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Around the QuadBaylor Homecoming
Coming to Homecoming? You can purchase tickets, register (and check to see which of your friends have registered), and get lots of other details on Baylor's Homecoming website at Homecoming.
Summer Baylor Line
On July 3, members of the Baylor Alumni Association received the summer issue of the Baylor Line, which included features on transparency and shared governance. To read these stories, plus articles from the regular magazine departments, go to the Baylor Line website at Baylor Line.
Joe of the Jungle
by Joe Holloway
When Baylor senior Joe Holloway signed up to travel to the Dominican Republic as part of a joint venture between Baylor's environmental studies department and the business school, he expected some hard work and at least a little fun. What he didn't expect was a mysterious ailment that would involve a trip to the hospital and a phone call from the Centers for Disease Control. Joe of the Jungle
Permission Granted
by Claire St. Amant
This summer has been a very profitable one for Dr. Diana Garland, dean of Baylor's School of Social Work (pictured with her husband, Truett Seminary dean David Garland). In May and June, she was awarded a total of a half-million dollars in grants to study several topics related to clergy and the church. Permission Granted
The Baylor Family
 A League of Her Own
Heather Grance '04 has so much fun at her job, she might feel a little guilty about getting paid. Since April, she has been the education and tour program coordinator at Legends of the Game, the baseball museum at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Open year-round, the museum contains the largest collection on loan from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. It includes more than one hundred artifacts from the likes of Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle, along with exhibits featuring women in baseball, the Texas League, and the Texas Rangers collection.
Grance works in the hands-on learning center, which teaches children about math, science, geography, history, and communications. She oversees sleepovers, preschool story times, birthday parties, and museum and ballpark tours. Grance says, "The best part of my job is walking through the museum during a program or tour and seeing kids having fun and learning at the same time!"
Family Album by Lisa Asher
Check out the family photo album to view baby, graduation, and celebration pictures that alumni have shared. And share your own favorite photo in next month's Family Album by e-mailing Lisa_Asher@baylor.edu.
In Country by Lisa Asher
Blake Butler '97 is a true sports fan. Not only does he keep tabs on his favorite team--the Bears, of course--but he also maintains brackets during NCAA playoffs and displays all kinds of sports memorabilia in his home. The trouble is, his home right now is several thousand miles away--in Iraq. While his wife, Sarah Smith Butler '02, keeps the home fires burning in Arlington, Virginia, Blake attends sheik council meetings and looks forward to the day he can root for his Baylor Bears--in person. In Country
BAA News
Alumni by Choice
Do you know someone who has always wanted to be a Bear but didn't graduate from Baylor? Well, now's your chance to help them make it official. On Saturday, September 13, the alumni association will host its annual Alumni by Choice ceremony, during which "diplomas by decree" will be given. To nominate someone for this special honor, go to ABC Nomination Form.
Pointers for Pros by Judy Prather
During the last week of June, the alumni association sponsored the 2008 Advanced Placement Summer Institute for forty-five Texas high school teachers, who gave up a week of summer vacation for a valuable learning experience. For more on the institute, as well as its instructors and "students" (including the instructor and students pictured), click here: AP Institute.
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