JANUARY 18 Huddle Up in San Antonio FEBRUARY 15 Huddle Up in Fort Worth MARCH 8 Dallas AlumNight 5-7 p.m. Hot Joy • 3130 Lemmon Ave • Dallas 75204 MARCH 21 Houston AlumNight 5-7 p.m. Cru • 2800 Kirby Drive Ste B-130 Houston 77098 APRIL 12 Austin AlumNight 5-7 p.m. Contigo • 2027 Anchor Ln… [Read More]
2017 Alumni and Volunteer Awards
Honoring talented alumni is a highlight of Homecoming, from the career and community success of the Distinguished Alumni and First Decade Awardee, to the continued commitment to Austin College of the Heywood C. Clemons Volunteer Service Awardee and the Cindy Bean Service to Alumni Award honoree. Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Jacqueline R. Cooper ’73 was… [Read More]
Following A Family Tradition
Among the freshman class each year are several legacy students carrying on a ’Roo family tradition by following siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandfathers, grandmothers, and moms and dads to Austin College. This year, several of those freshmen who showed up for the Legacy Photo were children of alumni, including the following: Aidan Bolton, son of… [Read More]
Introducing Sarah Moore
Director of Alumni Programming Greetings from Sherman! I arrived on campus early last fall and jumped in with both feet to take on AlumNights, Homecoming events, Tailgating in the Outback, and the return of Women Get Connected events beyond the local region. It’s been exciting for me to land at Austin College as I grew… [Read More]
Beauty & Function
By Vickie S. Kirby Andrew Young ’00 came to Austin College planning a career in medicine but a major accident over the holiday break his junior year resulted in the loss of his leg and required a long hospitalization. That experience changed his course from medicine, and he found himself more drawn to environmental studies… [Read More]
In Memoriam
’42 William “Bill” Chrisman Washburn ’45 James B. Moorman Jr. ’48 Bob J. Wagner ’48 Jane Douglas Moorman ’48 James Benton Manford ’49 Mary Nell Moran Hall ’49 Howard Anthony Hestand Jr. ’49 Hugh Neill ’50 (MA) Charles R. Andrews ’52 Haskell Moorman Monroe ’52 Lawrence “Larry” Correu ’54 Harold Chauncey Parker Jr. ’54 Jimmye… [Read More]
A Tradition Restored
Hundreds of Austin College students have celebrated significant events of their college years with a “dip” in Margaret Jonsson Fountain at the west end of Windsor Mall. That dip usually came at the hands of other students, who happily tossed the celebrant into the fountain’s pool. For the last year or so, however, those celebrations… [Read More]
The Search for Austin College’s 16th President
President Marjorie Hass announced in December 2016 that she would leave Austin College to assume the presidency of Rhodes College on July 1, and the College’s Board of Trustees immediately began to facilitate the selection of the 16th president of the College. Trustee Scott Austin ’83 was named to lead the search committee, and he… [Read More]
News from the Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees chair David Corrigan ’81 welcomed Gail Utter of Sherman to the board this spring. Gail is a financial advisor, managing director – investments with Utter Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors. Lee Dean Ardell ’74 and Jeff Landsberg ’81 completed their terms on the board in May and moved to the… [Read More]
Historian Tries Hand at Mystery Tale
Austin College history professor Hunt Tooley published his first adventure-mystery novel, Anima and the Goat, in 2016. Setting the story in London in the 1880s, Tooley draws from his expertise on European history to tell the tale of the fictional Charlotte Drummond, a journalist with rare independence for a woman of the time. “She is… [Read More]
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