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Cover story on Hank Williams, Jr.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: David Allan, Gary Allen, County Atty, Doug Blaser, Tommy Bolin, Milton Carroll, David Allan Coe, Patsy Coleman, Alvin Crow, Charlie Daniels, Jimmy Darnell, Dave Davidson, Bob Dylan, Monroe Faggeaux, Steve Fromholz, George Gershwin, Bob Herrick, Jerry Jeff, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Jaime Kay, Ron Knuth, Darrell McCall, Maggie Montgomery, Claude Morgan, Willie Nelson, San Pedro, Pablo Picasso, Johnny Rodriguez, Leon Russell, Willie Sing, Hank Singer, Ernest Tubb, Henry Vollentine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Rusty Wier, Jim Wiley, Mike Williams, Frank Wright.

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 Augie Meyers