{"id":94,"date":"2007-10-03T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/03\/first-family-honors-legacies\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:32:23","slug":"first-family-honors-legacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/first-family-honors-legacies\/","title":{"rendered":"First Family honors legacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/family2.jpg\" alt=\"Ragland-Patterson family\" align=\"right\" \/>Baylor has long taken pride in graduating not just one, but multiple generations from the same family, and that legacy tradition is alive and well today.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a third of this year&#8217;s freshman class claims some legacy to Baylor&#8211;almost 800 students. In a recent survey, 82 percent of alumni said they would recommend their son or daughter consider Baylor as a top choice for college. Why? Quality education was far and away the number one answer.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s First Family of Baylor, the Tidwells, will be recognized during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/parentsweekend\/\">Parents&#8217; Weekend<\/a> later this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayloralumni.com\/index.php?id=49653\">Five generations of the Tidwell family have graduated Baylor<\/a>, dating back to Minnie Hayes Tidwell, class of 1912. Minnie&#8217;s husband, J.B. Tidwell, was not a Baylor graduate but taught at Baylor and was the namesake for the Tidwell Bible Building.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor legacies!<\/p>\n<p><em>[seen here: members of the Ragland-Patterson clan, Baylor&#8217;s 2006 First Family] <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor has long taken pride in graduating not just one, but multiple generations from the same family, and that legacy tradition is alive and well today. Nearly a third of this year&#8217;s freshman class claims some legacy to Baylor&#8211;almost 800 students. In a recent survey, 82 percent of alumni said they would recommend their son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}