Sherman M. Stanage (1927-1999) was a philosophy professor at Trinity University from 1966-1968. Prior to teaching at Trinity, he was a professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio from 1959-1966.
Stanage supported a student-led uprising on the campus of Bowling Green in 1961. He was fired from his position at the university as a result, though reinstated a year later by the institution’s board of trustees. In 1966 Stanage was contacted by friend and colleague Richard Zaner with an invitation to teach at Trinity University. Under the assurance he would receive tenure after teaching for two years, Stanage moved to Trinity.
While at Trinity, Stanage advocated the abolition of the mandatory requirement for Trinity’s ROTC program, and hosted student club meetings if they had approved location to meet on campus. Within the San Antonio community, he supported city council candidate Pete Torres, who was running against the Good Government League of San Antonio.
In December of 1967, Dean Bruce Thomas informed Stanage that Trinity would not renew his contract for the 1968-1969 school year. Stanage appealed to the Faculty Senate to investigate the matter, believing that his academic freedom was being violated. This led to considerable student protesting from Trinity students. An Investigation Committee was formed and conducted its investigation during the months of January and February of 1968. Abiding by AAUP (American Association of University Professors) guidelines, the Investigation Committee ultimately decided that Stanage’s academic freedom had not been violated and therefore no further action was needed. Stanage left Trinity and accepted a position at Northern Illinois University, where he remained until he retired.
Parker was the business manager for Trinity University from 1953-1957. He also acted as assistant secretary to Trinity's Board of Trustees during that time. In 1966, while employed at Austin College, Parker became involved in the Texas Association of Developing Colleges as a coordinator-consultant. In 1967 he was asked to become vice-president of the organization. Parker laid much of the foundational work and long term planning for the organization.
Lucia Garrison Norton Valentine was born in 1902. She was the great-granddaughter of William Lloyd Garrison and granddaughter of Wendell Garrison. Lucia graduated from Smith College in 1923, and attended the Columbia School of Architecture.
She married Alan Chester Valentine (1901-1980) in 1928. Alan served as president of the University of Rochester from 1935 to 1949. Lucia and Alan were close friends with author Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The couple had three children. Alan died in 1980; Lucia died in 1992.
Though Lucia never worked as a practicing architect, she did design two buildings in the North Haven, Maine area: the Morrow guest house and the Valentine summer home. Lucia was the author of two books: "Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts: a Glossary" (London: Faber and Faber, 1965) and "The American Academy in Rome: 1894-1969" (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973), the latter co-authored by her husband.
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.
Stanley S. Slotkin was a successful Los Angeles businessman, philanthropist, and rare book collector. Slotkin donated rare books and artifacts from his collections to various libraries and museums. In the 1960s, he began to dismember books in order to donate individual leaves from books to institutions rather than whole works, believing that this would make the historical documents more accessible to more people. His son Mark Slotkin joined him in this work in the 1970s.
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.