All Stories: 107 All Featured Tags Sort by: Title Date Added Filed Under Hispanic and Latina/o/x students at… Who was Nemo Herrera?An alum and prominent Mexican-American in the history of sports in Texas who is not actively remembered today on campus By Adrianna Flores-Vivas '24 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Kurth and Clark How Ernest Kurth still haunts Ernest Clark HallThree years after Kurth Hall was renamed Clark Hall, references to the original name persist. By Bettina Castillo '24 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Story Ladies AnnexThe first building built on the current Southwestern University campus. By Megan Firestone View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Integrating Southwestern Remembering the Negro Fine Arts SchoolHow should we remember this program that taught music lessons to local Black children when Southwestern and Georgetown were segregated? By Harper Randolph '25 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under integrating Southwestern Site of the Negro Fine Arts SchoolThe Negro Fine Arts School associated with Southwestern from 1946-1966 was actually located off campus at First Methodist Church, Georgetown. By Harper Randolph '25 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Philanthropy Herman Brown Swimming Pool, 1955-1976There once was an outdoor pool on campus. By Andrea Stanescu '24 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under STEM at Southwestern Williamson County Science BuildingThe first Science Center on campus was symbolic of the tension between science and religion in the early years of Southwestern. By Lainey Gutierrez '25 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under STEM at Southwestern Fondren-Jones Science CenterThe center for STEM on campus has had many different lives as a building, which parallels to the evolving role of scientific education at a Methodist-affiliated university By Lainey Gutierrez '25 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Behind the Scenes The Original Placing Memory TeamThe team who established the Placing Memory Project in Summer 2023. By Bob Bednar '89 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Lois Perkins Chapel The complex legacy of the Chapel as a placeThe presence of the Lois Perkins Chapel on campus forces students and faculty to grapple with difficult questions of tradition and belonging. By Hannah Jury '24 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Women at Southwestern The Early History of Sororities at SouthwesternThe establishment of sororities on our campus shows a history of perseverance as women sought to create equity between men and women on campus. By Andrea Stanescu '24 View Story | Show on Map Filed Under Philanthropy The Brown Family Portraits in CullenThese four portraits hanging in Cullen outside the University Relations suite form a kind of shrine to the Brown family. By Andrea Stanescu '24 View Story | Show on Map Previous Next
Filed Under Hispanic and Latina/o/x students at… Who was Nemo Herrera?An alum and prominent Mexican-American in the history of sports in Texas who is not actively remembered today on campus By Adrianna Flores-Vivas '24 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Kurth and Clark How Ernest Kurth still haunts Ernest Clark HallThree years after Kurth Hall was renamed Clark Hall, references to the original name persist. By Bettina Castillo '24 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Story Ladies AnnexThe first building built on the current Southwestern University campus. By Megan Firestone View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Integrating Southwestern Remembering the Negro Fine Arts SchoolHow should we remember this program that taught music lessons to local Black children when Southwestern and Georgetown were segregated? By Harper Randolph '25 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under integrating Southwestern Site of the Negro Fine Arts SchoolThe Negro Fine Arts School associated with Southwestern from 1946-1966 was actually located off campus at First Methodist Church, Georgetown. By Harper Randolph '25 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Philanthropy Herman Brown Swimming Pool, 1955-1976There once was an outdoor pool on campus. By Andrea Stanescu '24 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under STEM at Southwestern Williamson County Science BuildingThe first Science Center on campus was symbolic of the tension between science and religion in the early years of Southwestern. By Lainey Gutierrez '25 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under STEM at Southwestern Fondren-Jones Science CenterThe center for STEM on campus has had many different lives as a building, which parallels to the evolving role of scientific education at a Methodist-affiliated university By Lainey Gutierrez '25 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Behind the Scenes The Original Placing Memory TeamThe team who established the Placing Memory Project in Summer 2023. By Bob Bednar '89 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Lois Perkins Chapel The complex legacy of the Chapel as a placeThe presence of the Lois Perkins Chapel on campus forces students and faculty to grapple with difficult questions of tradition and belonging. By Hannah Jury '24 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Women at Southwestern The Early History of Sororities at SouthwesternThe establishment of sororities on our campus shows a history of perseverance as women sought to create equity between men and women on campus. By Andrea Stanescu '24 View Story | Show on Map
Filed Under Philanthropy The Brown Family Portraits in CullenThese four portraits hanging in Cullen outside the University Relations suite form a kind of shrine to the Brown family. By Andrea Stanescu '24 View Story | Show on Map