{"id":22409,"date":"2020-04-23T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=22409"},"modified":"2020-04-23T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:44:33","slug":"baylor175-jan-herrstrom-ba-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/04\/baylor175-jan-herrstrom-ba-73\/","title":{"rendered":"#Baylor175: Jan Herrstrom, BA &#8217;73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>What does your Baylor experience mean to you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a children&#8217;s book that a girl published a few years ago, <em>B is for Baylor<\/em>. I gave it to my grandkids one Christmas, and one of the fathers &#8212; who&#8217;s also a Baylor grad &#8212; said, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you write down all the people in your family that have had Baylor connections?&#8217; And so I did. It was between 100 and 150 people that had either attended or graduated from Baylor. So we really go back a long way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother took Browning under Dr. Armstrong, and she had a textbook that had an oilskin paper in it, and she&#8217;d taken all her notes in this textbook. Then I had Browning and I took notes, and my daughter had Browning, and she took notes in it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/07\/shared-love-of-browning-poetry-connects-four-generations-of-one-baylor-family\/\">Three generations of us<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jan Herrstrom, BA &#8217;73<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22410\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert.jpg\" alt=\"Jan Herrstrom\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert.jpg 2222w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SQ-Jane_Herrstrom_Cranford_vert-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Baylor University was chartered by the Republic of Texas on Feb. 1, 1845, which makes this year our 175th anniversary. As part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2020\/01\/happy-175th-birthday-baylor-university\/\">our celebration<\/a>, we\u2019re sharing stories from Baylor alumni about their BU experience all semester long.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does your Baylor experience mean to you? &#8220;There was a children&#8217;s book that a girl published a few years ago, B is for Baylor. I gave it to my grandkids one Christmas, and one of the fathers &#8212; who&#8217;s also a Baylor grad &#8212; said, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you write down all the people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22409","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=22409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}