Standing atop the world’s tallest peak, Colin O’Brady, Yale ’06, briefly pulled off his oxygen mask to revel in the glory of mountaineering’s most difficult test. He had become one of the few people to ever reach the “Top of the World” at Mount Everest — 29,029 feet up.

When Charlie Amato, Sam Houston State ’70, arrived on campus as a freshman in the fall of 1966, he was happy to see a familiar face. Gary Dudley, Sam Houston State ’69, whom he’d befriended one year during a childhood spent moving around the Gulf Coast, was equally happy to see Amato come through the…

The incumbent, Republican Carlos Curbelo, Miami (Florida) ’02, was challenged by his immediate past incumbent — and SigEp chapter brother — Democrat Joe Garcia, Miami (Florida) ’87, whom he beat in 2014.