AUSTIN COLLEGE
Steven P. O’Day, President
Elizabeth Gill, Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculty
J. Pernell Jones, Vice President for Business Affairs
Carllos Lassiter, Vice President for Student Affairs & Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer
Gillian Grissom Locke ’07, Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Mary Randers, Interim Vice President for Institutional Enrollment
Heidi Rushing ’04, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
PUBLISHED BY
Offices of Institutional Advancement and Institutional Marketing & Communications
AUSTIN COLLEGE MAGAZINE
Executive Editor
Cary S. Wacker
Editor
Leigh-Ellen Romm
Staff Writer
Laura Veach
Contributing Writers
Kayla Brooks
Jeff Kelly
Marc Parrish ’92
Willa White ’24
Magazine Designer/Art Director
Melanie Fountaine
‘175’ ART ILLUSTRATOR
Maddie Wilson ’23
Photography Staff
Nicholas Hummert, Jayni Gogineni ’27, Cristan Gutierrez ’24, Alyssa Vyrva ’24, Cary S. Wacker
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Austin College, Suite 6G
Office of Institutional Advancement
900 North Grand Avenue
Sherman, TX 75090-4400
Email: editor@austincollege.edu
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