A Home for the Holidays

By Kayla Chandler More families adopt a pet during the winter holidays than at any other time of year, according to the Helen Woodward Animal Center’s website. A well-known Christmas adoption myth is that pets given as holiday gifts would eventually end up back in a shelter. But Kathryn Newton, a Texas Tech student from Austin, Texas, […]

Journeying from South Korea to the U.S.

When Hannah Lyons goes out to lunch with her mother, waiters often ask if they want separate checks. Lyons, a public relations major at Tech, was adopted from South Korea when she was three months old. She came to the U.S. after spending time at an orphanage and then with a foster family. A “military man” flew with her from […]

Finding Home

By Abby Aldrich Roxanne Derrick remembers the day she found out she was adopted. At the age of 5 or 6, Derrick became curious about her birth. Her adoptive mother took the opportunity to explain. “She said, ‘Well, we couldn’t have any babies of our own, and so we chose you,” Derrick said. “You are […]