The Texas Book Two: More Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Published by University of Texas Press 2012

The Texas Book Two

More Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Edited by: David Dettmer

In the series Focus on American History Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/728745

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About this book

In every corner of the sprawling enterprise that is the University of Texas at Austin, you will find teaching, research, artistic creation, and sports achievement that are among the best in the world. Mandated by the Texas constitution to be “a university of the first class,” UT Austin strives for excellence across the curriculum, from the most traditional of liberal arts disciplines to the cutting edge of science and technology. For Texans interested in progress, whether students of the university or members of the public, there are few pleasures greater than uncovering the intellectual treasures that can be found by exploring the university’s “Forty Acres” and all that they contain.

The Texas Book, edited by Richard A. Holland and published in 2006, offered the first in-depth exploration of UT’s history and traditions through a collection of profiles, histories, and reminiscences. Now The Texas Book Two continues the story, with a variety of contributors recalling particular events and personalities that have helped shape the university and the people whose lives it has touched. Twenty-one essays present personalities such as John A. Lomax, Anna Hiss, J. R. Parten, Harvey Penick, John W. Hargis, and Jorge Luis Borges; accounts of legislative battles and debates over campus architecture; histories of crown jewels such as the McDonald Observatory and Austin City Limits; and the reminiscences of Barbara Smith Conrad, Sam Hurt, and Cat Osterman, among others.

Author / Editor information

David Dettmer is an educator and writer who has been associated with The University of Texas at Austin as a student and staffer for nearly two decades. He worked at the university’s Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, which houses the institutional archives of UT, for more than nine years. Today, he is a staff member in the Office of the President at UT Austin, as well as an adjunct Professor of English at Austin Community College.

Reviews

David Dettmer has assembled a fascinating anthology of profiles, historical pieces, and reminiscences. . . . Savor these chapters, essay by essay, and all together. They will draw you toward the core of [this] great institution, and, most likely, will connect you to your own past and future as they do.

— Larry R. Faulkner

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Larry R. Faulkner Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction David Dettmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PROFILES
Rising from the Frontier: John A. Lomax and the University of Texas Nolan Porterfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Benedicere Benedictus: A Profile of H. Y. Benedict David Dettmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
A Feminist, before Her Time: The Journey of Anna Hiss Brad Buchholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Communism, Fruit Flies, and Academic Freedom: J. R. Parten’s “Second Education” Don E. Carleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Harvey Was My Friend Ben Crenshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Steadfast in His Intent: John W. Hargis and the Integration of the University of Texas at Austin Richard B. McCaslin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
A Desk for Borges Peter LaSalle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
HISTORY
“Farmer Jim” and “The Chief”: Governor Jim Ferguson and His Battle with Eugene C. Barker and the University of Texas Patrick Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
“Harry’s Place”: A Brief History of the Academic Center and Undergraduate Library/Peter T. Flawn Academic Center Richard W. Oram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Campus Architecture: Identity Crises Richard Cleary and Lawrence Speck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
The Most Important Building on Campus Richard A. Holland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
McDonald Observatory: Bigger and Brighter Frank N. Bash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Austin City Limits and the University of Texas Michael Toland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
REMINISCENCES
I Had No Reason to Believe Otherwise Barbara Smith Conrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
The Arcadia That Was Austin Vance Muse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Barn Dance: The Early Years of Shakespeare at Winedale Alice Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Hank the Hallucination’s Campaign Trail Remembered: Confessions of a Traitorous, Politically Agnostic Opportunist Sam Hurt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
A Perfect Game Cat Osterman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Before the Bulldozers: Life in Married Student Housing Wayne Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 309

eBook

Published: October 16, 2012
ISBN: 9780292737136