‘Roo Notes

The name of longtime educator Linus Wright ’49 endures in the Dallas educational system. The Dallas ISD board of trustees unanimously approved a measure in June 2018 to rename its…

Norman Dickey ’62 was honored by the Howe (Texas) ISD for 50 years of dedication to Howe athletics at its 2018 Community Pep Rally kicking off the fall athletics season.…

Charles Schroeder ’67 received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) in March 2018. The award recognizes extraordinary service to the field of student affairs, as…

Bill Warren ’74 received the Community Hero Award at the Tech Titans technology industry awards gala in August 2018. Now executive chair and CEO of Reflect, a Dallas-based digital media…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…