Last month, we shared the story of the latest two Baylor professors to be honored for excellence in teaching and mentoring. When the story was posted to Facebook, this question was posed: “Which Baylor professor(s) made an impact in your life?” In no time at all, you responded with almost 175 different names — including more […]
If the BSB were human, it’d be in fourth grade and celebrating its birthday by getting a sugar rush from chocolate cake. That’s right; Sept. 24, 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the official dedication of the Baylor Sciences Building. The plans. Before the $103.3 million colossus known as the BSB was constructed, Baylor’s five […]
One hundred years ago this summer, Baylor was without a mascot. Our sports teams were occasionally called the Bulldogs or the Baptists in newspaper accounts, but they had no official nickname. By the fall of 1914, Baylor students were ready for that to change. On Oct. 2, 1914, a contest was proposed to come up with […]
He’s a Baylor legend who has taught generations of students, with a tenure only one other professor in Baylor history can match. A lot has changed since Master Teacher and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Roger Kirk began teaching at Baylor in 1958. Consider that, when he arrived, Armstrong Browning Library and the Tidwell […]
Operation Overlord, the World War II Allied operation to invade German-occupied Western Europe, began on June 6, 1944 — the day we remember today as D-Day. At least one former Baylor student was there, earning distinction for his heroism. On that fateful day, American, British, Canadian and other Allied forces under the command of General […]
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a decade, but 10 years ago this month, Baylor officials dedicated the Mayborn Museum Complex at its new home on University Parks Drive. Of course, the museum has much deeper roots than that. The Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village was moved to its current location along the […]
On this date in 1953, one of Baylor’s grandest traditions began when the first All University Sing was held on the Baylor campus. Organized by Marie Wiley Mathis (just a year into what would become three decades as director of Baylor’s Student Union), the first event was held on April 25, 1953. It featured eight […]
He was never president, or even governor, but the Baylor Law School grad was once known as “the most powerful man in Texas.” Along the way, he not only shaped his home state of Texas, but helped set the stage for Baylor’s athletic success today. In nearly four decades of Lone Star politics, Bob Bullock, […]
Three-quarters of a century ago, the talents of two very different and very gifted men, born 77 years apart, crossed paths in Waco and produced perhaps the iconic image of Baylor University. Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor was born in Kentucky in 1793 and later emigrated to the Republic of Texas to become, as every […]
150 years ago today, Baylor’s longest-tenured president — and perhaps its most beloved — was born. Samuel Palmer Brooks, BA 1893, was born in Georgia during the middle of the Civil War, but moved to Texas with his family when he was five. His mother died when he was 14, forcing Brooks to leave school […]
