’Roo Notes 2024

In perhaps a first in Austin College history, three Austin College alumni were key figures in a non-’Roos Athletics baseball game. Al Hockaday Jr. ’76 umpired the game where Harrison Baldwin ’19 and Wes Tarbox ’90 were coaching opposing teams. […]

1963 Jan Bennett writes that approaching age 82, she is now living in the Pacific Northwest where her kids and their families live, after years in Latin America and in a cabin in Montana. She recalls  hat while a student […]

 Two Austin College graduates, Malcolm M. Feeley ’64 and Ronald Kirk ’76, were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September 2022. Feeley was elected in 2020 and Kirk in 2021, but due to COVID-related postponements, they […]

The idea for Claude “Spider” Webb ’77 (MA ’79) and friends to open The Gar Hole in 2020 was rooted in Webb’s freshman year at Austin College. In 2023, The Gar Hole, the downtown watering hole in tiny Westminster, Texas, […]

Tara Melton ’11 has founded a company, Mackey Mask, to manufacture a medical device for patients requiring nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes. The idea for the new product came from Tara’s personal experience with her own child, beginning soon after she […]

As part of the year-long celebration of Austin College’s 175th year, alumni speakers have headlined endowed lecture series and signature events. Cunningham Lecture November 15, 2023 Dr. Kola Alade ’10 Licensed Psychologist, Cook Children’s Healthcare System, Hurst, Texas Public Administration […]

The six speakers for TEDxAustinCollege included one student, four alumni, and one faculty member, offering “Ideas Worth Spreading” on September 30 in Sally and Jim Nation Theatre of Ida Green Communication Center. See all 2023 TEDxAustinCollege talks  

Athletes returned to campus in July 2023 for the annual Legends event and celebrated the legends of their sports. The awards event on July 29 was highlighted by the presentation of the Athletic Hall of Honor inductions and the Coach […]

Four distinguished alumni were honored for exemplary careers and service during Homecoming 2023. These individuals are recognized for excellence in their profession and in their communities and for modeling the spirit of service and broadened perspective fostered by Austin College. […]

Bob Lively ’68, honorably retired Presbyterian minister, has written another book, 7 Moments of Grace. The book has a special mission. He says, “I wrote this book for my grandson so that he might come to recognize the Shepherd’s rod […]

1986 Heather McLaughlin Bedics, now retired from working for the State of Maryland, married Francis M. “Skip” Bedics on January 9, 2023. (not pictured) 2018 Emily MacDonald and Alex Lux ’17 were married April 22, 2023, in Dripping Springs, Texas. […]

2005 Josh Manck and his wife Allison welcomed Genevieve Elizabeth on August 16, 2022. Their daughter also happens to be the granddaughter of Katy Massingill Manck ’78. 2008 Katie Hampton Rightler and husband Kurt welcomed their first daughter, Claire Morgan, […]

Legacy Families Recognized Across the Decades During Homecoming & Family Weekend, alumni and current students with family connections to Austin College were invited to a special photo shoot. The groups represented up to three  generations and included grandparents, parents, siblings, […]

Alumni 1942 Allene Brown Eatherly 1948 Helen Landolt Lancaster 1949 Betty Henderson Turnipseed 1951 Stanley Clayton 1951 Thomas Horne 1952 Dorothy Hullet Brown 1952 Shirley Williams Flechtner 1952 Irma “Louise” Sullivan Yancey 1953 Robert Hyatt 1954 George Hurst 1956 Martha […]