Continuing Their Family Traditions The Class of 2024 includes many students following family members into ’RooNation. Several have siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, or grandparents who attended Austin College recently or years ago. Space doesn’t allow all of those students to be shown, but most students whose legacy connections are their parents are pictured below:
Following the Footsteps
Sydney Hardin graduated cum laude with a major in Finance and minor in Accounting in 2020. Her dad, Bobby Hardin, graduated cum laude with a degree in Business Administration in 1992. Bobby started his career at Bank of America in Dallas. Soon after, he earned his Executive MBA degree from The University of Texas at… [Read More]
Alumni Bookshelf
David Marquis ’73 has written a novel, The River Always Wins, published by Deep Vellum Publishing. The book jacket explains that the book, a lyric essay, “explores the narrative of drops that come together, gather their power, and chisel away the rock to create the course of their lives and our society. Through flood and… [Read More]
‘Roo Mates
2000 Lauren Herring and Zachary Reff were married August 15, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The outdoor ceremony was officiated by the Reverend Dr. David McKechnie, Austin College Senior Trustee. The newlyweds live in the greater Charlotte area. Lauren has spent the last 10 years in the health care sector and is currently Vice President… [Read More]
Joeys
2002 Lydia Bean and her husband, Norman Lee, welcomed the birth of their first child, Micah Junhong Bean-Lee, in May 2020. They named him Micah “that he may grow to ‘do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly’ with God” (Micah 6:8). Lydia is a Fellow at New America and completed a run for the Texas… [Read More]
In Memoriam
Alumni ’46 Jean Margaret McClenahan Bowman ’46 Helen Williams Miller ’46 Ross W. Stoddard Jr. ’49 William “Bill” Bassett ’49 Robert Garcia ’49 Jerry McCann ’49 Billy “Bert” Sherron ’51 Gene Coppedge ’51 Alice Campbell Risinger ’52 John Chester ’54 Joann Ragan Henson ’54 Mary Frances Evans Van Pelt ’55 Carolynn Hall Cobbs ’55 Stan… [Read More]