RELLIS recollections : 75 years of learning, leadership, and discovery / Tim Gregg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregg, Tim, author.

Contributor:

Sharp, John (John Spencer), writer of foreword.

Series:

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; Number 131.

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; Number 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae.

Universities and colleges.

Texas A & M University System. RELLIS Campus--Biography.

Texas A & M University System.

Texas A & M University System. Riverside Campus--Biography.

Bryan Air Force Base (Tex.)--Biography.

Bryan Air Force Base (Tex.).

Bryan Army Air Field (Tex.)--Biography.

Bryan Army Air Field (Tex.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Today's RELLIS Campus, the Texas A&M University System's emerging educational, technological, and research reserve, carries with it a proud heritage forged from more than 75 years of remarkable and kindred achievement. First established as Bryan Army Air Field at the outset of World War II, the site has been and will continue to be a hub for learning, leadership and history in the making. Bryan Field was one of the key domestic military installations during America's involvement in World War II. Its unique and critical mission: to train instructors to teach instrumentation flying to U.S. and Allied aviators. Those activities not only helped turn the tide of global warfare, but also provided meaningful employment for hundreds of area men and women, a major boost to the local economy. At war's end, the site's long affiliation with Texas A&M began as Bryan Field was converted into "The Annex," the temporary four-year home of first-year cadets attending the A&M College of Texas. Reactivated as Bryan Air Force Base at the outset of the Korean War in 1951 and then permanently transferred to Texas A&M as an off-campus research and training enclave a decade later, today's RELLIS Campus carries on an enduring legacy. In these richly illustrated pages, author Tim Gregg honors the storied past of both the place as well as the people whose lives and life-accomplishments have intersected with the locale. Of those whose futures will be shaped on the RELLIS Campus, A&M System Chancellor John Sharp writes in the foreword to the book, "May they take their inspiration from the stories you'll find here.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / by John Sharp

Preface

Introduction: One Place. Many Names

Skies Over The Brazos Valley

The Godfather of Bryan Field

Letter to the President

Neighbors for Life

Hurricane Hunter

Tuskegee Airmen

WASP

Service Teams

Remembering the Annex

Second man

Father's Footsteps

The 1955 Bryan Air Force Base Yearbook

Annexation

Crash Tests

Ship lab

Riverside Campus Master Plan

Generations

Baboons, Bovines, and Bees

Final Flights

The Future of RELLIS

Epilogue: Dreams Die Hard.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-848-1

OCLC:

1138585819