AUSTIN, Texas, June 18 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
The Explorers
During the Austin summers of the mid-1950s, Alan Bloebaum (BLAY-bom) was a young teenager with a little brother. He remembers that his mother "had a firm belief that she didn't want us to be at loose ends." She enrolled Alan and David, four years younger, in swimming lessons at West Enfield Pool, but that could fill only so many hours.
So, Mrs. Bloebaum, the pastor's secretary at University Baptist Church, often took them with her to work. They explored every nook and cranny of University Baptist, then their eyes turned to the east, and, there across the Drag, waiting to be explored, sat the entire UT campus, and, rising over it al...