Over 160 Baylor students went on mission trips this summer coordinated through Baylor’s Spiritual Life office to places like Kenya, Uganda, Honduras, Argentina and Rwanda, but they weren’t the only Bears who used their summer breaks to serve on mission trips. Alumni Bob Gillchrest (c/o ’66) and his wife Anita (BSN ’69) wrote in to […]
Competing at the Leonard Falcone International Tuba-Euphonium Competition, arguably the top annual amateur competition for the two instruments, two Baylor students and one recent graduate came away with high honors. In a field comprised of tubists of all ages, two students from Baylor’s School of Music — graduate student Clay Garrett and senior Kevin Butler […]
Saturday was Summer Commencement — probably the least publicized of Baylor’s three graduation weekends, but no less important to the students who received their Baylor diplomas and are now entering the “real world.” Congratulations, grads! (See photos from the event here.) Among the many stories from Saturday’s ceremony was the awarding of a posthumous degree […]
In 2076, when the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., opens the time capsule it laid during the nation’s bicentennial 100 years earlier, one of the artifacts they will find is evidence of the work of Baylor graduates. The cantata God with Us, written by Hal Hopson, class of 1954, was enclosed in the capsule as […]
If you’re going from Waco to Mexico, traveling through Connecticut isn’t necessarily the quickest way to get there. But for one recent Baylor graduate, it’s working out. Rafael Benavides, who received his degree in journalism this past May, earned a scholarship to study with Yale University’s Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies in Zacatecas, […]
Baylor alumnus Drayton McLane, chairman of the McLane Group and owner of the Houston Astros, led a group of heavy hitters who visited Baylor this week during the annual summer retreat for the University’s Regents. Academic and business leaders, key supporters and others joined the Regents to hear reports about Baylor’s progress and to contribute […]
I was sorry to hear yesterday of the passing of Dr. Faber McMullen, a longtime Baylor supporter who, along with his wife Roxanna, made the McMullen-Connally Faculty Center possible just last year. I got to meet Dr. McMullen (BS ’53, MD ’56) at the Faculty Center’s dedication last year, and he was quite an interesting […]
With Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game last night signifying the mid-point of the 2009 season, this seems like an appropriate time to take a look at the 20 Baylor players active in professional baseball. Those who follow Baylor Proud on Twitter read about Drew Sutton’s promotion to the big leagues earlier this month with the […]
We asked for your help, and you came through, helping elect track star (and Baylor alum) Michael Johnson into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame! Johnson and the rest of the Hall’s class of 2009 will be inducted August 12 in Chicago; the induction ceremony will be nationally televised on NBC on September 5 at […]
Kelly Williams (class of 2002) didn’t just battle cancer for herself; she fought it for others, too. Williams, an economics major at Baylor, was a teacher near Dallas when she was diagnosed three years ago with colon cancer at the age of 26. Even while undergoing chemotherapy, Williams worked to raise awareness of the colon […]
