2006 San Antonio Founders Day Essay Contest

Paula Allen

Sandra Hodsdon Carr – Publications and exhibits editor at the Institute of Texan Cultures, with 25 years of service

Linda Cuellar – Mass Communications professor at North West Vista College, published essayist and video producer for independent and industry pieces.  Former producer of Heritage, KLRN series on Latino arts, history and culture.

Tino Duran – Publisher and Owner of La Prensa de San Antonio.  Vice Chairman of the ACCD Foundation, Inc.  Former President of the National Association of Hispanic Publications. 

Carol Reposa

Barbara Stanush – Free-lance writer, educator.  Author, "Texans: A Story of Texan Cultures for Young People," and "Stone Garden," (poetry); columnist, S. A. Express News.

Claude Stanush – Journalist (correspondent, writer, editor, LIFE Magazine); essays, short stories, novel ("All Honest Men"); screen plays ("The Lusty Men," "The Newton Boys").