Andrew Douglas Jackson was born in Crenshaw County, Alabama on October 11, 1875. In his early career, Andrew Douglas Jackson was a bookeeper, teacher, and newspaper editor. As an editor, he promoted the Reclamation Amendment in 1917 that was used to create the Brazos River Reclamation and Conservation District. He was later hired as a staff member of the Texas Agricultural Experimental Station starting in 1920. In 1929, he worked on various committees for the Brazos River Reclamation and Conservation District until his death in 1947. [for more information, see biography in this archival collection, box 1, folder 1]

William E. Whitsett, Jr. was born in Glasgow, Kentucky in 1837. He moved to Texas and became a Texas Ranger in 1860 under command of Col. M.T. Johnson. Whitsett was a member of the Confederate Army in Sam Bell Moxey’s Ninth Texas Cavalry Regiment in 1861. He was discharged from the service in June of 1865 after having participated in many battles, including Westport, Jackson, and Chickamauga. In 1870, Whitsett married Nancy Jane Lattimore.

Julian Pennybacker was a Texas A&M student from Palestine, TX who graduated in 1886 with a BS in Agriculture. He was born in 1875 in Mississippi, and his family later moved to Palestine, Texas located in Anderson County. He was a brother-in-law to the Texas Women's rights suffragist, Anna J. H. Pennybacker.

Olin Earl Teague was born on April 6, 1910, in Woodward, Oklahoma to James Martin and Ida (Sturgeon) Teague, and raised in Mena, Arkansas. Having graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M University) in 1932, Teague went to work for the U.S. Post Office in College Station for the next 8 years. Teague joined the U.S. Army in 1940 and was discharged in 1946 as a Colonel. During his time in the army, he participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts, among other decorations.

Teague was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 6th district of Texas through a special election on August 24, 1946, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Luther A. Johnson. During his tenure in the House, Teague’s focuses included veteran’s affairs and survivor’s benefits. He served at various times as Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, the Select Committee on Education, Training, and Loan Programs of World War II Veterans, and the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. After serving for seventeen terms, Teague left office for the last time on December 31, 1978, succeeded by then-Democrat Phil Gramm.

Teague’s lasting legacies, besides the legislation he championed, include the Olin E. Teague Veterans Center in Temple, Texas, the federal Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Olin E. Teague Research Center at Texas A&M University. Olin E. Teague died in Bethesda, MD on January 23, 1981, at 70 years of age, and he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

John Powers, a native of Fort Worth obtained baccalaureate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and its school of law before entering private law practice in Austin. After serving twenty-three years as a justice and senior justice, he retired from the Austin Court of Appeals in 2004. He continues to reside in Austin with his wife Deborah. Deborah Powers is also a University of Texas graduate and was a Certified Public Accountant. She worked for the State of Texas as the plan administrator for the state's two deferred compensation plans and as a supervising auditor. She was also a research analyst for the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

The Powers have two daughters, both graduates of Texas A & M University, and they currently reside in Austin and Bastrop.

Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Eagle Scout, a former member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, a US Army veteran (1LT-RA 1970-72), a licensed engineer, a licensed attorney, a father, a grandmother and a lesbian wife. She is the first, out, transgender judge in the nation. Now having lived almost sixty percent of her life as the woman she always felt herself to be, Phyllis remains on the cutting edge of LGBTI and especially transgender legal and political issues. When the “gay” community was still ignoring or marginalizing the transgender community in the early 1990s, Phyllis began the national transgender legal and political movement (thus she is known as being the Grandmother of the national transgender legal and political movement) with the six annual transgender law conferences (ICTLEP) and their grassroots training. Attorney Frye is one of the Task Force’s 1995 “Creator of Change” award winners. In 1999 she was given the International Foundation for Gender Education’s “Virginia Prince Lifetime Achievement” award. In 2001 she was given the National LGBT Bar Association’s (a.k.a. Lavender Law’s) highest honor, the “Dan Bradley Award.” She was honored beginning in 2009 by Texas A&M University with an annual “Advocacy Award” given in her name. In 2013 the Houston Transgender Unity Committee gave her its “Lifetime Achievement Award.” In 2015 she was given the National Center for Transgender Equality’s “Julie Johnson Founders Award.” That same year, Phyllis was featured on the front page (above the fold) of the Sunday Edition, August 30, New York Times, and she also became a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. In 2010, Phyllis was sworn-in as the first, out, transgender judge in the nation, as a City of Houston Associate Municipal Judge. She retains her senior partnership with Frye, Oaks, Benavidez & O’Neil, PLLC (at www.liberatinglaw.com) which is an out LGBTI-and-straight-allies law firm. While the members of the firm practice law in a variety of areas, Phyllis devotes her practice exclusively to taking transgender clients -- both adults and minors -- through the Texas courts to change the clients’ names and genders on their legal documents.

Peter M. McIntyre attended the University of Chicago culminating in 1973 with his Ph. D. He went on to do experiments with colliding beams at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland until 1975 when joined Havard University as an Assistant Professor. He would continue is work at both CERN and Fermilab through the late 1970s that would lead to the discorvery of weak bosons at CERN in 1982. In 1980 Dr. McIntyer joined the faculty at Texas A&M as an Associate Professor and continued his work in the field of high energy particle physics and participated in the construction and operation of the Collider Detctor at Fermilab. Dr. McIntyre was amoung the first to propose the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider and was a co-author of the Texas SSC site proposal

Kevin Bailey started out as a Chemistry major at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in the mid-1980s.  He was elected secretary of Gay Student Services (GSS) in 1984 and later became the organization’s historian and archivist.  In the late 1980s, Kevin took some time off from school to work and travel, returning to complete his MIS degree in 1993.  After the 1976 GSS lawsuit for campus recognition bounced through the courts and the District Court’s pro-TAMU decision was overturned, the case in August 1984 was bound for the Supreme Court.  In the wake of the Appeals Court’s decision to overturn the District Court’s ruling, Bailey, and newly elected GSS president, Marco Roberts, mobilized a publicity campaign for the organization.  GSS had grown and matured by the mid-eighties with most of its founding members graduated.  Internal tensions and personality conflicts were rife in the GSS during this time.

The popular and skilled urban fantasy writer Roxanne Longstreet was born on April 27, 1962, in White Sands, NM, and grew up in West Texas. She graduated with a B.A. in Accounting from Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University in 1985. Her first novel, the fantasy Stormriders, based on the Shadow World role-playing game, was published in 1990 (and republished in 1996 under the pseudonym 'Ian Hammell'). She then wrote three horror novels and one thriller between 1993-1996, all under her original name.

After marrying artist Richard Conrad in 1992, Conrad then wrote two mystery-thrillers under the name 'Roxanne Conrad': Copper Moon (1997) and Bridge of Shadows (1998). In 2002, the thriller Exile, TX was also published under her married name.

2003 saw the debut of Conrad's writing career under her most famous pen name, 'Rachel Caine'. She published Ill Wind, the first of her popular Weather Warden series published by Roc from 2003-2011. The urban fantasy series, which ran in two series across 14 novels and several short stories, takes place on an Earth where a group of individuals called Wardens can control different elemental forces and use that power to protect humanity from natural disasters. The series' main character, Joanne Baldwin, is a Weather Warden, and the main series involves her adventures. An offshoot series, Outcast Season, concerns an outcast Djinn who seeks safety and a new life amongst the Wardens. In 2015, Caine launched a Kickstarter to fund a new novel in the series, entitled Red Hot Rain, but the book was unfinished due to Caine's health complications and her 2020 death.

Other series followed. In 2005-2006, Caine produced the two-book Red Letter Days series, an urban fantasy/paranormal romance about two female detectives who find themselves obliged to start taking cases from a supernatural client with their own agenda. From 2011-2013, Caine published three books in her Revivalist series, telling the story of Bryn Davis, a woman murdered by her pharmaceutical corporate overlords and revived from death via an experimental drug on which she now relies for continued existence. Her final series for adults was the best-selling Stillhouse Lake series of mysteries, starring Tennessee PI Gwen Proctor and beginning with Stillhouse Lake in 2017. The fifth book in the series, Heartbreak Bay was published posthumously in 2021 and was Caine's last published book.

Caine was no stranger to works of fantasy, science fiction, and horror for young adults. Her popular The Morganville Vampires series ran for 15 books, beginning with Glass Houses in 2006 and ending with the short story "Home" in 2019, was set in the fictional West Texas town in Morganville, a town owned by vampires as a sanctuary and where they live in uneasy tension with humans. The series was adapted as a web series in 2014 and lasted for one season, starring Amber Benson and Robert Picardo.

In 2015, Caine published the first in her YA alternate history/fantasy The Great Library series - Ink and Bone. The series is set in a world where the Great Library of Alexandria was never destroyed, and over the succeeding millennia has taken control of the world and the flow of information. Tne protagonists are several young Librarians who band together after discovering the injustice and tyranny behind the Library, and seek to bring it down through revolution. The series has five books, concluding with Sword and Pen in 2019. Caine co-wrote, with Ann Aguirre, another YA series - The Honors, a three-book space opera about a young woman named Zara Cole, who as an "Honor" pilots a living ship called a Leviathan along with her co-pilot Beatriz Teixiera. The first book in the series, Honor Among Thieves (2018) was named to the LITA Excellence in Children's and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable List for 2019. In addition to these series, Caine also wrote a YA standalone, Prince of Shadows (2015), a fantasy take on Romeo and Juliet.

Caine wrote several other standalone works as well, including Line of Sight (2007), a volume in the Athena Force series of novels about graduates of the Athena Academy, an elite school for girls with special talents, as they combat kidnappers, terrorists, and the forces of evil; a Stargate SG-1 media tie-in novel, Sacrifice Moon in 2007 (under the name 'Julie Fortune'), and a number of short stories contained in different science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal romance anthologies.

Rachel Caine lived for much of her life in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband R. "Cat" Conrad. She was diagnosed in 2019 with soft-tissue sarcoma, and died on November 1, 2020. Caine was posthumously awarded the 2021 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished contributions to science fiction and fantasy by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Emily P. Devenport Hogan is a science fiction writer based in Arizona, married to fellow writer Ernest Hogan. Devenport's publishing debut was in 1987, with her short story "Shade and the Elephant Man", published in Aboriginal Science Fiction in May 1987. The story was the basis of Devenport's first novel, Shade (1991), whose eponymous title character is a runaway orphan and psychic enmeshed in intrigue in a decadent alien city. It was followed by a sequel in 1993, Larissa.

Devenport's first stand-alone novel, Scorpianne was published in 1994, and told the story of Lucy, a prostitute who escapes a murder attempt on Earth and finds herself on Mars trying to avoid the ruthless assassin Scorpianne. Her two-book space operas EggHeads (1994) and GodHeads (1996) were separated in publication time by 1997's The Kronos Connection. Kronos concerns a group of psychically gifted children struggling against the mysterious Three - a trio of powerful telepathic adults who abuse the children and seek to use them for their own evil ends.

Under the pseudonym "Lee Hogan", Devenport published in 2000 the novel Broken Time, which was nominated for the 2001 Philip K. Dick Award. The novel concerns heroine Siggy Lindquist and her struggles against aliens and inmates at the offworld Institute for the Criminally Insane. Another two-book space opera, the Belarus series (Belarus in 2002, and Enemies in 2003) was published under the name "Lee Hogan". Devenport's most recent novels have been the two-volume "Medusa Cycle" - set in the far future aboard a socially stratified generation ship, the series consists of Medusa Uploaded (2018) and Medusa in the Graveyard (2019).

Devenport has written a number of short stories, including 1988's "Cat Scratch", which won Aboriginal Science Fiction's Boomerang Award for Best Story, that have been published in periodicals including Aboriginal, Critical Mass, Asimov's Science Fiction, Uncanny, and Clarkesworld.

Dr. Charles L. Boyd was born October 8, 1921, and died on October 4, 2017.

C. J. Cherryh (C. J. Cherry) was born September 1, 1942 in St. Louis, MO. She received a B. A. degree in Latin from University of Oklahoma in 1964, and an M. A. in Classics from Johns Hopkins University in 1965. After a brief teaching career, she turned to full-time writing in 1977. Cherryh focuses on alien races, culture, and power as key elements in her work, making use of her training in the classic and in anthropology in her writing. Cherryh has been awarded the Hugo award three times, the Locus Award, and the John W. Campbell award, all attesting the quality and popularity of her work.

Carolyn Janice Cherry was born in St. Louis, MO, on September 1, 1942. She received a B.A. in Latin from the University of Oklahoma in 1964, and an M.A. in Classics from John Hopkins University in 1965. Cherry taught classics and ancient languages in the Oklahoma City public school system after her graduation, although she wrote SF and fantasy stories in her spare time.

In 1976, Cherry's professional writing career was launched with the publication of her first two novels, _Gate Of Ivrel_and Brothers of Earth. (She added a "h" to her last name because her editor Donald A. Wollheim of DAW Books thought that the name "Cherry" sounded too much like that of a romance writer, and Cherryh used her initials in order to disguise her gender.)

Those two novels were the first of many works set in Cherryh's famed "Alliance-Union Universe", which has come to include over 25 novels and a number of short stories. Many of Cherryh's most important works take place in this universe, including Downbelow Station(1981), Merchanter's Luck(1982), Cyteen(1988), and the _Faded Sun_trilogy (1978-1979). The Alliance-Union Universe is set in a far future marked by conflicts between and among privately-funded planetary stations and powerful merchant families.

Cherryh has written a large number of other works, including the cycle of novels (1994-2015) set in the "Foreigner Universe", a series chronicling the lives of a group of descendants of an Earth ship lost while on its way to found a new station; the "Gene Wars" novels Hammerfall(2001) and Forge of Heaven(2004); the fantasy "Fortress Series"(1995-2006); and many others.

C.J. Cherryh received the 1977 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and since then has also been lauded with numerous nominations and awards. She has won the 1979 Hugo Award for Best Short Story ("Cassandra") and the 1988  Skylark Award (the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction). She won the 1982 Balrog Award for Short Fiction ("A Thief In Korianth") and the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel ( Downbelow Station _)._Her novel _Cyteen_won both the 1989 _SF Chronicle_Award, the 1989 _Locus_Award, and the 1989 Hugo Award fo Best Novel.

Friedrich Ernst Giesecke was born in 1869 and graduated from New Braunfels High School at age 13. He then enrolled at Texas A&M College in the Fall of 1883 at age 14. At the age of 17, Giesecke graduated in the Class of 1886 and was the ranking officer in the Corps of Cadets. After graduation, he joined the A&M faculty and two years later was named head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Later, he helped to set up a Department of Architecture in 1905.

Giesecke designed and/or supervised the construction of Sbisa Dining Hall in 1912, the Academic Building, Chemistry Building, System Administration Building, Cushing Memorial Library, Hart Hal, Walton Hall, and 14 other buildings on campus. In 1927 he returned to A&M to resume his role as College Architect and Dean of the School of Architecture.

John C. Adams, a Vietnam veteran, was born in New Jersey. From 1968-1969, Adams served in the Army in the 5th Special Forces. He was a professor of communications at Texas A&M who compiled a book about the Texas A&M Muster Ceremony in 1985. The Muster Ceremony is a tradition dating back to 1883, honoring Aggies who have died during the past year.

John L. Sandstedt was born in Los Angeles, CA on December 6, 1920. He was raised in Brazos County, TX where he attended A&M Consolidated High School in College Station. Sandstedt went on to graduate from the University of Texas in 1942 and enlisted in the U.S. Army fighting in World War II (WWII).

After the war, Sandstedt returned to UT and earned a law degree in 1947. Sandstedt opened a law practice with Brownrigg Dewey and was a city attorney for both College Station and Navasota, TX. He was also a professor of management at Texas A&M University, President of the Toastmaster's Club of the Brazos County Bar Association, President of Texas Exes in Brazos County, and a member of the Continuing Education Committee of the State Bar of Texas.

Sandstedt married Clara Ullrich in 1956 and the couple had four children. He was an active member of the A&M United Methodist Church in College Station, TX and taught Sunday school there. John L. Sandstedt died on March 9, 1988.

Jon Manchip White (1924-2013) was born in Cardiff, Wales. He enrolled at Cambridge; after military service, he returned and completed a degree in prehistoric archaeology and anthropology in 1950. White worked for the BBC Television Service, the British Foreign Service, turning to full-time writing in 1956.

In 1967, White moved to El Paso Texas, becoming a writer-in-residence, and founded the creative writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 1977, White left UT-El Paso to head the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee.

White is a distinguished Welsh-American writer who has published over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction. He wrote many scripts for radio, television, and film (including contributions to such films as El Cid, 55 Days at Peking, and The Day of the Triffids.

Jon M. White died in Knoxville, TN on July 31, 2013.

Joseph F. Pamilia was born in Houston, TX on March 10, 1945. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Houston in 1967, and graduated from the UH School of Journalism in 1970. A reporter, copywriter and typesetter, he began his science fiction writing career in 1971 with the story "Niggertown", which was published as part of the 1971 anthology Black Hands on a White Face. Some of his other stories include "Willowisp" (1974), "Hung Like An Elephant" (with Steven Utley, 1974), "Forever Stand The Stones" (1975), "The Case of James Elmo Freebish" (1976), and "Myth of the Ape God" (1978).

Pamilia also wrote a number of stories and poems under the name M. M. Moamrath, which were deliberate lampoons of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Howard.

Kevin Wayne Jeter was born on March 26, 1950, in Los Angeles, CA. As a student at the University of California, Fullerton, Jeter became acquainted with Science Fiction authors James Blaylock, Tim Powers, and most notably, Philip K. Dick. Dick was a major influence on Jeter, who, like Dick, writes much about subjective interpretations of reality and whose work has similar themes of paranoia.

He published his first novel, Seeklight, in 1975. However, his first novel actually written (though unpublished until 1984) was Dr. Adder, which he wrote in 1972. The book takes place in a future proto-cyberpunk Los Angeles and is noted for its extremely violent and graphic sexual content.

Jeter's first major novel was Morlock Night (1979), a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. In a 1987 letter to Locus, Jeter said of this novel and of similar works by Blaylock and Powers: "Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term . . . like "steampunks", perhaps..." Jeter is thus credited with coining the term steampunk. He published two additional steampunk novels, Infernal Devices (1987) and the sequel Fiendish Schemes (2013).

Jeter has written nearly 30 novels, including three set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and three authorized sequels to the 1982 film Blade Runner, as well as novels set in the Star Trek and Alien Nation universes. He has also written a number of short stories.

William A. Yates was a horticulturist, whose observations on root or stem tumors were included in the Annual Report, Bulletin No. 38 (March 1896) for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and published W.A. Yates' Catalogue and Price List of Nursery Stock in 1902 (Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection). Brought to Brenham, TX by William H. Watson, who founded the Rosedale Nursery in 1874, Yates help run the nursery along with John T. Herbert, William W. Haupt, D.R. Eldred, William Falconer, William Baker, James B. Baker, and Watson's children.

Kay Kenyon is the author of over a dozen acclaimed novels of science fiction and fantasy, as well as numerous works of shorter fiction. She published her first novel, the time travel adventure The Seeds of Time, in 1997. Leap Point followed in 1998, and the space opera Rift in 1999. Her 2001 novel Tropic of Creation was a preliminary nominee for the 2001 Endeavour Award. Kenyon's next works were two loosely-connected SF novels: Maximum Ice (2002) and The Braided World (2003). Maximum Ice was nominated for the 2003 Philip K. Dick Award; Braided World for the 2004 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

From 2007-2010 Kenyon produced the 4-book vast fantastical epic The Entire And The Rose, set within The Entire, a five-armed radial universe that exists in a dimension without stars and planets and is parallel to our own universe. Each of the first three books in the series - Bright of the Sky (2007), A World Too Near (2008), and City Without End (2009) - was nominated for the Endeavour Award. To date, her other major series has been the Dark Talents series (2017-2019), a fantasy series that takes place in the years immediately before World War II and tells the story of a war of magical espionage between Great Britain and Nazi Germany.

Kenyon was born in 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She currently resides in Wenatchee, Washington.

Patricia Nead Elrod (1951-) is an editor and a writer, who has written over twenty-five novels in the urban fantasy genre, most of them involving vampires. Her series include Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire (4 books, 1993-1996); The Vampire Files (20 books, 1990-2010); and, with Nigel Bennett, Richard Dun (3 books, 1997-2004). She has also written numerous short stories, and co-authored (with Roxanne Conrad) the nonfiction work Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate.

Walter Jon Williams (1953-) was born in Duluth, MN, but has resided most of his life in New Mexico, where he received his B.A. in 1975 from the University of New Mexico. Williams' earliest novels were non-SF historical works , written under the name 'Jon Williams': nautical adventures (1981-1984) set on board American ships as they battle the British in the Age of Sail, and based on games he designed for Fantasy Games Unlimited. His career in science fiction began with the 1984 novel "Ambassador of Progress"; his second SF novel, "Knight Moves" (1985) was nominated for the 1986 Philip K. Dick Award.

From 1986-1989 Williams produced the 'Hardwired' series of novels, a well-received group of novels in the emerging cyberpunk genre; Williams' interest in cyberpunk continued with the 1989 novel "Angel Station". Over the course of his career, Williams has written novels and short stories in a number of other genres, such as science fantasy (the 'Metropolitan' series, 1995-1997), SF noir (the 'Dagmar Shaw' series, 2009-2014), comedy (the 'Drake Majistral' series, 1987-1996), and far future military space opera ('Dread Empire's Fall', 2002-ongoing). He is also a noted fantasy writer, having written the 'Quilifer' series (2017-2019).

Williams also plays in other people's universes from time to time. He has written two works in the 'Star Wars' Expanded Universe series: "Destiny's Way" and "Ylesia" (both 2002). He has also written for George R.R. Martin's 'Wild Cards' shared universe series that explores the real-life societal effects over decades of a virus that struck Earth in the 1940s and infected many people with superpowers and others with horrible deformities.

He has been nominated for numerous awards in the course of his career, including Hugo Awards for the 1987 novelette "Dinosaurs", the 1988 novella "Surfacing", the 1993 novella "Wall, Stone, Craft" (also nominated for a Nebula Award), the 1998 novel "City on Fire" (also nominated for the Nebula), and the 2003 novella "The Green Leopard Plague"; and Nebula Awards for his 1986 novella "Witness", the 1991 novella "Prayers on the Wind", the 1995 novel "Metropolitan", the 1997 novelette "Lethe", and the 1999 novella "Argonautica". He won the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, for "Daddy's World" and the 2005 Nebula for Best Novella for "The Green Leopard Plague". He was a finalist for the 1998 Theodore Sturgeon Award for Best Short Science Fiction for "Lethe", and for the 2000 Sturgeon Award for Best Short Science Fiction for "Daddy's World".

Robert Cherry was born in 1914, attended Sam Houston State University for his bachelor's degree in business administration, the University of Wyoming for his master's in educational administration and commerce, and North Carolina State College for his doctorate.

Robert G. Cherry first joined the Texas A&M University System in 1943, as an assistant registrar, later moving on to become a member of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology. He was appointed extension economist in 1956, and in 1959 went to Europe to study agricultural markets for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was appointed an assistant to President James Earl Rudder in 1962, and began working in 1975 as an assistant to the Chancellor, and also was appointed the secretary of the Board of Regents during this time. He was known as "Mr. Texas A&M," and served as the main lobbyist for the University's interests in Austin with the state government. He was later promoted to Vice-Chancellor, and retired in 1984 to part-time, retiring fully in 1989.

He never married, but due to his interests in education, Cherry was known for his annual donations to the Agricultural Economics department for scholarships for students and was a benefactor for the Girl Scouts of America and to the Bryan Independent School District.

Robert Cherry died in 2005, at St. Joseph Rehabilitation Center, at the age of 91.

Harold Monro (1879-1932) was a British poet, literary critic, and owner of the famous Poetry Bookshop, where renowned poets came to connect with the London public. Monro, a poet of modern verse and an avid promoter of British literary arts, founded three leading literary periodicals, including The Poetry Review.

He became proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in 1912, and through this venue became influential in the lives of many important modern poets, including Wilfred Owen, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Anna Wickham. He was reluctantly called up to fight in World War I from 1917 to 1919, after which he returned to continue his literary and business career. Monro was a conflicted homosexual who married twice; once in 1903 and again in 1920.

His second marriage was to his assistant, Alida Klemantaski, who enjoyed participating in Monro's intellectual and business pursuits. Poor health and alcoholism contributed to his early death at the age of 47. Monro is not well remembered by literary history, though devotees such as Dominic Hibberd have helped to resurrect the memory of this influential and talented literary professional.

Joel Crawford, a U.S. Congressman, 1817-1821 is the brother of George Walker Crawford. He served as Representative from Georgia; born in Columbia County, GA on June 15, 1783; completed preparatory studies; studied law at the Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sparta in 1808; moved to Milledgeville, GA in 1811; served in the war against the Creek Indians as second lieutenant and aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Floyd in 1813 and 1814; resumed the practice of law in Milledgeville; member of the State house of representatives 1814-1817; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress ( March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); returned to Sparta, Hancock County, in 1828; member of the State senate in 1827 and 1828; appointed a commissioner to run the boundary line between Alabama and Georgia in 1826; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1828 and 1831; delegate to the International Improvement Convention in 1831; elected in 1837 a State commissioner to locate and construct the Western & Atlantic Railroad; died near Blakely, Early County, GA, April 5, 1858; interment in the family burying ground on his plantation in Early County, GA.

Joel Crawford was a slaveholder of over 100 slaves in Hancock County, Georgia.

Biography information available via the Biographical Directory of the US Congress website: http://bioguide.congress.gov/

George Walker Crawford was the only Whig governor of Georgia from 1843-1847. Crawford was a Representative from Georgia; born in Columbia Country, GA on December 22, 1798. He graduated from Princeton College in 1820; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Augusta, GA. He became attorney general of the State from 1827-1831; served as a member of the State House of Representatives (1837-1842); elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard W. Habersham and served from January 7, 1843, to March 3, 1843. Crawford was appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Taylor and served from March 8, 1849, to July 23, 1850. He presided over the State secession convention in 1861.

Crawford died in his estate, "Bel Air," near Augusta, GA on July 27, 1872, and is buried in Summerville Cemetery.

Bio info from Len G. Cleveland's Ph. D. dissertation, "George W. Crawford of Georgia, 1798-1872" listed on the Biographical Directory of the US Congress website: http://bioguide.congress.gov/

Charles P. Crawford, lawyer, Confederate officer; son of Joel Crawford. Charles P. Crawford served in the Confederate Army and entered the service of the State of Georgia on July 6, 1861, in Company A Battalion 11 as a fourth sergeant. He was promoted to the rank of Captain of Company B Battalion 11 on April 16, 1862.

On January 8, 1855, Crawford married his first wife, Martha "Mattie" Williamson, the daughter of Capt. W. T. Williamson of Milledgeville. She was born at McIntosh Reserve, Coweta County, GA on January 8, 1836. On May 4, 1880, Crawford married again to Anna Ripley Orme, the daughter of Richard M. Orme publisher of the Southern Recorder & Milledgeville Mayor.

Captain Crawford died at his home on Liberty Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, January 1900. According to the news article "Captain Crawford was one of the best-posted lawyers of this section, and leaves a wife, one son and three daughters and hosts of friends all over the state to mourn his death."

Symmes Chadwick (Chad) Oliver was born on March 30, 1928, in Cincinnati, Ohio, residing there until his family moved to Crystal City, Texas during World War II. He discovered science fiction at age 12, as he recovered from a bout of rheumatic fever, and never lost his love for the genre. Oliver attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning a B. A. degree in 1951, and a Master's degree in English in 1952. His thesis, "They Builded a Tower," was one of the earlier critical studies of the genre. His letters reveal an early attraction to anthropology that culminated in 1961 with a Ph. D. in anthropology from UCLA, and field study in Kenya. Oliver sold his first science fiction story in 1950 and remained active as a writer for the rest of his life. He is credited with being the first writer to insert an anthropological slant into a body of work. In addition to his science fiction, Oliver wrote three western novels, two of which won awards from the Western Writers of America.

Chad Oliver taught anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin from the early 1960s through 1992 and received awards for teaching excellence in 1980, 1982, and 1989. A liberal arts scholarship bears his name at the University of Texas at Austin. Chad Oliver died on August 15, 1993, in Austin, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Betty Jane (Beje), and two children, Kim and Glenn.

Berenice Norwood Napper, wife of Alver W. Napper, and daughter of Rev. James O. Norwood and Mrs. Norwood. Native to Norwalk, Connecticut, she was one in a family of six children and went on herself to be the mother of two children, Patricia and Alver Jr.

Mrs. Napper was a 1940 graduate of Howard University Conservatory of Music and an assistant to the Dean of Women there as well. She went on to later become a teacher, lecturer, and publicist. Heavily involved in her community, she accomplished much by helping with election campaigns and becoming involved with several organizations. She was executive director of Negro activities of the Greenwich Board of Recreation, a playground supervisor for the South Norwalk board of education, executive secretary of the Urban League in White Plains, NY, specialist and field secretary for the National Office of the NAACP, a social worker for the Connecticut Welfare Department, and claims examiner and supervisor for the unemployment division of the Connecticut Department of Labor. She was also Basileus of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, a charter member of the Connecticut chapter of Jack and Jill, and founder of the Greenwich Women's Civic Club.

She was also the director for many musical organizations: the Connecticut Chordsmen of Greenwich; the West Main Street Community Center Choral Group; the Crispus Attucks Mens Glee Club; and the First Baptist Church Choir. She was an instructor in piano and voice as well as choir director and organist for St. Francis A.M.E. Zion Church in Rochester, NY.

She was active in many civic organizations in Norwalk and other parts of New England through the Greenwich Planned Parenthood Association, Council of Churchwomen, and in the League of Women Voters. She was a vice-chairman and field organizer for the Republican Party in Connecticut, and also was the first director at the Crispus Attucks Community Center in Greenwich.