Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What does Harvard look like?” What do you see? Brick buildings, perhaps? Iron gates, Corinthian columns, sweeping façades? You’d be right if you conjured any of the ...

Carpenter, who died in 2010, came a long way from growing up in rural Salado and burgeoning Austin, where she paid $12.50 per semester to attend the University of Texas. Now she has her own ...