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 Gar Hole, the downtown watering hole in tiny Westminster, Texas, has been named as one of North Texas’ “Best Little Roadhouses” by D Magazine. The… [Read More]
Outstanding ‘Roos Inducted to Prestigious Academy
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 and Kirk in 2021, but due to COVID-related postponements, they were not inducted until 2022. The honorary society and policy organization, founded in 1870, elects… [Read More]
’Roo Notes
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 a cabin in Montana. She recalls hat while a student at Austin College, she and a roommate, Kay, were in a group of 18 women… [Read More]
Bulletin Board
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 Baldwin ’19 and Wes Tarbox ’90 were coaching opposing teams. The trio represented 12 years of Austin College Baseball, spanning 46 years between them. Hockaday… [Read More]