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Aggies By The Sea: Texas A & M University At Galveston
by Stephen Curley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press (2005-10-30)
ISBN: 1585444588
EAN: 9781585444588
Dewey Decimal #: 551.460711764139
Hardcover: 256 pages
SKU: 82508000162
Condition: New
Comments: 1585444588 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Product Description
"Aggies by the Sea" tells 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 sixteen hundred 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 classes 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. However, by 1968 the school had opened a full campus on Pelican Island, and some 150 students were studying in the program, which now had its own home ship, the Texas Clipper. In 1973 the campus admitted its first female student - believed to be the first woman maritime cadet in the country - and added maritime science to its degree programs. Ninety-one photographs portray the growth of the Galveston school from its humble beginnings to what it is today: a four-year 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.
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Aggies By the Sea -- Stephen Curley
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-12-03
Our daughter and son-in-law met while in the Corps as students at Texas A&M University at Galveston. We were thrilled to find this book down memory lane for them for Christmas, and now in light of the recent deliberate sinking of their beloved "Texas Clipper", we know that this book will long remain one of their most treasured possessions. Thank you, Mr. Curley, for making this wonderful gift possible!
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