Excellence in Organic Chemistry Squire Booker ’87 professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Penn State University, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS fellow is an honor bestowed by peers to members of the world’s largest general scientific society. The election… [Read More]
Honoring Our Own
Homecoming 2013 Alumni Awards Distinguished Alumni Awards Awardees 2013 are left to right, Richard Matkin ’74, superintendent of Plano (Texas) ISD; Butch Worley ’76, deputy director of athletics at University of Texas at Austin, supervising all men’s sports; Donald Lovering ’78, board-certified family physician, Austin, Texas; Richard Peeples ’70, attorney and social activist, Dallas, Texas;… [Read More]
Golden ‘Roos at Commencement
Happy Anniversary—Members of the Class of 1964 gathered with President Marjorie Hass for a photo are, left to right, front row: Don Newsom, Jay Evans, Jane Brazell Sisolak, Libby Irwin Cahalan, Susan Qualtrough, Sharon Vande Vuss Foster, and Joanne Berglund Dickey; second row: Robert White, Dr. Hass, Carol Porter Powers, Sally Robinson Nation, Ruth Whiteside,… [Read More]
In Memoriam
College Mourns Death of Senior Trustees The Austin College community was saddened in recent months by the deaths of two senior members of College’s Board of Trustees. David Charles Sprowl of Sherman died December 7, 2013. A 1962 graduate of Austin College, he served in the U.S. Air Force then began work at the Texas… [Read More]
Class Notes
57 Martha Boren Hook has written a historical romance novel, Glory Be!, published this spring by Xulon Press. The inspirational fiction novel is a story of “courageous love in post-Civil War America” and is the first in “The Springdale Series” about a Southern family. This is her sixth book and second novel. Though Martha attended… [Read More]
Joey’s Corner
98 Laura McFerrin and Deanna Hogan welcomed a son, Griffin Michael, on April 30, 2014. He joins his big brother, Grayson Myles. Griffin Michael was named for Michael Anthony Garcia ’96. Laura and her family live in Oak Cliff, and she has owned Benchmark Legal Media for the last 11 years. The documentary that she… [Read More]
‘Roo News
’Roos In Celebration Charles ’55 and Dorothy Tucker Winfield ’53 celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary July 11 and were surprised with a luncheon in their hometown of Mount Vernon, Texas. Earlier in the year, the Winfields were inducted into Mount Vernon ISD’s Hall of Honor for their more-than-30-years of service to the community and the… [Read More]
ACcolades
Leading Texas Doctors Don R. Read ’64 was elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Medical Association in May. The TMA is the nation’s largest and one of the oldest state medical societies and speaks for more than 47,000 physician and medical student members across the state. The board manages business and… [Read More]
Fielding A Team of New Doctors
Dr. Jim Tarpley ’93 is about to launch an exciting new program with a group of young doctors. He doesn’t anticipate the drama of Grey’s Anatomy, but he knows that serving as the director of the Texoma Medical Center (TMC) Family Medicine Residency program will bring many new challenges. The program, which launches in July… [Read More]
From the Alumni Board President
While visiting at Homecoming this year, one friend was surprised that I was on the Alumni Board and asked me why I was serving? When I reminded them of how much our time at Austin College meant to us and the impact that it made on us, the question really became, why not? I truly… [Read More]
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