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    A drastic pay cut and a postponed wedding are among the Depression-era memories of Francis Stroup (’29) featured on the New York Times web site this spring. The composer of the UNT fight song was just beginning his teaching career in Texas when the stock market crashed.

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Read a previous feature on Stroup from The North Texan

 
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