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Corporate body · 1972?-present

Palo Duro Presbytery is a presbytery of the Synod of the Sun covers a seventy-two county region in northwest Texas, including the cities of Amarillo, Lubbock, Wichita Falls, and Abilene. It was established around 1972.

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The Gerontology Studies Program was a graduate program offered at Trinity University from the fall of 1978 through the spring of 1986. Originally the Center for Research and Training in Gerontology, it was created out of a set of courses on aging, which were formerly a part of the master’s program in sociology. With the approval of the program in 1977, Trinity became a charter and founding member of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. In 1980, the program separated from the sociology department as a stand-alone degree program and began offering a certificate program for non-degree seekers. Students of the program could focus on one of four specialized tracks according to their goals after graduation; social services, public policy and planning, long-term health care, or preparation for further graduate work. The program was directed by Charles B. White. Along with 20 other graduate programs, the Gerontology Studies Program was dropped from Trinity’s offerings in the mid-1980s due to restructuring and focus of the university.

Encino Press
Corporate body · 1964-1981

Encino Press was founded by William "Bill" Wittliff and Sally Bowers Wittliff in 1964 in Dallas, Texas, before eventually relocating to Austin. Encino Press was dedicated to the publication of regional material related to Texas and the Southwest. Its catalog totaled over 140 items, including publications of the Institute of Texas Cultures, the Texas Folklore Society Annual Bulletin, and exhibit catalogues for Texas museums and libraries. Authors published by teh press include J. Frank Dobie, Walter P. Webb, Larry McMurtry, Edwin Shrake, Edward Tinker, Ramon Adams, and Ben K. Green. Books often featured the work of contemporary southwestern artists, including Ancel Nunn, John Groth, and Barbara Whitehead. Each work was designed by Bill Wittliff. Encino Press was dissolved in the 1980s.

Something Else Press
LCNAF n 83024327 · Corporate body · 1963-1974

Between 1963 and 1974 Something Else Press issued over sixty unusual books of avant-garde art and literature, including the first "artists' books" with major works by John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, and Dieter Rot, among others. Editors included Emmett Williams and Jan Herman. Something Else Press was founded in 1963 by Dick Higgins in Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), eventually relocating to West Glover, Vermont in the 1970s. It went defunct in 1974, which Higgins blamed on Herman's mismanagement.

Upon the press's founding, Higgins wrote "When asked what one is doing, one can only explain it as 'something else.' Now one does something big, now one does something small, now another big thing. Always it is something else." Something Else Press was an early publisher of concrete poetry and other works by artists in the Fluxus movement. In addition to artists books, the press reprinted works by allied writers, including Gertrude Stein and Henry Cogwell.

Corporate body · 1971-1986

The Learning About Learning Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization, was developed out of Trinity University’s theater director Paul Baker’s philosophy and instructional course, the Integration of Abilities. The basis of this concept focused on the development of the creative potential of children through integrated arts. Baker taught this course at both Baylor University and Trinity. This approach was also applied at Baylor University’s Children’s Theater and Trinity’s Ideas in Motion children's theater program. Kitty Baker and Jearnine Wagner reflected on this process in Our Theater: A Place for Ideas (Principia Press, 1966).

In 1967 the Hogg Foundation and the Brackenridge Foundation provided funding to work with educators to investigate the applications of this approach in practical school environments.

In 1971, Jearnine Wagner, with former Trinity University students Cynthia Herbert, Sally Howell, Mary Jean McCullough, Charles Jarrell, Julia Jarrell, Johnny Gutierrez and later Susan Marcus and Susie Monday created Learning About Learning which was affiliated with the university.

The purpose of the foundation was to develop and operate programs for children that taught skills on how to apply their creativity to enrich their daily lives and learning experiences.

Projects included the Lab School for educational research, developing teacher training materials, creating educational activity kits distributed through Kid Concern, Inc., and the operation of the Idea Workshop family center.

With continuing support of the San Antonio District and Trinity University the group was able to develop over the next 15 years a diversified income base, a friends support group, and a wide range of local, regional and national funding partners to explore the challenges of integrating the philosophy of creative work into a broader array of children’s everyday lives.

San Antonio Female College
Corporate body · 1894-1942

In 1860, members of the Methodist Episcopal Church Rio Grande Conference acted to incorporate governing boards and the institutions, Alamo College and the San Antonio Female College, through the state of Texas. Additionally they incorporated the University of San Antonio as a society in 1888. In 1890, the West End Town Company granted 100 acres of land near what would be called Woodlawn Lake with the intention of developing a women's college. In 1894 the college actualized with the help Rev. William Washington Pinson who was pastor of Travis Park Methodist Church , John Ellis Harrison and Harrison's sister-in-law Sarah Walton. The institution and board were rechartered in 1896. Harrison served as President and Walton as Associate until Harrison gave his resignation of president in 1917. At a subsequent board meeting, it was voted to drop "female" from the name, but by 1919 the name was further changed to Westmoorland. According to Virginia Joiner, alumnus and faculty of the campus, the name was due to the western location of the campus and the fact that then president, Dick O. Terrell's mother was from Westmoreland, Virginia. In 1936 Westmoorland became a co-education senior college and changed its name to the University of San Antonio to align with the already established charter. University of San Antonio merged with Trinity University in 1942.

LCNAF no 92005453 · Corporate body · 1905-present

The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra was established by musician and arts patron Anna Goodman Hertzberg and musical director Carl Hahn in 1905. The amateur ensemble performed regularly through the 1910s and 1920s under the direction of Arthur Claassen and Julien Paul Blitz, but was discontinued at some point. The revived San Antonio Symphony was formed by musical director Max Reiter in 1939. The ensemble quickly grew to be the only "major" professional orchestra in Texas. The Symphony was led from 1950 to 1976 by Victor Alessandro; during this time, the Young People's Concert series established and the symphony began recording performances with Mercury Records. Alessandro was succeeded as director by François H. Huybrechts (1978-1980), Lawrence Leighton Smith (1980-1985), Christopher Wilkins (1992-2000), Larry Rachleff (2004-2008), and Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2010-2020). The Symphony has suffered recurring financial difficulties from the 1980s through present day, including a bankruptcy cancelling the 2003-2004 season. Prominent musicians who have been members of the San Antonio Symphony include Robert L. Annis (clarinet, 1971-1973), Franz Benteler (violin, 1946-1947), Maximilian Dimoff (bass, 1990-1993), Julius Hegyi (violin, 1948-1951), Eugene Lacritz (clarinet, 1952-1958), Eric Rosenblith (violin, 1952-1955), Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (violin, 1994-2007), Mark Sparks (flute, 1985-1987), Daniel Stolper (oboe, 1959-1964), Donald Wilerstein (violin, 1963-1964), and Clifton Williams (horn, 1949-1966).