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The Ex-Students' Association of The University of Texas (more commonly known as Texas Exes) is the association of former students of the University of Texas at Austin. [1] The organization is one of the largest alumni associations in the world (the Texas Exes Houston Chapter has over 10,000 members), with chapters in 69 Texas cities, most U.S ...
The Alcalde (/ æ l ˈ k æ l d i /; Spanish:) has been the alumni magazine of The University of Texas at Austin since 1913, and is published by the university's alumni association, the Texas Exes. [1] The magazine was named for Oran M. Roberts, the governor who signed the university into existence and whose nickname was "Old Alcalde." [1] [2]
The Junction Boys were the "survivors" of Texas A&M Aggies football coach Bear Bryant's brutal 10-day summer camp in Junction, Texas, beginning September 1, 1954.The ordeal became the subject of a 2001 book by Jim Dent, The Junction Boys, [1] and a television movie with the same title produced by ESPN, starring Tom Berenger as Bryant.
Camp Fawcett: Texas Southwest Council: Edwards County, TX: Texas Southwest Council has recently leased the camp to a Houston-based hunting group. [83] Camp Hudson: Sam Houston Area Council: Houston, TX: Sold: Operated from 1925 to 1973. [84] James Ray Scout Reservation: Circle Ten Council: Sherman, TX: Active: Formerly known as Camp Grayson ...
Camp Logan was a World War I–era army training camp in Houston, Texas, named after U.S. Senator and Civil War General John A. Logan. [1] The site of the camp is now primarily occupied by Memorial Park where it borders the Crestwood neighborhood, near Memorial Elementary School. Some chunks of concrete, many building foundations, and extensive ...
Circle Ten Council is a Boy Scouts of America (BSA) chartered council in central north Texas and a portion of Oklahoma.It encompasses all or parts of: Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Morris, Navarro, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Titus, and Van Zandt counties in Texas as well as Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha ...
Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. [1] [2] The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during, and following their relocation to the Manzanar internment camp due to the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Citizens' Military Training Camps (CMTC) were United States government authorized military training programs held annually each summer during the years 1921 to 1940. CMTC camps differed from National Guard and Organized Reserve training in that the program allowed male citizens to obtain basic military training without an obligation to call-up ...