25 years
The impact of the large 1987 cotton crop has swirled through the High Plains, dizzying everyone from cotton buyers to retail merchants.
50 years
An era will end at Texas Tech May 31 when the two remaining members of the original faculty who came to Tech in 1925 will retire. Dr. William Bryan Gates, professor of English and dean of the Graduate School, and Dr. Eunice Joiner Gates, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, have announced that they will retire from the Tech faculty at the end of the spring semester.
75 years