Sam Houston State University: An Institutional Memory, 1879-2004
Published by Texas Review Press
Contact: Dr. Paul Ruffin 936.294.1429
Sam Houston State University: An Institutional Memory, 1879-2004,
1-881515-69-9 (cloth) $49.95
9 x 12, 216 pp. 125 Years of Exemplary
Service
Sam Houston State University : An Institutional Memory, 1879-2004
Ty Cashion, author
Sam Houston State University
is no longer the simple "college on the hill," as it was known
to the young men and women who first attended 125 years ago. Today
it is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research Intensive Institution offering
135 undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs. What began
in 1879 as a "normal" school awarding diplomas to aspiring teachers
grew into a degree-granting institution by 1919. Since then, 92,700
students have earned their Sam Houston degrees. Of those, nearly
57,000 are currently productive professionals enriching the working
and cultural environment of every state in our nation and beyond.
Over 13,400 students from every corner of Texas to 35 countries
around the world currently claim this scenic Huntsville campus
of hills and pines as their academic home. Yet, Sam Houston's beginnings
as a training school, whose singular mission was to prepare teachers
for the state's public classrooms, belie the major university that
grew out of its humble origins.
In lively prose Sam Houston State University :
An Institutional Memory, 1879-2004 traces the school's development alongside
the life of the campus. Through the description of the many fads,
traditions, crises, and milestones that marked the ages, a distinct
institutional identity emerges in this volume that will
be at once both strangely fascinating and warmly familiar to
those who have walked the campus as students, professors, staff,
or visitors. This oversized, well-illustrated book presents a
grand and colorful sweep of Sam Houston's 125-year history and
will certainly occupy a prominent place in the homes and offices
of all those who have been impacted by its warmth, accessibility,
and purpose.
Author bio: Ty Cashion is an award winning author and a professor
of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville . He received
a Ph.D. from Texas Christian University in 1993. Texas Monthly included
Cashion in a short list of "a new breed of scholars" who
are "changing the way contemporary Texans look at their state." He
is an occasional contributor to such newspapers as the Houston
Chronicle and speaks regularly to civic groups on topics
related to Texas and American western history. Cashion's Texas
Frontier ( University of Oklahoma Press ) won the Rupert
Richardson Award in 1996 for "Best Book on Texas and Western
History." His Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High
School Coaches (Texas State Historical Association,
1998) made several bestseller lists. He also co-edited a series
of biographies with Frank de la Teja titled The Human Tradition
in Texas .
Subject category: history
October
Art Direction by Tom Seifert
Forward by alumnus,
Dan Rather
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