Winter 2020
The Story Behind an Iconic Brick Color
One of TCU’s signature styles is steeped in history, business and branding.
Mem’ries Sweet
Summer 2019
History of the Provost
What’s in a title?
Summer 2019
Black Alumni Alliance Celebrates 20 Years
The affinity group provides a greater sense of community.
Winter 2019
TCU Sweetheart Connections
Readers answer: Did you meet your significant other here? If so, how?
Fall 2018
Texas Coach Darrell Royal Compared TCU to the Cockroach
The assessment of TCU football has become a point of pride ever since a fateful 1961 upset.
TCU Magazine Podcast
TCU Magazine Podcast: Barto Farrar
The KTCU host often had his finger on the pulse of music and entertainment as he interviewed dozens of celebrities.
Spring 2018
KTCU Host Interviewed Celebrities like Bob Hope, Don Knotts
Barto Farrar brought bandleaders, country stars and even a Nobel-winning scientist to the KTCU airwaves.
Fall 2017
It’s a boy. It’s a dog. It’s SuperFrog!
Over the course of a century, the TCU mascot has varied in design and species.
Summer 2016
Don Gillis, Renaissance Music Man
The musical legacy of the 1935 TCU graduate connects the university and Amon Carter to NBC and Toscanini.
Spring 2016
How TCU Came to Fort Worth
A fire at the old Waco campus set the university on a course to reclaim its geographic heritage.
Mem’ries from the Comrades True Blog
The History of AddRan College: A Timeline
Les Miles and Kansas: How the Frogs Can Fight
TCU-Kansas gridiron meetups have a storied past, but what happens when Les Miles joins the party?
What is your favorite mascot memory?
My favorite memory is not SuperFrog, but Addie the Frog (when I was Addie). In 1976, we had an afternoon home game with snow on the ground. We didn’t win a single game that season, and the student section was largely empty. My frog suit included a large flat-topped papier-mâché head. The game was so
TCU’s Kelly Center a place for pride
There are no stains on the carpet. The windows are sparkling clean. No cobwebs in the light fixtures. Indeed, the building is brand new. However, upon entering the front doors, you are struck with an overwhelming sense of tradition and history: the 1890 home of TCU co-founder Randolph Clark; a black-and-white print of the 1910
For whom the bells toll
It rings on the hour, reminding everyone within hearing distance of a timeless tradition. The carillon of Robert Carr Chapel and its hourly playing of eight measures of the TCU alma mater is the soundtrack of campus life. But while many know the familiar tone of the campus carillon, there are probably few facts still
Prepared for takeoff
Thank President Harry S. Truman in 1946 for giving TCU the chance at a national championship. Not in football. In the sky. Fresh off defeating the Axis in World War II and capitalizing on a surge of aviation-related nationalism, Truman signed Public Law 476, which incorporated the Civil Air Patrol as a nonprofit organization. It