I feel obligated to assure you that this blog is in fact about our newest exhibit, Women First! But first, I want to tell you about the Literature and Philosophy lecture course that I took during my very first semester at Saint Edward’s University in the fall of 2006. It was one of four or...
The latest collection processed at the Stark Center is the Doctors Curtis Jackson (Shorty) and Mary Evelyn Buice Alderson Collection. The Aldersons were both faculty of what is now the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education (KHE) at the University of Texas (UT). Between the two of them they taught at the university from 1939...
This week at The Stark Center, I’ve been thinking a lot about the history of women’s fitness and physical activity here on The Forty Acres. On Wednesday night, we were fortunate to host the University’s distinguished Tower Fellows. After our director, Jan Todd, addressed the visitors and told them about how the Stark Center was...
