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Dallas Women’s Foundation Hosted #BestSelf

June 2, 2018November 15, 2019 Staff Report 0 Comments #BestSelf Leadership, Alicia Menendez, Dallas Women's Foundation, event, Leadership Initiative, Rachel Simmons, SMU, society, society, Southern Methodist University, Tiffany Dufu

On May 5 at Southern Methodist University, Dallas Women’s Foundation hosted more than 300 middle school and high school girls

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Community Park Cities Preston Hollow 

Former Coach Dies

May 31, 2018November 15, 2019 Staff Report 0 Comments Basketball, Bob Prewitt, Coach Bob Prewitt, Happenings on the Hill, news, schools, SMU

Former SMU basketball player and coach Bob Prewitt died in May. He was 93 years old. He was an assistant

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Community Park Cities Preston Hollow 

SMU’s The Daily Campus Marks End of an Era

May 30, 2018November 15, 2019 Staff Report 0 Comments #SaveStudentNewsrooms, Friends of Student Media, GoFundMe.com, Happenings on the Hill, journalism, news, SMU, Student Media Company, The Daily Campus

In the heat of the #SaveStudentNewsrooms movement, SMU’s The Daily Campus printed its last independent newspaper in May and moved

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Community Park Cities 

Meadows Museum Announces Masterpiece Gala

May 29, 2018November 15, 2019 William Legrone 0 Comments black-tie, Carl Sewell, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, Masterpiece Gala, Meadows Museum, Museum’s Director of Education, Peggy Sewell, Pilar Henry, salvador dali, SMU

The Meadows Museum will hold its inaugural Masterpiece Gala on Oct. 13. The gala will be chaired by Pilar Henry,

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SMU Announces 2018 Tate Lecture Series

May 29, 2018November 15, 2019 William Legrone 0 Comments American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Amy Cuddy, Bill Browder, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs and Knocking on Heaven’s Door, David Gergen, Destiny and Power, III, James A. Baker, Jon Meacham, Kathy Bates, Leon Panetta, Lisa Randall, McFarlin Auditorium, Meadows School of the Arts, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Siddhartha Mukherjee, SMU, Tate Lecture Series, Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving In the Age of Accelerations, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Thomas Friedman, Warped Passages

Better get your tickets fast, because the SMU Tate Lecture Series is quickly selling out. SMU’s 37th season of the

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Cox School Gift

May 29, 2018November 15, 2019 Staff Report 0 Comments Andrew Chen, Cox School of Business, donation, Elaine Chen, Happenings on the Hill, news, SMU, SMU Edwin L. Cox School of Business, The Andrew H. Chen Endowed Chair in Financial Investments Fund

Retired finance professor Andrew Chen and his wife, Elaine Chen, gave $2 million to the SMU Edwin L. Cox School

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Community Preston Hollow 

Meadows Museum Announces Inaugural Masterpiece Gala

May 29, 2018 William Legrone 0 Comments black-tie, Carl Sewell, Dalí: Poetics of the Small, Masterpiece Gala, Meadows Museum, Museum’s Director of Education, Peggy Sewell, Pilar Henry, salvador dali, SMU

The Meadows Museum will hold its inaugural Masterpiece Gala on Oct. 13. The gala will be chaired by Pilar Henry,

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SMU Milvet Finds Hidden Treasure in South Dallas’ Community Gardens

May 25, 2018November 15, 2019 Bianca R. Montes 0 Comments DeVincent Martin, Jr. Community Center's Freedom Garden, Martin Luther King, Seedling Farm, SMU

Tucked into nooks and crannies in South Dallas are flourishing community vegetable gardens with names like Sunny South, Mill City

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Business Park Cities Preston Hollow 

Goff’s Serving Up Hamburgers Again Near SMU

May 22, 2018November 15, 2019 Brian Kendall 0 Comments business, Community, Demolition, Goff’s Hamburgers, Grease Fire, Jim Francis, Mockingbird Lane, Park Cities, Restaurant Fire, SMU

The nearly 80 firefighters on-hand could do little to extinguish the stubborn grease fire that claimed the 92-year-old building that

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Park Cities Preston Hollow Schools 

Dean Holland Honored

May 17, 2018November 15, 2019 Staff Report 0 Comments Awards, Dean Sam Holland, Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, Happening on the Hill, Meadows School, music, Music Teachers National Association Achievement Award, schools, SMU, teaching

Meadows School Dean Sam Holland received the 2018 Music Teachers National Association Achievement Award for his work with the Frances

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Park Cities Preston Hollow Schools 

Erick Johnson Award

May 15, 2018November 15, 2019 Staff Report 0 Comments Bobby B. Lyle, education, Happening on the Hill, J. Erik Jonson Ethics Award, schools, SMU

Bobby B. Lyle received the 2018 J. Erik Jonson Ethics Award for his work as an engineer, community leader, business

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