Texas A & M and Vivian Castleberry
Yesterday it was announced that Elsa A. Murano, the first female president of Texas A & M, was stepping down. Here is the NYT article about it.
It was a reminder of how far Texas A & M has come – after all, women were not fully accepted as students until 1971. Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry oversaw the women’s section of the student newspaper at Texas A & M while her husband Curtis was going to school there in the 1950s. Vivian worked for the newspaper because, at the time, the university did not accept women. In fact, when Vivian spoke to the president, he told her the school would never accept women as students.
This is a photo of Vivian working at the Texas A & M newspaper. It can be found in the online history project, Intended for All.
My article on Vivian was published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
I am currently working on a book about Vivian and her amazing career. Here are more posts about Vivian.
