J’Nell L. Pate
Meeting – April 3, 2000

Currently I teach history at Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus in Fort Worth, Texas where I have been employed full-time since 1972. Before that I taught part-time at TCC (formerly TCJC) edited a newsletter part-time for the Fort Worth Independent School District, and worked part-time for the local newspaper in Azle where I have lived since 1968. Prior to that I was employed full-time as a social studies and journalism teacher by the Fort Worth Independent School District for seven years.

I hold a BA in journalism and a MA in history from Texas Christian University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Texas.

My published material includes five books:
Livestock Legacy, The Fort Worth Stockyards 1887-1987 for which I won the Coral H. Tullis Prize for the best book on Texas history to be published in 1988 from the Texas State Historical Association and the Joseph J. Ballard Heritage Award from the North Fort Worth Historical Society.

Other books include Document Sets for Texas and the Southwest in U.S. History, a collection of primary source materials which I edited, published by D. C. Heath in 1991;

Ranald Slidell Mackenzie Brave Cavalry Colonel (a juvenile book) published by Eakin Press in 1994,
North of the River A Brief History of North Fort Worth, published in 1994 by Texas Christian University Press.

Hazel Vaughn Leigh and the Fort Worth Boys Club, published by TCU Press. Spring of 2000.

I have written chapters in five books, 15 articles for scholarly history journals, and twenty-five book reviews. In addition, I have written a weekly history column, “Pages From Western History” in the Azle News since 1968. During the Sesquicentennial year, a column featuring the idea of “150 Years Ago This Week” appeared in several newspapers statewide. My column on Western history appears monthly in the Stockyards Gazette which is distributed widely in Fort Worth to publicize the area for the tourist trade and for locals as well.

I was nominated for the Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary Teaching (one of three from my campus) in 1994, and nominated for the Piper Foundation Award representing my entire Northeast Campus for the year 1992-93. In addition, I was named for life to the select group of “Fellows” of the Texas State Historical Association in March 1994.

I was selected as one of 100 outstanding living graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, during the commemoration of their Centennial year in 1990.