Friends,
For the first time in two years, The Baylor Line is back with a brand new magazine. This issue, called The Big Picture, features some of our favorite stories of 2024.
In “It Begins with a Ring,” we follow a family’s story from the wreckage of a World War II aircraft near London to the discovery of Walter Gernand’s class ring, and all the way back to Waco.
“A Marriage of True Minds“ chronicles Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning’s poetic story and how several iconic texts found a home on Baylor’s campus.
We learn about the life and legacy of Secret Service agent Cindy Campbell Brown – the only Baylor graduate in the tragic Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
And there’s so much more to uncover within these pages. Read the full issue here.
To be candid, I was truly lost for words when writing this editor’s note to you. After all, this is my first time writing one and my prayers for beginner’s luck were left unanswered on the night of my deadline.
I was led to read what former Editor-in-chief (now CEO) Jonathon Platt wrote before me, and what Craig Cunningham and Sherry Castello wrote before him, about braveness, courageousness, and fear. I read the first-ever issue of The Baylor Line, a few sprinkled across time, and the most recents, and considered the passage of time since our last release, how The Baylor Line has marched through the years, and how the heck I fit into that.
Through my scribbles and drafts, iteration after iteration of the same note, I challenged myself to read between the lines and see the common thread between these 10 stories you hold in your hands.
Finally, my predicament became my answer: just like myself, this magazine full of The Baylor Line’s best of 2024 is riddled with new beginnings, a few endings, and all the little things that make up the middle – The Big Picture.
Thank you for allowing me to embark on this new beginning with you as editor-in-chief. I hope one day this glimpse into our coverage of 2024 serves as a peek into the past for someone re-reading old Line magazines, as those before were for me as I prepared for today.
Yours,
Kourtney David (‘22)
Editor-in-chief, The Baylor Line
