KAY KRONKE BETZ, a longtime volunteer and officer of the History Center for Aransas County, is the former director of training and organizational development at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Wimberly, Texas. VICKIE MOON MERCHANT served as adjunct professor of education at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. A former public school teacher and longtime board member and volunteer for the Friends of the History Center for Aransas County, she resides in Fulton, Texas.