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In 1984 President James Wagener sent out a memo inviting faculty and staff to a groundbreaking
event for the University
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Center. Soft drinks and balloons were on hand as well as a special button to
The Convocation Center is home to three retired jerseys of former basketball players— Devin Brown, Monica Gibbs, and Derrick Gervin—who went on to pro career heights.
In May 1970
mark the event.
President
Eventually, special T-shirts became one of the primary ways to mark a celebration, including another groundbreaking. On August 10, 1995, attendees
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Templeton gave a progressreport speech to the UT System regents. Kept in the University
received a commemorative shirt when the
Archives, it
Downtown Campus broke ground.
includes his details, for
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example, about Before T-shirts became so popular to give away, a banner, a bumper sticker, or a sew-on patch with UTSA’s first logo would have been a gift.
his work with the city and how Loop 1604 would be developed from a farmmarket road to a freeway (done) and how Babcock Road would become a six-lane thoroughfare (maybe that’s still to happen?).
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