Month: June 2014

(Digital Collections) Finding Grady Nutt: Panhandle Preacher, Baylor Bear and “Hee Haw’s” Prime Minister of Humor

  As new student orientation wrapped up its penultimate sessions this week, an incoming freshman’s father stopped by the Digital Collections table and asked me if I’d ever heard of Grady Nutt. I admitted that the name didn’t ring a bell, and he said, “Didn’t you ever watch Hee Haw?” That led us to a long conversation about a fascinating…

(Digital Collections) Baylor Couple Had Unique D-Day Connection

On this 70th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy – D-Day, as it will forever be known – we wanted to take time to present this short but fascinating story from our archives that ties together two college sweethearts, a War Loan Drive and a unique auction. It is related under the headline, ‘Singing Bills’ Return to Baylor Campus; Auction,…