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The Ghost of Ramsey Yelvington: Baylor’s Great Cowboy Playwright Still Haunts His Final Stage

Since the Paul Baker era, the Baylor Theatre has always punched far above its weight on Broadway. From the beloved actor Carole “Cookie” Cook to Robert Askins’ award-winning dark comedy Hand to God, dozens of Bears have graced the stages of the Great White Way. Baker’s Baylor was a particularly rich and nurturing home for […]

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Baylor’s Forgotten Hero: Aenard “Ann” Compton

Aenard “Ann” Compton left a remarkably small footprint during her life, much less during her time in Waco. Even so meticulous a researcher as Frank Jasek, who spent more than 11 years assembling his book, Soldiers of the Wooden Cross: Military Memorials, could only find a few facts about Compton. Jasek’s ambitious, beautiful book is

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Love Stories from the Baylor Family: the Bairds and the Callaways

Kindness. Patience. Togetherness. These are the qualities that have built two very beautiful — even if very different — love stories in the Baylor Family. On Friday, February 14, The Baylor Line hosted a packed house in the President’s Suite at the Baylor Club in McLane Stadium for our first Sweetheart’s Dinner. Music, drinks, a

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