{"id":153,"date":"2007-11-09T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/11\/09\/history-prof-made-his-own-history-at-baylor\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T14:39:23","slug":"history-prof-made-his-own-history-at-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/11\/history-prof-made-his-own-history-at-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"History prof made his own history at Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/armitstead2.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Armitstead and daughters\" align=\"right\" \/>If you were at this weekend&#8217;s Homecoming football game against Texas Tech, then you saw five Baylor honorees presented with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=47924\">Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service<\/a>: Dr. Paul Armitstead (pictured at right with his daughters), Dr. Kent Gilbreath, Ann Reed, Julie Hermansen Turner, and Jim Turner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/history\/index.php?id=7721\">Dr. Armitstead<\/a> is the only one I&#8217;ve met; I had his History of the American Presidency class as a senior. I took it pass\/fail as an elective because it sounded interesting and because I had a friend taking the course. Both choices (to take the course, and to take it P\/F) were good ones; the class was incredibly informative, thanks to Dr. Armitstead&#8217;s encyclopedic knowledge and approach to the materials, but also incredibly hard for a non-history major like me.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Armitstead retired from full-time teaching in 2003 but continued to teach part-time until last year. I&#8217;m glad to know that my index card is among his collection of approximately 13,000 &#8212; one for every student he ever taught. I&#8217;m also proud to know that Baylor can attract and keep such excellent professors for a lifetime &#8212; in Dr. Armitstead&#8217;s case, 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dr. Armitstead and all the other wonderful professors Baylor is proud to call its own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were at this weekend&#8217;s Homecoming football game against Texas Tech, then you saw five Baylor honorees presented with the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service: Dr. Paul Armitstead (pictured at right with his daughters), Dr. Kent Gilbreath, Ann Reed, Julie Hermansen Turner, and Jim Turner. Dr. Armitstead is the only one I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}