It’s Austin College Crimson & Gold Challenge Week! See the comments for a link to give back to AC. I believe that to encourage others to give, one has to give first. So, on Crimson & Gold Challenge Week, I usually give a story. This year’s Challenge Week story is about Coach Jody Conradt, Coach
It’s Austin College Crimson & Gold Challenge Week! See the comments for a link to give back to AC. I believe that to encourage others to give, one has to give first. So, on Crimson & Gold Challenge Week, I usually give a story. This year’s Challenge Week story is about Roo Wayne Whitmire and
It’s Austin College Crimson & Gold Challenge Week! See the comments for a link to give back to AC. I believe that to encourage others to give, one has to give first. So, on Crimson & Gold Challenge Week, I usually give a story. This year’s Challenge Week story is about an Austin College Legend
This summer, Dr. Rebecca Cantor arrives to begin her term as the 17th President of Austin College in Sherman. This summer, your Roo Tale author Marc takes off for Colorado to see Roo buds with whom I summitted the 14,000-foot Mt. Sherman. Hey, these two Sherman events sound like an opportunity for Marc to tell
[Marc remarks at this week’s AC Happy Hour in Austin, TX honoring retiring President Steven O’Day] Thank you to former AC Trustee Holly Mace Massingill and her spouse Gavin for this Carriage House location and their hard work on this event. The price for being awesome is you get roped in a lot, which is
Marc’s in D.C. today, and stopped by New York Avenue Presbyterian Church by the White House. 200 years ago in 1825, the Minister of New York Avenue Presbyterian preached to a sitting U.S. President. That President was John Quincy Adams, whom the Minister called “one of the best friends I ever had.” John Quincy Adams
I was a freshman at Austin College in 1988 when I learned about the Sherman Riot of 1930. George Hughes, a black man wrongly accused, was lynched by a white Sherman mob. To pull off the act, the mob burned down their own courthouse and cut the hoses of firefighters trying to extinguish the blaze.
It’s December 12th! December 12th is an unofficial Austin College holiday. On this day in 1981, AC won a national championship in football. That championship has been a regular feature of Roo Tales, as well as its own “Roo Season in Review.” In 1991, the 1981 AC National Championship team gathered in Sherman to celebrate
The 2025 NCAA D1 Women’s Volleyball tournament concludes this week in Kansas City. Hey, that sounds like a great opportunity for a Marc NCAA D1 Women’s Volleyball Roo Tale. It’s always a good time for a Roo Tale. NCAA D1 Volleyball is big time in California. Stanford, UCLA, USC, Long Beach State, UC Irvine, San
Texas Tech celebrates its 100th year of enrollment in 2025. After a prolonged Lone Star State fight to establish a public university in West Texas to rival schools in the East, legislation was passed in Austin establishing the school. In 1925, two years after that legislation, the school in Lubbock enrolled its first class of
