Every year when I hear about Baylor Line Camp, I feel a little bit jealous that I didn’t get to experience it as a student. But more than anything, I’m excited that today’s students do get this kind of a welcome to Baylor. Jason Lambert, a freshman from Louisiana, wrote in encouraging us to be […]
Given that our school colors have been green and gold for over 100 years, one might figure that Baylor is already green enough. But as part of the University’s continuing efforts to become more green, a group of more than 40 student volunteers led a drive to help parents and new students recycle (rather than […]
Senior Emily Hammon headed to Washington, D.C., this summer to learn about government and policy making through an internship with the Eagle Forum, but came away with something extra: a new understanding of what the Baylor family means. Hammon was invited to live with Dr. Bruce (BS ’84) and Natica (BA ’83) Stinnett and their […]
Welcome Week will always have a special place in my heart — not only because it served as my introduction to college life, but also because I met the guys who would be come my best friends — indeed, my groomsmen many years later — during those first few days at Baylor. Even with the […]
Over 160 Baylor students went on mission trips this summer coordinated through Baylor’s Spiritual Life office to places like Kenya, Uganda, Honduras, Argentina and Rwanda, but they weren’t the only Bears who used their summer breaks to serve on mission trips. Alumni Bob Gillchrest (c/o ’66) and his wife Anita (BSN ’69) wrote in to […]
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 freshmen are experiencing their first day of college classes today at Baylor (meet a few of them here, here and here). That means that late last week, even more students (plus family and friends) descended on Waco for Move-In Day 2009! For the uninitiated, Move-In Day at Baylor is […]
Saturday was Summer Commencement — probably the least publicized of Baylor’s three graduation weekends, but no less important to the students who received their Baylor diplomas and are now entering the “real world.” Congratulations, grads! (See photos from the event here.) Among the many stories from Saturday’s ceremony was the awarding of a posthumous degree […]
Back in May, we noted that athletics chaplain Wes Yeary was leading a 16-member team comprised primarily of Baylor student-athletes on a two-week mission trip to Kenya. Several of you wrote in asking for an update, and thankfully, Jerry Hill at the Baylor Bear Insider has done just that with this excellent story. The team […]
An injury ended Alexandra Crowder’s cheerleading career the summer before her senior year at Hart High School in Santa Clarita, Calif. But rather than let that ruin her last year of high school, Alexandra turned it into a positive, putting her skills to use by starting a cheerleading squad at the local Boys and Girls […]
The Class of 2013 will be starting at Baylor two weeks from yesterday, and if these students are anything like I was as a college freshman, they’ll be both excited about the new experiences ahead and a little nervous about meeting so many new people and being on their own for the first time. The […]
