In May 2004, Tim Culver (BBA’ 84) received news that his wife, Sara (BS ’84, MS ’85), had suffered a stroke. With three children still at home and the oldest child heading off to serve in Iraq, Tim was devastated. After 10 days in ICU, he was told his wife would never walk, talk, or […]
French is often referred to as “the language of love,” but for Baylor graduates Philipp Rossbach and Kimberly Loyd, it was a German class at Baylor that sparked their romance. As students, Philipp (BBA ’05, MAc ’05) and Kimberly (BS ’06) met in the German lounge on the second floor of Old Main in September […]
I had the privilege last week of attending the Baylor Business Network of Austin’s monthly luncheon, at which Drayton McLane, BBA ’58, chairman of the Houston Astros and McLane Group, LP, was the featured speaker. McLane spoke to a group of about 100 Bears about the importance of integrity in leadership. That he took time […]
Longtime Baylor professor Burnie Battles, BA ’65, MS ’66, died in June in an automobile accident. After earning two degrees from Baylor, he served on the School of Education’s faculty for 42 years. At the time, I read plenty of memories from his former colleagues and students, but none of them hit me like this […]
Baylor football fans know Keith Bishop, BS ’90, as an offensive lineman for the Bears in the late 1970s who played in two Pro Bowls and three Super Bowls during a nine-year NFL career with the Denver Broncos. But like fellow Bear Mark Adickes, Bishop wasn’t content to retire permanently in his early 30s; instead, […]
Hopefully you were among the thousands of Baylor alums who were able to make it back this weekend for the University’s 100th annual Homecoming. Campus (and, indeed, all of Waco) swarmed with activity as Bears past, present and future enjoyed all the usual events, from Pigskin to Bonfire to the Homecoming Parade to the football […]
We mentioned screenwriter Derek Haas (Invincible, 2 Fast 2 Furious, 3:10 to Yuma and Wanted) a couple of weeks ago among the many successful Baylor alums you might see back this weekend at Homecoming. As it turns out, Haas will indeed be back, as he is doing a book signing for his soon-to-be-released novel Columbus […]
As we approach Baylor Homecoming’s 100th anniversary, it would be easy to assume that an event as long-running as this just happens each year, without thinking about all the work that goes on behind the scenes to provide alumni, students and others the first-class events and activities that take place each fall — most notably […]
In recent years, many educators have learned that preparing students for college doesn’t begin in high school; promoting post-secondary education increasingly begins in junior high and even elementary school. As part of a program called “Opportunity University,” each classroom at Swinburn Elementary in Tulia, Texas, adopts a college or university. Debbie Barnes, a fourth-grade math […]
Samuel Palmer Brooks was president of Baylor in 1909, when Baylor held the first collegiate Homecoming. Twenty-two years later, he finished writing his Message to the Class of 1931 but passed away before he could share it at graduation. Now known as the Immortal Message, the same man who asked alumni 100 years ago to […]
