Gardere’s – pending
Roy Jones says, “The best job I ever had didn’t pay a penny but was worth millions in memories. It was the experiences, lessons learned and the people I met that made it special.” “I’m grateful for every opportunity, dear friends, colleagues, and, of course, the students and student/athletes I worked with! We’ve all got…
In the book Bleeding Orange by Kirk Bohls and John Maher, there is a quote from Journalist Robert Heard. He says, “The first thing I would do is fire DeLoss Dodds and put Donna Lopiano in there, and she’d take it. She is not from Texas, and neither is DKR, but at least they…
TLSN oral history is sponsored by MBFC contact John Carsey at jcarsey@mbfc.com Octavius Bishops Longhorn’s oral history podcast is first up. Click on the link below. https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/dr-octavious-bishop-oral-history The many faces of Octavious Bishop. The Mentor and his Pupil There would probably not be a Dr. Octavious Bishop without Coach/mentor Emory Bellard. Coach Bellard is a two-time…
The oral history podcast, text, and photos of College Baseball Hall of Fame Longhorn inductee – Jim Gideon are sponsored by: ABEL Engineering responded to the First Gulf War when Saddam Hussein set the Kuwait Oil Field (about 1000 wells) on fire in an environmental terrorist act. ABEL provides project management and engineering for out-of-control…
BETSY MITCHELL is one of the first female athletes to benefit athletically from the Title IX law. Mitchell’s college experience in the mid-to-late 1980s was right on the cusp of NCAA women’s swimming as we know it today. Mitchell’s first year of NCAA swimming was 1983-84, only a couple of years after the first NCAA…
Tyres Dickson shares his story in an oral history podcast. Tyres Dickson Story My name is Tyres Dickson, a proud member of the T-Association, via the football class of 1997. On 3/22/1998, my life shifted. As I slept in the back seat on my way back to the University of Texas for spring…