This is another instalment in the series of articles about bands that Curt Eddy, Jerry Weakley and I were privileged to see and hear...

Robert Hall Pearson moved into Kansas Territory in 1854 shortly after it was opened for white settlement.  For the next several years...

This article was written Jerry Weakley (Baker 1970). We encourage comments which you can do by going to the comments box below each...

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...

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...

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...

Bennett Jones Sims was born August 9, 1920, in Greenfield, Massachusetts to Lewis Raymond and Sarah Cosette Jones Sims. Lewis and Sarah...

Baker University has historically had an influence on the history of the Methodist Church and other religious organizations. This can be...

Much of the information in this post came from an interview with Julianna Glass Lerner conducted by Jerry Weakley in 2001. Julianna Glass...

The 1910 Baker yearbook has two pages devoted to a new local fraternity, Phi Lambda Chi, which disappeared thereafter. This group was...

From the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter history: “On April 20, 1905, an organization known as Manhood Fine Manhood or M.F.M. Club was...

This is the third installment of this story. * * * * * At the turn of the century, significant...

This is the second installment of the is story. We welcome any comments, corrections or additions to this article. * * *...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Former Baker Student Who Was the First Director of the Bureau That Became the FBI by Jerry Weakley Stanley Wellington Finch was born in...

James Percy Ault was a scientist at sea. A geophysicist and explorer, he traversed the globe in the early 1900s on research expeditions...

Urban Cavaness, his wife Mary, and their four youngest children, Alpheus, James, Sarah and Mary journeyed from Indiana and arrived in...