Recollections: Education with meaning
In recent issues, we asked readers to share the most valuable lesson learned during their time at TCU. Whether a person, a class, a professor or an event, the examples shared by alumni inspired us.
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March 21, 2013
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
Catching air at KTCU
An enlarged yearbook photo hung for many years in the studios of KTCU. The young man in the frame was Luther Adkins ’49. The label under the portrait refers to him as the station’s founder. The funny thing about the man they dubbed the founder is that his voice never graced the KTCU airwaves
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Remembering the TCU Yacht Club
Fifteen young men were determined to make the annual. Mission accomplished.
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October 15, 2012
A fresh slate in 1983-84
Having graduated all eight of the seniors who truly were the Killer Frogs, the TCU men’s basketball team of 1983-84 was starting with a clean slate. That became the theme of that season’s media guide, shown above. It was Jim Killingsworth‘s fifth season in Fort Worth, and only one player remained from the previous season’s
Cheers through the years
TCU fans have found unusual ways to show school spirit.
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Prepared for takeoff
With their heads in the clouds and patriotism soaring, the Flying Frogs of the late 1940s ascended to national acclaim.
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A tiff with the Skiff
The student newspaper and the TCU Entertainment Committee got into in the spring of 1968 over Simon and Garfunkel
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Town and gown mixer
In April 1968, the university and city kicked off TCU/Fort Worth Week, just to remind one another that their partnership was still strong and vital as ever.
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Gym dandy
Built in 1921, the Ballet Building (or “The Little Gym” as it was known for decades) gets a new name as the old relic closes for renovation.
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