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SC.ar.004 · Person · 1915-2017

Margaret L. "Peg" Ziperman was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1915. She received her bachelor's degree at American University and completed graduate work in English Literature at Indiana University. She later earned a second graduate degree in Library and Information Science.

As the wife of an officer in the Army Medical Corps, Dr. H. Haskell Ziperman, Peg had the great fortune to live in many locations and travel the world over. It was during these travels that Peg began to collect postcards documenting the places she visited, as well as those she did not.

Peg spent much of her retirement as a volunteer librarian at the McNay Art Museum Library in San Antonio, Texas. She was a member of the Friends of the McNay, a benefactor of Trinity University, a member of the Board of Directors of the San Antonio Chamber of Music Society, and a member of the Alamo City Theatre Board of Volunteers. She passed away in 2017 at the age of 102.

1915-1987

Hyman Haskell "Zip" Ziperman was born in New York City in 1915. He earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, and enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he completed his residency in surgery. Ziperman re-entered military service during the Korean War, serving in the Army Medical Corps until his retirement at the rank of Colonel.

Zip married his wife Margaret "Peg" Ziperman in 1940. Their son, Dr. Don B. Ziperman, was born in 1949. The Zipermans had a passion for travelling around the world together. Ziperman passed away in 1987.

UA13.001 · Corporate body · 2017-

The oral histories were conducted by the Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, beginning in fall of 2017 to provide greater insight into the pre-1982 history of Trinity women’s intercollegiate athletics. Committee members include university historian and professor emeritus R. Douglas Brackenridge, retired physical education professor Shirley Rushing Poteet, university archivist and records manager Jessica C. Neal, alumna and former athlete Betsy Gerhardt Pasley (1977), and senior reference librarian Meredith Elsik. This oral history project endeavors to create an archival collection that captures the recorded spoken memories of alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators. This project also seeks to collect publications, past audio and video interviews, photographs, and memorabilia that document women’s athletics at Trinity.

Wittliff, William D.
LCNAF n 86813533 · Person · 1940-2019

William "Bill" Dale Wittliff was born on January 21, 1940 in Taft, Texas, son of William and Laura (Sachtleben) Wittliff. His parents divorced when he was young, and Wittliff moved to a ranch in Blanco upon his mother's remarriage. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He married Sally Bowers in 1963, and they had two children, Reid and Allison.

After graduation he worked as a business and production manager for Southern Methodist University Press. Around this time, Wittliff and his wife founded a the Encino Press, a book publishing company which specialized in regional material about the Southwest, with a particular focus on Texas. Encino Press remained in operation through the 1980s.

Wittliff gained renown as a screenwriter. His most notable works included "The Black Stallion" (1979), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1980), "Barbarosa" (1982), "Lonesome Dove" (1989), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), and "The Perfect Storm" (2000). He also wrote a series of novels, beginning with "The Devil's Backbone" (2014). Wittliff was also a noted photographer.

In 1986 Wittliff founded the Southwest Writers Collection at Texas State University, which features works by authors from Texas and the American Southwest. The Wittliff Collections are one of the most extensive archives of Southwestern materials in the United States.

Bill Wittliff died in 2019 of a heart attack.

Wimpress, Duncan, 1922-2014

Gordon Duncan Wimpress (1922-2014) was the 15th president of Trinity University. He was born on April 10, 1922 in Riverside, California. He received a M.A. degree in journalism and political science from the University of Oregon and a PhD in political science from the University of Colorado in Denver. Wimpress was a veteran of World War II with a Bronze Star for Valor and five major battle stars. He was a soldier in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge. Wimpress was also a licensed commercial pilot. He served as president of two colleges in Illinois; Monticello College for five years and Monmouth College for six years, before Trinity University from 1970 to 1976.

During Wimpress' tenure at Trinity he attempted to direct the university into a new era with administrative and academic restructuring. From the start he tried to be more transparent with budgetary and finances and redesigned the faculty senate to be a university senate; to include administrators and students. Major academic reorganizing came when Wimpress hired J. Norman Parmer for Vice President of Academic Affairs and he instituted six academic institutions with a dean structure.

Wimpress was most known for switching Trinity’s athletics from Division I to Division III (with the exception of tennis) due to his attempt to balance the operating budget. Athletics took up seven percent of the university operating budget and athletes received 30 percent of all scholarship funds, regardless of need. He recommended Trinity leave the Southland Conference, and that the football team play on campus rather than at Alamo Stadium. Wimpress led the creation of the Southwest's first non scholarship and co-educational athletic conference, the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA). Although he had board support for this decision it caused immediate criticism of his leadership and university vision.

Buildings completed while Wimpress was president were the Laurie Auditorium, the Richardson Communication Center, Stevens Stadium, and the Coates University Center. Noted in a memorial in the San Antonio Express News his daughter mentions he was most proud of advocating for a new library.

Despite his ability to balance the budget and streamline operations, his leadership style and long range planning process was called into question by some board members, specifically those on the executive committee, and an external review was conducted. The report was in favor of the board taking a more hands-on approach to management of the university and questioned Wimpress’ effectiveness. Wimpress worked to address charges in a short amount of time, but ultimately tenured his resignation in December of 1976.

Following Trinity he accepted the position of vice chairman of the board of governors of the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, which became the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. He was promoted to president in 1982 and retired in 1992.

Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935
LCNAF nr 94035969 · Person · 1854-1935

Francis Wilson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1854. He began his acting career with appearances in minstrel shows and comedies, before headlining plays and comic operas in New York City. Wilson formed his own theatre company in 1899. In addition to acting, Wilson authored plays and several books about fellow actors, including a biography of John Wilkes Booth. Wilson was the founding president of the Actors' Equity Association.

Francis Wilson was married twice, to Mira Barrie and Edna Bruns. He had four children. Wilson died in 1935.