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A photograph of Dr. Mary Evelyn Buice Alderson as she stands in front of a class seated on a gymnasium floor. She is teaching or lecturing.
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All About the Aldersons

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...

July 29, 2024August 9, 2024
Photographs from the Anna Hiss Collection
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Photographs from the Anna Hiss Collection

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...

May 6, 2021May 20, 2021