I will always remember the white man with white hair and white yogurt, who thought I, a brown girl, would shoot him. While walking through Old Main and heading for the stairs, a professor stepped in front of me. He was unaware that I was behind him and walked slowly, spooning yogurt into his mouth. […]
Dennis Lindsey is entering his first season as executive vice president of basketball operations for the Utah Jazz, after serving seven seasons as the team’s general manager. In his new role he will oversee all of Jazz basketball operations. During his tenure as general manager, Lindsey added support staff to the team’s basketball operations department,
Robert F. Darden is the author of two dozen books, including Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volumes I & Il and People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music. He is currently working on the definitive biography of gospel legend Andrae Crouch. He is the founder of Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration
Dr. Leslie Appiah is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Colorado School of Medicine and Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She serves as Division Chief of General Obstetrics and Gynecology in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Fertility Preservation and Reproductive Late Effects
As a NASA rocket scientist, Alexander was directly involved in the detailed planning anc controlling of Apollo 11, which landed the men on the moon and is still considered to be one of the top technical feats in history. His expertise was orbital rendezvous, the bringing together of space vehicles in space, and he was
After attending Baylor University for three years, Babs graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Music Education in 1965. She owned and operated a travel agency from 1971 to 2008, specializing in group travel. Her first relative to become a graduate of Baylor University was Ralph Tharp, her maternal grandfather, in 1917.
Justice Molly Meredith Francis has been a T’exas judge for 29 years and license Texas attorney for 39 years. Justice Francis was first elected to a Dallas County misdemeanor court, then appointed by Governor George W. Bush to a felony court. After 11 years on the trial court, Governor Rick Perry appointed her as justice
Elizabeth Vardaman was a senior lecturer in business communications in the Hankame School of Business in the 1980s and early 1990s. She became assistant director of the Honors Program in 1993 and was appointed an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1996. An exchange professor in China and assistant director on
The Johnson- Porter-Smith Luce family legacy at Baylor began with Jesse Breland Johnson, a Baylor graduate of the class of 1891. Dr. Jesse Breland Johnson married Jessie Clara Brown, whom he met at Baylor. Jessie Brown wrote dozens of letters to family and friends during her time at Baylor, most of which have been preserved
The Honorable Lyndon L. Olson, Jr., was appointed by President William J. Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden and served from 1997-2001. From 1979-87, Olson was Chairman and Member of the Texas State Board of Insurance. In 1982-83, he served as President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He is Vice
