Shortly after Nancie Wingo ’54 passed away this past Christmas morning, we received notes from a few people who knew her, suggesting that we should publish her story in the next Baylor Line. To a person, they said there would be no better person to eulogize Nancie than her brother, Hal Wingo ’57, a former […]
The Baylor Line Foundation invited the three candidates for the open Alumni-Elected Regent position to answer a series of questions about their backgrounds, the role of the Alumni-Elected Regent, and the challenges facing Baylor and what they bring to the table to help address those challenges. The process for the election of three Alumni-Elected Regents
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The Baylor Line Foundation will hold its 2017 annual meeting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 3, at the Waco Hilton. The meeting will include the election of directors and officers; a vote on changes to the BLF’s bylaws; updates on the organization’s activities over the past year and future initiatives; and a chance to
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The Baylor Line Foundation (BLF) has begun funding an endowed scholarship in journalism in the name of Dave Campbell ’50, the legendary Waco Trib writer and founder of Texas Football magazine. “Dave has had a central role in establishing the tradition of sports journalism in Texas, said Tony Pederson ’73, a BLF director, former senior
If you’ll be joining us on Saturday night, we look forward to seeing you and hope this post answers any questions you might have. If you have other questions, please ask them in the Comments section and we’ll try to provide answers quickly, If you can’t join us – and the event IS sold out
We received more than 200 applications this year for Legacy Scholarships. Thanks to the generosity of many Baylor family members, we were able to award 82 scholarships for the current school year – a 50 percent increase over last year! We asked each applicant to write an essay about growing up as a member of
The Baylor Line Foundation (BLF) is proud to announce the winners of its Hall of Fame Awards, which returned after a three-year absence on Jan. 28, 2017, in the Barfield Drawing Room at the Baylor Student Union Building. We will have more on the event in the Spring issue, but here are the winners with
EVEN THOUGH HER HUSBAND, JIM, served as a Baylor Regent for nine years, including one as chair-man, Julie Turner ’67, MS ’68, says she never considered the idea of serving in a similar role until she was offered one of the first three Alumni-Elected Regents positions last May. “I had served as chair of the
In February 2016, four Texas universities -Texas Tech, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of Texas at Dallas – joined the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, Rice University, and the University of Houston on the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education listing of 115
PAUL FISHER ’92 GRADUATED from Baylor with a business degree and “a typical Monday through Friday job that didn’t really excite ([him].” “I really didn’t grow up wanting to be a chef,” Fisher says. “I grew up with home-cooked meals, but I don’t have the story of sitting there on the kitchen stool wanting to
