Supposedly, one of the advantages of attending a big university is that you are exposed to the smartest and best-educated professors. There may be a grain of truth in that idea but it is not always manifested. Forty years...
Kyu-Pal Choi had a lot going on in the early 1990s. Not only was he the father of three young children but he had gone into business for himself, starting Hansung International Patent & Law Office. He was also served as the leader of...
After my sophomore year at UT, I was up in Michigan with my family. We lived in Livonia, a duller-than-dull suburb west of Detroit. There were good people in Livonia, but the city itself left much to be desired. I had an office job at Ford...
Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas) I saw numerous football games at the historic Cotton Bowl, including those featuring the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Texans and SMU Mustangs. I was there for a half-dozen UT-Oklahoma games and the Cotton Bowl Classics...
While living at Jester Dormitory on the University of Texas campus in 1972-1973, I roomed with John Collins. He was born in Roswell, New Mexico, although he grew up primarily in Dallas. I mention John’s birthplace because Roswell is...
From the summer of 1981 until November 2007 when I moved to Korea, I was among the most regular of participants in road races in Austin and the surrounding area. Of the 650-plus races in which I have run, the large majority took place in...
First of all, a brief biography of Dick “Night Train” Lane. He was born on the east side of Austin, Texas in 1928, the son of a prostitute and her pimp. Abandoned three months later, he was taken in by a woman who initially thought...
You talk about getting off-track. Five years after graduating from the University of Texas, I was still doing blue-collar work. There were reasons for this sad state of affairs, but we need not go into them now. In the summer of 1981, I...
How could I forget the blistering heat of the summer of 1980? I was living in Denton, Texas, and in an effort to save money I never used the air conditioner in my apartment near the North Texas State University campus. A window fan...
I played countless games of backyard basketball with my older brother Randy. As far as college hoops, we both liked the hometown SMU Mustangs. In the pros, however, we diverged. He favored the Boston Celtics, and I, almost by default, took the...
I have lately found myself thinking about William Henry (Bill) Gates III. Who can deny that the co-founder of Microsoft is in an enviable position? Whenever he walks down the street—anywhere in the world—kings and queens step...
I went back to the University of Texas in 1982 and took a series of courses in creative writing, journalism and editing. Around the middle of that 18-month period, I passed a test and joined the staff of the Daily Texan, UT’s student...
AncoraThemes © 2025. All Rights Reserved
