Throwing up the Frog sign - in utero

Michael O. Browning Jr. '07 of Dallas and his wife are expecting their first child in the spring. Last week, they got a 3-D sonogram of the expected Baby Landree, and she appeared to be "throwing up the TCU Horned Frog sign," he wrote to tell us. The Brownings, who are big TCU football fans, love the image so much that they are getting t-shirts made for their tailgate! Michael is a senior vice president for marketing and business development at Santa Barbara Medical Innovations in Dallas.

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Reading the mag in Zimbabwe

Jean Sauerberg Ware '60 wrote us to share this photo of her holding a copy of our Summer 2011 issue while on safari in Zimbabwe in August. That's Victoria Falls in the background. "While making the Frog sign," Jean wrote, "many visitors gave me very quizzical looks!!"

A resident of Houston, Jean and her husband have been on six African safaris to South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania. Jean said she and her husband love tenting and driving around to see the African animals and colorful birds. "Safaris are almost as thrilling as being in
the Rose Bowl watching the Frogs win the big one!" she wrote.

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Licensed to cheer TCU

TCU ex-letterman Julie Perry Nelson '94 of the women's golf team wrote to tell us about this license plate her mom got when her daughter went off to become a Horned Frog. "Even though I graduated in 1994, she still has the plate!" Julie writes. "She does have to explain what it means in Arizona though! I’m sure if it was in Texas, there would be no explanation necessary!"

Either way, Go Frogs!

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Representing TCU in Iraq

U.S. Army officers 1st Lt. Drew Mayer (left) and 1st Lt. James Starcher '09 show off a TCU flag at Contingency Operations Base in Basra, Iraq. The two are from different units and randomly encountered one another in the chow hall in the fall of 2010. Both strong Horned Frog fans, they decided to take this photo during the football team's 13-0 Rose Bowl season. At the time, they were both 2nd lieutenants.

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Aloha means "Go Frogs!"

Mary Shull Lawrence '80 of League City, Texas, and husband Jack just returned from a fabulous vacation in Oahu, Hawaii, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. "It was also a great escape from Houston heat and humidity!" Mary writes. "I managed to wear something TCU-related at least once every day while on vacation. I even did the "Go Frogs" while parasailing."

Not one day went by where someone didn't stop me to ask about TCU, Mary said. "It was a great opportunity to talk to folks about TCU," she said. "We even met another TCU alum the first day we arrived, appropriately attired in a TCU shirt as well."

Mary is works for METRO (Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County) as lead analyst for Ridership Analysis and Service Evaluation.

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New Frogs meet U.S. Senators McCain, Kerry

Well, you never know who you'll meet on the streets of Rome. In late June and early July, incoming TCU Honors students explored the cultural, historical and social contributions of Italy's capital city as a part of Frog Camp Rome. The city, whose history spans two and a half millenia, provided many wondrous sites and opportunities over seven days: the Vatican, St. Peter's Basilica, the Coliseum, the Catacombs, the Borghese Gardens and Trevi Fountain.

But one late-night hunt for gelato provided more than Frog Campers expected, says the trip's faculty sponsor Ron Pitcock, the J. Vaughan and Evelyn H. Wilson Honors Fellow. "As we ate gelato outside one of my favorite shops at 11:30 p.m., we noticed two familiar faces strolling up Via Uffici del Vicario — U.S. Senators John Kerry and John McCain," he writes. "They were both gracious with their time. Both men posed patiently for pictures and chatted extensively with TCU’s incoming students."

What are the odds of meeting two U.S. senators on the streets of Rome, one student wondered. Says Pitcock, "Another student replied, 'It’s more significant than that. How many people can say they took a picture with the last two people to lose the U.S. Presidency?!' ”

TCU pride atop Grand Teton

Chris Poland '98 and Kirk Elam '98 scaled to the top of Grand Teton in the Grand Teton National Park in Jackson, Wyo., on July 26, 2011 at 8:40 a.m. "We brought a TCU flag up to the top to show our school pride," Poland writes.

The Grand Teton is 13,779 feet above sea level, and the duo climbed almost 8,000 vertical feet in two days. "It definitely was the most difficult thing that I have ever done," Poland says. "The view was spectacular, and the trip was personally fulfilling."

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