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The Untold Story of Baylor’s Ultimate Cheerleader

By the time she first set foot on the Baylor campus in 1963, Pam Dial Taylor had been a cheerleader since junior high school. In fact, she’d already spent summers leading camps around the country for the National Cheerleaders Association.  We’re talking about one serious cheerleader. When she arrived in Waco, however, Pam learned something […]

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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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