This holiday season, two Dallas-area families are celebrating stories that have a happy ending thanks to the life-saving actions of two school nurses — each of whom graduated from Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing. In two separate incidents, Jessica Haas, BSN ’97, the school nurse at Wallace Elementary in Richardson, and Annie Young, BSN […]
Last week, we gave you Christmas gift ideas for the Baylor Bears in your life. But if your loved one already has all the green-and-gold t-shirts, coffee mugs and office decor they can handle, then you might take a look at the Baylor Christmas 2016 Gift Catalog. The gifts in this catalog aren’t things you can wrap […]
In January, we introduced you to Allison Dickson, JD ’07, the 2007 Baylor Law valedictorian who refused to let a lifelong battle with a muscular condition deter her from her dreams. Allison lives with Werdnig-Hoffman disease, which leads to atrophy of her spinal muscles. Simple tasks like lifting paper and books can be difficult — […]
This year has unquestionably been a hard one for most everyone connected to Baylor. Yet, the Bible tells us to “give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18) — so, by His grace, we choose to be thankful. What am I thankful for this year? Sure, there are the usual things about Baylor that, though they […]
Typically, the atmosphere around Baylor’s Umphrey Law Center — home to Baylor Law School — has more in common with the halls of justice than the halls of an elementary school. But Friday was an exception, as the sharp wood panels were covered in bright colored balloons and streamers, and students and professors walked the halls dressed […]
On September 10, Cole Harrison was a typical Baylor freshman, running the Line with thousands of his classmates and cheering on a Baylor football victory over SMU. (That’s him at center above, wearing a Baylor cap.) On September 12, Cole Harrison was in a hospital room, hundreds of miles from home, learning that the cough his nurse […]
No one would have blamed Maggie Plaster for dropping out. Last spring, her husband, Jerry, suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on his brain stem; doctors told her that victims of his sort have only a 13% survival rate. Dealing with her husband’s condition (while also caring for their four children) made Maggie’s odds of finishing her master’s degree in social work […]
Remember Christmas morning as a kid — when you’d rush to the tree to see what Santa had left, tear open packages, and play with dozens of new toys the entire day? For Dr. Michael Poor, Christmas morning was pretty much the same — except he didn’t just tear apart the packages. He tore apart […]
Long before he became chief of the Baylor University Police Department (BUPD) in the fall of 2014, Brad Wigtil developed a love for the Baylor mission. His two children, Erin Wigtil-Faya (BA ’04) and Matthew (BBA ’11), both attended Baylor, and their experience left a lasting impression on him. “I learned to love this university,” Chief […]
More than a decade has passed since Kyle Lake, BA ’94, MDiv ’97, last closed a service at Waco’s University Baptist Church with the benediction, “Love God, embrace beauty, and live life to the fullest,” but his life and message still resonates with those who knew him, and with many more who never got the […]
