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Steam rose from the San Marcos River near The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment on Thursday. Temperatures fell below 32 degrees Thursday morning, causing the steam to form as the river remained its usual 72 degrees.
Daily Record photo by Gerald Castillo
STEAMY MORNING
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Steam rose from the San Marcos River near The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment on Thursday. Temperatures fell below 32 degrees Thursday morning, causing the steam to form as the river remained its usual 72 degrees.
June 4, 1929 â Nov. 12, 2020
Dorothy was born on June 4, 1929, in Bloomington, Indiana, to Thelman Eugene Lewis, a civil engineer and Flora Margaret Bradford Lewis, a nurse. After high school in Indianapolis, Dorothy studied at Butler University in Indianapolis where she received a Bachelorâs of Science in 1951 and was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
During her senior year at Butler she met a young man from Kentucky named Thomas Graves Reed, Jr. who was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette. For their second date, Tom took Dorothy across the Wabash River to see a local opera, and that night she was intrigued by the engineer and his artistic interests. For him, an association formed between opera and her that left him with a lifelong love for both.
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IMAGE: Pictured is neglected sunflower (Helianthus neglectus Heiser), a wild relative of the cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), native to New Mexico and Texas. view more
Credit: Katarzyna Stepien
Wild cranberries have a sanctuary in West Virginia and wild peppers have a protected area on Arizona s border with Mexico. But many hundreds of other crop wild relatives native to the United States - including those related to apples, hops, grapes, pumpkins and sunflowers, to mention but a few - do not have designated conservation areas or, even when warranted, protected status.
The plight of America s crop wild relatives is an overlooked subtheme in the era of human-driven biodiversity loss. A new study in
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KEEPING THE TRADITION ALIVE
Pandemic doesn t stop TXST graduates from celebrating with river splash
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Texas State students participated in the traditional jump into the river after one of the university s in-person commencement ceremonies on Thursday. A group of graduates take the plunge together. They said they ve have known each other since their freshman year at Texas State.
Sandra Sades jumps into the San Marcos River on Thursday.
Twins Callie and Jaycie High celebrate their accomplishments with a dive into the river.