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Cover story on Sammy Ayala.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Bill Aucoin, Donna Barner, Toby Beau, Cooder Browne, Jack Burkett, Johnny Bush, George Chambers, Jubal Clark, Johnny Copeland, Danny Cowan, Hondo Crouch, Mike Dailey, Jimmy Day, Bob Dylan, Vonne Fehr, Kent Finlay, Bill Gaither, Lupe Galindo, Carroll Gilley, Mickey Gilley, Golden Gloves, Robert Gomez, Bobby Jenkins, Waylon Jennings, Danny Levinson, Bubba Littrell, Danny McKenna, Augie Meyers, Gene Miertschin, Willie Nelson, Jerry Retzloff, Ron Rose, Gary Stewart, Big Tony, Rusty Wier, Jack Williams, Steve Zipper.

Cover story on Cheap Trick, Talking Heads

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 Dale Watson