When Orange County, Calif., freshman Ansley Bridges walked into an Ethiopian classroom at the age of 13 and saw students without school supplies, she knew she had to do something.

This experience six years ago was the spark that created an Ethiopian tutoring service that would transform lives.

The Baylor Alumni Association board members have a scheduled meeting on Saturday Oct. 5 on campus at the McMullen-Connally Faculty Center. Chad Wooten, BAA interim executive vice president, said the purpose of this meeting is to continue open discussion about the future of the BAA.

No votes will happen, Wooten said.

The documentary, “Tomlinson Hill,” a movie focused on race, social justice, and rural decline, will have a private screening for Baylor students at 6:30 p.m. on Monday in the Packard Lecture Hall in the Marrs McLean Science building.

“It shows the present-ness of the past,” said Dr. Stephen Sloan, the director of Baylor’s Institute for Oral History and a professor at Baylor. “There’s a quote that says, ‘The past is never past.’ The way in which these stories seem quite distant in the past – those themes and forces and trends are a thread that runs through to our present situation.”

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