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May 3, 2021 // Posted In Academics, Honors Every spring, the Baylor Family bids happy retirement to professors and staff who have dedicated their professional lives to the university and its students. It’s always a bittersweet mix — sadness in seeing them go, happiness for a well-deserved next step — but we wish them all well in the next phase of their lives. Here, we honor some of the longest-serving and most recognizable professors who are moving on this year — men and women whose faces will be missed, but whose impact will not be forgotten: Dr. James Curry was recently recognized b...

I reached out to David O’Keefe and I asked him why the Dieppe Raid was controversial, tragic and something of a mystery. “In less than 9 hours on August 19th, 1942, over 1,000 Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen died in a raid on the German-held port of Dieppe, France in the English Channel,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “The vast majority of these deaths, 907, were taken by the Canadians, but the British and the Americans (fighting their first actions against Hitler in Europe) also paid a heavy toll. Right from the start, the excuses given for the inception and the intent behind the raid did ...