‘Roo Notes

The six speakers for TEDxAustinCollege included one student, four alumni, and one faculty member, offering “Ideas Worth Spreading” on September 30 in Sally and Jim Nation Theatre of Ida Green…

As part of the year-long celebration of Austin College’s 175th year, alumni speakers have headlined endowed lecture series and signature events. Cunningham Lecture November 15, 2023 Dr. Kola Alade ’10…

Tara Melton ’11 has founded a company, Mackey Mask, to manufacture a medical device for patients requiring nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes. The idea for the new product came from Tara’s…

The idea for Claude “Spider” Webb ’77 (MA ’79) and friends to open The Gar Hole in 2020 was rooted in Webb’s freshman year at Austin College. In 2023, The…

 Two Austin College graduates, Malcolm M. Feeley ’64 and Ronald Kirk ’76, were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September 2022. Feeley was elected in 2020…

1963 Jan Bennett writes that approaching age 82, she is now living in the Pacific Northwest where her kids and their families live, after years in Latin America and in…

In perhaps a first in Austin College history, three Austin College alumni were key figures in a non-’Roos Athletics baseball game. Al Hockaday Jr. ’76 umpired the game where Harrison…

Michelle Zhou ’18 and her sister Maxine Zhou ’14 moved to Oahu, Hawaii, in fall 2022 to begin their careers. Maxine works in psychiatry, and Michelle is a dentist. In…

1958 Mike and Mary Thulemeyer Murray celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on August 9, 2022, and are deeply grateful for the 59 or 60 years of “happy marriage” enjoyed. Mike…

John Andersen ’66, M.D., retired in September 2021 after a pioneering career in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas that lasted more than four…