Continuing Their Family Traditions The Class of 2025 includes many students who have ’Roo family members. Several first-year students have siblings who’ve attended or who are still on campus. Making Austin College a family tradition also happens through following cousins, aunts, uncles, or grandparents to campus—whether the family members attended recently or years ago. Space… [Read More]

2021 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients: Denise Fate ’76 Tom Hall ’78 Jenny King ’92 Roger Luttrell ’76 (MA ’77) Thomas Newsom ’91 Melissa Thompson ’84 21 First Decade Award Recipient: Hannah Alexander ’12 See more details about the Distinguished Alumni Awards 2021

When James Hannan ’09 (MAT ’10) started a new job with the Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management in January 2021, he expected a hurricane or flood would be the first emergency to activate the team. His was a new position, and he had just started to understand his role when the… [Read More]

These alumni were among the six speakers for TEDxAustinCollege, offering “Ideas Worth Spreading” on September 25 in Sally and Jim Nation Theatre of Ida Green Communication Center. Laura J. Lawson ’10 Time and Space: Arts’ Most Valuable Resources Ann Crews Melton ’03 Building Consensus Across Differences Ting Lan Sun ’87 Bound Feet and the American… [Read More]

Athletes returned to campus in August 2021 for the annual Legends event and celebrated the legends of their sports. The awards event on August 7 was highlighted by the presentation of the  Kedric Couch Alumni Coach of the Year honors, the Athletic Hall of Honor inductions, and the Coach Joe Spencer Award for Meritorious Service… [Read More]

Bob Lively ’68 has written his 13th book and his second novel, Cotton-Eyed Joe, which he describes as a “Black Lives Matter” book. The story is of white man Will Amos and his friend, a nearly blind Black man nicknamed ‘Cotton-Eyed Joe.’ When the Black man is falsely accused of murder, a racist-fueled guilty verdict… [Read More]

1969 John D. Moseley Jr. and Alice Ruth Butler were married in Malakoff, Texas, on April 12, 2021. The two have shared their lives for over 40 years, including in teaching careers at Dallas College North Lake Campus in Irving, Texas, where Alice had been Director of Theatre since 1977 and John had been teaching… [Read More]

2004 Travis Redman and Shauna Harkless Redman welcomed their son, Levi, on November 19, 2020. Big sister Leah, 9, helped welcome him home. 2005 Stephanie Birch Robertson and Jeff Robertson welcomed Gloria Charlotte to the family on April 24, 2021, meeting John Frederick, 7, and Madeleine Lorraine, 6. The family built a home in Leander,… [Read More]

Alumni 1942 Conway Taliaferro Wharton Jr. 1946 Betty Covey Richards 1947 Ross Hester 1947 Mary Frances Robinson Shell 1947 Mary “Sparky” Johnson Waldrop 1948 Charlotte Galey Bulloch 1948 MaryLou Darter Lueb 1948 Letha Rae Haraughty Seymour 1949 Frances “Boody” Hare Fallon 1949 Stanley B. Ward 1950 John G. Phelan 1951 Jennifer Reid Kemp 1951 Nancy… [Read More]