In this issue: Winter 2016
![Ajiri aki, Stacey caldwell, fleur de la sabine, karl lagerfeld book, where's karl?](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-CT-fashion-alums-1-355x240.jpg)
Alumni
Where’s Karl Lagerfeld?
Alumnae created the fictional Fleur de la Sabine to trace the fashion icon around the world.
![harmful communication styles, communication meta-analysis, TCU communications graduate school](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-AM-Broken-heart-origami-style-copy-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters, Research + Discovery
Understanding the Silent Treatment
Paul Schrodt conducted the first meta-analysis of the demand-withdraw communication pattern.
![Fran Huckaby, How can I change the world, world's most important person](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-AM-Roundtable-Huckaby-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters
Faculty Roundtable on Influential People
Who is the most important person alive today? Why?
![TCU art, Victor Boschini, great Chancellor's message](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Boschini-grayscale-312x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters
Chancellor Boschini on Today’s Library
Mary Couts Burnett Library is befitting a great national university.
![Songbird. bird analog human speech, vocal learning](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bird-art-CP-copy-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters, Research + Discovery
Brenton Cooper’s Research on Vocal Learning
The psychology professor studies how songbirds develop the ability to make sounds, and his results could benefit humans.
![Yoga for Musicians, TCU Music Majors, musicians improve strength, Kristen Queen](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Yoga-for-Musicians3-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters
Yoga for Musicians
Music majors learn to improve focus, build strength and relax.
![Sephardic Torah, WWII Torah, Brite Library.](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Torah-Object-Lesson-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters
Object Lesson: The Sephardic Torah
The holy book survived World War II and found a home at the Brite Divinity School Library.
![Kris Bunton, communication ethics, Schieffer College, University of St. Thomas](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-AM-KrisBunton-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters
Q&A – Schieffer College dean Kris Bunton
We sat down with Bunton to listen to her thoughts on ethics in the rapidly evolving field of communication.
![library protest, TCU protest, libraries used to be closed on Sundays, effective protests](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/picketing-library-310x240.jpg)
Mem’ries Sweet
Protesting the Library in the 1960s
The Mary Couts Burnett Library used to close on Sundays … until students waged a gentle protest.
![Romance CEO, how to unforgettable proposal, how to ask a woman to marry you, Mike Bloomberg, Proposal Consultant](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-CT-Bloomberg1-1-355x240.jpg)
Alumni
Michael Bloomberg – Romance CEO
Marriage proposal expert Michael Bloomberg ’99 MLA started a new venture last summer — Get Engaged!, a teambuilding venture.
![](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-CT-ChelseaHawley-355x240.jpg)
Alumni
Chelsea Hawley of Sanglier Cellars
After an early career in New York City fashion, she’s now the lead marketer and tasting room manager for the family vineyard.
![Andrew McBath, Drew McBath, Banner Butter, American butter, craft butter](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-CT-McBath-newer-355x240.jpg)
Alumni
Spreading the love of Banner Butter
With the help of 19th century dairy journals, Andrew McBath ’92 creates a better butter.
![](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-AM-Library-infographic-WEB-355x240.jpg)
Campus News: Alma Matters
Infographic – Library Facts
We break it down, book-by-book.
![TCU basketball records, how to shoot free throws, Springfield basketball, TCU basketball](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Zahna1WEB-355x240.gif)
Sports: Riff Ram
First Person Q&A with … Zahna Medley
TCU’s record-shattering senior point guard talks leadership, eating fire and the other Coach P.
![](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WIN16-TC-Obit-Howard-Wible-1969-PROMO-355x240.jpg)
Alumni
Howard G. Wible
1920-2015
Popular teacher and administrator rose from night professor in the Evening College to provost and acting chancellor during a 27-year career at TCU.
![Scott Nix. TCU football 1980s, Killerfrogs, TCU fansite, Frog fans, biggest TCU fan](https://magazine.tcu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Nix1WEB-355x240.gif)
Alumni
Scott Nix
1959-2015
The 1982 grad was a TCU football letterman, owner of Killerfrogs.com and one of the most passionate supporters of TCU Athletics.