Dr. Robert McClelland was in the operating room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas 50 years ago, the day former President John F. Kennedy died. Two days later, he was one of the surgeons who tried to save Lee Harvey Oswald’s life.
The 84-year-old retired doctor is the last living doctor to have operated on Kennedy. He recalls what that day was like when the president was shot, and the events following his death.
Looking out the window Friday, looking at the chilly gray noontime crowd heading off to lunch, thinking about another noontime 33 years ago.
We were coming back from Snappy Lunch, a little eatery in south Waco near the Baylor campus. You could get a chicken-fried steak for a buck and a quarter, and they would hold the check until your weekly allowance from Mama came.
Photographs reveal a glamorous president with wispy hair and a cool composure. Young Americans gather from family photos of his beautiful wife and two young children that this president brought energy into the White House.
Many young Americans think of President John F. Kennedy as a charismatic and handsome historical figure. But those who were alive during Kennedy’s presidency remember his life and death as an integral part of America’s grand narrative, a narrative too complex to encapsulate in pictures. Fifty years later, they have not forgotten Nov. 22, 1963.
Starting in fall 2014, Baylor will ban all tobacco products on campus in an effort to move forward in accordance with Baylor’s vision of progress.
The restriction of tobacco use has been an ongoing discussion, lasting more than 30 years.
In the mid-1980s, smoking was banned from the interior of every Baylor facility.
One hundred forty-five lampposts on campus have a plaque with the name of an alumnus who died in service to their country. Behind each name is a story.
The stories of these deceased alumni are unknown to most except to the friends and family of the fallen heroes.
Frank Jasek, a book preservation specialist in Moody Memorial Library, spent 11 years researching and learning their stories. He wrote the book “Soldiers of the Wooden Cross” to make others aware of the lives and sacrifices of the fallen service members who once walked Baylor’s campus.
Some believe having a passion for Jesus and a love for impacting the lives of others is enough to serve a community.
Austin senior Nicole Rohrer and Grand Lake, Colo., senior Samantha Cartmel are doing just this by hosting a night of family fun at a local high school.
A match made in the Baylor School of Social Work heaven, these two have paired up in an internship with Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas at Waco High School to coordinate Fall Family Night.
The Baylor Alumni Association board met on Nov. 9 and decided to take a membership vote on changing BAA bylaws.
Chad Wooten, executive interim vice president, said a BAA membership meeting is scheduled for Dec. 7 at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary.
“The sole purpose of the meeting is to allow remote voting,” Wooten said. “Back in the summer, there was a lot of talk and concern about not allowing people out of state, who couldn’t be there in person, to vote.”
Families will grow at the Baylor School of Law on Adoption Day.
The law school will host its sixth annual Adoption Day from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday at the law school.
Saturday is National Adoption Day, the day courthouses across the nation finalize adoptions for families who have already gone through the adoption process and are just waiting to sign the papers.
Monday at 10 a.m., sales for student football tickets to see the Bears take on the Cowboys in Oklahoma went on sale.
By 10:30 a.m., they were all gone.
Only 80 game day packages were available for students to purchase, and the sale was supposed to last until 3 p.m. Tickets for the Saturday away game in Stillwater, Okla., included a round trip bus ticket, all for $75.
Baylor students’ demand for the addition of courses in the areas of Arabic and Middle East studies has resulted in a new major. This new major, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, Arabic and Middle East studies.
“This new major in Arabic and Middle East studies speaks to global imperative, an aspect of the Pro Futuris vision, and is really going to open Baylor students up to the world,” said Dr. Heidi Bostic, modern foreign language department chair and professor of french.
Members of the Baylor club golf team, a relatively new organization on campus, does not let their novelty hinder them from winning.
This past weekend, the team tied for second place at the end of a two-day national golf championship hosted by the National Collegiate Club Golf Association in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Woodway’s Chief of Police Yost Zakhary flew in from Washington, D.C., the night before, fulfilling his duties as the president and face of an international organization. He then switched into teacher mode as he wrote an email to one of his Baylor students around 4:15 a.m. Later at his office in Woodway, he was supposed to have a casual sitting with the mayor, but instead the two gazed over a 5-foot-long map of their town and discussed beautification and savings. His train of thought seems to only go in one direction – forward.
Baylor students and faculty are set to get an early start on the Thanksgiving holiday by attending Baylor’s annual celebration, Thanksgiving on the Grounds.
The dinner, which has been a tradition on campus since 2008, will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Burleson Quadrangle.
It is hosted by the junior class officers.
Dr. Bryan Shaw is a cool guy. Hands behind his head and feet propped up on his desk, interactions with him feel more like chatting with a hip uncle than speaking to a passionate scientist.
Give him just a few minutes, though, and that appetite for scientific discovery will shine through, revealing the brilliant mind that has helped take serious ground in the fight against pediatric eye cancer using photography.
The Baylor School of Law has a longstanding colony of feral cats on its campus, a colony the Baylor Law School chapter of the Student Legal Defense Fund is working to control through a process called Trap, Neuter, Release.
“Student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapters are law student groups that are affiliated with the Animal Legal Defense Fund and share its mission to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system,” Skylar Simons, a second-year law student and president of the Baylor ALDF chapter said.
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Some doctoral students may find themselves in a precarious position with the health care law.
Under the Affordable Care Act, people can receive health coverage from their parents’ plans until they turn 26.
“Most graduate students fall in that age range of 23-30,” said doctoral candidate Christopher Bissex, president of the Graduate Student Association. “They’re over 25, married and working and receiving a small stipend.”
What started out as a fascination of gospel music turned into a project fueled by Baylor associate professor Robert Darden’s passion for keeping it alive.
The Royce-Darden Collection of black gospel music is set to be a part of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
The museum, under construction on the National Mall in Washington, is scheduled to open in 2015.
Pi Kappa Phi has returned to campus in full with no sanctions upon the conclusion of an investigation into activities concerning pledges.
“The interim suspension was lifted on October 28,” said Georgetown junior Matthew Corrigan, president of Pi Kappa Phi. “They notified our president at the time via phone call, and we got an email from our director of accountability and education from nationals.”
Whoever said bigger is better never went to Baylor Law School.
According to the average first-year section size of the nine law schools in Texas, Baylor Law School is the smallest in the state with an average of 42 students. Its percentage of students who pass the bar, however, is the largest.
The Ferrell Center will celebrate its 25th birthday on Sunday. Generations of Baylor Bears share in the memories that have been made under its distinctive golden dome.
From cheering on the Bears to walking across the stage for commencement, the Ferrell Center has seen many events over the course of its 25 years.
After a day of training on a high ropes course just off campus Thursday, Baylor Army ROTC cadets will once again be out of their typical environment this weekend as they attend field training exercises at Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells.
They will work with cadets from Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas, practicing skills they will need to know as leaders in the military.
Baylor football is off to a historic 8-0 start and it doesn’t look like Baylor is ready to slow down anytime soon.
Despite the uncertainty around the Big 12, Baylor Head Coach Art Briles’ position at Baylor is cemented with a 10-year contract extension, which was approved by the regents Wednesday night.
Hundreds of chemists from across the country are coming to Waco this weekend to attend the 67th Southwest regional meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Baylor’s department of chemistry and biochemistry will help host the conference, which will be in town from Saturday to Tuesday at the Waco Convention Center.
Dr. Robert Kane, associate professor of Baylor’s chemistry department, said he had been vouching for Baylor’s chance to host a meeting for years.
A cancer-fighting student organization is taking some time to celebrate a semester’s worth of crusading against the disease.
The Baylor chapter of Up ‘Til Dawn, which arranges on-campus fundraisers for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and promotes awareness of pediatric cancer, is playing host to The Big Event 6 p.m. Friday on Fountain Mall.
This semester Col. Jim Parsons has taken the reins of the Baylor Air Force ROTC, applying over 30 years of military experience to lead the cadets in a new direction.
Every two years Baylor Air Force ROTC hires a new commander, and Parsons began his work this semester. Parsons said his job is not only to command, but also to prepare students.
A bloody head and cracked wakeboard are only small drawbacks the Baylor wakeboarding team has faced.
The club has become highly competitive at the national level in the past few years and has shown that Baylor has very talented wakeboarders, said Austin senior Reagan Strickland, the president of Baylor Wake.
Nearly three weeks ago, Kimberly Minnick’s parents received a letter from her health insurance company.
“My mom called me to say my health insurance was ending and that I’d need to get a physical before the end of the year,” Minnick said.
According to the 24-year-old Truett Seminary student, Celtic Insurance Co. was going out of business.
Minnick said she’s lost her insurance providers before. “It’s the third time that’s happened to me,” she said.
President Ken Starr, along with the Kenya Women’s Leadership team, will be sponsoring the Starrs’ St. Kizito’s Christmas Project.
Over the past three years a small group of women have traveled to Africa to spend time in the slums of Kenya helping out with a small school called St. Kizito’s.
For the first time the Baylor community has the opportunity to bring Christmas to that school in Kenya. Students, faculty, staff or members of the community can buy a Christmas stocking for $27 plus $2 for shipping costs and the money will go toward buying gifts for a particular child at the school.
