The Authors

Mary Louise Morse has been a Research Associate with the Department of History of the University of Houston since the fall of 1966. Born in Beverly. Massachusetts, she received her B.S. in Education from Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts (1947), and her M.A. in History from Columbia University (1950). She was a senior editor with the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving to Houston.

Jean Kernahan Bays was a Research Associate with the Department of History of the University of Houston from August 1967 to June 1969. Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, she received a B.A. in History from Denison University (1965) and an M.A. in History from the University of Houston (1967), where she served as a teaching fellow. She has also worked as a Research Librarian for the Houston, Texas, Public Library. She is married and lives in Houston.