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Cover story on Augie Meyers.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Keith Adams, Bubba Brown, Johnny Bush, Milton Carroll, George Chambers, David Allan Coe, Patsy Coleman, Charlie Daniels, Al Dean, John Denver, Paul English, Denny Ezba, Mickey Gilley, Tommy Goldsmith, Lee Harmon, Emmylou Harris, Alex Harvey, Walter Hyatt, Waylon Jennings, Mark Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rex Ludwig, Bobby Martin, Roger Miller, Joker Moon, Bobbie Nelson, Pop Nelson, Willie Nelson, Olivia Newton-John, Buck Owens, Jody Payne, Elvis Presley, Mickey Raphael, Jan Reid, Steve Runkle, Doug Sahm, John Santos, Bea Spears, Joe Stampley, Ernest Tubb, Jerry Jeff Walker, Paul Warren, Kitty Wells, Faron Young.

Dr. Kissler discusses her early educational experiences in Colorado, including a failed stint in law school before getting her BA and MA in history. She recalls her trip to Europe in 1950 and early teaching experiences in Montana and California. She details her PhD work at UT-Austin under Dr. W.P. Webb and how she began working at SWTSTC in the education department before becoming an assistant professor in the history department in the late 1950s and 1960s.

H.Y. Price talks about the difficulties he faced while starting up the San Marcos Telephone Company, the task of remaining independent in the midst of other large telephone cooperations, and about his involvement with the Campus Christian Community Center at Texas State.

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.

Cover story on Lacy Brinson