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Memphis State Magazine, 01:01, 1980 Winter

Cover Story, "Return Engagement"

They were honeymooners during their first year on campus. Now, 32 years later, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Carpenter have returned as MSU's First Family.

Also featured, "Women's Day"

MSU's first Women's Day was such a success that plans have already begun for next year's program.
Memphis State Magazine, 01:02, 1981 Summer

Cover Story, "It's not just honk, beat and blow"

Practice makes perfect for the Tigers' other team on the field, the Mighty Sound of the South Marching Band.

Also featured, "Those Fighting Tigers"

A new book details the ups and downs of Tiger football through the years.
Memphis State Magazine, 02:01, 1981 Winter

Cover Story, "A Tour of the New Fine Arts Building"

Tour the campus' latest wonder without leaving home.

Also featured, "Memory Bank"

Old memories are valuable for the young lives they reveal to MSU researchers.
Memphis State Magazine, 02:01a, 1983 Winter

Cover Story, "Tiger Spirit Squad"

MSU Tiger Spirit Squad members were named the No. 1 team in the nation in January at the National Cheerleaders' Association collegiate championship in Dallas. They were chosen as finalists based on a videotape of their work as well as a live 5-minute performance. The group's 34- person pyramid of cheerleaders and pompon girls took them to the top spot in the eyes of the judges. Tiger basketball players also captured the top spot in both the AP and UPI polls during January.

Also featured, "A Fresh Look"

Two MSU collections from the "dark continent" get new homes.
Memphis State Magazine, 02:02, 1982 Spring

Cover Story, "25 Years a University: Ivory Towers in the Political Arena" by Laurie Petrick

The hard-fought battle to make Memphis State a university is told in this special silver anniversary section full of memories from 1957.

Also featured, "On Top of the Charts" by Laura Derrington

MSU Cartographic Services Laboratory will not only design such maps, charts, and graphs for students, faculty and staff of MSU, but the unique service is also available to local governments, private businesses and citizens at a minimal fee.
Memphis State Magazine, 02:02a, 1983 Spring

Cover Story, "The Headbone's Connected To The Hexidecimal Keypad" by Laverne Daley

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Not many heroes, though, are two feet tall, with squared-off heads, only one arm, and bearing a striking resemblance to R2D2 of Star Wars fame. HERO I, the new robot-in-residence in the Engineering Technology Department of Herff College of Engineering at Memphis State, does fit that description.

Also featured, "This Center is 'Nucleus' of New Careers"

Reacting to a new industry's need for well-educated workers. The purpose of the Nuclear Manpower Program at Memphis State is to recruit, train, and place personnel with no prior nuclear experience in these jobs.
Memphis State Magazine, 02:03a, 1983 Summer

On the Cover: Back-to-school is the place each fall for students and professors to meet in the classroom - that place where it really all begins at the University. Our fall issue "covers" students, teachers, research, community service, and that fall favorite: football.

Also featured, "What To Be Or Not To Be"

. . .is a decision each must make when choosing among some 40 academic departments at the University, and over a decade those choices have changed
Memphis State Magazine, 02:04, 1982 Fall

Cover Story, "State of the Student" by Jay Tarbutton

Be from MSC or MSU—each one's blood runs true blue. How different are the students at MSU today from the students of 25 years ago? Is it a case of 'the more things change, the more they stay the same,' or not?

Also featured, "Reminiscence Under Glass" by Laverne Daley

The past can be found in the present in this corner of the University. Just as a barker's spiel draws viewers to a circus tent, so circus memorabilia lured hundreds of visitors last summer to see the circus exhibit in the J.W. Brister Library at Memphis State University. Circus USA is one of six yearly exhibits at the library which illustrate the diversity of items held in the Mississippi Valley Collection there.
Memphis State Magazine, 02:04a, 1983 Fall

1982-83 Annual Report of Donors.
Memphis State Magazine, 03:01, 1984 Winter

Cover Story, "Don't Hold Back That Tiger Fan"

"Fan antics" by the faithful, fanatical followers of Tiger athletics are recounted in this issue's cover story proving you don't have to be of college age to catch Tiger "fever." Some paint their faces blue and gray while others wear loincloths - all are crazy 'bout them Tigers.

Also featured, "Eric Blair's Gloomy Vision"

Is it 1984 yet? A flyer thumbtacked to a crowded shelf in a Memphis bookstore announced the ten current bestselling paperback books in the country, according to a national survey. Most of the books, as usual, were recent releases. At the top of the list, however, was a novel which was written 36 years ago—but whose title couldn't be more contemporary: 1984, by George Orwell.
Memphis State Magazine, 03:02, 1984 Spring

Cover Story, "Electrify!"

Tiger basketball: all the thrills, chills and spills. It was truly the Year of the Tiger.

Also featured, "Progress + patience = Project Memphis" by Laverne Daley

Education professors and students work in an innovative program to lead the handicapped child to develop himself to the highest level possible.
Memphis State Magazine, 03:03, 1984 Summer

Cover Story, "A Special Way of Seeing: The Photographer As Artist" by Laverne Daley

Beauty is in the eye of the camera-holder. Old Victorian houses, rural landscapes or cows grazing in a field represent just simple settings to many people. To photographer Larry McPherson, they represent a relationship with nature. What's more, he captures a sense of that relationship on film, and using elaborate color printing methods, produces photographs that communicate an awareness of the relationship to others. McPherson, MSU assistant professor of art, performs that feat so well that his photographs have earned him a national reputation in the art world.

Also featured, "Black Vinyl and Blue Music" by Henry Bailey

Not all of Memphis State University's published individuals sport long-winded academic titles and scholarly theories with tortuous names. Some of them just sing the blues. They do it on recordings produced by MSU's own label, Highwater, and by so doing help the University not only to preserve a native sound that draws from roots a century old, but also to reap praise from reviewers across the globe.
Memphis State Magazine, 03:04, 1984 Fall

Annual Report of the President.
Memphis State Magazine, 04:01, 1985 Winter

Cover Story, "Southern Belle Syndrome" by Candy Justice

Charleyn Sipes, a junior pre-law student, poses as a Southern Belle at the Fontaine House, Memphis. The home, French Victorian in style, is open daily for tours. (Photo by Art Grider). Sherry Herbers, an instructor in Memphis State's Continuing Education program, studies the Southern Belle Syndrome as a practicing psychological examiner. She feels that this syndrome is a common thing among many women in today's competitive world.

Also featured, "Prisoners of the Past" by Victoria Greer

If walls could talk, what would Mickey Mouse say of the cocky German pilot who wore a pink scarf? When Disney went to war an artist evolved, an unlikely one named Richard Lenz whose memory and work still linger in a musty storage area on Memphis State's south campus.
Memphis State Magazine, 04:02, 1985 Spring/Summer

Cover Story, "Chucalissa, Ancient Mystery, Modern Friend" by Henry Bailey

The heart of this active village life is represented in an exhibit illustrating prehistoric trade routes and resources used by Indians of the Southeast. The exhibit, on display in the lobby of the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa, was compiled by William H. Hancock, museum curator, and is called "Artisans, Traders and Indian Trails.

Also featured, "Meeman's Legacy" by Dr. John De Mott

'Play hard, work harder' would seem to be the motto for this fabled editor and mentor of MSU's journalism department
Memphis State Magazine, 04:03, 1985 Summer

Special Summer Supplement

Also featured,"Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology: Common Bonds Link Cities and Cultures Centuries Apart" by Cyndi Richardson

Although buried beneath the desert sands for centuries, the once great city of Memphis, Egypt, still intrigues the modern-day inhabitants of Memphis, Tennessee. The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Memphis State houses the only public collection of Egyptian art in the Mid-South. Located in the University Gallery of the College of Communication and Fine Arts, it maintains approximately 125 objects, some on long-term loan from major museums, that will soon be on display after renovation of the gallery.
Memphis State Magazine, 04:04, 1985 Fall

Annual Report of the President 1984-1985.
Memphis State Magazine, 05:01, 1986 Winter

Cover Story, "Bigger and Better Catfish" by Ed Webb

Biology professors seek ways to satisfy a fish-hungry public by producing fatter but healthier fish for the food industry.

Also featured, "A Movie-Ble Feast" by Ed Webb

A look at Steve Ross, theatre professor, whose film on social mores in the South, "The Old Forest," has drawn critical raves at film festivals across the U.S. and in Europe.
Memphis State Magazine, 05:02, 1986 Spring

Cover Story, "Schoolhouse Sculptor" by Ed Webb

Human forms take shape in wood, clay, metal and the fertile imagination of sculptor Harris Sorrelle, whose artistic home base is an old elementary school.

Also featured, "Picture of a Land Long Ago" By Cyndi P. Richardson

An art student dropped her books, picked up a sketch pad and landed in a dig in Egypt's Necropolis of the Dead.
Memphis State Magazine, 05:03, 1986 Fall

Annual Report of The President.
Memphis State Magazine, 05:04, 1986

Cover Story, "Miss America: MSU's Own Kellye Cash" by Henry Bailey

Here she is, carrying on MSU's most beautiful tradition. A pageant novice wins the "big one" and returns a title to MSU. MSU student Kellye Cash was crowned the 1987 Miss America, proving that dreams and fairy tales do come true.

Also featured, "Of Insects and Forensics" by Laurie Finn

Entomologist Dr. Omar Smith uses his insect expertise to provide crime scene detectives with grim particulars.
Memphis State Magazine, 06:01, 1987 Winter

MSU's 75th Anniversary Issue
Memphis State Magazine, 06:02, 1987 Spring

Cover Story, "Something Great in Memphis: King Ramesses II" By Lisa Logan-Nagelberg

Aiding in the restoration and exhibition of a 28-foot tall, 48-ton ancient Egyptian statue was a colossal task, but just one of many MSU's Dr. Rita Freed and the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology accomplished as part of their major contribution to a monumental exhibit.

Also featured, "Down in the Valley" By Mark Hayden

A view of the rare items, some tattered but all treasured, held for researchers by MSU Libraries' custodians of the past, the Mississippi Valley Collection.
Memphis State Magazine, 06:04, 1987 Fall

Cover Story, "Weighty Fears" By Les Seago MSU Research Reporter

Fear of fat fans the tobacco flame among many smokers who would like to quit, according to an MSU psychologist. Their fears may be justified, he says.

Also featured, "Saving the Blues" By Laurie Finn

Dr. David Evans researches the roots of regional music of the South. Dr. Steven Ross examines computer programs and the adaptation of mathematics instruction to microcomputers. Excellence is what their work has in common.