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In the 1974 interview, conducted by students Bobbie Vaughn and Stan Siler, Dr. Henrietta "Retta" Murphy talks briefly about her family, her education, and her first teaching job at Trinity where she was also Dean of Women. The focus of the interview is related to her experiences at Southwest Texas State, beginning with her arrival in San Marcos in 1919. Dr. Murphy discusses her memories and observations of the History Department, examples of discrimination she experienced as a woman on the faculty, and some memories from teaching troops on campus during WWII. She also talks about President C.E. Evans, President John G. Flowers, Professor Greene, and Lyndon Johnson.

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.

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