Career
A street in Austin, Texas is named after him. He was also an Amateur Radio Operator. She started by writing a letter to a popular Q&A columnist in the Austin American-Statesman, Ellie Rucker.
She then investigated the possibility of changing the name of the street he lived on, but soon found that to be entirely too cumbersome a project
She moved on to finding a developer who would name a new street after him instead. She contacted an acquaintance of his in the city"s Street and Bridge department who was instrumental in making it happen.
A new development was being planned for southeast Austin, that would be the site of Advanced Micro Devices. Thanks to the generosity of a developer, her dream became a reality in December 1984.
Street and Bridge made a street sign for her to present to him along with the city plat, detailing the location.
The event was covered by a local news television station and was also picked up by the Associated Press, appearing in the Dallas paper, where his namesake, Alvin DeVane II resides.
