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Cover story on Floyd Tillman.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Bobby Baker, Marcia Ball, Louie Bellson, Allene Blaker, Clay Blaker, Don Bowman, Ronnie Branham, Frenchie Burke, Emma Chaney, Gloria Christopher, Guy Clark, Vassar Clemens, Alvin Crow, Duke Ellington, Tom Faulkner, Kent Finlay, Jerry Garcia, Robert Gomez, Adolph Hafner, John Hays, Ricky Hernandez, George Jones, Hermann Lammersmeyer, Simon Magallan, Billy Mata, Augie Meyers, Cathy Morgan, Claude Morgan, Chip Morton, Willie Nelson, Bobby Ouesley, James Reveley, Johnny Rodriguez, Uncle Sam, Larry Trader, Daddy Warbucks, Jack Williams, Marty Winters, Ray Wylie.

Cover story on UFO

Margaret Fields talks about her early life in New Braunfels and life during the Great Depression. She describes the university campus and the schooling she received at Texas State in the 1930s and 1940s. She mentions places like Old Main; people such as C.E. Evans, Mary Brogdon, Leland Derrick, and John Flowers; and her experiences living off-campus. She discusses the various teaching jobs she took in Comal County and Medina County as well as her work with the state vocational rehabilitation department in Austin and other companies in Houston. She outlines how it all led her to her current job at the Sophienburg Museum in New Braunfels.

Pat Norwood talks about the different positions at Texas State he has held from the 1930s through the 1960s and the responsibilities that came with those positions, including his work as the principal of the campus training school and director of public services. He relayed memories of his travels throughout Texas recruiting students for the university. He recalls Dr. Flowers, his work as secretory for the Gilmer-Aiken Committee in 1947, and work in the Rotary Club in the 1940s and 1950s.

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