The Advisory Council

The Advisory Council of the Center for Big Bend Studies assists the center director in developing and maintaining a statement of purpose and goals for the center which are consistent with the educational, research and public service functions of the university; developing general policies required to attain the objectives of the center; assisting in the review and evaluation processes and in planning for subsequent activities; and developing recommendations for implementing, supplementing or changing the general administrative policies of the center.

Advisory Council Members

• Thomas E. Alexander, Kerrville, Texas
• Félix D. Almaráz, Jr.,San Antonio, Texas
• Richard Bartlett, Fort Davis, Texas
• Jed Becker, El Paso, Texas
• Neil Caldwell, Angleton, Texas
• Paul Carlson, Ransom Canyon, Texas
• Tom Crum, Granbury, Texas
• William C. Foster, Cuero, Texas
• Pete P. Gallego, Alpine, Texas
• Rick Hendricks, Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Claude B. Hudspeth, San Angelo, Texas
• John Klingeman, San Angelo, Texas
  
• Malone Mitchell III, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Rubén Osorio-Zuñiga, Chihuahua, CH, Mexico
• J. Travis Roberts, Jr., Marathon, Texas
• Liz Rogers, Alpine, Texas
• (Chairman) J. Tillapaugh, Odessa, Texas
• William Wright, Abilene, Texas

Ex Officio Members

• Ricardo Maestas, Alpine, Texas
• David L. Cockrum, Alpine, Texas
• Melleta Bell, Alpine, Texas
• Jim D. Case, Alpine, Texas
• James W. Downing, Alpine, Texas

Honorary Members

• Don Kennard, Austin, Texas
• Lonn Taylor, Fort Davis, Texas
• Oakah Jones, Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Friends of the Center for Big Bend Studies

The Friends of the Center for Big Bend Studies was organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. The Board raises funds to support the mission and programs of CBBS; promotes CBBS as it fosters interdisciplinary scholarship of the diverse prehistoric, historic and modern cultures of the borderlands region of the U.S. and Mexico, with emphasis on the area encompassed by the Trans-Pecos Texas and north-central Mexico; provides funds in support of the operations of the CBBS as well as special projects of the Center; assists the CBBS in other endeavors as the Board may deem appropriate.

Friends of the Center for Big Bend Studies Members

• Douglas E. Burns, Fort Stockton, Texas
• Jean Hardy-Pittman, Alpine, Texas
• Dr. Iris Korus, Valentine, Texas
• Homer Mills, Alpine, Texas
• Kathleen Olsen, Alpine, Texas
• G. E. (Pete) Peterson, Alpine, Texas
• Ike Roberts, Marathon, Texas
• (Chairman) J. Travis Roberts Jr., Marathon, Texas
• Lonn Taylor, Fort Davis, Texas

Ex Officio Members

• Andy Cloud, Alpine, Texas
• R. Vic Morgan, Alpine, Texas
• Cesario Valenzuela, Alpine, Texas