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The Normal School Bulletin, Volume I, No. 4, Catalogue Number, Tenth Annual Session 1912-1913

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Contains list of the members of the Board of Normal Regents, as well as a list of faculty. Includes the academic calendar, information for students, course descriptions, list of students that attended the past year and certificates the graduates received. Also includes short history of the normal school in San Marcos, Texas, and describes the purpose of a normal school.

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Lillian Dees oral history interview

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Lillian Dees talks about her experiences working under many different deans, including Bruce Roach, Ralph Houston, Keith Lovin, and departments, including Journalism and News Service and Liberal Arts. She describes how she acquired her final position as Director of the LBJ Student Center. She also recalls the changes in the campus, including buildings and student body population, over the twenty-year period that she was employed at Texas State. She discusses changing university administrations, alluding to President James McCrocklin and the McCrocklin Scandal, interim president Jerome Cates, and others. She recalls "Lillian Dees Day" created by Dr. Henry Norris.

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Merry Kone FitzPatrick oral history interview

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In her second interview, Merry Kone Fitzpatrick talks about graduating from high school and attending college at SWTSTC. Along with describing her college and graduate courses and certain professors like Professor Green, Retta Murphy, James Taylor, Betty Jane Kissler, and Emmie Craddock, she discusses what the school, her first job during WWII, and her work supervising student teachers were like. She describes the then-social science division and its faculty, as well as campus buildings like Old Main and certain local characters. This interview covers the 1930s through the 1960s.