For almost a decade, Gaylon Finklea Hecker (BJ ’72) edited Austin’s monthly tabloid, The Jewish Outlook, chronicling contemporary local news from the Jewish community that had recently begun exploding due in part to the influx of high-tech jobs in Central Texas.

Austin’s Jewish history from 1989 to late 1998 exists no other place, at least in this month-to-month detail. And now it has found a new home where researchers will be able to use this wealth of information along with that of the Texas Jewish Historical Society.

Finklea Hecker has donated a hard copy of every issue of The Jewish Outlook she edited — cleaning out her closets and boxes in the attic — to the archives at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Briscoe will publish her book (co-authored with Marianne Odom of San Antonio), “Growing Up in the Lone Star State: Notable Texans Remember Their Childhoods” in early 2020. As part of that publishing arrangement, she and Odom were required to donate their personal journalistic archives beginning with their college days and continuing through their most recent work.  The decade of The Jewish Outlook, which led up to the construction of the Dell Jewish Community Center on Hart Lane, is now in the Briscoe’s hands.

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