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 […]
Ten years ago today, the McLane Student Life Center was officially dedicated, kicking off a building boom that has seen Baylor’s facilities (and the corresponding student opportunities) grow more than during just about any other decade in our University’s long history. At its opening, the 150,000-square-foot SLC was “by far the most expensive capital project […]
Dallas-based Texas Instruments is credited with creating the first silicon transistor, an invention that is at the heart of modern technology. Today’s radios, telephones and computers never would have existed if not for the transistor. And who was leading that Texas Instruments team? Baylor alumnus Gordon Teal, who for his work will be inducted into […]
[4/16/15 update: Billy Ray Hearn passed away Wednesday at age 85 due to complications from heart disease. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.] Baylor alum Billy Ray Hearn is recognized by many as the father of contemporary Christian music, and a quick glance at his resume shows why. In 1972, Hearn started […]
Baylor’s branch of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) celebrates its 60th birthday today as one of the oldest and best programs in the nation. Detachment 810 was formed at Baylor in 1948, just 10 months after the creation of the Air Force as a separate military branch. And it’s only gotten better […]
I’m a sucker for strange stories, but stay with me on this one… I stumbled across this story just the other day, about “the fastest man on Earth,” John Paul Stapp — who just happens to be a Baylor grad (BA ’31, MA ’32). In the 1940s and ’50s, Stapp was an Air Force colonel […]
Legendary sportswriter Dave Campbell, creator of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine, and longtime sports editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, announced recently that he’s retiring — for at least the second time. Campbell spent 40 years as the Trib’s sports editor in the middle of a career that began (as a student, graduating in 1950) and […]
