March | April 2017

 

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An Iconic Texas Artist Makes His Giant Mark on the World

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Bob Wade says there are three main components to his working life: blood, sweat, and beer. And sun-drenched and parched on a concrete slab outside a South Austin...

 
 

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War Time

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On March 1, 1917, as World War I entered its third grueling year, news of the Zimmerman Telegram broke across America. It caused a national sensation, revealing...

 
 

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Generations of Longhorn Roommates Become Lifelong Friends

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When I first stepped foot into my 75-year-old dorm room my freshman year of college, I realized I’d been misled. It was the fall of 2012 and the little space on...

 
 

Birdman

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America’s foremost bird watcher Victor Emanuel, BA ’62, recalls when his love of wildlife first took flight. Few lands have gone unseen by Victor Emanuel. Though...

 
 

Boomerang Days: The Clean-up Crew

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A Longhorn does college all over again I am not a tidy person. There are aromas in my bathroom that would put a burning cheese shop to shame. The family of opossums...

 
 

The Way Back: True to Form

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Unlocking the vault of UT history In 1939, the impressively named William Mozart McVey boasted that his classroom was “one of the best sculpture studios in Texas.”...

 
 

Reading Ahead

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Literacy First is teaching Austin how to read—one child at a time. Just a few days after the new year, more than 100 Americorps members sit in a room for an intensive,...

 
 

Letters to Texas

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The life and times of celebrated author Shelby Hearon. You can practically smell the kolaches in Shelby Hearon’s 1991 book Hug Dancing, when her heroine visits...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: Well hello.

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You don’t know me, but I know you. I’ve been the managing editor of the Alcalde for the past four years, and now I have come out from behind my cubicle to address...

 
 

March|April 2017 Good Reads

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New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe Miles and Miles of Texas: 100 Years of the Texas Highway Department  by Carol Dawson, BA ’75, and Roger Allen Polson,...

 
 
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