Browsing: Mike Blackman

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.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States, the film “West Side Story” was released, Abner McCall assumed the presidency of Baylor and the university’s journalism department gained a new professor whose teaching would leave a mark that has lasted decades.