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To: haqihana who wrote (131535)	8/11/2005 12:34:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

A teasipper!! I had forgotten that term. As to the outcomes of the A&M UT football games, there is simply no way I could ever remember. Can't remember any of the name players; nada. I left Austin in the summer of 59 for the east coast, as did several of my closest friends. Two of us went to New Haven, four or five to Cambridge. We would get together every Thanksgiving to watch the UT/A&M game. Again, there is no way I could remember who won. I have family in Austin and go back twice a year. Will do so in October. There is much about the campus I don't recognize but the central portions, the tower, the areas around the tower, are still there. And Austin is, of course, not even the same city. As for John Silber, he was a campus/student favorite when I was there, a philosophy professor, an ardent foe of capital punishment, walked the protest lines against segregation in the campus theatres, etc. He became Dean of the school of Arts and Sciences. In the late 60s he became increasingly embroiled in a fight with the the head of the board of trustees (I think that's the wrong title but it's wonderfully chronicled in Ronnie Dugger's book on that portion of the UT history). He was in the process of being fired when Boston University hired him as their next President. Very, very controversial figure in higher education. Haven't been to any campus reunions. Just went, in 2003, to my 50th high school reunion.