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Watercolor illustration of a costumed horned frog mascot in a purple TCU jersey and a person with a laptop, seated in Adirondack chairs on a campus lawn.

Fall 2026

Recollections: What’s the One Decision You Believe Most Improved TCU?

From a 1970s writing requirement to Frog Camp, alumni make the case for what mattered most.

Two photographs styled as tilted snapshots. In one, labeled “How It Started,” Kate Woolson stands on a baseball field in a purple TCU jersey holding a camera. In the other, labeled “How It's Going,” she stands in a ballpark in a red Cincinnati Reds shirt with camera equipment on her shoulder.

Fall 2026

Cincinnati Reds Team Photographer Kate Woolson: How It Started … How It’s Going

She grew up in San Diego in a family of LA Dodgers fans and planned to produce for ESPN. Photographing TCU baseball changed the plan.

John Price sits on a couch holding an open book, one hand raised mid-gesture, with a large abstract painting on the wall behind him.

Fall 2026

From Music to the Mind: TCU’s John Price on Jungian Psychology, Sobriety and the Sacred

A therapist told John Price to try 90 days of sobriety. Three months turned into five years, and a music career became a practice.

Jim and Kate Lykes walk down a hallway lined with large wall displays. Jim gestures with both hands as Kate looks toward him.

Fall 2026

Mental Health Advocates Jim and Kate Lykes Offer Empathy and Guidance

A family member’s struggle led Kate Lykes from a chief financial officer job to clinical social work, and Jim Lykes to Houston-area mental health boards.

Jackie Raye sits on a dressing room counter in front of lighted mirrors.

Fall 2026

TCU Alumna Jackie Raye Is Living Her Broadway Dream in “Wicked”

A shy fourth grader who refused to sing for the Georgia Children’s Choir grew up to make her principal Broadway debut in “Wicked.”

John Booty, wearing glasses and a navy pinstriped suit with a white pocket square, sits at a glass desk in a television studio, turned to his right mid-sentence with one hand raised. Papers and a laptop rest on the desk. A blue backdrop patterned with rows of circles fills the wall behind him, and studio cameras and monitors frame the shot in the foreground.

Fall 2026

TCU Alumnus John Booty ’98 on the NFL, Fox 5 and Coaching Congress

As a TCU student-athlete, John Booty wrote down his life ambitions. Nearly 40 years and an NFL career later, he’s still checking things off.

TCU alumnus Chris Reale, operating partner of Paris Coffee Shop, leans against the diner’s counter in a black T-shirt, tattoos visible on his arm, with the restaurant’s iconic blue neon sign lit up behind him.

Summer 2026

How TCU Alumnus Chris Reale is Leading Paris Coffee Shop Into its Next Century

Chris Reale ’17 blends creativity, grit and hard work into a successful culinary career.

A slice of French apple tart with thinly sliced, glazed apples fanned across a flaky pastry crust, served on top of a red Paris transit map next to a silver fork on a wooden table.

Summer 2026

Lorie Fangio on French Cooking, Curated Travel and A Taste of Paris

The TCU alumna turned a student’s offhand question into A Taste of Paris and has led small-group culinary tours through France since 2014.

Mike Harrison and his wife, Brenda, pose with TCU Chancellor Emeritus Victor J. Boschini Jr. beneath a commissioned portrait of the couple inside The Harrison building on Texas Christian University’s campus. A watercolor illustration or painting of The Harrison building rests on an easel to the left.

Summer 2026

Remembering Mike Harrison ’64: The West Texas Businessman Behind The Harrison Building, TCU’s Middle-Income Scholarship Program and Horned Frog Athletics

Mike Harrison, whose quiet generosity touched nearly every corner of campus, died April 30. He was 84.

Tom Gordon, co-founder and CEO of Slim Chickens, holds a branded takeout container while seated against a red wall covered in the restaurant's signature illustrated logos and food-themed phrases.

Summer 2026

How TCU’s Tom Gordon Built Slim Chickens Into a Global Chain

Tom Gordon ’97 co-founded Slim Chickens in 2003 with maxed-out credit cards and borrowed money. Today, the fast-casual chain has nearly 400 locations across 32 states and six countries.