September 18, 2009February 12, 2020
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An Introduction

Every day or so, beginning today, I plan to breathe a metaphorical song into the air.  That song, as it does in the second and lesser-known stanza of a poem by H.W. Longfellow, will fall to earth “I know not where.”  I hope that my songs, like Longfellow’s, eventually fall to earth just as his did. For the most part, I plan to sing about what we’re doing, have done, and hope to do at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports here at the University of Texas.  As I do this, I ask for forbearance and...

People Magazine article about Stark Center co-founders Jan and Terry Todd, with a photograph of Terry on Jan's shoulders, from the January 29, 1979 issue, when Jan was considered by some to be the strongest woman in the world.
April 1, 2005February 12, 2020
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Body of Work

Originally published by Kay Randall on http://www.utexas.edu Top this boy-meets-girl story. Boy and girl are with a group of graduate students and faculty members in a Georgia meadow on a lazy summer afternoon, lolling after a filling picnic and a few cold beers. Some of the guys are sitting on a stack of logs and the conversation turns to the Scottish Highland Games event of caber-tossing, or log-throwing. Jan, called the “strongest woman in the world” by Sports Illustrated and many other news media, hoists Terry on her shoulders during her heyday as a champion powerlifter (from People magazine article). She was listed...