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Cover story on Esteban Jordan.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Willie Bobo, Leslie Bovee, Frenchie Burke, Connie Cato, Patsy Coleman, Bernice Cortez, Peter Frampton, Carroll Gilley, Efrain Gutierrez, Roy Head, John Holmes, Jerry Jeff, Jim Landry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bubba Littrell, Linda Lovell, Bobby Mahaffey, Steve Mallett, Darrell McCall, Augie Meyers, Willie Nelson, Tommy Overstreet, Ray Price, Douglas Quintet, Edna Rodarte, Johnny Rodriguez, Glenn Smith, Gary Stewart, John Stuckey, Barry Sullivan, Hank Thompson, Mel Tillis, Joe Torra, Johnny Wadd, Jack Walker, Jerry Wallace, Hank Williams.

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.

Cover story on Dub Robinson (Drugstore Cowboys)