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Cover story on Ray Wylie Hubbard, Freddie King, Charlie Daniels, Rod Steward, Ron Wood.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Lindsay Bloom, Ronnie Branham, Peter Cedarstacker, Hondo Crouch, Sam Davis, Joanne Dru, Sam Gregg, Tom T. Hall, Darrell Harkins, Nora Hawes, Dale Jackson, Jerry Jeff, Jeri Jo, Jeri Jo Jones, Augie Meyer, Plum Nelly, Willie Nelson, Charlie Rich, Ripper Rodrigo, Leon Russell, Allegani Jani Schoefield, Mussle Shoals, Benny Thurman.

In the 1978 interview, conducted by History faculty members Merry FitzPatrick and Ronald C. Brown, Dr. Henrietta "Retta" Murphy talks about her experiences at Southwest Texas State, from her arrival in 1919 when the school was still a Normal College, through her retirement in 1956.  She relates stories about President “Prexy” Evans, President Flowers, Lyndon Johnson, and mentions SWT professors H.M. Greene, James Taylor, Emmie Craddock, Alfred Nolle, and Betty Kissler among others. She also talks about her beliefs about education and teaching and offers examples from her years of teaching college students.  The interviewers and Dr. Murphy had a collegial relationship and they laughed through much of the interview.

From 1999-2001, NASA partnered with History students at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) to conduct interviews with former employees who lived in the Central Texas area. Interviewees include managers, engineers, technicians, doctors, astronauts, and other employees of NASA and aerospace contractors who served in key roles during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs.

2007 football media guide for Texas State University-San Marcos. The media guides contain football schedules, football player information and statistics, and athletic staff information.