Alumni ’41 Mrs. Edith “Deedy” Hawkins Bennett ’41 Drucilla Dickerson DeArmond ’41 Thomas Murphy ’42 Kitty Lus Druck ’43 Bette Rector ’47 D. Glynn Smith ’48 Robert Hale ’48 Carl Hefton ’48 Charles Mitchell ’48 Kathryn Mack Phipps ’49 Samuel Barnes ’49 John Edward Carter ’49 Betty Dean Morgan ’49 Claude Perry Jr. ’50 Virginia… [Read More]

Friends and football teammates of Bo Miller and his wife, Lasandra Fagg Miller, both ’61, held a special day in his honor in Fall 2017 to relive memories and enjoy longtime friends. Bo’s passing in December 2018 leaves a legacy of academic, professional, and athletic excellence; his football career record of 6,068 yards for total… [Read More]

Cathy Crawford Garrett ’69 and Elizabeth Sewell Teeters ’69 enjoyed some travel time “down under” in February 2018, taking a three-week land trip in Australia and a two-week cruise around New Zealand. Of course, the former Austin College roommates were on the lookout for kangaroos and share this photo. 1962 John Hitt stepped down as… [Read More]

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 new headquarters at 9400 North Central Expressway as the Linus D. Wright Dallas ISD Administration Building. Several educators spoke on behalf of the measure, praising… [Read More]

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. Community members and former coaches and players were on hand to recognize Dickey’s service. He was athletic director and head football coach for the Howe… [Read More]

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 well as significant scholarship productivity and exemplary leadership. For more than 30 years, Charles served as chief student affairs officer in a career that took… [Read More]

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 and advertising company that designs digital signage networks, Bill has had successful careers in a number of industries. For nearly 35 years, he has also… [Read More]

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 overstated,” said Marjorie Adams, board chair of the council. “His dedication to ensuring that Dallas continues to flourish as a world-class city, while expanding its… [Read More]

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 pretty much since the Outback was opened—even before it was named for Kramer. Things kicked up a notch this fall with the addition of a… [Read More]

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 Posey Leadership Institute. Dr. Schmidly is the CEO of Wound Integrity and medical director of Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine at Medical City in Dallas,… [Read More]