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Horned Frogs at War

This fall semester, Special Collections has been working with Dr. Kara Vuic’s HIST 30663 War and Society students to
create an online exhibit “Horned Frogs at War.”

Since the end of August, students have been researching and working in Special Collections with archivist Mary Saffell,
to document how World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War shaped TCU students, faculty, and campus life. The
exhibit will be filled with interesting history as students are writing about topics such as: the campus response to WWI,
wartime romance and marriages on campus during WWII, several TCU students who served in WWII and Vietnam
(including Medal of Honor winner Horace Carswell and football star Jim Swink), students coming to TCU after WWII
through the GI Bill, and campus culture/debates about the Vietnam War.
Most students are working with records held by Special Collection – official university records, the Skiff newspaper,
Horned Frog yearbooks and personal papers donated to the library. One student is working with the papers of Smith
Green, who was in the Bataan Death March and then held as a POW; he came to TCU after the war and later donated his
diaries from his captivity.

Senior student Jon Ortiz is writing on sex, drugs and rock and roll during the Vietnam era. Ortiz is using the Skiff and
Camper Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era by Kenneth J. Heineman for his
research. His focus is on the TCU counterculture created versus the counterculture during the Vietnam War.
Each student has put in many hours of research for this project and every one of these students will be represented in the
exhibit.

Save the date to join us for the unveiling of the online exhibit “Horned Frogs and War” and reception on Friday, Dec. 8 at
1:00 pm in the Mary Couts Burnett Library. The public is invited!

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