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Go Frogs for Oklahoma State game

October 27, 2014

Three-year-old Cora Miller shows her TCU spirit during Homecoming before the TCU-Oklahoma State game. Cora is the daughter of Josiah Miller ’03, computer hardware technician in TCU’s Information Technology Systems department, and Sarah Miller ’04, both of Arlington.

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Frog spirit at the Great Wall of China

October 21, 2014

Rorry Phillips ’91 and Kristi Willbanks ’95 visited China recently, while on vacation with an Irving Chamber of Commerce tour group. Although Rorry wasn’t able to watch the TCU vs. Baylor game, he did manage to find a Chinese woman at the Great Wall of China wearing a beautiful purple dress and taught her to give the Frogs sign.

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Jumping with the Golden Knights

August 20, 2014

Dr. Hilary Frey Miller ’92 jumped 13,100 feet over Ft. Knox with the Golden Knights this June 13, 2014.  Hilary was selectedfor the jump for her work in the area of veterans’ higher educational policy.  She was meet on the ground by her husband Lt. Col. Joel Miller.  Her brother, Marine Capt Chris Frey ’02 is currently serving overseas.

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Two Army Frogs serving in Poland

July 12, 2014

The “It’s a Small World Game – Horned Frog Edition” had two winners this week. Two TCU graduates who are in Poland in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve met again for the first time in almost 10 years.

Army chaplain Cpt. Luke Sprinkle ’06 (right) of the 1st Squadron, 91st Calvary Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, based out of Grafenwoehr, Germany, met Sgt. 1st Class Adam Stone ’04, 807th Medical Command, United States Army Reserve, just outside of Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland.

Sprinkle is the 1-91 Cavalry chaplain and Stone is on an army public affairs team assigned to cover the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Operation Atlantic Resolve involves approximately 600 paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

Graduation Day makes history

May 20, 2014

Marissa Torres’11 (M.Ed. ’14) shared these photos from commencement this past weekend. With Daniel-Meyer Coliseum in the midst of a major overhaul, TCU graduation exercises returned to Amon G. Carter Stadium for the first time since 1961. More than 1,600 graduates walked the stage arranged in the south end zone to get their diplomas, including Torres who received her masters of education in professional counseling. Weather cooperated as the temperature was only 70 degrees when the ceremony started.

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TCU flag at Iwo Jima

April 15, 2014

Major Ryan D. Cox ’02 of the U.S. Air Force visited the Japanese island of Iwo Jima earlier this year, and he brought a TCU flag with him.

But it was no ordinary spot for a flag photo.

“We hiked up to the top of Mount Suribachi, which is the location of the famous raising of the U.S. flag at the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II,” Cox wrote to us. “I
was at the actual spot where the flag was raised.”

Behind him, is the beach on which U.S. Marines landed and bravely fought to take the island.

“The opportunity to go to Iwo Jima is rare since no civilians of any kind are even allowed to visit the island,” Cox shared. “Truly a great experience!”

Cox, who is a former member of TCU Cheer, is stationed at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.

 

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Vicente Fox on campus

April 4, 2014

Bryan Lucas ’96, chief technology officer at TCU, met with former Mexican president Vicente Fox yesterday to discuss technology at his Centro Fox library and potential learning opportunities for Horned Frog students.Fox, who guided Mexico to a stronger democracy from 2000 to 2006, was the keynote speaker at the 51st annual Honors Convocation and shared his perspectives about the global economy, leadership on the world stage, immigration and challenges in the 21st century.

Joining them were Fox’s special assistant Dr. Juan Hernandez ’78 MA ’81 PhD (far left) and Dr. Beata Jones of the Neeley School of Business.

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Frog medical interpreter in Afghanistan

March 25, 2014

Haroon Said Wardak ’13 graduated from TCU’s Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences less than a year ago, but he’s showing his Horned Frog pride with passion on the other side of the globe.

Wardak, who describes himself as an Afghan-American “with purple blood in my veins,” is a medical interpreter/translator for U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. He also works in a NATO hospital there.

When he was deployed, he took along several TCU t-shirts. But he wanted something to show off his Horned Frog ties every day. So he bought a TCU ID tag holder from Amazon.

In the photo above, Wardak is proudly donning the TCU ID tag during formal Change of Command Ceremony at Multinational Medical Unit-NATO Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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High honor for Horned Frog soldier

March 24, 2014

Lt. Col. Diana Loucks ’96 of the 4th Infantry Division in Kandahar, Afghanistan, has been chief of space and special programs for Regional Command (South) since June 2013.

But before long, she’ll be a pioneer at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

Loucks has been asked to join the faculty at West Point in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. She would be the first female professor in the history of that department.

Following her tour in Afghanistan, Loucks must earn a doctorate before she starts her new job. She plans to pursue Ph.D. work in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she earned a master’s degree in 2008.

Then she will be installed as an academy professor in 2017 and is scheduled to teach there for the duration of her Army career.

Previously, Loucks taught physics at West Point in 2008 and hopes to mentor students and help them develop their careers from the outset.

“It’s not just teaching them, it’s shaping their future as Army leaders,” she said through the U.S. Army public relations office. “You have an opportunity to shape how they think and feel about their role as leaders in the Army. To be able to influence that is really what I’d like to do.”

Read more on Loucks:
http://www.dvidshub.net/news/122361/opportunity-lifetime-awaits-army-officer-upon-return-hom#.UzCDwF7AkpR

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