…art High School in Santa Clarita, Calif. But rather than let that ruin her last year of high school, Alexandra turned it into a positive, putting her skills to use by starting a cheerleading squad at the local Boys and Girls Club. There, she coached a group of girls on not only the basics of cheerleading, but also the importance of things like exercise, teamwork and leadership. In just a semester, she saw dramatic improvement in every area, culmin…
If you were considering, say, taking your car in for service to a particular shop, you’d want to hear from others who have had their vehicles worked on by that mechanic. So if you were deciding what college to attend, wouldn’t you want to hear from those who had been there? Baylor students are many times the school’s best recruiters, and that’s the idea behind Snapshots, a series of short videos in which students answer simple questions, like “Wh…
39 days and counting until Baylor football kicks off the 2009 season at Wake Forest in a nationally televised game… (Get your season tickets now!) The Bears will debut their new uniforms that day, and wearing the green and gold will be four preseason All-Big 12 selections: junior defensive tackle Phil Taylor, junior punter Derek Epperson, senior safety Jordan Lake and senior linebacker Joe Pawelek. Taylor, a 6-4, 355-pound lineman, is a transfer…
…nc., and Jenny Allison, past-president of the Baylor Women’s Council of Dallas; Ken Carlile, co-chairman of Carlile Companies, his brother Steve Carlile, chairman/CEO of Home and Garden Party, and Penny Carlile, president of Home and Garden Party; Paul Foster, president/owner of Western Refining Co.; Bob Perry, chairman of the board for Perry Homes Ltd.; Walter Umphrey, senior managing partner of the Provost & Umphrey Law Firm; and John Eddie Will…
…visit campus as often as you’d like. If that’s the case, you owe it to yourself to check out Baylor’s new Guided Virtual Tours. The folks behind BaylorVision worked with Campus Visits to create a series of short videos that give those watching a sense of what Baylor’s campus is all about, from the historic architecture to the lively happenings and beloved traditions Baylor students experience. The guided tours include some views of campus you’ve p…
Edd Hayes was a little worried when he was commissioned to create a statue of a lawyer nicknamed “Mad Dog.” Can you blame him? But his rendering of R. Matt Dawson at the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center certainly captures the “Mad Dog” spirit. As Baylor Law Dean Brad Toben said at the unveiling of the life-size statue on Tuesday, “if you faced Matt in Practice Court, you admire the sculpture … and are a little bit scared at the same time!” Af…
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,…
