Category: Alumni News
Vanderpools, others help minister to Haiti
A family with strong ACU roots is active in the effort to help bring medical and humanitarian aid to victims of the powerful earthquakes in Haiti. Brentwood, Tenn., physician David M. Vanderpool M.D. (’81) and his son, ACU junior David Vanderpool, have been working in the devastated region this past week, the former with Mobile … Continued
Remembering Neil Fry
By now, we hope you’ve received ACU Today’s Fall 2009 issue in the mail. You may have noticed news about the death of 81-year-old Edward Neil Fry (’50) on page 46 of EXperiences. It always pains me to see the fascinating lives of people summarized in a few lines of an obituary, even more so for people I … Continued
Lytle, Schubert chosen as presidential finalists
After considering applicants from what ACU Board chair Don W. Crisp (’64) called a “national pool of experienced and outstanding professionals,” the Presidential Search Advisory Committee has chosen Dr. Richard S. Lytle and Dr. Phil Schubert (’91) as finalists to become the university’s 11th president. Lytle is dean of ACU’s College of Business Administration and … Continued
Alum helps produce History in Plain Sight
Most people who live in Abilene, or have been to school here, know the names of the major streets: Ambler, Treadaway, Sayles, North 1st and South 1st, Willis, Leggett. Most people have driven by Rose Park, in the center of town, and driven on Highway 80. But most people don’t know the history behind these … Continued

Sons of Wildcats make bowl game headlines
The family trees of several players starring on the college football bowl scene the past week have a decidedly purple hue, despite the burnt-orange-and-white and red-and-black uniforms seen by their fans on TV. The University of Texas Longhorns play the University of Alabama Crimson Tide for all the football marbles tonight in the Citi BCS … Continued
Top Cat
By now, I hope you’re enjoying the new and hopefully improved look of the Winter 2009 issue of the magazine. The design has undergone a much-anticipated (at least from my perspective) makeover, with cover boy (and former ACU classmate) Lance Barrow as the headliner. This blog will be getting a corresponding facelift this summer to … Continued
David Ramsey in Beijing
While vacationing in Colorado with my family recently, I enjoyed catching up one evening in Colorado Springs with longtime friend and 1981 ACU graduate David Ramsey. He and I and our spouses walked the grounds of the Broadmoor Hotel, where the U.S. Senior Open golf tournament was being held, and visited over coffee at a … Continued