Margaret Aguilar accepts her letter of acceptance from President Flawn and Dean Dora Grossenbacher.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in UTSA newsletter The Discourse in Jan. 1975.
(June 21, 2019) -- Margaret Aguilar waited a long time for UTSA. “Even in the 1950s I felt that a public university was needed in San Antonio,” says the gentle-voiced substitute school teacher who was the first undergraduate student to complete her application for admission and be accepted at UTSA.
Along with a projected 3,700 other juniors and seniors and 1,800 graduate students, Aguilar will attend the first classes at the new UTSA campus next fall [1975].
Aguilar began her college education in 1965 when her daughter, Anna Louise, enrolled in kindergarten. When Anna Louise was in the eighth grade, Aguilar completed her freshman and sophomore work at San Antonio College. Since then she’s been waiting for UTSA’s undergraduate programs to open. Now she plans to earn a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education.
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