By Judy Henderson Prather ’73, DMin ’02 BAA Communications Coordinator On Saturday, we will present what is quite possibly my favorite of the alumni association’s awards–the Herbert H. Reynolds Retired Faculty-Administrators Award. Retired faculty members who are being honored include Drs. Robert Collmer (English), Elmer Duncan (Philosophy), Fred Gehlbach (Biology), and J. R. LeMaster (American […]
By Todd Copeland Editor, The Baylor Line This Saturday, May 2, the Baylor Alumni Association’s governing board will hold one of its quarterly meetings at the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center. The May meeting is typically focused on finances; board members get an update on how the BAA staff expects to end the fiscal year (which concludes
By Lisa Asher Associate Editor, Baylor Line and Editor, Between the Lines The two assembled crowds really couldn’t have been more different. Members of one group wore skirts and suits; the other group’s attire consisted of shorts and T-shirts. The first crowd was very subdued, even reticent. Members of the other crowd were excited and
By Meg Cullar, News Editor, the Baylor Line A few weeks ago, I ran into an art professor friend. And it was a very good thing, because he reminded me that the student-faculty art show was currently on display at the Martin Museum of Art in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. Visiting the show is
By Judy Henderson Prather ’73, DMin ’02 Communications Coordinator Ahh, springtime in Texas! Some people claim that Texas only has two seasons—cold and hot—but during a few glorious weeks in March and April, we get our version of spring. Some people call it simply “bluebonnet time.” When it’s still cold and gray, the question begins
By Todd Copeland Editor, The Baylor Line I want to share a few thoughts about the impact that one gift from one person can have. The gift I have in mind is a monetary one, but gifts of other kinds can certainly be just as significant to the lives of others. In this case, the
By Lisa Asher Associate Editor, Baylor Line and Editor, Between the Lines I’m looking forward to this year’s Heritage Club on March 29-31 for numerous reasons, not the least of which is that I’m a pretty big hit with the older men. (Ones my own age can be a different story, but that’s a subject
By Judy Henderson Prather ’73, DMin ’02 Communications Coordinator Forty years ago this August … I enrolled at Baylor as a greener-than-average seventeen-year-old. Very few people from Childress came this far south to college, so I felt like something of a pioneer. And, having grown up under the influence of a fundamentalist preacher, I believe
By Meg Cullar, News Editor of the Baylor Line Photograph by Sarah Borth/Waco Tribune-Herald March 7 was senior night for the Lady Bears basketball team, and my husband and I were faithfully in our seats in a sold-out Ferrell Center to bid farewell to three terrific athletes who have made Baylor proud for four years.
By Lisa Asher When the phone on my desk rings at 8:30 in the morning, I know who it’s going to be. I’m not sure why, but this is the time of day that he seems to have the most questions. “What’s the pope’s hat called?” says the voice on the other end of the
