The Annual Dinner Meeting will be on Tuesday, October 8 at the Pasta House, 8213 Delmar in University City. Tickets for members are $30, for nonmembers $35. An invitation insert is enclosed in this newsletter. Our speaker will be J. Frederick Fausz, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He will discuss his 2011 book, Founding St. Louis: First City of the New West, and his forthcoming anniversary volume, Historic St. Louis: 250 Years Exploring New Frontiers.