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RESEARCH THAT MATTERS A Place of Healing 30 years of recovery research to celebrate THE STROKE CENTER at the TWU Dallas campus is renowned for outpatient treatments and research programs that aid in the rehabilitation of stroke and traumatic brain injury patients. Lesser known is the hands-on training the center provides to TWU graduate students. Physical therapists in training help clients relearn how to move or walk, while future speech-language pathologists lead them through exercises that help them regain the ability to communicate. Students assist in conducting research with life-changing implications, such as determining which part of the brain controls balance or whether chronic back pain can be alleviated with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Amazingly, the clinic offers these services for free thanks to the financial support of generous donors. > MACKENZIE VOOR HIE S STEWA RT ’21 TWU Doctor of Physical Therapy 12 TEXAS WOMAN’S
MY INSPIRATION DONOR BE YOUR TRUE SELF Pioneering the preservation of LGBTQ+ histories LAST NOVEMBER, 90-year-old Arden Eversmeyer ’51 traveled to the TWU Denton campus from her home in Houston to meet graduate student Anissa DeLeon, the first recipient of the Arden Eversmeyer Scholarship Endowment in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies. Eversmeyer endowed the scholarship for one continuing doctoral student in the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies program. The daughter of a schoolteacher, Eversmeyer spent 30 years teaching health and physical education and working as a counselor in the Texas public school system. “My parents were both bright people and valued education,” she says. Initially, her father had to talk her into attending college, but once she arrived at what was formerly known as the Texas State College for Women, she was “delighted” to be there. It was where she learned to become independent, and figured out “who I really was,” she says. For that reason, another highlight of Eversmeyer’s campus visit was getting to meet with PRIDE, the campus LGBTQIA organization. “It is so great that this student group exists today,” she said. “I am so pleased that so much has changed.” SAVING LIFE STORIES Eversmeyer is the founder of Lesbians Over Age Fifty (LOAF), a social organization, and the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP). Over the past 25 years, OLOHP has recorded oral histories from nearly 800 women across the country and some globally, and collected them into two books. She was also a mayoral appointee to the Houston Agency on Aging. Eversmeyer is proud of her life’s work. The support she has provided to TWU is greatly appreciated and will go on to provide needed aid to future TWU students. > ARDEN EVERSMEYER ’51 Former teacher and LGBTQ+ historian “TODAY, EVERSMEYER IS PROUD TO LIVE IN A TIME WHEN SHE CAN BE HER TRUE SELF.” Terra Costa Howard, Illinois State representative and friend of Eversmeyer TEXAS WOMAN’S 13
