This article was written and published in the Baylor Line’s fall issue. As the football season comes to a close, here’s a view of where we started. The 2017 college football season kicked off against the background of Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in many of the Texas coastline’s cities. While Texans took stock of the reconstruction […]
Fifty years ago, Barbara Walker and Rev. Robert Gilbert graduated from Baylor University as the first African Americans. Since, many have followed in their footsteps and set firsts for the African American community at Baylor. These trailblazers and their family members gathered on Baylor’s campus to be honored for their bravery and commitment to making
How Baylor Went Global Heading southwest on the Sanyo Main Line out of Hiroshima, it takes two and a half hours to reach Fukuoka, a coastal metropolis. Fukuoka is the largest city on the southern Kyushu island of Japan. In autumn, the mountainside landscape to the east and south becomes a tapestry of color by
As a high schooler who was grounded for something he couldn’t recall, Baylor alumnus Ted Harrison, BA (Film and Digital Media) ‘11, never would have guessed that this time of punishment would lead to discovering a passion that would eventually gain 1.5 million views on his content. While he was banned to his room without
Voices: Faculty Share Their Views on Illuminate The Texas-Sized Hubris of Illuminate Baylor transformed my family. My father was the first Lyon to attend college, going to Baylor under the GI Bill. The degrees he received here allowed a career in public education that forever changed the arc of our family. In 1967, my mother
Nate Orf wasn’t supposed to be there on the Fourth of July at Miller Park in Milwaukee. He had been a walk-on baseball player at Baylor, where he suffered an elbow injury that forced him to change positions. He went undrafted in 2013 and signed with the Milwaukee Brewers minor league system on a meager
In the summer of 2016, Art Briles was officially let go by Baylor University amidst the now infamous sexual assault scandal. This firing came in the wake of the best recruiting class that Baylor University’s football team had ever seen, bringing in the 17th ranked recruiting class in the nation. The glory of that 2016
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Former Hall of Fame Award Recipients Join Forces to Help Mothers & Children in Guatemala In 2005, Dr. Jerry Haag was named the Young Alumnus of the year. Thirteen years later, Jimena Tejeda won the same award at the 2018 Hall of Fame dinner. By providence, Dr. Haag and his wife Christi were at
A Play by Play Guide, minus the Boring Stuff The Beginning College Football fans woke up clamoring on Saturday morning as the Baylor Bears squared off against the high-powered offense of the Texas Tech Red Raiders at At&t Stadium in Arlington. Both teams sitting at five wins, a victory would secure either squad’s ticket to
“Do not speak to me of martyrdom/of men who die to be remembered/on some parish day. I don’t believe in dying/though I too shall die/and violets like castanets/will echo me.” – Sonia Sanchez In the dark summer of 1950, the Russian-equipped North Korean army swept down from above the 38th parallel, pummeling its way south.
