Alumni who are celebrating their fiftieth graduation anniversary in 2007 are invited to attend the annual Baylor Heritage Club gathering on April 1-3. The club includes all those who graduated fifty years ago or more and inducts new members each spring. The incoming class will receive their "Golden Diplomas" on Monday, April 2, in a special ceremony, followed by the President's Dinner. The program begins on Sunday with a musical performance by Baylor ShowTime!, and Monday's events include campus tours and seminars with faculty members. Everything concludes on Tuesday morning with a full buffet breakfast. Incoming and current Heritage Club members will receive registration information in the mail by mid-February. For more information, visit Heritage Club. (Pictured, left-right, are recent Heritage Club participants Ann Williamson Karaffa '55 and Luanne Evans Klaras '55.)

Special Delivery

For all alumni who ordered a new alumni directory, there's good news! The publisher has completed the printed directories and CDs, and they are being shipped now.

Super Bowl Party

As you settle back to watch this year's Super Bowl, keep an eye out for Baylor alumnus Fred Miller '95, starting at right tackle for the Chicago Bears and wearing #69. Miller, who has been with the Bears for two years, is wrapping up his eleventh year in the NFL, having also played for the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans. He already owns one Super Bowl ring from the Rams' victory in Super Bowl XXXIV. Miller was a four-year starter at Baylor and two-time all-Southwest Conference pick. He and his wife, Kimberly Poston Miller, MBA '92, have two sons.

Joint Effort

Phallan Davis '05, a former student writer for the Baylor Line and the alumni association's Between the Lines e-mail newsletter, recently joined the staff of the Baptist Joint Committee in Washington, D.C., as associate director of communications. As a student, Davis also held a communications internship with the Houston Astros Baseball Club and interned with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington. On the Baylor campus, she was news editor of Focus, Baylor's student magazine; president of the Society of Professional Journalists; and a writer for the Round-Up yearbook.

Historic Preservation

On January 2, Marcus Warren Watson '94 began a new job with the City of Dallas as a senior planner in the Historic Preservation Division. Watson ended eight years of service as the heritage preservation officer for the City of Plano, where he established the city's first two Heritage Resource Districts. After graduating from Baylor with a degree in real estate and marketing, Watson earned a master's in historical preservation from the University of Georgia. He is the son of Murray Watson Jr. '52, JD '54, and Greta Warren Watson '59.

As of January 17, Baylor had received 23,157 applications for fall 2007, already surpassing last year's application total of 21,451. Baylor adopted a new acceptance schedule this year, admitting students in three batches, rather than on an ongoing basis. The first "early action" group was admitted in December, and the second group was admitted in January, for a total of 6,763 acceptances. The average SAT of all accepted students is 1253, and the average ACT score is above 26. Based on past experience, Baylor's admission officials expect about 30 percent of these early recruits to enroll. The deadline for the regular decision period is February 1, with a notification date of March 15. For more information on applying to Baylor, go to Admissions.

Fantasy Football

Coach Guy Morriss and the Baylor football squad will soon realize one of their fondest dreams--an on-campus practice facility where the team can train closer to home. Baylor regents approved building the facility, which is slated for a spot on University Parks Drive adjacent to the Julie and Jim Turner Riverfront Athletic Complex, at a January meeting. A university press release said that it would be funded with $22 million of "private resources," but that the project's scope could increase with additional donations. Regents will approve project specifications at their February meeting and plan to release further details then.