1991 to 2003 at the National Archives. Gillette has been involved in a number of boards and professional organizations, including the advisory board to The Ohio State John Glenn School of Public Affairs and the board of directors of the Congressional Education Foundation. He is the author of Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History and editor of Texas in Transition. His newest book, Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History was released in 2012. Gillette received his BA in government and his PhD in history from The University of Texas at Austin and was a member of the Tejas Club, Silver Spurs, and the Friar Society. Tejas Coffees are the University's oldest distinguished speaker series hosted by the Club on Thursdays throughout the semester. For more information about Coffees or the Tejas Club, please visit our website at www.tejasclub.org. Should you have any additional questions feel free to contact me directly. All are welcome to attend Coffees and we look forward to seeing you this Thursday. As always, special thanks to the University Co-Op and the McCurdy Family for their continued support of Tejas Coffee. Cheers, Arjun Mocherla Vice President ArjunMocherla@utexas.edu