Thomas Newsom ’91 became President of Southeastern Oklahoma State University in April 2020. Before assuming the presidency, he spent a year at A&M Commerce as Interim Vice President for Student Success and Dean of Students. He previously spent five years as President of Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, New Mexico. He had also worked in… [Read More]

Allison M. Harris ’05 is Vice President of Development for Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, where she leads the ranch’s giving program. Established in 1949, Mo-Ranch is a camp and  conference center in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, open to all to meet, stay, play, and pray. The 500 acres of Mo-Ranch are nestled along… [Read More]

Katie Masucci ’11 is Senior Environmental Education Coordinator for the City of Plano, Texas, focusing on the implementation of water efficiency and water quality education and outreach. She was pleased to have a part in the City of Plano earning the EPA WaterSense Partner of the Year Award in 2019, one of only three such… [Read More]

Evelyn Mitchell ’13 lives in Washington, D.C., and works as a Land Use Planner and an Equity Lead for the Department of Planning and Development in Fairfax County, Virginia. She reviews projects for the Public Facilities branch and helps the divisions within her department implement the county’s equity policy. Evelyn spent nine weeks in fall… [Read More]

These alumni were among the five speakers for TEDxAustinCollege, offering “Ideas Worth Spreading” on October 3 in Ida Green Communication Center’s new Sally and Jim Nation Theatre before a safely distanced and masked audience. The Truth About ‘These Kids’ and ‘Those Teachers’ Brittnay Connor ’14 is a Dallas ISD teacher who has focused her career… [Read More]

Continuing Their Family Traditions The Class of 2024 includes many students following family members into ’RooNation. Several have siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, or grandparents who attended Austin College recently or years ago. Space doesn’t allow all of those students to be shown, but most students whose legacy connections are their parents are pictured below:

Sydney Hardin graduated cum laude with a major in Finance and minor in Accounting in 2020. Her dad, Bobby Hardin, graduated cum laude with a degree in Business Administration in 1992. Bobby started his career at Bank of America in Dallas. Soon after, he earned his Executive MBA degree from The University of Texas at… [Read More]

David Marquis ’73 has written a novel, The River Always Wins, published by Deep Vellum Publishing. The book jacket explains that the book, a lyric essay, “explores the narrative of drops that come together, gather their power, and chisel away the rock to create the course of their lives and our society. Through flood and… [Read More]