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Last month, we shared the story of the latest two Baylor professors to be\u00a0honored for excellence in teaching and mentoring<\/a>. When the story was posted to Facebook, this question was posed: “Which Baylor professor(s) made an impact in your life?<\/a>”<\/p>\n In no time at all, you responded with almost 175 different names<\/em> — including more than 40 professors who were named by multiple\u00a0people. In particular, three Baylor legends\u00a0stood out for how many times they were referenced, and the ways they were described:<\/p>\n Ann Miller<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0BA ’49, MA ’51, was a Baylor Bear through and through, having earned her undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees from Baylor and eventually teaching at her alma mater for nearly half a century. She was remembered by many<\/a> as the professor who made students appreciate literature and hone their writing skills; for her efforts, Miller was named Outstanding Professor by Mortar Board 12 times and was honored as one of Baylor’s first\u00a0Master Teachers in 1982.<\/p>\n Rachel Moore<\/a><\/strong>, MA ’69, taught\u00a0English at Baylor from 1966 to 2005. Like Miller,\u00a0she can include\u00a0“Master Teacher<\/a>” — the highest honor granted to Baylor faculty — among her many teaching honors. And it\u2019s no surprise, as Moore went beyond her responsibility as a professor and was involved in Baylor\u2019s study abroad programs and university committees and served as faculty advisor to Chi Omega.<\/p>\n Last but not least is the humorous and lively Dr. Tom Hanks<\/a><\/strong>, who has taught Baylor students for nearly 40 years with a mission to \u201cirrigate arid minds with dewy imagination<\/a>.\u201d Hanks, too, is\u00a0a Master Teacher<\/a> and has received just about every teaching award Baylor has to offer.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Baylor profs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last month, we shared the story of the latest two Baylor professors to be\u00a0honored for excellence in teaching and mentoring. When the story was posted to Facebook, this question was posed: “Which Baylor professor(s) made an impact in your life?” In no time at all, you responded with almost 175 different names — including more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-history","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}