In his 1624 poem, “No Man Is an Island,” John Donne, English minister and poet, penned the immortal words “… for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” Had he written similar words in Waco in 1972, perhaps they might have read something similar to “… for whom the bear bell tolls, it tolls […]
In Volume 80, issue number 1, we asked a few alumni how they would like to see Baylor develop over the next decade. Below are their responses. I have four daughters. In 10 years, my oldest will be faced with the college decision. I hope Baylor is an option for her. During my undergrad years,
Dear Baylor Family, For the last few months, our organization has been a little . . . quiet. Some of you may be wondering what we are up to, and what the future looks like for the Baylor Line Foundation. Those are good questions. I’m happy to share everything we have going on, but first
We asked retiring faculty and senior staff members to reflect on their most enduring memory at Baylor. We received responses from 16 of them and are recognizing the rest with a reminder of how they served Baylor and its students. Cynthia Ann Burgess was Librarian/Curator for Armstrong Browning Library. My enduring memory of Baylor would
More than 180 Baylor undergrads and high-school seniors applied this year for Legacy Scholarships. After much deliberation, we decided to increase the amount of the scholarships to $2,000 each (from $1,000 in past years), which meant this year’s awards will have a bigger individual impact but fewer students would receive them. As in past years,
Over the past year, 784 Baylor students studied abroad for academic credit. That number does not include students on mission trips or students doing formal research, but it does include the roughly 524 students who are spending the summer on faculty-led programs. These students were appropriately matched to one of the nearly 100 study abroad
The Baylor Line Foundation announced today that it has awarded $2,000 Legacy Scholarships to 45 Baylor students and incoming freshmen – all of them the children and grandchildren of Baylor alumni. “The review committee was very impressed with the caliber of the applicants and wished we could have awarded many more,” said BLF Executive Director
BLF awards $90,000 to 45 Legacy Scholarship winners Read More »
Despite pouring rain on a chilly November day, more than 1,200 Baylor students and staff lined up outside Moody Library and patiently waited their turn to fill bags with 47,000 pounds of watermelon, grapefruit, eggs, breads, pastries, and other foods. Most left drenched but loaded down with food that would refill empty refrigerators in dorm
Not at Baylor? School faces student hunger head on Read More »
Giancarlo Guerrero ’91 was part of a pipeline of music students who came to Baylor from Costa Rica in the 1980s through the efforts of the late Dr. Larry Vanlandingham (professor emeritus of Percussion) and donors from the Baylor School of Music. As music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony — and his guest
As a Baylor freshman who started taking in the Summer semester right after his 1993 graduation from high school, Randy Evans lived off-campus and found himself cooking for his roommates. As he attended classes, the VCR in his apartment worked overtime recording cooking shows at a time when there was no Food Network. His show
