More than 15,000 visitors attended the 38th Annual Texas Arts & Crafts Fair in Kerrville, Texas, over Memorial Day Weekend, but only one came away with the fair competition’s highest honor. That one, of course, was a Baylor Bear. Erin Dobbins, who graduated in May with a bachelor of fine arts degree, won the fair’s top award of Emerging Texas Artist (that’s her work at right). And she wasn’t the only award winner from Baylor; four other Bears als…
…udents are doing good for the community, not just learning to make as much money as possible at any cost. The article notes, “Witness the volunteer work of a group of students from Baylor University in Texas. While Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron and a Harvard MBA, serves a 24-year term at a federal prison for fraud, the current Baylor class have just won an award for their mentoring work with prison inmates in the Prison Entrepreneurship Progr…
…and a half ago, Baylor head football coach Art Briles has gotten plenty of credit for the team’s improvement — and rightly so, I think. Just as coaches get blamed when a team suffers, they should be applauded when a team wins. But that’s not to say there aren’t other people contributing mightily to the effort. For instance, there’s Baylor’s assistant athletic director for strength and conditioning, Kaz Kazadi. A former pro football player, Kazadi…
…AIDS clinic in Zambia. But her work isn’t done, and she continues to raise money for the project. That’s why Houston’s KPRC Channel 2 recently honored her with a Jefferson Award, given for extraordinary public service. (Click here for their video.) She also was given a hero’s welcome at a school in Maryland where she was a guest speaker in May. Elliott was touched by letters she received from students there after they read of her story last year,…
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…us community organizations that include many Baylor students as volunteers, groups like Mission Waco and the Texas Hunger Initiative. Frankly, even that list doesn’t do the article (or the movement on campus justice); you really should read it for yourself. Multiple faculty members told the magazine that they have never before seen an energy like this on Baylor’s campus towards such an issue. It’s so encouraging to see so many students working so…
…his Baylor telecommunications (now film and digital media) degree to use, self producing his three Comedy Central specials. (See clips on his YouTube page.) In fact, my first introduction to Dunham came through his former professor, Dr. Michael Korpi, who showed some clips of Baylor alums in the field during an intro to mass communications class my freshman year. For a Baylor grad to “inspire a minor ventriloquism renaissance,” as Time says, prov…
…hat while speaking in an introduction-to-law course this spring, he discussed with students “the concept that your life will make a difference, and you will be remembered only if life is lived outwardly to serve. If they view themselves as lawyers, no matter what venue they find themselves in, they need to ask themselves, ‘Am I meeting the needs of people who have problems?’ because that’s what, fundamentally, lawyering is.” Yet another example of…
…mp, president and CEO of BMC Software Inc., one of the 20 largest software companies in the world; * Linda Jean Brian, BA ’69, part-time assistant director of education at Sylvan Learning Center in Amarillo (Brian was appointed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas); * David Harlan Harper, BBA ’88, partner/attorney and chair of Litigation North Section, Haynes and Boone LLP, annually one of the top firms on the AmLaw 100; * Ronald Dean Murff,…
When athletics chaplain Wes Yeary was hired last year, one of his charges was to help organize mission trips for Baylor’s student-athletes, as the former football letterman described in this Baylor Magazine feature. This month, Yeary is leading a 16-member team to Kenya for two weeks, where the group will work with existing ministries to street children, homeless women and recovering addicts as well as conducting sports clinics. Jerry Hill’s Bayl…
