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Cover story on Alex Harvey.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: David Allan, Pete Ballow, Elton Britt, Cooder Brown, Milton Brown, Frenchie Burke, Johnny Bush, David Allan Coe, Alex Harvey, Mose Deberry, Legs Diamond, Jay Dominguez, Tino Esquivel, Don Evans, Freddy Fender, Kent Finlay, Alex Haley, Butch Heffelfinger, Ruben James, Clifton Jansky, Waylon Jennings, Darrell McCall, James W. McIver, Huey Meaux, Augie Meyers, Smokey Moore, Michael Murphy, Willie Nelson, Galen Niles, Helen Reddy, Betty Rice, Jimmie Rodgers, Doug Sahm, Bill Shore, Charles Sparks, Scott Stephens, Larry Teasley, Bob Wills.

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.

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