Home suite home.
Roxo and KTCU are now neighbors in TCU’s Bob Schieffer College of Communication.
The two experiential learning programs celebrated their new homes with ribbon cutting ceremonies and celebrations this Family Weekend.
Armed with purple scissors, Bob Schieffer ’59, Dean Kristie Bunton, Roxo president Meagan Yates and Roy Eaton ’59 cut a ribbon to open the Eaton Roxo Agency Suite.
Armed with purple scissors, Roy ’59 and Roxo president Meagan Yates cut a ribbon Friday morning to open the Eaton Roxo Agency Suite that houses our student-run advertising and public relations agency. More than 400 students have gained hands-on communication experience for more than 100 businesses and organizations since Roxo was founded in 2011.
Roy and Jeannine ‘60 Eaton are the longtime owners and publishers of the Wise County Messenger in Decatur. Along with journalism scholarship donations, they have supported Roxo since 2017, because, as Roy Eaton has said, newspaper owners depend a great deal on advertising and public relations expertise.
Bob Schieffer ’59 and James “Jamie” Alexander ’72, ’79 celebrate the ribbon cutting for the Jazbo Audio Production Suites in the new home of KTCU radio.
Friday afternoon, James “Jamie” Alexander ’72, ’79 cut the ribbon to open the Jazbo Audio Production Suites in the new home of KTCU radio. In making his gift to support all-new digital equipment in five KTCU production spaces, Alexander said working at KTCU radio as a student changed his life.
The name Alexander chose for the production suites stems from a family nickname.
“As I had managed an all-jazz station—KRTU-FM at Trinity University, San Antonio—it made sense from that angle. Later, I found out there had been a famous DJ named Al ‘Jazzbo’ Collins,” Alexander said in an email. “When I moved to California, I wanted to get my first personalized license plate, but as JAZZBO was taken, I went with JAZBO for my fun little yellow Miata.”
KTCU has been ruling the airwaves on campus and beyond since 1964, celebrating its 60th anniversary as an FM station last year. But its history goes back even further to the earliest days of TCU. Now the station has five new state-of-the-art studios for its DJs, which includes 40 volunteer spots, often with a waiting list for interested students.
Bob Schieffer ’59 and Pat Schieffer ’61 leave the KTCU ribbon cutting celebration.
The Eatons and Alexander weren’t the only alumni roaming Moudy South on Friday. The college’s namesake Bob Schieffer ’59, a classmate of Roy Eaton, joined the celebrations. Schieffer and his wife Pat Schieffer ‘61, a TCU trustee emeritus, greeted students and their families during an afternoon open house.
Rounding out the day, the college’s Board of Visitors, comprised of Schieffer alumni, held its fall meeting and the Schieffer Committee of Community and Belonging hosted a Connection Fair to showcase programs, organizations and experiential learning opportunities for Schieffer students.
