Robyn Montana Turner received the second annual Teddy Award for Best
Children’s Book from the Austin Writers’ League for her Texas
Traditions: The Culture of the Lone Star State on March 21. Turner received her
award — a $1,000 cash prize and a teddy bear trophy — at a ceremony at the
Governor’s Mansion from Texas First Lady Laura Bush. Special cititions were
given to Rob Thomas and Sharon Kahn; Thomas’ Rats Saw God was honored for best
young adult book and Kahn’s Kacy and the Space Shuttle Secret for promoting
women in science.
At the same ceremony, three Austin-area students were among those awarded
scholarships in the Young Texas Writers Awards Program — Elizabeth Pereira of
Duane Lake Academy and Brooke Axtel and Corrie McLaggan, both of Westlake High
School. Pereira was awarded first place for her poetry; Axtell took first in
the short story category; and McLaggan second in journalism.
Multicultural Health Care
UT faculty members Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel have released abook titled Who Will Care for Us? Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural
America. Their study of health care in our country examines the
difficulty that we will have in maintaining the quality of life for our older
population as baby boomers near retirement age, and how racial and cultural
differences among our population necessitate different solutions for different
people.
Penny Pinching
Austinite James Steamer will be promoting his new book, Wealth on MinimumWage, at Borders at 7pm, Friday, Apr. 4, and Book People at 7pm,
Wednesday, Apr. 9. Steamer claims that he and his wife have purchased a home
and two cars and have produced a long-term investment plan to cover their
children’s expenses and their own retirement without carrying any debt, despite
earning only $20,000 per year.
Texas Bound
For the fourth year in a row, Austin short story writer Tom Doyal has beeninvited to participate in the Texas Bound program of the annual Arts &
Letters Live series at the Dallas Museum of Art. Doyal’s “Suppressing the Grief
Response” will be read by Dallas actor Katherine Owens at 6:30 and 8:30pm on
April 7. Doyal’s story won second prize in The Austin Chronicle‘s 1993
short story contest. For tickets, call 214/922-1219 or 922-1220.
* THU, APR 3: UC-San Diego history professor David G. Guti�rrez, author
of Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics
of Ethnicity will give a lecture titled “Immigration, Ethnic Activism, and the
`Nation’: The Changing Meaning of Citizenship Since World War II” at Bass
Lecture Hall at UT, 7pm. Free to the public. Call 471-2136 or 471-4557.
* SAT, APR 5: Tree Stevens makes an appearance with her book, Elementary, My
Dear & Fabulously Low Fat! Borders, 3pm.
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This article appears in April 4 • 1997 and April 4 • 1997 (Cover).