Mike Finnigan and the Serfs
This is another instalment in the series of articles about bands that Curt Eddy, Jerry Weakley and I were privileged to see and hear...
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Jack Bowerman
Sep 269 min read
Robert Hall Pearson, Bleeding Kansas and the Aftermath: Civil War
Robert Hall Pearson moved into Kansas Territory in 1854 shortly after it was opened for white settlement. For the next several years...
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Jack Bowerman
Aug 718 min read
High Expectations; No Exceptions; No ExcusesThe Life and Career in Education of Oliver A. Ruff Baker University Class of 1970
This article was written Jerry Weakley (Baker 1970). We encourage comments which you can do by going to the comments box below each...
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Jack Bowerman
Aug 73 min read
Remembering the great bands that we used to hear and see live in Lawrence and around the region in the 60's and 70's:The Blue Things
This article was written by Curt Eddy (Baker, 1969). We encourage comments on our posts which you can do by entering them in the comments...
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Jack Bowerman
May 1210 min read
Remembering the great bands that we used to hear and see live in Lawrence and around the region in the 60's and 70's
Curt Eddy, Jerry Weakley and I are starting a series of blog articles featuring the bands that we used to see and hear live in the late...
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Jack Bowerman
Apr 204 min read
Mike O'Bryhim's new book: Once Upon A Time In The Land of Overbrook
Mike O’Bryhim has just published a new book, “Once Upon A Time In Overbrook,” about his life and his philosophy of life. In it he...
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Jack Bowerman
Jan 189 min read
Bishop Bennett Sims
Bennett Jones Sims was born August 9, 1920, in Greenfield, Massachusetts to Lewis Raymond and Sarah Cosette Jones Sims. Lewis and Sarah...
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Jack Bowerman
Jun 2, 202310 min read
Baker's Four bishops
Baker University has historically had an influence on the history of the Methodist Church and other religious organizations. This can be...
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Jack Bowerman
Jul 22, 20226 min read
She Escaped From the Nazis and Landed at Baker
Much of the information in this post came from an interview with Julianna Glass Lerner conducted by Jerry Weakley in 2001. Julianna Glass...
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Jack Bowerman
May 5, 202213 min read
BIRTH OF THE GREEKS AT BAKER 1910-1916
The 1910 Baker yearbook has two pages devoted to a new local fraternity, Phi Lambda Chi, which disappeared thereafter. This group was...
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Jack Bowerman
Apr 13, 20225 min read
BIRTH OF THE GREEKS AT BAKER 1905 – 1910
From the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter history: “On April 20, 1905, an organization known as Manhood Fine Manhood or M.F.M. Club was...
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Jack Bowerman
Mar 3, 20229 min read
BIRTH OF THE GREEKS AT BAKER 1903 - 1905
This is the third installment of this story. * * * * * At the turn of the century, significant...
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Jack Bowerman
Feb 17, 20229 min read
BIRTH OF THE GREEKS AT BAKER 1889-1902
This is the second installment of the is story. We welcome any comments, corrections or additions to this article. * * *...
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Jack Bowerman
Feb 15, 20225 min read
BIRTH OF THE GREEKS AT BAKER 1865-1888
We have been working on an article about the beginnings of the fraternity/sorority movement at Baker for a number of weeks and because of...
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Jack Bowerman
Dec 8, 202110 min read
Alice Anne Callahan - Beloved teacher, musician and lover of the arts
Alice Anne Callahan was one of the most revered teachers during her 36 years at Baker. She also spent 4 years as an undergraduate at...
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Jack Bowerman
Sep 30, 202114 min read
A Favorite Baker Professor
Do you remember a favorite teacher you had at Baker? For those of us who were econ majors in the late 60’s (Walter Pinnell, Kent...
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Jack Bowerman
Jun 18, 20218 min read
Warren Ortman Ault – Baker’s First Rhodes Scholar
Warren was one of seven children in the Ault family who graduated from Baker, was Baker’s first and America’s second Rhodes Scholar, a...
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Jack Bowerman
May 13, 20214 min read
Stanley Wellington Finch 1872-1951
Former Baker Student Who Was the First Director of the Bureau That Became the FBI by Jerry Weakley Stanley Wellington Finch was born in...
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Jack Bowerman
Mar 28, 20216 min read
James Percy Ault: A Scientist At Sea
James Percy Ault was a scientist at sea. A geophysicist and explorer, he traversed the globe in the early 1900s on research expeditions...
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Jack Bowerman
Feb 4, 20218 min read
Alpheus Asbury Brenton Cavaness 1839-1916
Urban Cavaness, his wife Mary, and their four youngest children, Alpheus, James, Sarah and Mary journeyed from Indiana and arrived in...
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