Ron Kirk ’76 received the H. Neil Mallon Award from the Dallas/Fort Worth World Affairs Council in October 2018. “The importance of Ron Kirk’s contributions locally and nationally cannot be overstated,” said Marjorie Adams, board chair of the council. “His dedication to ensuring that Dallas continues to flourish as a world-class city, while expanding its… [Read More]

Billy Core ’75 has made lots of new friends in the Larry Kramer Outback of Jerry E. Apple Stadium. He’s cooked up lots and lots of meat at the games pretty much since the Outback was opened—even before it was named for Kramer. Things kicked up a notch this fall with the addition of a… [Read More]

Alumnae Han Pham Schmidly ’98, M.D., and Rija Siddiqui ’12, M.D., returned to campus in September 2018 to participate in a Women in Medicine Symposium hosted by the Austin College Posey Leadership Institute. Dr. Schmidly is the CEO of Wound Integrity and medical director of Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine at Medical City in Dallas,… [Read More]

Cullen Chandler ’96, Ph.D., has been appointed the 2019 Donald Bullough Fellow in Mediaeval History by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and is spending the 2019 spring semester abroad working in the St. Andrews Institute for Mediaeval Studies on his research project, “Early Medieval Food and Culture.” St. Andrews has the largest mediaeval… [Read More]

John “Ross” Jackson ’02 completed a 14-year career with the United States Navy on August 31, 2014, having flown the FA-18 Super Hornet, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and F-5 Tiger II, accumulating nearly 2,000 flight hours and 350 arrested landings as part of Strike Fighter Squadron EIGHT SIX. He ended his career with the rank of… [Read More]

These alumni returned to campus in April 2018 for an Office of Admission event to discuss their Austin College experiences and current careers. Volunteers pictured, left to right, are Victor Piñeres ’17 of Dallas, analyst at Goldman Sachs; Kaitlin Elledge ’11 of Dallas, account executive with MetLife Regional & Small Business Solutions, who earned an… [Read More]

Kirk Lipsitz ’18 knows his way around steel. Not only did he manufacture what some have called “the largest smoker in captivity” for the Kramer Outback, Kirk, who minored in art, has several steel sculptures on campus for the enjoyment of others. All were created in the Art Department and with the guidance of Mark… [Read More]

Dan West Causeway to a Bigger World (Mountain Arbor Press, 2018)Dan West ’62 published his memoir, Causeway to a Bigger World, through Mountain Arbor Press in September 2018. Austin College, and especially President John D. Moseley, are mentioned prominently, he said. Crossing the causeway from Galveston, Texas, to the rest of his life set him… [Read More]

A Distinguished Legacy Jenna Jaska ’22 of Sherman, Texas, has an Austin College heritage that goes back to the late 1930s when her great grandparents- to-be, Joyce Wilson and Forrest Bryant, enrolled. They graduated in 1941, married one another, and Forrest Bryant became a legendary Austin College professor of biology. An Austin College Distinguished Alumnus,… [Read More]

2006 Katie Deeds and Joseph William Holland III were married July 1, 2017, in a sunset ceremony on the beach in Maui, Hawaii. The couple lives in Denton, Texas, where Joseph owns and operates Denton Bicycle Center. Katie completed a Master of Library Science degree at Texas Woman’s University in May 2018 and plans to… [Read More]