Aggies by the Sea

by Curley, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781603448109
• ISBN10: 1603448101
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

Aggies by the Seatells the story of Texas A&M University at Galveston, an unusual educational institution that began operation in 1962 as a maritime academy with only twenty-three students and now enrolls more than 1,600 undergraduates studying the sciences, technology, business, and cultural aspects of the sea. The first class of students (all men, as Texas A&M required at the time) had no dormitories when class started in Galveston, so the students were bunked in the nurses' dorms at the University of Texas Medical Branch. They borrowed their beds from the University of Texas and their training ship from the New York Maritime Academy. By 1969, though, the school had opened a full campus on Pelican Island. By then, some 150 students were studying in the program and it had its own home ship, the Texas Clipper. In 1973, the campus admitted its first female studentbelieved to be the first woman maritime cadet in the countryand added maritime science to its degree programs. Nearly one hundred photographs portray the growth of the Galveston school from its humble beginnings to what it is today; a full university, nationally prominent for its focus on the world's oceans. Filled with lively anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographical sidebars, this lavishly illustrated book presents history with a bounce. ". . . provides an interesting window into Galveston's past, considering how many issuesfrom the political to the meteorologicalhave brushed and shaped the campus and the island city." The Galveston County Daily News "Institutional histories generally make dull reading, but Aggies by the Sea: Texas A&M University at Galveston is a pleasant exception." Journal of Southern History

Author Biography

Stephen Curley is a Regents Professor of English at Texas AM University at Galveston. He has taught at Texas AM University at Galveston for more than thirty years and has personally witnessed most of the development lie describes in this book. Holding a Ph.D. in English from Rice University, he has written about film and war and since 1999 served as the area chair for sea literature at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association meetings.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Loomings: May 1958-August 1962	p. 3
Texas Maritime Academy, 1962-1969: Starting from Scratch	p. 25
Campus and College, 1970-1979: The Sciences Grow	p. 64
TAMUG, 1980-1989: Survival and Resurgence	p. 109
National Reputation, 1990-1999: Merger and De-merger	p. 150
A New Century, 2000-2002: University for the Future	p. 198
Appendix	p. 221
Sources	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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