Contact: Joe Lofaro, University Editor, 731-881-7617 UT MARTIN ALUMNA, WINNER OF HISTORICAL GOLD MEDAL TO SPEAK IN TOM ELAM LECTURE SERIES MARTIN — Dr. Mary Jane Warde, a UT Martin alumna will speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Boling University Center’s Watkins Auditorium, as part of the Tom Elam Lecture Series. Warde, one of the daughters of former Martin Fire Chief Buster Williams, just received the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal for furthering the preservation of Confederate history through her new book, When the Wolf Came. Warde, who lives in Stillwater, Okla., earned a Bachelor of Arts at UT Martin in English and history in 1966. She has a master’s degree and a doctorate in history from Oklahoma State. She was an Indian historian and archivist at the Oklahoma Historical Society for eight years. Her work there included collecting nearly 80 oral histories, mostly from Indian people, and helping design the Indian gallery in the new Oklahoma Museum of History. To date, Warde has 24 successful National register nominations and wrote the National Historic Landmark nomination for Honey Springs Battlefield (Oklahoma). She has taught at five universities and currently teaches courses for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Oklahoma State and in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Her third book, When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and Indian Territory , was published by the University of Arkansas Press in November 2013. Warde’s father, Williams, served more than 66 years as a fire fighter and the Martin Fire Department Chief.
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