While we celebrate the 235th anniversary of America’s independence this weekend, much of Texas is celebrating our great state’s 175 years of independence from Mexico all year. (Texas Monthly is advertising it as the state’s “terquasquicentennial;” say that five times fast.) Baylor and Baylor people have long played important roles in Texas history, even before […]
Had he lived longer, yesterday would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. The former California governor and United States president visited Baylor twice — once in 1976, when he spoke in Waco Hall while campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, and again in 1988 when he was the featured guest at the first event ever […]
Twenty-five years ago, a group of Baylor students decided that if they could gather some friends together to serve in Waco, they could make a difference. Since that initial gathering, Steppin’ Out has grown to involve more than 3,000 students each fall and spring — including some children of those original participants! — who “step […]
One game down, one win in the books. Next up? The Buffalo Bulls, tomorrow at 6 p.m. at Floyd Casey Stadium. The game will be televised nationally on Fox College Sports; if you don’t have that channel, there’s always the Baylor-ISP Sports Network. After listening to David Crowder’s rockin’ new “Rise Up” anthem all week […]
We initially left out one important word in our entry on Bears in Texas government last week. Baylor graduates Thomas Brown, James Alexander and Thomas R. Phillips should have been identified as past Texas Supreme Court CHIEF Justices; including those three, nearly 20 Bears have served on the Texas Supreme Court, a list that includes […]
My wife and I watched All the President’s Men this weekend, the Robert Redford-Dustin Hoffman film that tells the tale of the two Washington Post reporters who dug up the Watergate scandal that would eventually lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. The movie brought to mind one of the key players as things unfolded in […]
The thousands upon thousands of Texans and out-of-state visitors who enjoy the more than 90 Texas State Parks this year have a Baylor Bear to thank for the opportunity. And it’s not just any Bear, but one of the most well-known names in Baylor history: BU graduate (class of 1894), former Texas Governor and Baylor […]
Baylor University lost one of its great ambassadors Thursday when longtime professor Robert Reid passed away a week after his 88th birthday. Reid first came to Baylor in 1946, earning his master’s degree in history a year later. He then headed to Brown University for his doctoral work, but before he could complete it, he […]
For years, Nancy Parrish, MA ’80, has led the push to honor the Fly Girls of World War II — female pilots who, after serving their country during WWII, were ignored for decades. If that story sounds familiar, you might be remembering an exhibit you saw at Baylor’s Mayborn Museum, the cover story from the […]
A century ago, Baylor began training nurses in Dallas to serve in the Baptist General Convention of Texas’ new Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium (which would later become Baylor Hospital and now lives as the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas). Today, that school — now Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing — has more than […]
