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English writer and playwright Agatha Christie once said that âthe science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.â Like many institutions and places, Angelo State University has been the home of a metaphysical legend that has created believers and skeptics out of the ASU community for nearly four and a half decades.
On April 27, 1978, yearbook photographer Robert Mark Wagner murdered freshman Leandra Morales with a pair of scissors in what is now the Hardeman Student Services Center building.
According to a 1978 Ram Page article, the two Air Force ROTC students were in the photo development room when Wagner began to kiss Morales. According to San Angelo Standard-Times archives, Morales spurned his advances and attempted to force him away before she was killed by her fellow student. Wagner then proceeded to drag the body of Morales throughout the halls and rapped up the bloody scissors in a copy of the campus newspaper in an effort to hide his deed. The article the
May 11, 2021
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by Guy Hewitt
The frantic search for a CEO of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) is matched in recent memory only by the hunt for Winston Hall.
But this is no laughing matter for tourism is the lifeblood of our economy, accounting in 2019 for 36.2 per cent of GDP. Due to COVID-19, thousands of households: workers, managers and owners alike are under immense financial pressure but political interference is making a bad situation worse.
In 2019, William ‘Billy’ Griffith, the BTMI CEO credited with turning around Barbados’ tourism product and bringing record numbers of visitors, advised he was relinquishing his job to give the organisation an opportunity to recruit a new leader and ensure a smooth transition. This is now 2021 and still no one is in post. We can only presume that he was pushed.
I have received so many letters and cards from people and I think every single one has put in what an absolute true gentleman he was. He seems to have touched so many people in so many ways - he was a very kind, generous, helpful person, she said.
Margaret and Bill James ready to ride out with the Easton Harriers around the late 1980s
- Credit: James family
Fellow sheep breeder Chris Partridge, of Kersey Suffolk Sheep near Hadleigh described Mr James as a “one breed man”. Bill always liked to attend the National sale and often bought a ram - whether he needed one or not, he said.
My New Orleans
This article originally published as Laborde’s editor’s note in the January/February 2021 issue of Louisiana Life Magazine
Let us pause a moment to consider midnight trains:
Winston Hall is a Shreveport musician, song writer and music history buff. His town was once the home of the “Louisiana Hayride,” a Grand Ole Opry-type radio concert that helped grease many careers including that of Elvis and Hank Williams.
Williams lived in the Shreveport area for a while around 1948. His first house just so happened to be down the road a piece from where Hall would one day live. It is relevant to this story that a railroad track was across the street from the house.