This is a photo of a swimming race. No, it’s not Marc racing his bud Barry “Sly” Holcomb, 1990 Hannah Award winner for swimming. No, it’s not Barry Holcomb scrimmaging other Roo swimmers at AC’s Hannah Natatorium. No, it’s not an AC swim meet against Trinity University at Hannah. No, it’s not the prelims of
Our Alex is thriving in Aggieland; Dianne & I couldn’t be prouder. An engineer spending year #1 at TAMU-Galveston, Alex is making the grades and says he’s on pace for a much-coveted aerospace major next year in College Station. Dianne (A&M MBA ’93), Marc (raised in College Station), and Linda (former Aggie faculty/administration) have big
Go Roos sympathies go out today to the family of Ken Krause (AC ’63), who passed this week. Ken Krause was the father of Roos Kevin Krause and Kellye Krause Daniel. Kellye was a little sister of my fraternity, a group which included a lot of baseball players. Kevin, recently inducted into the AC Hall
I wrote a story last week about my great uncle, a B-17 pilot who tragically died during WW2. B-17 pilots are the main characters in the latest Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg WW2 miniseries titled “Masters of the Air.” The miniseries is a companion piece to “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific.” The story of my great
The 2024 Detroit Lions were fighting for a Super Bowl berth in the NFC championship game when I suddenly got a text from Kirk Hughes. Kirk wanted me to comment on a teaser video he had just created for his interview with Austin College Coach Vance Morris. I told Kirk that the teaser looked great
The story of Benjamin Capp, fan of the 2024 Detroit Lions, has gone viral. Capp has been a Detroit Lions season ticket holder for 66 years, enduring decades of futility like no other fan. Capp says he became a fan after watching the dramatic 1957 Western Conference final between Detroit and the San Francisco 49ers.
What? Marc wrote a Paris Hilton Roo Tale? As Paris Hilton might say, “that’s hot.” Last fall, I did what most Roos do during Homecoming. I watched some Austin College football. And I stayed up late at the Hilton Garden Inn. Those two things go together like peas and carrots. And here’s a story explaining
40 years ago today, I saw the best college basketball team in the nation. Southwest Conference (SWC) basketball was a big deal in the 1980s, and no school was better than the Phi Slama Jama squad of Coach Guy Lewis at the University of Houston. Akeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Larry Micheaux, Michael Young, and Reid
If you want small NAIA D2 Austin College reasons to root for one of the Big Dogs in the NCAA football title game tomorrow, I’ve got a few for you. And they all point to that school in the Pacific Northwest on the Bay: the Washington Huskies. NAIA Division 2 existed from 1970 to 1996,
I’ll be watching the movie Napoleon with lovely Dianne this week, all the while thinking about the first Professor of French at Austin College nearly 150 years ago. And also, the Professor of French during my years at AC. Dr. Bernice Melvin. Dr. Melvin passed in 2020. From an Austin College notice announcing her passing:
