The Baylor Line

The Winter 2010 issue of the Baylor Line is now available on the Baylor Alumni Association (BAA) website. With a cover story, What Am I Doing Here?, by 2008 graduate and Peace Corps volunteer Claire St. Amant, the issue is full of great stories about alumni who are changing the world. Also included are profiles […]

By Todd Copeland On June 1, 1979, the Baylor Alumni Association assumed responsibility for overseeing Baylor Nationwide, a program that Baylor had begun in 1977 to connect with alumni across the country by holding alumni gatherings in major cities and establishing program leaders in all fifty states (1979 logo shown). In describing the new arrangement,

By Julie Copenhaver The Baylor Alumni Association (BAA) presented two awards during a luncheon on Saturday, December 19, at the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center. The Price Daniel Distinguished Public Service Award went to State Senator Kirk Watson ’81, and Melissa Rogers ’88 received the Abner V. McCall Religious Liberty Award. The Price Daniel Distinguished Public Service

By Meg Cullar Photograph by Robert Rogers/Baylor Photography The trophy case of Baylor’s legendary track and field coach Clyde Hart ’56 has been busting at the seams for quite some time, but now Hart has added an award that is the granddaddy of them all. Hart was named the World Coach of the Year by

By Meg Cullar Photograph by Danny Turner In fourteen years at the Baylor Line, I have to count the legendary Paul Baker (pictured in 2001) as one of the most interesting people I have ever interviewed. Of course, I was well aware of his history with the university and the controversy surrounding his departure when

By Claire Moncla My mother has a video of me at five years old telling her I wanted to be a writer. Fifteen years later, my goals haven’t changed much. And lately, I’ve had the privilege of getting valuable on-the-job training through working on the Phoenix, Baylor’s literary magazine, and the alumni association’s Baylor Line

by Judy Henderson Prather ’73, DMin ’02 BAA Communications Coordinator Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. –Joseph Parry I just returned from my fifth annual girlfriends’ reunion. Thanks to Janet–our organizer and the heart of our group–and thanks to the connecting power of e-mail, about a dozen women

By Todd Copeland Editor, The Baylor Line I have a confession to make. Before this spring, I had never been to Independence, the small town near Brenham where Baylor University began back in the 1840s and where the Baylor Alumni Association (BAA) was founded in 1859. Baylor alumni and current students make regular pilgrimages there,

By Lisa Asher The June issue of the Baylor Alumni Association’s e-mail newsletter was sent this week, which means that I spent a lot of my time over the last few days online. As editor of Between the Lines, I write the newsletter text, the Family Album section, and usually a story or two each

By Claire Moncla, Student Intern, Baylor Line My grandfather has terminal cancer and may not last through this week. Since my mother first called me to tell me the news of his worsening condition, I have been upset and angry as I think about the tragedy of an ending life: the mourning family, bereft spouse,