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Cover story on "Great World's Fight," Bobby Thomas and Johnny Hernandez.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Jules Abramson, Bob Azar, Marcia Ball, Bubba Brown, Buddy Calk, Choo Choo, Patsy Coleman, Rusty Cox, Bwana Dik, Jay Dominguez, Mary Franks, Steve Fromholz, Bobby Gomez, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Guich Koock, Billy Mata, Augie Meyers, Gene Miertschin, Maggie Montgomery, George Morin, David Morris, Willie Nelson, Olly Otten, Suzie Prentiss, Jerry Retzloff, Frank Rodarte, Doc Roper, Jack Roth, Jerry Jeff Walker, Rusty Wier.

Cover story on Ray Charles, Nick Lowe, Bruce Springsteen, Ann Wilson, Patti Smith

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.

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.

Cover story on Jay Pennington (shelter dogs)

Meeting minutes from the Texas State University System Board of Regents.