A Celebration of Life service for Bill Little – the face and the voice of the Texas Longhorns for more than 50 years – was held October 1, 2023 at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium in the LBJ Library on The University of Texas campus. For those wishing to honor and remember Bill, the family encourages contributions to three of Bill’s favorite organizations, including Friends of the Daily Texan, https://friendsofthedailytexan.com/donations/, which ensures long-term funding of scholarships for staff members of The Daily Texan, or by mail: Friends of The Daily Texan, P.O. Box 8383, Austin, Texas 78713 Little worked with five football coaches, […]
Read more →A $60,000 grant to provide financial support to photojournalists at The Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin has been established by the Tejemos Foundation, founded by Austin residents Lynne Dobson and Greg Wooldridge. The funding will establish a $50,000 endowment to provide an annual grant to a photojournalist working at The Daily Texan, and an additional $10,000 for immediate needs. Dobson, who moved to Austin in the 1970s, worked as a photographer at The Daily Texan. A graduate of UT-Austin in 1979, she had a 25-year career as an award-winning photojournalist for newspapers in Ohio, California and […]
Read more →When you support scholarships for Daily Texan staff members by donating to the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. endowment, who receives the money and where are they now, after graduation? Read below – in their own words – about 4 former Texan staffers who are examples of the importance of those grants that you help support. One student former student calls it “a lifesaver” for him and his family; another says, “I couldn’t be more grateful for the investment in my career and studies.” Since the Friends group’s first grant of $1,500 to one student in 2018, $41,750 has […]
Read more →Veteran Austin American-Statesman columnist and sports editor Kirk Bohls and his wife Vicki have endowed a permanent grant to fund an annual scholarship for a Daily Texan sports journalist. Kirk and Vicki’s $50,000 donation will fully endow a new annual scholarship, and comes as the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. work this year to raise funds to fund for long-term availability all 13 grants that will be awarded next year. The $2,500 award will be presented each year at the Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner and will recognize the achievements of a sports-focused staff member […]
Read more →When you donate to support scholarship grants for Daily Texan staff members, via Friends of The Daily Texan, what happens after you write a check or make an online donation? First, donations of any size are appreciated and help us reach our $300,000 goal in 2023. Please be aware that the Friends of The Daily Texan is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been recognized by the IRS as being tax-exempt by virtue of its charitable programs. Your donation may be tax deductible. As donations are received they are deposited to an endowment fund with the University of Texas […]
Read more →A Celebration of Life service for legendary Longhorn Athletics administrator Bill Little, who passed away Aug. 25, is set for Sunday, October 1, at 2:30 p.m. CT at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium in the LBJ Library (2405 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, TX 78712) on The University of Texas campus. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages contributions to three of Little’s favorite organizations: Friends of the Daily Texan, which ensures long-term funding of scholarships for staff members of The Daily Texan; the Texas Exes Cheer and Pom Alumni Network Operating Endowment; and Hospice Austin. The full story on Little’s passing can be […]
Read more →Bill Little Died Aug. 18, 2023 Austin, Texas From Texassports.com Legendary University of Texas Athletics Administrator Bill Little passed away peacefully surrounded by family Friday evening in Austin. He was 81. Celebration of life services are pending and forthcoming. Little was the face — and often the voice — of Longhorn athletics for more than 50 years. Long before sports reporting turned digital, Little, as sports editor of The Daily Texan, was hammering out copy on a manual Royal typewriter. He continued to masterfully and skillfully share stories of Longhorn Athletics through the many transformations of broadcast radio and television, […]
Read more →An important message for alumni of The Daily Texan, and supporters of student journalism at the University of Texas at Austin From Board of Directors, Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. Today we are asking you to join our effort to fund annual and fully endowed scholarships for student journalists at the 123-year-old Daily Texan, the most award-winning student newspaper in the nation. Fully endowed scholarships will insure that the grants live on in perpetuity, long after we are gone. Five years ago the Friends group provided a $1,500 scholarship to a deserving Texan staffer. This year scholarships totaling $15,000 […]
Read more →Gerald A. Johnson, director of Texas Student Media for the past 9 years, has accepted a new position at UT-Austin, but will still retain involvement in Texas Student Media, while adding additional duties for Moody College of Communication. Johnson has assumed the role of Executive Director for Program and Center Innovation and Partnership for the Moody College of Communication. TSM will continue to be one of his responsibilities and he is in the process of looking for a successor in his TSM role. Under Johnson’s leadership, The Daily Texan and TSM are expected to record its 9th consecutive annual profit […]
Read more →Murray Lawrence Forsvall Died July 12, 2023 Dallas, Texas Murray Lawrence Forsvall, who spent his life as a sports participant and started his career as a sportswriter for The Daily Texan in the 1950s, passed away on July 12 at the age of 91 in Dallas. Forsvall not only was an accomplished sportswriter, but a golfer, runner, and racecar driver. He spent most of his career with the Dallas Times Herald. An Austin native, it was fitting that Forsvall grew up in a North Austin house that backed up to the 12th hole of what was then the Austin Country […]
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