Jeremy Goble

A college campus just wouldn't be complete without statues, and Texas State has its share of them. In this Bobcat Update, Jeremy Goble tells us the back story.

The statues, at various locations on campus, commemorate historical figures and events while providing an aesthetic quality to campus. The Bobcat Statue located on the Quad is the first statue many visitors notice. It was commissioned in 2007 by the Associated Student Government and designed by artist Matthew Gray Palmer.
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The Fighting Stallions statue located on the west end of the Quad stands 17-feet-tall and marks the designated free speech zone on campus. It was donated to the university in 1951 by sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington.
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The L-B-J Statue in front of Flowers Hall memorializes former U-S President and Texas State graduate Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texas State is the only university in Texas to graduate a former President. The Vaquero statue in front of Old Main is the newest statue on campus. Donations from the Wittliff family in 2013 funded its construction.
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Texas State University has a beautiful campus, and its statues add to that quality. They are monuments fitting for an institute of higher learning. For Bobcat Update, I'm Jeremy Goble.