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Four generations of Horned Frogs

Four generations of Horned Frogs

When TCU gets in a person’s blood, it often gets passed on to family members. There may be no greater example of this than the McKnight family of Texas, which has an amazing four generations of Horned Frogs!

It started with Ewell McKnight ’15, who was a football letterman not long after Texas Christian University moved to its present location in 1911. His brother Tom McKnight would not attend TCU but would be a TCU donor much of his life. But Ewell’s two children, Robert McKnight ’52 and JoAnn McKnight Magruder ’55, would become Horned Frogs, as would 10 of his 11 grandchildren, with five of them graduating. This year, one of his great granddaughters earned a TCU diploma, and another is on track to graduate in 2013 — 98 years after Ewell!

Ewell’s children Robert and JoAnn followed their father to TCU, where JoAnn met her husband Hal B. Lambert ’54, a football letterman like his father-in-law. They all represent the second generation of McKnights at TCU.

Hal and JoAnn had three children who would become Horned Frogs — Blake Lambert ’79, who would play football for the Frogs like his father and grandfather; Louis Lambert ’81, a TCU Phi Delt, who many know as famous Fort Worth chef and restauranteur; and Liz Lambert, a TCU Pi Phi and now successful hotelier.

Robert’s family produced five Horned Frogs — Cathy McKnight ’77, a TCU Tri Delt who later transferred to the University of Texas; Marci McKnight Stocker ’78, a TCU Tri Delt; Sue McKnight Ivey, a TCU Tri Delt; Bob McKnight ’82, a TCU Kappa Sig; and John McKnight ’83, also a TCU Kappa Sig. Bobby and John would marry TCU alums Lynda Howard ’67, a TCU Tri Delt, and Susie Chilton ’83, a TCU Kappa Kappa Gamma, respectively.

They all make up the family’s third generation of Horned Frogs.

The fourth generation is at TCU now. John McKnight’s daughter, Mary Katherine McKnight ’12, a TCU Kappa Kappa Gamma, just graduated in May, and Cathy McKnight’s daughter, Jacqueline Meacham ’13, a TCU Tri Delt, will graduate in the spring.

Together, the family purchased 19 bricks in the TCU Athletics Legacy Brick Program outside the east side of Amon G. Carter Stadium.

“I am not sure how many four-generation families TCU has, but we are certainly proud to be part of one,” wrote Marci McKnight Stocker.

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