Features

Fall 1999

Prime time people

Eric Letsche ’94, Brenda Lindenberg ’95 and Gwen Burgess ’97 are among the Frogs who have headed to L.A. All three now work for Columbia TriStar Television.

Summer 1999

With this ring

The most important day in many people’s lives is fast becoming the most complex, says sociologist Angela Thompson, with simple ceremony giving way to big, big business.

Summer 1999

Here comes the bride

Since the doors of Robert Carr Chapel opened in 1953, former Herndon Professor of Music Emmet Smith has played the organ for more than 2,000 weddings. With the bliss are a few sights he would rather have missed.

Summer 1999

Here comes the, uh, hammer

Despite an uninvited guest, this no-muss, no-fuss wedding perfectly suited the bride and groom’s personalities and launched a long and happy marriage.

Summer 1999

Love @ TCU

Stuart and LeAnne broke up after their freshman year, but the Frogs found a second chance at love after reconnecting via the TCU alumni website.

Summer 1999

Violation of a nation

Former U.S. Ambassador Swanee Hunt ’72 was there in 1994, brokering the peace talks in Bosnia. With trepidation, she watches the aggression in Kosovo today. She knows all too well what’s happening there.

Rape.

Spring 1999

Diversity

Amid all our differences are opportunities to work together.

Spring 1999

Starting the Ferrari

Michael R. Ferrari is TCU’s ninth chancellor. … Officially.

Spring 1999

Home sweet housing

Tom Brown and Pete Wright halls are gone, replaced by a “residential community” that is the new standard in student housing. But a look inside reveals that life, whether in 88-year-old Jarvis or in TCU’s newest housing addition, is still one very good time.

Spring 1999

These four walls

Dorm life is a bit like the ultimate Rube Goldberg project: “Contestants, you are given a bed, a dresser, two clothespins, six textbooks, some ramen noodles, StainStick and a stranger. Create a life.”