Issue
33
- November 11, 2009 - Page 2
Museum Hall of Fame
Inductees
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, Texas held a dinner and induction ceremony on Saturday, November 7, 2009.
The 2009 inductees were (left to right) Mayisha Akbar, Alex Dees, Calvin Norris Greely, Jr. (Posthumous), Henry Harris (Posthumous), Issac Burns Murphy (Posthumous), Dean Smith, Ben F. Tahmahkera and Albino Tais (Posthumous).
The organization's Corporate Western Heritage Award for 2009 went to Chesapeake Energy, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, Texas held a dinner and induction ceremony on Saturday, November 7, 2009.
The 2009 inductees were (left to right) Mayisha Akbar, Alex Dees, Calvin Norris Greely, Jr. (Posthumous), Henry Harris (Posthumous), Issac Burns Murphy (Posthumous), Dean Smith, Ben F. Tahmahkera and Albino Tais (Posthumous).
The organization's Corporate Western Heritage Award for 2009 went to Chesapeake Energy, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.
The National
Multicultural Western Heritage Museum (NMWHM) (formerly the National
Cowboys of Color Museum and Hall of Fame), a non-profit 501(c)(3)
museum located in Fort Worth, Texas, documents the many positive
accomplishments that multicultural cowboys and early frontier pioneers
contributed to the settling of the western United States, through
exhibits, workshops and lectures for youth and adults as well. The
focus of the museum is designed to help teach young people about the
contributions made to the settling of the old west, giving them a more
complete recognition of the many faces of people and events of the
American Western Frontier.
The National Multicultural Western Heritage
Museum is located at 400 Mount Vernon
Avenue, Fort
Worth, Texas 76103. Their web site is: www.cowboysofcolor.org .
Japaneese Buckeroo
Actually, the
guy to the right is not an Oriental Clint Eastwood or Robert
Duvall. He is not even Tom
Selleck or Wilform Brimley.
He is American born Mike McLain. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian College and got his masters degree at Oklahoma City University, both degrees in music. He married a Japanese girl and they moved to Japan several years ago. They started a private school there and it is very successful. Mike now speaks Japanese very well, thank you. Well enough to sing opera in the Japanese theaters!
The cowboy get-up is his costume for Halloween, earlier this year. Giddy-up, go, cowboy Mike!
He is American born Mike McLain. He graduated from Oklahoma Christian College and got his masters degree at Oklahoma City University, both degrees in music. He married a Japanese girl and they moved to Japan several years ago. They started a private school there and it is very successful. Mike now speaks Japanese very well, thank you. Well enough to sing opera in the Japanese theaters!
The cowboy get-up is his costume for Halloween, earlier this year. Giddy-up, go, cowboy Mike!
This
photo of your's truly was taken at the National Cowboy Symposium in
Lobbock, Texas last
September 11, 2009.
You will notice that there are a whole lot fewer whiskers on my face. I had just shaved off my
beard a few weeks earlier, after having had a full beard for about 2 1/2 years. Well, it didn't
take me long to decide that, as the novelty song says, "I don't look good naked, anymore."
Not even my face.
So the facial hair has returned. It is not long enough to be mistaken for Santa Claus, but it has
progressed to the point where I know myself, again.
September 11, 2009.
You will notice that there are a whole lot fewer whiskers on my face. I had just shaved off my
beard a few weeks earlier, after having had a full beard for about 2 1/2 years. Well, it didn't
take me long to decide that, as the novelty song says, "I don't look good naked, anymore."
Not even my face.
So the facial hair has returned. It is not long enough to be mistaken for Santa Claus, but it has
progressed to the point where I know myself, again.
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