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March 2008 Issue
March 2008 Issue
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Every Picture Tells A Story
This photography for the Austin
College Archives might make one think a visiting troupe of dancers had
descended upon campus. Alumni from the era will remember the shot as
something quite different. Recognize classmates or the location of
this shot? Share your stories at the address below.
The Story Behind the Photo
Trev Teel
’78, is second from the left, in this shot at the Great Wall of China
during a 1983 trip for alumni and students led by Jim Ware, now
professor emeritus of philosophy and religion. Teel said that
Ware grew up in Shanghai so offered a very interesting viewpoint for
the trip. “This was a great trip,” Teel wrote. “We were the first
Western Tour group to visit some of the cities on the tour. In 1983,
China was still a very closed city. We even saw women with bound feet
in the southern cities.” Teel said this was the first of nearly 50
trips he has made to China and that he has now visited 102 countries.
“I credit Dr. Ware, whose JanTerm I took to Russia in 1976, with
getting me interested in traveling overseas.” Teel’s friend Barbara
Balvin is beside him. The others on the trip were students at the time
— and still unidentified.
Alumni, share YOUR Austin College photos for
possible inclusion in Every Picture Tells A Story.
Send to:
Editor
Austin College
900 N. Grand Ave., Suite 6H
Sherman, TX 75090
or,
editor@austincollege.edu
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