Stockings full of fun in Guatemala

Charlie Royer '04, wife Adelaide and friends went on a December mission trip to Guatemala with the Buckner Foundation. The Royers took time to teach the Horned Frog sign to new friends and hand out stockings. 

Royer is an account executive with the commercial interiors firm Royer & Schutts. He lives in Fort Worth. 

First date at Fiesta Bowl. Proposed to at Rose Bowl.

John Morris '11 didn’t know what to say when his girlfriend, Nikki Garber ’08 (MS ’10) asked during the holiday break whether they might get married at some point.

“I felt so bad because I think I broke her heart,” Morris would say later. “But I had this whole thing already planned and didn’t want to ruin the surprise, so I told her it would be a few years.”

This “whole thing” was an unexpected marriage proposal at the Rose Bowl, which he announced by having the cheerleaders hoist signs saying "Nikki Will You Marry Me?"

Garber’s reaction?

“She started looking around and said, ‘Isn’t that nice, somebody else spells their name the same way I do,’ “ Morris recalls. “Then she turned toward me, and by then I was on my knee holding up the ring.”

Yes, she said yes.

“People around us freaked out,” Morris says. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the bunch, even the people who didn’t know who we were.”

Ironically, the couple that sat in front of them at the game also got engaged at a TCU football game about 30 years ago.

Morris and Garber met about a year ago through a mutual friend, and their first date was at the Fiesta Bowl, so Morris decided a proposal at the Rose Bowl was particularly fitting.

He asked her family for permission, arranged for the cheerleaders to hold up the signs and bought an engagement ring — crafted, appropriately, from rose gold, a pink-hued gold that has recently come in vogue.

The matching wedding band will circle her finger at Robert Carr Chapel next November, when they will marry.

Morris, a Fort Worth boot maker, will finished his bachelor’s degree at TCU in May, then move to Houston, where Garber is a geologist for Plains Exploration and Production, and hopes to being an MBA program at Rice University in the fall.

More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetcumagazine/sets/72157625824842296/

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aZuY9UqGbU.

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A Horned Frog and a Tiger

Sharon Metroka Dooley '83 of Niceville, Fla., emails to tell us about her doubly good football fortune:

"In 1979, I entered my freshman year of college at Auburn University. In 1981, after meeting the man who would one day become my Auburn engineer husband, I made a tough decision to leave Auburn for TCU. My brother is an Auburn alum. My older sister is an Auburn alum. My younger sister is a TCU alum. My mother was a TCU journalism department employee.

Never, in a million years, would I have expected to see an Associated Press final football rankings poll listing Auburn as No. 1 and TCU as No. 2.

I love both of my schools. War Eagle and Go Frogs!"

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Eight Frogs in Pasadena

Katie Madsen '03 wrote to share this photo of she and her friends at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. Left to right, pictured are Zach Madsen'00, Katie Madsen '03, Garrison Dolezal '01, Alex Dolezal '05, Tony Groat '04, Ron Groat '01, Matt Appleby '00 and Brittany Pollina'05.

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Horned Frog snow sculpture

Le’Ann Pembroke Callihan ‘90 of Denton wrote to share these snow photos with The TCU Magazine.

Her husband Mark (pictured above) created the snow sculpture on Monday with sons Reece, 12, and River, 8, all of whom are big Horned Frog fans.

While the skin looks like stone, the giant horned lizard is all snow and took several hours to sculpt. The Callihans used water colors to decorate the jersey, face and skin.



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With mom and dad at the Rose Bowl

Emily Gipson '04 and her father Nick Gipson '72 (along with mom Linda) celebrate the Rose Bowl victory together. Emily, who lives in Venice, Calif., hosted her parents from Wichita Falls for the game.

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Painting the town purple

Brian Bennett '69 of Waco couldn't make it to the Rose Bowl, so after the game, he did the next best thing (according to him): He painted the faded fire hydrant in the corner of his yard.

No word yet on what the fire department thinks.

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