From before the beginning to this very issue, see Baylor Line Magazine’s path through tests and transitions and triumphs. It’s been a winding road, but our mission is still the same as it was from the first issue: to inform and empower the Baylor Family.
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Most alumni know about “the” fight — Baylor vs. the BAA. Few, however, remember the fight that almost broke Baylor Line Magazine. An article went too far; an editor resigned in protest; all while turmoil struck the university.
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Laura Hilton Hallmon, President Wayne Tucker, Jr., President Elect*
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With a special issue comes a special letter from the editor. In his note, Jon christens the issue with a preview of what’s inside and an important call to action for readers in order to ensure a strong, supported, and sustained Baylor Line Magazine for the Baylor Family. “Identification,” “Baylor,” “A Question,” and “Victory.” Four original poems by legendary Baylor football player, Baylor graduate, and former minister John Westbrook. We’ve republished them word-for-word from 1968 with all-new, vivid designs.
DEAR FELLOW BEARS READ THE LEGACY EDITOR’S NOTE WHERE DO I BELONG? THE REAL FIGHT BAYLOR LINE MAGAZINE THROUGH TIME
Nicole Williams Robinson, Secretary Chad Wooten, Treasurer
Jackie Baugh Moore, Past President
Barry Marie Brown
Welcome to our 75th Anniversary issue! In this opening pair of letters, you’ll read a welcome from current Baylor Line Foundation president, Laura Hilton Hallmon, next to the original address to Baylor Line Magazine subscribers from 1946 by Jack Dillard. The saying goes: Never judge a book by its cover. But what about a magazine? In this special section, we’re showcasing the best covers from our 75-year history. First, read about each and then enjoy our Top 10 in full-sized reprints. Which one is your favorite?
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*This anniversary issue is dedicated to the memory of L. Wayne Tucker, whose infectious kindness, tireless support, and servant leadership made so very much possible in the Baylor Family. To honor Wayne’s memory, consider making a gift in tribute to the L. Wayne Tucker Memorial Scholarship Fund at baylorline.com/waynetuckertribute.
Dr. Mary Landon Darden (Ed.D. ‘06) reflects on the life, impact, and irreplaceability of her late mentor, Dr. Robert Cloud (MS ‘69, Ed.D. ‘69), one of the most beloved and important voices in the Baylor Family. Travel back 64 years with us to a collection of responses from members of reunion classes – some of whom graduated over 50 years before the original article was published –answering one question: What has Baylor meant to you?
When I sit down to outline a new issue, I almost always start with the cover. Usually, they take a little trial-anderror and don’t always look as I imagined. But that’s not the case with this one. Our photographer, Curtis Callaway, delivered exactly (and I mean ex-ac-tuh-lee) what I envisioned. The mass of magazines really does demonstrate our reach and legacy in the Baylor Family. While 75 years is a huge milestone... luckily, there’s no end in sight for your Baylor Line Magazine Jonathon Platt, Editor
Our brand new subscription opportunity offers lots of content, connection, and cool new ways to make Baylor Line Foundation your home in the Baylor Family. In this FAQ, we explain what Insider is, what’s included in your subscription, and how you can join.
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Dear Fellow Bears,
Baylor Line Magazine , published by our organization with editorial independence since 1946, supports productive and stimulating discussion between and among alumni all over the world. Our readers appreciate a voice that is distinct from, and not managed by, the university; it is in this way that we are able to comment from multiple perspectives on the issues of the day facing our alma mater.
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Former Baylor President Samuel Palmer Brooks long ago referred to us all, the Baylor Family, as “Torchbearers”, honored by the important responsibility of continuing Baylor’s great legacy. Among the many meaningful messages shared by the torchbearing honorees at our 2021 Hall of Fame Festival in February, we were reminded to “never stop asking questions”, “to always think of others before ourselves”, “to grant each other grace”, and to remember that part of what makes Baylor so unique is that, here, our personal development, outside of the classroom, is every bit as important as what we learn inside the classroom. In looking ahead to the bright future of our organization, let us remain resolute in our dedication to these tenets, and to continue to serve as a place where Bears of all opinions are welcomed and respected.
Laura L aura H i Lton H a LL mon (‘96, JD ‘99) President , Baylor Line Foundation Welcome to our 75th Anniversary issue! In this edition, you will see many examples like this set of pages: new positioned next to old, opportunity next to legacy, and – through it all – the timeless importance of a strong, sustained Baylor Family. We hope you enjoy!
In a letter to alumni dated June 20, 1946, former executive director of the Baylor Ex-Students Association, Jack Dillard, noted the importance of our organization’s independence: “The history of all outstanding Ex-Students groups shows that they operate best when separate from the university.”
As we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Baylor Line Magazine , I am reminded of the historic importance of Baylor Line Foundation. From its beginnings in 1859, through various iterations and monikers (among them, the Baylor ExStudents Association and the Baylor Alumni Association), and still now, more than a century and a half later, our purpose remains the same: to examine, from a wide range of perspectives, Baylor’s history, culture, institutional practices, aspirations, and identity as a private, Baptist university, and to empower members of the Baylor Family to carry the torch, live with purpose, and lead with confidence.
Sherry Boyd Castello, editor of Baylor Line Magazine from 1968 to 1990 (and in service to our publication several years beyond, as a senior writer and news editor), recalls “from the start, we told everything straight – just like you would to a family member.” This tradition continues today, in everything Baylor Line Foundation does to serve the Baylor Family.
6Summer 2021 Originally Published: October 1946
BY JONATHON PLATT (‘16, MA ‘19)
EDITOR’S NOTE
Over 160 years ago, a group of Bears came together to form what is now Baylor Line Foundation. Everyone reading this, everyone holding this milestone in their hands, everyone who has helped us reach “here,” and everyone who will get us “there” are all direct decendents of those who chose to do something new. It’s scary to be the first. It’s intimidating to change things up. And it’s hard to remember sometimes that anything we love and cherish and value today was once unheard of, intimidating, and “new.”
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Baylor Line Magazine9 history (pg. 11) and see our Top 10 picks for best covers (pg. 23), including full-sized reprints for you to tear-andshare – I’ve framed several in my home office already.
Just after the cover collection, you can read two of my favorite pieces ever published by Baylor Line Magazine: four poems by John Westbrook (pg. 36) and the saga of Baylor’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night fiasco (pg. 41). I won’t give anything away, but I will tell you that Judge McCall called this incident the defining moment of his career as president of Baylor and I think it is one of the most important events in Baylor Line Magazine’s history. Dr. Mary Darden also honors the legacy and memory of her mentor, Baylor legend, Dr. Robert C. Cloud (pg. 59). To me, this tribute shows the realworld results of our call to continue the legacy. Finally, I invite you to spend some time reviewing the FAQ (pg. 75) on our new membership model: Baylor Line Insider. Like I said before, this opportunity is totally new to the Baylor Family, but it is not a replacement for anything we currently offer. I’d love to give you a little behind-thescenes of how Baylor Line Insider came to be. For 75 years, Baylor Line Magazine has arrived on the doorsteps and in the mailboxes of the Baylor Family. It’s become a ritual of connection for many. It’s an honor to continue that legacy. It’s also only one of the many ways we can deliver value, connection, and transformation to you, though. We’ve experimented for years with podcasts, video series, and other digital content offerings. But there’s not been anything focusing and uniting these projects with the overall mission of our content department – until now. Baylor Line Insider is a members-only content platform. You can think of it like a subscription to this magazine, plus a private Facebook group. Members receive total access to all digital content offered by Baylor Line Foundation (including unrestricted access to our archives); full-length episodes of all Baylor Line Podcasts (plus Insider-only shows); a one-year subscription to our brand new magazine, Baylor Line Insider Exclusive (which will drop three times per year as a digital-first publication); and VIP access to exclusive Insider-only events (both live and virtual). This is on top of a subscription to Baylor Line Magazine and all the existing free content we deliver. For those who want to know more about this new offering, check out page 75 or baylorline.com/insiderlaunch.visit
-Jon Happily, faithfully, and wholeheartedly, we’re excited about continuing the “old” in partnership with the “new.” It’s where these two meet that I’m excited to be for you. “
There’s a lot of “new” happening in the Baylor Family. Happily, faithfully, and wholeheartedly, though, we’re excited about continuing the “old” in partnership with the “new.” It’s where these two meet that I’m excited to be for you
Yours, J onat H on P L att (‘16, MA ’19) Editor-in-chief , Baylor Line Magazine
timeline . . . ESSAY 1925 1938 Baylor Monthly, the first magazine for Baylor alumni is launched. Baylor Century, replaces Baylor Monthly as the alumni magazine.
THROUGHTIME75years.That’squitealongtime.Afewthingsthatwerehappening75yearsagoinclude:WorldWarIIhadjustended,theUnitedNationswasn’tevenayearold,thelastmasslynchinghadonlyjusttakenplace,theU.K.wasintheearlystagesofgrantingindependencetoIndia,thebikiniwasintroduced,andS.TruettCathyhadonlyjustfoundedDwarfGrill,thepredeccesor of Chick-fil-A. 1946 had a lot going on. In the 75 years since, we mourned the worst terrorist attack on American soil, survived a pandemic and several economic collapses, saw the impeachment of two U.S. presidents and the resignation of a third, added two states to our country, created the deadliest weapons known to man and waged two wars that lasted 20 years each. At the same time, we raised life expectancy by over two decades, racially desegregated our public life, touched the moon, and put super computers in our pockets. You might have raised a family, fallen in love, started a business that changed the world, maybe graduated from college as the first in your family’s history, and – since you’re reading this magazine, we can only assume – joined the Baylor Family. A lot has happened. And we are so glad you’ve been here with us. We are so proud to have delivered Baylor Line Magazine to you, again and again, over these 75 years. To show, or perhaps remind you, where we’ve been together, enjoy this
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Baylor Line Magazine13 Today This issue marks a huge milestone for Baylor Line Magazine. We’ve reached 75 years. It’s so fun to look back at where we’ve come from, but it has been said, “When memories of the past exceed dreams of the future, the end is near.” Luckily, that’s not happening in the Baylor Family. We have lots of new, exciting projects in the works, some you’ll learn about in the coming pages, some later this fall. Thanks for being in this journey with us. Onward! 1968 2017 2000s Sherry Castello takes the helm, leading Baylor Line Magazine for over 20 years. Craig continuesandbecomesCunninghameditorthemagazinepublicationunderthenewlyreorganizedBaylorLineFoundation. relationshipsIrreconcilablebetweenBAA&BUdevelop,resultinginlawsuits&asplitfromtheuniversity.
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It’s a way to connect with the present as well as the future of campus activity and college life, but it is also a remembrance of the past – a walk down memory lane – to relive the amazing experience of attending Baylor University. “ It is like opening a warm blanket every time Baylor Line Magazine arrives. We lived on the East and West coasts where anything Texas was up for criticism. But I know I am hearing from an old friend when the magazine arrives. It is comforting and makes me so proud to be a part of the Baylor Family. And I must say that people often criticized the great State of Texas. But everyone had nothing but accolades for Baylor University. “
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It has kept me in touch with Baylor, connectsremember.me.bringstoliveandaccomplishments,alumnievents.Itoofarawayvisit,anditBaylortoIthelpsmeItme. “
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I always finish Baylor Line Magazine wearing a smile. The articles and stories are written with a desire to share information or the trials and joys of life. Seeing The Line, when I opened the mailbox, always gets a soft Sic ‘em.
In many cases, it has been a connection to the past, to classmates, and friends, and a glimpse into the future. I like the articles talking about what is going on around campus as well as history of the University. “ Each time I receive it, I think of my parents since they gave it to me as a graduation gift. Next, I am reminded of how fortunate I was to attend Baylor and experience such a wonderful time there. “
—JimmyMuellerGreeney
It brings back the joy and growth I experienced at Baylor. It’s great to read about today’s students and to keep up with what makes Baylor a national treasure.
—Jeanine Holt
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As an out-of-state student of the 1960s, with no real connections to the state of Texas, I really had no prior connection to Baylor University nor anyone associated with the school. After graduation I return to Arizona for a short period before commencing a 20-year service in the Navy. After retirement, I again returned to Arizona, where I now live. In all this time I only once passed through Waco for a few hours visit to the campus. My only connection with Baylor over these past 55 years has been through Baylor Line Magazine and various alumni groups. To keep the spirit alive and fresh, it takes connections, such as these. While the campus I remember has changed considerably, the memories live on through the words of your publication. Thank you.
The scene is a typical weekday morning on Fountain Mall. It’s early in the fall semester, and the sidewalks between Moody Library and the Rosenbaum Fountain teem with students. There’s not a mask in sight. That’s not until next year. And while these Bears are clearly diverse in every sense of the word – gender, ethnicity, dress, emotional state, you name it – they share one glaring, common denominator: nearly every one holds a smartphone. Those who aren’t chattering into earpieces are listening with heads cocked, nodding to music and conversation. No one is using laptops – not out here; these students aren’t working or studying; just crossing campus. Yet nearly everybody is online. The sight is so familiar that we already take it for granted, but it’s actually quite remarkable if you stop and take it all in from an historical perspective. Try to picture, were it actually visible, the sea of information floating around their heads. Although it’s unseen and inaudible and intangible, imagine all that data as if it were an actual stream of ones and zeros pouring out of those devices and churning above them in a vast, grey cloud. The world’s largest swarm of bees, buzzing over a parade of oblivious victims. Gigabytes of bandwidth fill the air above this scattering of human souls; a space crammed with digital impulses yet so physically open Mark olsen (‘89) is a lecturer of English at Baylor and a highly accomplished author and screenwriter.
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Sponsored Content 22Summer 2021 that only days from now, it will hold tens of thousands for the Homecoming Pep Rally and Bonfire. Now picture the roomfuls of technology and equipment needed to power all that information. Beyond network towers and fiber-optics required to host voice calls and cellular data, consider Baylor’s own link in the chain: campus servers and routers nestled across every corner of campus. In this year alone – 2019 – Information and Technology Services (ITS) will spend millions and deploy technicians to every corner of the Baylor world in support of all the web-equipped devices brought to school by its student body. This year, each student arrives with an average of 5 internet-connected devices: everything from computers and phones to tablets, watches and assorted consumer devices in dorm rooms and even cars. During every single second of this autumn day, five gigabytes of data flood in-and-out of the Baylor campus. In 2019, bandwidth and internet access are the university’s ultimate unfunded liability: a hugely expensive yet nonnegotiable burden to bear. A burdensome cost-of-living expense, yet essential for viability in the Internet Age. (Put a pin in that point and remember it, because later in our story – yet chronologically right around the corner – this will all change dramatically.)Mostof this river of information comes via the seamless and ubiquitous interface known as The World Wide Web. These days, the Web is the primary form of Internet most people experience; even if they only notice it as the “www” at the start of online addresses. And one huge and rapidly growing sector of the Web is dedicated to interpersonal interaction: otherwise known as social media. Catapulted by Facebook in 2004, social-media now includes an ever-expanding array of applications which comprise the Internet’s touchand-feel – the tip of its relational iceberg.It’swhat most of the Bears crisscrossing Fountain Mall are actually using right now. What they don’t know, however, is that within a few yards of where they’re walking, Internet and social-media history was actually made. Some of those who made it are still here, largely unsung, and others are no longer physically at Baylor but still around – quite happy to share their thread in theTotale.reach the story’s deepest roots, the true dawn of this history, we travel back to 1967: before the Rosenbaum Fountain, when Moody Library was still a construction site and, those sidewalks were still a working street along which you could park and drive beyond Fifth Street to a turnaround within a stone’s throw of Pat Neff. In that year, when newlyhired physics professor Donald Hardcastle first arrived at Baylor, none of the university’s support functions utilized a single computer. (Ponder that for a moment. Not a single digital device for registration, grades, records, payroll, classroom instruction – anything. Most administrative tasks were performed by hand on Machine Record Equipment in the Pat Neff basement.) In fact, the lone computing device on campus that year was a huge IBM 1620 housed in the business school’s “Casey Computing Center.” (Computers back then were so bulky and formidable that a single unit often justified its own dedicated infrastructure; often its own staff.) Bought with a $50,000 gift from the Casey Family for the educational needs of Baylor’s business students, the behemoth used a compiler loaded onto decks of punchcards, its applications entered through still more decks, its output on yet another, final stack of punch cards for operators to decipher.The 1620’s processing capacity? 20K. Twentythousand bytes. By contrast, today’s thumb drives sold shrinkwrapped beside pencils and erasers in the Baylor bookstore hold over 20GB – one-million times as much – yet retrieve it in milliseconds, with a fingertip command. And of course, sell for around ten bucks. (That’s 0.02% the cost of IBM’s 1620.) Hardcastle wasn’t a computer scientist, but his rapidlyexpanding field of physics required access to computing, and his determination to excel earned him a spot on a newlycoined Baylor Computer Committee.“Iwanted Baylor to be as close to the leading-edge, sometimes called the bleeding-edge as it could afford and still survive,” he said. Read the rest baylorline.com/downloadingat
The saying goes: Never judge a book by its cover. But what about a magazine? Since 1946, we’ve brought the best stories and most important updates in the Baylor Family through Baylor Line Magazine . Wrapping each issue, covers are the first thing you see – whether on a coffee table, in your mailbox, or passed to you. In this special section, we’re showcasing the best covers from our 75-year history.
First, get a little context from each issue. Then, on the following 10 pages, enjoy the fullsizedWhichcovers.one is your favorite?
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Another first – the first full-color cover. The editors declared this accomplishment their “Christmas gift” to the Baylor Family. Inside were articles celebrating the 50th anniversary of Baylor’s College of Dentistry, updates on a new “heart study” by the College of Medicine, and homecoming pictures.
EDITOR: JACK DILLARD
Our first issue. Though, those with serious Baylor history chops will remember this was not the first alumni magazine. Before Baylor Line Magazine were publications such as Baylor Monthly, Baylor Century, and an irregular newsletter that was often times personally managed by Rufus Burleson himself.
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Who could pass up putting Willie in a Top 10 collection? Fast forward sevel decades and high-quality profile shots are the new norm for our covers and issues are also almost three-times thicker. In this issue, “Baylor Legends” are profiled, including Thomas Harris, the McNamaras, and Ann Richards.
EDITOR: ENID MARKHAM EDITOR: TODD COPELAND EDITOR: CRAIG CUNNINGHAMEDITOR: SHERRY CASTELLO “A montage of Baylor history, á propos of her 121st anniversary February 1st, by a 1964 Baylor art graduate, Les Neilson.” This issue included: an article on the new expansion of Waco Hall to house the Music School and a profile on Baylor’s then-oldest graduate, William Haynie, who was 104. Perhaps the spookiest of our covers. Inside, an explanation of the provocative imagery reads: “This issue . . . focuses on the need for a coordinated recruiting effort in the 70’s and on the ex-student’s role in this effort.” Photos of Baylor’s 125th anniversary celebration were also included. Perhaps the most defining and important in our publication’s history, this issue represents a core value of Baylor Line Magazine: to promote honest, transparent, and relevant content. Despite all the odds, this issue’s publication proves the resiliency and necessity of Baylor Line Foundation. Just six month into Sherry Castello’s storied tenure as editor, she brought us this cover – maybe the most commented-on in our Top 10 selection process. Inside: a report on recommendations made by BAA to Baylor; advice by Dave Johnson, then-director of counseling; and a profile on Baylor nursing students. If this cover doesn’t move you, nothing will. Well, except maybe the heartfelt tribute to former Sports Information Director George Wright. Also included were four poems by John Westbrook (reprinted in the current issue) and an article titled “Three Baylor Women Invade Sacrosanct Male Preserves.”
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In a new era, Baylor Line Foundation is full of and fueled by tremendous momentum. At the time, Craig wrote, “Every time we put a new issue . . . together, I’m reminded of the incredible bond that exists between so many people who share the Baylor expereience, and my spirit is renewed.” Lights from Moody (and the Green and Gold Fountain) shine bright! This issue was a little different, concerning itself with almost a single topic: a report by then-president Abner McCall to alumni on “the state of the university as it near[ed] the observance of 125 years of operation.”
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38Summer 2021 Originally Published: March 1968 BAYLOR YouBaylor!are people, many people – my people now! Students, faculty, administrators; Janitors, grounds-keepers, maids, cooks; Coaches and alumni. You are not confined to a plot of land; You are in and of the whole world. You are men of the past, present, and future: Burleson, Brooks, Neff, White, and McCall; Baylor, Tryon, and Huckins; Armstrong, Harrington, Tidwell; Morrison, Hankamer, Martin, Penland; Kokernot; Sid Richardson and Marrs McLean . . . Me? B-eing to IBM cards you bring. A-lways a smile – “Hello. How are you?” Y-esterday remembered, today hurried, tomorrow hoped for. L-ove you began with; will you keep it? O-ne and only one like you in the world. R-eligion your sustenance. (Pray God the loaves and fishes last!)
40Summer 2021 Originally Published: March 1968 VICTORY Did you hear? We won! Listen, man, the war is over! Four thousand of the enemy killed today? Isn’t that great? Gosh, Man! And we had only one – one – guy to die! God must love us . . . We are blessed. Why are you looking sad? Didn’t you hear? – We won! That war is over – let’s celebrate! Come, come now – speak up! Don’t you have anything to say? . . . . . . “That was my son.”
What follows is that story... The story of the fight that almost broke Baylor Line Magazine.
Baker was not an outside agitator or liberal provocateur. An acclaimed and lauded professional, he had spent 28 years at Baylor reshaping and transforming the drama department into what Time Magazine called, a“renowned center of experimental theater.” Throughout his tenure, Baker had gained national recognition for his take on Othello in 1953, convinced Burgess Meredith to portray Hamlet, and spearheaded the creation of the Dallas Theater in 1959, which is the only theater designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In the past, Baker had made changes to plays with curse words and less-than-appropriate scenes. In this instance, though, Baker was simply sticking to his morals and his professional intuition – and, especially, to the agreement made with O’Neill’s widow, forbidding changes to the play.
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I first came across the story of the Long Day’s Journey Into Night saga in 2013, when researching a paper on Baylor Lariat’s coverage of the Ole Miss desegregation disaster. The research introduced me to Ella Wall Prichard (‘63), former editor of the Lariat. Prichard penned an editorial calling for the desegregation of Baylor’s campus in the fall of 1962, something President Abner McCall had expressly warned her not to do. And then – as if defying the administration once wasn’t enough – a few months later when McCall closed Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Prichard published an editorial calling the “censorship” and cancellation a “tragedy.” She called Baylor a “narrowminded, intolerant denominational school.”
Editor’s Note: In 1962, famed theater professor Paul Baker gained the rights to production of Eugene O’Neill’s play Long Day’s Journey Into Night. However, an agreement was struck, first. An agreement that not a scene, not a character, not a word could be changed. Baker, other theater department faculty and staff, and Baylor theater students prepared to deliver the story in exactly that manner – quite the pursuit, as Long Day’s Journey Into Night contains a few, shall we say, less than “Baptist-appropriate” words and themes. Things went without a hitch and the play was highly anticipated. Except, to one show came a church group. They were quite upset their children were exposed to the haunted tragedy of the story’s Tyrone family – including drunkenness and phrases like “goddamn whore!” President Abner McCall and the administration asked Baker to amend the play, but he refused, resulting in its shuttering and, later, Bakers’ departure with 11 other drama faculty members.
The thing is: McCall had not forbidden Prichard from covering any topic in the news section of the paper, but had explicitly forbade two topics from the editorial section. The first, as stated, was desegregation. The second? Critiquing Baptist principles – what McCall had said were the reasons for shuttering the performance. Luckily, Prichard was not stripped of her editorship for defying these orders. I’ve learned a lot about morals, courage, and perseverance from my friendship with Ella. I’ve learned a lot about morals, courage, and perseverance from another female editor at the time, Mrs. Frances Provence. She, too, took a stand in the pages of her publication – the same publication you are now reading – but the results were much different for her.
On Dec. 6, 1962, four months after this statement was made, the Baylor Theater production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was closed in mid-run by the administration. Since that time, many words have been written and spoken. This magazine and members of the University community have received inquiries from alumni all over the nation wanting to know what happened. This article will attempt to give the background and to trace the developments chronologically, quoting a fair sampling of the resulting comment and opinion. Last summer, Paul Baker, director of Baylor Theater, secured the rights to produce Long Day’s Journey Into Night from the playwright’s widow, Carlotta Monterey O’Neill. The theater’s reputation for fidelity to the playwright must have carried some weight in Mrs. O’Neill’s decision, because it is the only nonprofessional theater in the nation which she would consider giving permission to produce the play. To gain the right to produce it, Paul Baker had to promise not to cut one line nor alter one word. Procuring the right to this play was considered quite a feat back on the campus, since most critics consider the play O’Neill’s greatest work. Kenneth Tynane in the London Observer, in comparing Western playwrights, called O’Neill the greatest dramatist of the 20th Century and Long Day’s Journey Into Night his greatestO’Neill,play.who died in 1953, is one of the few Americans to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He also won four Pulitzer Prizes, one of them for this autobiographical play published posthumously. On their 12th wedding anniversary in 1941, he wrote his wife: “Dearest: I give you the original script of this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood. A sadly inappropriate gift, it would seem, for a day celebrating happiness. But you will understand I mean it as a tribute to your love and tenderness, which gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play – write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted“TheseTyrones.twelveyears, Beloved One, have been a Journey into Light – into love. You know my gratitude. And my love!” Mrs. O’Neill in 1931 had founded the Eugene O’Neill Collection at the Yale University Library. It includes notes, photographs, and the original manuscripts of plays, including this one. All royalties from the sale of the Yale editions of the book, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, go to Yale University for the Collection, for the books in the field of drama, and for the establishment of Eugene O’Neill Scholarships in the Yale School of Drama. The book has been in the Baylor library since it was published in 1956. It is available in the Baylor Book Store.It cannot be said that the Baylor production was unheralded. For several weeks before the opening, it was promoted in campus, local, and state news media. One news release from the Baylor News and Information Service, dated Nov. 20, said in part:“Baylor Theater will add new scope and dimension to southern college theatrical production with its presentation of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The play’s running dates will be Nov. 29, 30, Dec. 1, 4-8, and 13-15. “Baylor Theater will be using the ‘uncut script’ of the play in accordance with the wishes of Carlotta O’Neill, the playwright’s widow. The Drama Department obtained permission to produce the play this summer and became the first non-professional group to
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Mr. Baker supervises a total of 40 teachers and artists in the Baylor Drama Department and Dallas Theater Center, an affiliate of the department.
Saturday, Dec. 1, was Ministers Day on campus. Other visitors on the campus included around 4,000 young boys attending a Royal Ambassadors meeting, accompanied by church leaders. Whether this coincidence precipitated the premature closing of the play remains a matter of debate. That Saturday night, a Uvalde couple took a group of children to see the performance. The man returned for Tuesday night’s performance, accompanied by an adult group. The next day, Paul Baker received a call from President McCall, reporting that critics of the play “are camping on my doorstep” and that he was receiving criticism not only from ministers but from some of the faculty and from “town people.” He wanted to attend the play himself before deciding what to do, and he came for the last two acts of the four-act play that Wednesday evening.
“He said he had received many complaints from people both on and off the campus, and nearly all of them were laymen.“‘There is no delegation of ministers, as was previously reported [in newspapers]. There was one minister who came to investigate the play – he was the only one who complained, to my knowledge,’ said McCall. “‘ . . . One of the most incensed protests came from sponsors of a church group of junior teen-age girls who attended the play last Saturday. “‘The Theater staff showed poor judgment in admitting pre-teen and teen-age students to see the play,’ said McCall. “He said he attended Wednesday night’s performance, and half of the audience were students from local high school drama classes.“‘Idon’t think that students of this age are mature enough to understand the intended message of the play,’ he said.”
A news release from the News and Information Service on Dec. 6 said: “Baylor University President Abner McCall said Thursday the Baylor Theater’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night was to be canceled after Thursday night’s performance because ‘it is felt the language of the play is not in keeping with the University’s ideals.’ “McCall said he had decided to ask the Drama Department to cancel the play’s five remaining performances after he had received numerous complaints of the excessive profanity and offensive words and phrases in the play
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Drama Department Chairman Baker expressed dismay and regret at the order canceling the remaining performances.“Neverbefore has my integrity been questioned. In the 24 years I have directed the theater at Baylor, I have selected and supervised an average of 10 to 15 full-sized plays and 25 one-act plays per year. I can’t go on selecting plays for production without full authority to do it.”
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About Long Day’s Journey Into Night, he said, “Of course, it is a strong play. Never before have I put on a play with such language and atmosphere, but it is the greatest play written by the greatest playwright that America has produced. It is a morality play. Its theme is the understanding of the human soul. “We have had people coming and calling from all over Texas wanting to see the play. High school teachers have brought their star pupils to see it because they wanted them to see a great production of a great play. “Our staff is bewildered and shocked at the order to close the play.”
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The Theater staff began the job of returning money to the 900 people who had bought tickets for the remaining performances.The Baylor Lariat in an editorial in the Dec. 7 issue said,“Its [the play’s] cancellation, because of censorship, marks a tragic end to the more than two decades of dramatic freedom combined with extraordinary quality that Paul Baker has given this University . . . The forced closing of Long Day’s Journey Into Night after so much effort went into securing the rights to the play, will serve only to brand Baylor as a narrow-minded, intolerant denominational school concerned with religious indoctrination rather than with“Theeducation.theater must be the training ground for actors and playwrights and the cultural center of the University, or it must be the mouthpiece of religiosity. Whatever it is to be, once the decision is made, it should not be changed in the middle of any major production.”
Another University news release on Dec. 7 said: “Baylor University President Abner McCall said Friday he accepts full responsibility for prematurely closing the Baylor Theater’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and that he is not taking this action because of pressure from Baptist ministers. . .
“‘The objection is not the general message of the play but to the excessively strong profanity repeatedly used to convey the message. I do not feel it is in good taste for a church-related university to produce.“‘Since the contract deprives us of the ability to take the customary corrective action, I requested the Department of Drama to discontinue presenting the play. “‘This action is not intended as a reflection on the literary or dramatic qualities of the play. It is a matter of propriety and good taste,’ ” he said.
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And in his interpretation of censorship and academic freedom as quoted from the Dallas News of Jan. 13: “Censorship connotes an unwarranted interference from an outside agency. That’s not what happened. We had a simple internal administrative matter in which I rendered a decision. I do the same thing every day in other departments, and it’s considered routine.
The Baylor Theater, no matter how unique or how famous, is still part of Baylor subject to administrative review . . . “Nobody has a higher regard than I do for academic freedom. I have been a teacher, and I’m a lawyer with knowledge of individual rights in various circumstances. But I say this – not this incident, but in general – academic freedom can be lost by constant abuse. “One of the real perils to academic freedom today is those who equate it with license and indecency and profanity to students. I doubt that teachers who defend profanity in books use it in their classes.
“As president of the Texas Institute of Letters I am appalled by your action against Long Day’s Journey Into Night, an action which compromised the scholarly dedication of your university and rejects the principles of intellectual freedom dear to us all. “You have presumed to censor not just a play, but the minds of Baylor’s students as well. This double affront to enlightenment ill becomes and educator.” Dr. J. M. Dawson, a former president of the Texas Institute of Letters and former Waco pastor and former Baylor trustee, came to President McCall’s defense: “As a former president of the Institute and as main speaker at the last session of the Institute when I used censorship as my subject, I object to President Vandiver’s offensive letter to President McCall over the play incident. Dr. McCall acted in response to general demurrer from the public, not from an official denomination pressure, not from protests from big givers, not from any group of self-appointed censors, but solely on his own judgment.”
President McCall’s position can possibly best be realized by this letter he wrote the paster of a Fort Worth Church. It was published in the church paper Jan.“Thank3: you for your letter endorsing my action in closing the O’Neill play at Baylor University. I have been somewhat saddened to discover that there are so many people today who confuse academic freedom with the license to stand on a stage and shout vulgar and profane words to the public, including children, but I have also been heartened by the hundreds of fine people who have called and written to express agreement with my action. They have greatly outnumbered the confused critics.“Ihave been particularly gratified to hear from so many Baptist pastors and Baptist churches giving their support in this matter . . .”
Everything that O’Neill was trying to say in his play can be said without profanity. I’ve always understood a man is educationally deficient if he can’t express himself without vulgarity – a main purpose of education is to teach how to express thoughts on a higher plane.” That is the way things stood at Baylor University the first month in 1963.
“All friends of freedom of thought and intellectual honesty must be dismayed by Baylor’s assault on learning. “The long struggle of man against the shackles of ignorance, bigotry, and fear should never suffer defeat in a university – an institution dedicated to broadening and cultivating rather than narrowing and beggaring.
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November 29, 1962, against a background of subdued excitement among campus and city theater patrons, the Baylor Theater opened its scheduled nine-performance run of Eugene O’Neill’s play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The opening of the play had been attended by several circumstances which prepossessed the student body in its interest. The chief among these circumstances was the difficulty with which Prof. Paul Baker had procured the rights for his “amateur” group of university thespians to produce the play. Long Day’s Journey Into Night is autobiographical in nature, and O’Neill’s will stated that the play not be released until twenty-five years after his death. (He was born in 1888 and died November 27, 1953.) The will further stated that the play should always be produced uncut. Mrs. O’Neill released the play earlier than the specified date, but no other college group had yet been given the rights when Baylor’s production opened after months of tedious work. Only at the expressed consent of Mrs. O’Neill, and presumably as a result of Paul Baker’s eminence in the theatrical world, had Baylor secured the distinction of the college premiere, and one of the conditions accompanying the consent was the order laid down by O’Neill himself that the play be produced uncut, verbatim, at its full stage length of four Eugenehours.O’Neill’s father was an actor of indifferent abilities. His mother accompanied her husband on his tours around the country, but she was not fond of theatrical life and generally disapproved of theatrical people. Their son Eugene tried various pursuits before he turned to the theater, and not until 1913 did he even begin to write. In 1916 he began to act with the Provincetown Play of Massachusetts in his own plays, but it was in 1917 that his dramatic career really began with the production of In The Zone on October 31. On February 2, 1920, he had the satisfaction of seeing his own work produced for the first time by an exclusively professional group. The play was Beyond The Horizon Subsequent productions are milestones in the career of the man generally regarded as America’s foremost playwright to date. Desire Under The Elms appeared November 21, 1924; Lazarus Laughed on April 9, 1928, and later given by the Baylor Theater; Mourning Becomes Electra appeared on the stage first October 26, 1931, to name only a few. O’Neill’s childhood was not a happy one, and the subjects portrayed in Long Day’s Journey Into Night are not subjects of delight, nor approbation. It remains, however, for the individual to examine the play in its literary form and on the stage – which Central Texas may soon do at the Alley Theater in Houston – and to reach for himself an estimate of the literary and spiritual worth of the work, a task beyond the confines of this article.The play opened at Baylor as announced on November 29 and gave the scheduled performances on November 30, and also its December 1, 4, 5, and 6 performances. Inquiries to those who had seen the play produced varying results. To me comments were made on the high dramatic appeal, the tragic import, and invariably on the superb accomplishments of the theater, students, and faculty. Student Reaction Late on the Thursday evening of December 6, a confused rumor spread across the campus that the play had been closed by order of the president of the University. Most students with whom I conversly disbelieved the report, but the rumor was confirmed by the headlines in the Friday morning papers of Waco and of the campus. My candid appraisal of student reaction is that most Baylorites received the news with undisguised consternation and puzzlement, which altered during the course of that Friday to take the form of anger, amazement, and indignation. I myself experienced genuine surprise at the individuals who expressed to me their chagrin at this action, and I was surprised also to note the different groups within the large campus group which united their voices in protest.
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Not all students protested on the same grounds, certainly; some were immoderate in their criticism of President McCall; others, at the opposite end of the spectrum, confined their dissent to observing that were the play to have been censored from presentation, that action ought to have been taken prior to its first showing. Still other students defended the action of our president on the grounds that he, and no other, is answerable for the public image of Baylor University, and that he operated entirely within his rights in closing the play. Very few persons to my knowledge, ventured to dispute the legal right which enforced the action, however warmly they disapproved it. There was on that Friday widespread agitation for some means of expressing the general discontent. The closing of the play was the subject of campus conversation, both idle and heated. In the afternoon a number of persons in the membership of Student Congress assembled to draw up a resolution expressing what was believed to be student opinion.* Others dispersed themselves over the campus in an effort to contact all Congress members and to secure a quorum at a called meeting, scheduled for 4 p.m. At 4:45 p.m. the group, which included a number of people who were not members of Congress, was called and a quorum was declared to be present. There were 43 members on the roll; 30 were present. One member voted by written ballot in absentia The resolution, when presented, was both warmly defended and attacked. One congresswoman expressed regret for the “implied criticism of Judge McCall” and opposed the resolution on this ground. Another member replied to this complaint by asserting that no personal attack had been intended, and that the resolution had been worded with some care to direct full attention to the inherent nature of the action, rather than the author of it. One congressman and several non-members sincerely urged the group not to take any action on the ground that not all the members of Congress had seen the play and were not therefore qualified to judge on the wisdom of its closure. These arguments were opposed by an individual who stated that, in his opinion, not having seen the play was precisely the problem. Students had not been given the opportunity to judge for themselves. This young man closed with a warm plea for approval of the resolution. He was not a member of Congress.DeanW. C. Perry was in attendance at the meeting. He requested that consideration of the matter be postponed until someone had spoken carefully with President McCall to ascertain the full facts. Student reporters from the Lariat were questioned regarding the sources of information for the Lariat news story of Friday morning. They replied that when the story broke on Thursday night the staff had placed a long distance call to Mr. Baker in Dallas. They stated that he had been informed a short time before and seemed shocked and bewildered . . . The Lariat, they continued, had carried the full text of an official statement of Dr. McCall’s position, released by Public Relations. Reporters were told he had nothing more to say. Shortly prior to the called meeting of Congress, Dr. McCall had declined an invitation to appear. Student Congress Action The chair, occupied now by the vice president, entertained a motion to refer the matter to a committee. Having heard the statements of the reporters, several students opposed this course arguing the decreased effect of the resolution at a later date. During this discussion it was noted that a major London newspaper had carried a front page story of the event, and that both the Associated Press and United Press International wire services carried stories. The motion to refer to a committee wasShortlydefeated.thereafter, a roll call was taken on the resolution. The results were 27 FOR; 4 AGAINST.Thepassage of the resolution and the publicity it received served to allay somewhat the urge of the student body to be heard. Not since I entered Baylor in 1959 has any single event produced so united an opinion as did the closing of thisDuringplay. the subsequent weekend signs appeared over the campus scrawled in varying degrees of legibility, expressing discontent with the action closing the play. These were the work of individuals, and so far as I know, were not the result of any cooperative effort. I know with certainty that the only means used by the Student Congress to express reaction was the aforementioned resolution. The emotion engendered has long since subsided in its overt expression. I can not fairly state that the action is regarded with more approval, but only with more resignation. A great number of students have mellowed in their judgments even while retaining their former opinion of the action. The most frequently-quoted comment which I have heard is, in substance, that any American university which can find no place on its campus for the Pulitzer prize-winning play of America’s leading playwright has seriously to examine itself.
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interpretations, but I believe your long experience at Baylor will enable you to apply them without danger of repetition of the recent controversy.
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On January 8, 1963, the matter was discussed at the meeting of the Waco Board of Trustees, and the Board passed a resolution commending the closing of the play under the circumstances. Previously, the Dallas Executive Committee of the Board passed a similar resolution. As a result of the discussion at the Waco meeting, I gave assurances to the Board that I would send Mr. Baker a written restatement of the University policy on the matter. I delayed a month to allow feelings on the matter to subside and sent a letter on February 8 as follows: “At the meeting on the Baylor Board of Trustees in Waco January 8 I gave assurance to the trustees that I would send you a written statement that it was the policy of the University that plays containing vulgar, profane, or blasphemous language should not be produced by the Drama Department without deletion of the offensive language. It is also University policy that plays which ridicule the Christian religion shall not be presented.”
Baylor Line Magazine51 offensive language used therein, and that such was not consistent with Baylor’s purpose.TheWaco newspaper on the morning of December 7 denounced the closing of the play, and carried statements from Mr. Baker expressing surprise and shock, and expressing doubt of his ability to continue at Baylor since his integrity had been questioned. The matter received much publicity and there were varied reactions from many different persons and organizations both on and off the campus.OnDecember 10th Mr. Baker and I again met and after discussing the matter issued statements designed to close the incident. I publicly stated that my action in closing the play implied no lack of respect for Mr. Baker and expressed appreciation for his work at Baylor. He stated that he fully understood the University policies and that he and his staff would go forward with their plans.
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On March 4 Mr. Baker and Mr. Eugene McKinney, professor in Drama Department, came to my office and expressed dissatisfaction with the policy expressed in the letter, particularly as to how the portion forbidding plays ridiculing the Christian religion might be interpreted. Mr. Baker also expressed disappointment in what he regarded as lack of appreciation of his work manifested by the statements by certain trustees and the actions of the Board on January 8. On the morning of March 8 I was called at my home and advised that there was an announcement on the radio that Mr. Baker and his entire staff had resigned to go to Trinity University in San Antonio. Shortly before I reached my office Mr. Baker delivered thereto the letters of resignation, a joint statement signed by the staff, and a mimeographed news release issued by the public relations officer of Trinity University at San Antonio with an announcement by President Laurie of Trinity University that Mr. Baker had been employed by Trinity. The joint statement declared that the University policy discussed above was an intolerable restriction on the freedom of those resigning and that they could not continue to do effective work thereunder.
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Mr. Baker did not discuss the resignations with me at any time and from every indication had already made arrangements for the resignations and employment by Trinity University at the time of our conversation on March 4. Only Seven from Drama Faculty Seven of those resigning have faculty status in the Drama Department at Waco. One Waco staff employee, a costumer, also resigned. Three of the employees of It has been my position that Baylor University is the producer of all plays
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In Baker’s corner was the bulk of the faculty, generally, and several influential donors and leaders in the Baylor community, including Abner McCall. So, the destruction of Baylor Theater was stopped. At this point in the interview, we find out why McCall personally helped Baker navigate this conflict. It turns out, McCall considered Baker more than just a colleague. “I was quite familiar with Paul Baker and his problems and I considered him my friend. He was – I was his friend,” McCall said. We could probably spend an entire issue examining the relationship between McCall and Baker. There seems to have been a mutual trust, respect, and deep friendship between the two. McCall was a regular guest speaker in Baker’s classes, their families were sociable and dined together, and McCall – from his very earliest interactions with Baker – seemed to be not only on the theater professor’s side, but an adamant defender of Baker’s. The Long Day’s Journey Into Night saga, unfortunately, seems to have been the end of this trust, respect, and friendship. It’s a complex ending. According to McCall, Baker knew his errors, but asked his friend to spare him his reputation. McCall obliged and issued the order for O’Neill’s play to close. Then when the press, the public, the students, and the faculty turned on McCall, Baker was nowhere to be found, and, instead, was sorting out employment elsewhere. Without so much as a heads-up to his friend. Perhaps I’m reading too much into McCall’s words, but –under the “Arrangements Already Made” section of his report – I swear there is a tinge of remorse or regret or maybe feelings of betrayal. In short, this fight hurt. It hurt a friendship, it hurt the university, it hurt the alumni. And, as you’ve read, this conflict hurt Baylor Line Magazine. Frances Provence was told to toe the party line or members of the administration and board of trustees would personally see the Ex-Student’s Association and Baylor Line Magazine were punished. She, instead, chose to resign. Abner McCall spent over an hour on Long Day’s Journey Into Night in his oral history. One hour out of almost forty. That’s quite a bit of time, considering these interviews cover his entire life. Throughout this hour, McCall; his personal assistant Thomas Turner; and the interviewer, Thomas Charlton, each refer to this period as possibly the defining moment of McCall’s presidency. The Judge, himself, says his decision-making and leadership during the crisis is what cemented him in the minds of ministers and the Board of Trustees as a president they could trust.
Paul Baker sat down with David Stricklin for his own entry in Baylor’s oral history collection in 1990. Three sessions. Two hours and 45 minutes total. Never does Baker, nor his wife, nor Stricklin even bring up the controversy.FrancesProvence, who stood for her principles, pursued truth with courage, kept her duty to provide the full, uncensored story to her audience, and resigned rather than sacrifice her moral obligations... Frances Provence was never offered an oral history. The Texas Collection labels the incident as “still controversial, over 50 years later” yet a crucial voice is lost forever. No matter whose side you fall on in this saga – and, I would like to interject that it feels like one should pick a side, but I would urge you to reconsider that inclination –it’s certain that there is no one true truth available to us. No one person, no one side, no one perspective got it all right. And when we refuse to reconsider, reexamine, and recommit to the better angels of our nature, we will inevitably leave out the whole again and again. In doing so, we do those who followed their convictions, those who follow after us, and – especially – ourselves a true disservice.
Baylor the late 1940s, as Tidwell Bible Building was being planned, a plot was discovered. A plot that would require the ruin of Baylor’s prized theater. According to Judge McCall, then Dean of Baylor Law School, several ministers on the building committee did not like Paul Baker and were determined to bring an end to his authority in whatever way possible. Their attempted secret plan was to set Tidwell right atop the then-location of Baylor Theater, thus forcing the destruction of the theater, its – what they referred to as “secular” – influence on campus, and the career of Professor Baker. Baker, as McCall tells it in his oral histories, “found out about it and hollered and screamed.”
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Always dressed as a college president (he had been one for the ten years prior) RCC exemplified integrity, honor, discipline, loyalty, dedication, scholarship, and passion for teaching and students, all while never taking himself too seriously. He had a gift for engaging students one at a time and all together at once. He challenged students to think deeply, behave ethically, and work tirelessly, always. In his deep Texas drawl, he kidded about being raised in “Bellmead, Texas.” His sense of humor gifted us all with innumerable belly laughs. He faithfully talked about his family, the senior men’s Sunday School class he taught without fail for decades, his beloved wife Martha, and the children and grandchildren he was so clearly and extraordinarily proud of. And he spoke regularly and affectionately of his aged mother, Meemaw, as he shared her deep well of folk wisdom with “Meemaw says . . .” and I know he surely called or visited her every day until she passed away in her 90s. I stayed in touch with Dr. Cloud as I went out into the world to work in the academy.
Dr. Robert C. Cloud
I returned a decade later to enter the Scholars of Practice doctoral program, a program that Dr. Cloud built and chaired, to be his research assistant for three years. It was in that doctoral program that he taught us all to lead institutions as an unwavering example of how to lead boldly, but humbly, with high expectations paired with compassion and generosity, and to be willing to walk away from any job that expected you to compromise your values.
I first met Dr. Cloud, or RCC as he often playfully referred to himself as to others, in 1989 when I enrolled in a master’s degree program in the department where he was chair at Baylor.
Hero, mentor, friend – Dr. Robert C. Cloud (MS ‘66, Ed.D. ‘69) was all three of these to me. His influence, teachings, kindness, and care substantially shaped my life and my professional career.
“He had a gift for engaging students one at a time and all together at once.”
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I loved to hear the phone ring and hear that long Texas drawl saying “Daaacter Daaaarden, this is RrrrrCeeeCeee.” I was planning a cohort reunion to recognize him since he retired in May – something that he would not have given permission for, but we were going to do anyway. I emailed him a few weeks after our last call to see if he was feeling up to an outdoor lunch. I never heard back. There are some people that you believe will live forever. Dr. Robert C. Cloud was one of those.Iwill miss him until we can all have that reunion above which, to quote RCC, is probably “more than a thousand miles from here.” Meanwhile, please give our love to Meemaw.
Dr. Cloud chaired my dissertation and hooded me when I walked the stage that final time. He wrote me letters of recommendation for my jobs and kept up with my career. We met for lunch at the faculty dining hall, and he would always provide the soundest career advice.
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Mary landon darden (Ed.D. ‘06) earned her doctorate in higher education administration from Baylor under the mentorship of Dr. Cloud. She has spent her life making higher education better as an administrator, an educator, and now as founder of Higher Education Innovation, an independent company with a mission to research, develop, and train academic leaders to save the future of their institutions.
I took a course under Robert in graduate school, and I can honestly say I have tried to bring elements of his style to my own classes. Uniquely authoritative yet humble, he had a special way of making students feel like respected collaborators in the learning process.
On a personal note, he knew of my dream to teach and was always supportive. He was also a brave voice during some difficult years. It’s sad to see him pass.
—Maxey Parrish (‘78) Senior Lecturer, Baylor Journalism, Public Relations, & New Media
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He contributed a chapter to my first book and when I finally founded my higher education consulting company, he consulted for us pro bono. He won our first Lifetime Leadership Award at our first Presidents Conference in 2019. He was the most dearly loved and respected professor of my collective ten years of college, and he continued to influence my career and life – as he did for hundreds of other former students – until the day he left this earth. He called me about a month ago from the hospital where he was getting what he implied was a routine treatment for a chronic illness. He would never let on that things were not OK.
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Baylor Line Magazine61 Originally Published: September 1957 FAMILY Members of reunion classes answer a question:
62Summer 2021 Originally Published: September 1957 WHATTOBAYLORHASMEANTYOU?
Murray Watson, Jr. (1952) Frank Cheavans (1927) These words tell the story of what Baylor University has meant to its graduates – those graduates of 70 years ago, 75 years ago, and 115 years ago. On November 1, 1957, these graduating classes met for Homecoming reunions. Then-editors Graves Blanton and Frances Provence published this section in 1957 to demostrate the symbiotic nature of university and students, university and alumni, university and family. We are republishing this section in 2021 to demostrate how truly alike and connected the whole Baylor Family is – regardless of graduating class or even graduating century.
Howard E. Butts, Jr. (1947)
What BU Means Baylor has meant so many things to me, it is hard to know where toThestart.mental training I received, the concepts of life, the Christian influence, Doctor (S.P.) Brooks and his wonderful understanding, all are foremost.
I have learned to love Baylor, though, more in these later years through the joy of serving as a Trustee and working to make Baylor a greater University in all its phases. I am very proud to be able to call Baylor my Alma Mater. “
I think of Dr. Johnson and his dry humor, Dr. Reed and his organic chemistry, Miss Kate Griffith and her German, Dr. Warren and sophomore physics, which I flunked.
I think of that “Good Old Baylor Line” of those days, and the annual fight with TCU after the game – no one hurt, but lots of excitement.Thenthere was Mrs. Newman, the “Major Domo” of G.B. Hall, who kept watchful eyes on the campus to see that no boys strayed onto it. The “soirees” in old G.B., of course, stand out.
But the supreme place in what Baylor has meant to me is the fact that I met a young lady on the steps of the Science Hall, who became my life companion. Our home, our children, and her Christian influence have been guiding lights through the years.
When I stop to remember the many friends I made that have gone on to their Eternal Home, I am sad, though we have not seen each other often since graduation. Still whenever we did meet, it brought back those fond memories.
“What Baylor Has Meant...”
A university is not buildings nor books alone but people: alumni, faculty, and students.
I think the many friends made and the memory of those years, and the concepts that Baylor stands for, are all the most endearing.
—Joseph M. Higginbotham, Jr. (1907)
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Baylor has meant to me a fine education coupled with that commitment which alone has provided purpose and direction. The outstanding educational techniques, the challenging faculty personalities, the demands and disciplines, the intellectual stimulation, the enduring friendships, the spirit of the campus...all these are worthy in themselves. But these are combined with the challenge to Christian dedication and motivation which that affords. Baylor means Christian education. It is for this reason that I am so proud to be one of the Baylor family. I see the distinctive contribution Baylor men and women make to their professions and industries, to their communities and churches, to their society, and their world.With each Baylor ex I feel a sense of regret that I did not take more full advantage of what Baylor afforded during my days on the campus. And I share with all an awareness of inadequacy in living up to the Christian heritage and absolute ideals for which sheButstands.Idoknow this. My life has been incalculably enriched and infinitely more worthwhile because, in the providence of God, I went to school there. One of the truly great privileges of my life was to attend Baylor University. I do not speak in grandiose extravagance when I make that statement. It is simple fact. “
“What Baylor Has Meant...” A college education is commonly accepted as a good thing. With this general thesis I am sure we all agree. But our agreement cannot be absolute. For education per se is not necessarily moral. It is amoral. It can be good or bad. It carries within it incalculable capacity for the good. It also holds latent potential for evil, made more efficient and dangerous by the brilliance of the tool called “learning” in its hands.
H.G. Wells once wrote, “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” But Justice Robert Jackson spoke with much more impressive perception when he punctured this indiscriminate hallowing of education by observing that “It is one of the paradoxes of our time that modern society needs to fear...only the educated man.”
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—Howard E. Butts, Jr. (1947) Baylor is the sum of her former students’ lives.
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Originally Published: September 1957
When modern educators repeat their favorite exhortation, “Know the truth and the truth shall make you free,” what kind of truth do they have in mind? Many have confused truth with an accumulation of unevaluated facts. Education must be more than the dissemination of information.
“What Does Baylor Mean to Me?”
Originally Published: September 1957
What BU Means I feel abashed to be invited to represent the Class of 1912 in this series, and although I appreciate this honor, I hasten to qualify anything I may write by saying this subject necessarily called for a personal appraisal, and I do not feel I can speak for my classmates. I cannot honestly voice the usual platitudes that this subject brings to mind, for Baylor taught me to be honest with myself. I cannot lightly give lip service for Baylor taught me that compromise would destroy me as a personality. I cannot honestly say that Baylor taught me religious appreciation. I learned that in childhood in a Christian home and from a deeply consecrated mother. Nor can I say that Baylor added a great deal to my academic knowledge. I have been well-grounded in this and had learned the great lesson of how to study . . .
Baylor means the crucible that burned from a young life some dross and refined some gold. My achievements in my chosen field have not been great, but they have been honestly achieved and have met respect from my colleagues. So if I answer this question honestly, it will be in one sentence: Baylor taught me self-discipline by which to “know thyself,” the most difficult lesson in the world. I shall always love her and be grateful to her.
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—Bess Whitehead Scott (1912) “What Baylor Has Meant...”
An inexperienced, small town girl, sheltered in a girls’ school under a strict regime, I entered Baylor University as a senior...and found myself rejected. Help came suddenly from four individuals: a friendly, tolerant senior boy; an idyllic college romance; an understanding senior monitor at my dormitory, and “Miss Dottie,” Dr. Dorothy Scarborough opened the world of creative writing to me. Through her infectious enthusiasm and love of her work and her students, she turned my steps to “follow my gleam”. Depressing personal relationships and problems lost their importance in the light of this new, absorbing interest. In the spring of 1912, I was a happy Baylor graduate.
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I studied the gutted rooms – careful to avoid low-hanging wires and what I was convinced would be a murderer around the corner (or Craig in a gorilla costume, playing an elaborate practical joke) – and went back downstairs to Allen with questions. He listened patiently, a smirk forming in the corner of his mouth. Then, he presented me with a grand vision: We’ve got what we need for the current moment, Allen said. But what about the future? He described gatherings of the Baylor Family like we’d not been able to offer in a decade, all under the roof of Baylor Line Foundation. No rented venues, no makeshift setups. A space that was home. Plus, there’s an ever-increasing demand for content, more and more of it digital. In our current setup, we just didn’t have the ability to expand in that area. Imagine hosting board and executive committee meetings here one day, he said, and then a crowd coming over to watch a Baylor basketball the next evening. He envisioned modular furniture, allowing for many types of events. Of course, there’s also just the presentation aspect. We can make a space that shines – one that continues the legacy of provides a home for the Baylor Family.
The home for Baylor Line Foundation is a tricky subject. We all know what unfortunately became of the Hughes-Dillard Center and after that our offices had bounced around a bit, ultimately landing in St. Charles Place. Conveniently located in the heart of Downtown Waco, our suite was great. Enough office space for the staff, a central conference area, lots of storage, and the ability to holler around the corner for any answer you needed from a colleague. We were comfortable. So, my first response to seeing “upstairs” was confusion. What did we need this expansive, incomplete, extra space for?
M ake sure you check out the upstairs. There’s so much potential for that space.” These are some of the final words Craig Cunningham (‘08) said to me before I stepped into the role of editor-in-chief of Baylor Line Magazine. He gave no deeper explanation. Confused, I asked for the keys to this “upstairs”
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A beautiful, massive event venue – when not hosting gatherings, this space is a mix between a living room and a co-working space Dedicated meeting space around a large conference table and modular furniture to offer almost any type of in-person gathering
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Finally, though, this spring has allowed for small gatherings – an open house and even a board meeting. Plus, I’m now able to have interviews in-person with many of my podcast guests. Slowly, our vision has become a reality. So, until you can finally tour the Baylor Family’s new home yourself, I’d like to give you a little peak behind the scenes and tell you about what the space holds.
Baylor Line Magazine73 As I listened, it was like I could physically see the opportunity, future, and impact of Baylor Line Foundation growing. I was onboard and ready to begin busting down walls and quickly hosting events in this new home.
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A specially equipped AV technology and broadcast studio, where we can deliver even more great content and virtual events We cannot wait to have you over and begin some awesome stories together. Most importantly, though, we’re excited there’s finally a place for the Baylor Family to, again, call home. See you soon!
Unfortunately, life had other plans. About the time our renovations were completed, COVID-19 took the world into lockdown. As furniture orders came in, we felt more and more remorse there was no one to fill the seats. As we expanded our AV equipment, we were excited by the innovation, but saddened over having to connect with the Baylor Family virtually, instead of in-person.
Downstairs, we have a five-office suite with a communal area – including a TV and several uber comfy chairs for our guests – and a conference room. We also have a small, renovated breakroom. The ground floor is fairly standard for an office suite. We’ve saved the magic for upstairs. The second floor office and event space has a special name, in honor of the center where we once all gathered with and celebrated the Baylor Family. The Hughes-Dillard Legacy Suite has so much in store for Bears now and for generations to come, including: Four staff offices
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Some questions you might have about Insider . . . I’m a Life Member, what does this change mean for me? Good news! Nothing about your Life Membership will change. Your investment in a Life Membership has made so much possible in the Baylor Family and we cannot be more thankful for your continued support. You’ll still receive Baylor Line Magazine and all public communication from Baylor Line Foundation. You’ll also be able to stay connected with your fellow Bears on our Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, plus follow along with the latest Spotlights on our blog. There is nothing you have to do to continue receive all the great publications, communication, and community you’ve come to know and love from Baylor Line Foundation. Does my Life Membership cover an Insider subscription? No. Life Members do not automatically become members of Insider. This is an entirely new (and totally optional) membership available to those most dedicated to the Baylor Family. For Life Members who wish to join Insider, we’re offering a discounted, founding rate of $75/year for life, as long as your membership remains active. I’m a current Annual Member, does my annual donation of $75 cover an Insider subscription? Great news! Yes, if you are current on your membership dues, we are extending a full year’s subscription to Insider to you. There’s nothing you need to do to take advantage of this offer. (Except maybe help spread the word!) Even better, as long as you keep your membership active, you’ll be forever locked into a rate of $75/year. How much does a subscription to Insider cost? Right now, we’re offering a founding rate of $75/year, or you may choose the monthly payment option for $8/month. Those who subscribe before January 1, 2022 will be locked into these founding rates, as long as active membership is maintained, for life. After December 31, 2021, an Insider subscription will increase to $120/year or $10/month.
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