UPDATE:  Here’s a link to Savion’s Top 24 performance (with judge comments) on Feb. 25 — singing “Hey Soul Sister” by Train. Baylor Senior Savion Wright survived an American Idol first — a “Showcase” performance in front of a live audience at House of Blues — to make it into the next round of the […]

Brooke Bonorden, ’13, entered her senior year at Baylor – fresh off excavating an Israeli synagogue — planning to cross the stage to receive her degree in Archeology and then focus on either Near Eastern or biblical archeology.  Less than two years later, she finds herself focused on British Colonialism and hoping to get crowd-funding

Like any teacher, Melissa Peterson Stangle ’87 finds that the parents can be the most challenging part of the job. But Melissa — who was recently named Teacher of the Year at Boerne ISD’s Cibolo Creek Elementary School after just six years of teaching — has a resume that includes six years in the business world

Eleven months ago, Brennan Potts was starting a new business from his kitchen table and a nearby Starbucks, just like many entrepreneurs got their starts. Unlike many entrepreneurs, he had $20 million to invest in that new business.  He and his partners were buying minority pieces of horizontal shale wells in properties in South Texas and West

Artist Annie Green’s website quotes Pablo Picasso’s view that “creating is just another way of keeping a diary.” But for Annie, it’s much more than that.  Creating is how she remembers, how she copes with a fragile memory from a horrific car accident as a freshman.  As she tells visitors to her website, “I can

Dr. H. Edward Bridgeman’s gave his lucky bullet from Vietnam to his final dental patient as he retired after 47 years. At first blush, that seems particularly appropriate since he operated out of Dental Clinic #1 at Fort Carson, Colorado, for the past 11 years, after retiring from private practice in Plano, Texas.  Over that time, he served

So, did you serve in Student Government during your time at Baylor, or benefit from its efforts to provide students with a voice in university governance? The University commemorated 100 years of student government at Baylor earlier this week, leading off the article with a great quote from an October 1914 Lariat article: “…as we see

When Pamela Berberich ’91 and her husband Ken Boston started looking for a beach house that they could use as both a rental property and a place to get away, they never thought they’d end up being the focus of a reality show chronicling their search. But the world will get an inside look at the process

Publishing holiday decorations are great, but we’d rather share photos of Baylor families getting together over the holidays.  Now that the ornaments are put away, distant family members have returned home, and school is back in session, please consider sending us your favorite Baylor Family Holiday photo to baylorline@bayloralumniassociation.com.  We’ll post them quickly right here.

Members of the Marroquin Family — all Baylor alums and students — gather every year to watch the Homecoming Parade and celebrate being forever part of the Baylor Family. Dear Fellow Baylor Graduate, Like many of you, I have been reading about the impact that our Legacy Scholarships are having on the lives of Baylor students.