{"id":5762,"date":"2011-06-10T07:38:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:39:08","slug":"what-would-the-baylor-campus-be-without-the-pat-neff-carillon-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/06\/what-would-the-baylor-campus-be-without-the-pat-neff-carillon-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"What would the Baylor campus be without the Pat Neff carillon bells?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few things say Baylor like the bells ringing in Pat Neff Hall. Silencing the bells would be like removing the red brick from campus; it just wouldn&#8217;t be the same.<\/p>\n<p>The original 25-chime set was given by Trustee Cullen Thomas, and debuted in Dec. 1939 with &#8220;Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow.&#8221; When those eventually wore out, they were replaced with the current 48-bell set in 1988 thanks to the family of Regent Emeritus Drayton McLane, BBA &#8217;58. Carilloneur Lynnette Geary, BMED &#8217;75, MM &#8217;82, tells their story and shows off what they can do in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MmQcoQu0wzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baylor Carillon YouTube\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MmQcoQu0wzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor bells!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things say Baylor like the bells ringing in Pat Neff Hall. Silencing the bells would be like removing the red brick from campus; it just wouldn&#8217;t be the same. The original 25-chime set was given by Trustee Cullen Thomas, and debuted in Dec. 1939 with &#8220;Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow.&#8221; When those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-just-for-fun","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","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=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}