Profiles

Dr. Dennis Myers: Gerontology’s Greatest on a Career that Aged Well

It was his grandmother–his protector and inspiration–who inspired Dr. Dennis Myers to pursue a calling to work in the field of social work and gerontology. Now, after 43 years of service to Baylor University, Dr. Myers is retiring, starting a new chapter in his life and leaving behind a legacy that future generations of students […]

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The Life and Times of ‘Fesser Courtney

In its long history, who was Baylor’s first senior professor? Dorothy Scarborough? A. J. Armstrong? Paul Baker? Daniel Sternberg? Glenn Capp? Cornelia Marschall Smith? It was Dr. Luther Weeks Courtney, who taught in the English department for nearly 40 years. In 1954, President W.R. White conferred the newly created title of “Distinguished Professor” on Courtney

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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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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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