Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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GQVZRIUQ -. I'f2E.Ef'1. DANQL. 4?....f Pun cmrnazu ncrxvirxss - ' , , -EASTER :cc Hum- ' BD HOME PF BD TACLAUS HEADQUARTERS ' 'B'G TPYCKET TREK' OB. TAB illrhifr COLONIZED 1818 UNDER S?!.ZIi .fx . Strecker Museum to receive gift The village, colonized in 1818, is the oldest permanent settlement in Texas. The buildings, which are com- pletely restored and fully equipped, date back to the post-civil war era of the late 1860's. The Daniel's donation in- cludes a town hall, which also doubles as a church, a two story hotel, a one-room school house, a commissary, which was a combined store and post office, a blacksmith shop and harness house, a saddlery, which was formerly used as slave quarters, a saloon,Texana Hall of Memories, a barber shop, a livery stable, also used as a dance hall, a hide house, a cotton gin, a massive hand- hewn log barn, and a frame dog trot planter's house. Inside the one-room school house for example, four neat- ly divided rows of single-seat wooden desks squarely face the black board and teacher's desk, which is topped by a deer hide table cover. A 75- year-old musical pump-organ and other articles, such as a 44-star United States flag and a McGuffrey's reader also oc- cupy the school house. The commissary, stocked with supplies such as food, drugs, ranching equipment and oil lamps, served as the village's place of trade. Sheltering the ranch's horses and mules, the livery stable houses a collection of open-air buggies and an open-air ambulance and hearse. The second floor of the stable served in times past as a dance hall and gathering place. Among the 7000 artifacts given are some of Daniel's personal items, such as sad- dles, spurs, his surveying transit, forrestry equipment, and his first sand and gravel augers and bits. Daniels used these tools during his 48 years of supervising land belonging to Baylor Universi- ty in South East Texas. ln addition, there are scores of mounted longhorns, rare musical instruments, home made spinning wheels, plan- tation bells, lithographs, and Trinity riverboat paddle wheels, which are original props from the movie The Alamo. Some of the many other rare items are a 300- year-old water-powered wheel-operated gristmill and seven huge, hand-cut millstones, a 30-foot bell tower, a hand-operated, col- onial Washington printing press, an antique picket barber chair, a 75-year-old fire truck, several hundred biological specimens, a large, floor-standing coffee mill and the original hand-written ledgers - log books of the 1800s businesses. Daniel, a 1938 graduate of the Baylor Law School and one-time governor of the U.S. Territory of Guam, purchased the village in 1949 .md has spent 36 years and more than S2 million in efforts to restore and preserve the village. ATIUN RANBH Photos show views of the village donated by the Gov. and Mrs. Bill Daniel and their family. Baylor's Ranch 25 ...J E s xx, I

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' --M f --W - 'ww uni m,.....N 7 - 7W -' Mi2u. 't .am .....,,,, , '.Nw '. WW W Mm L M - ...A. E munuui-ag?- i:-W M-M Governor and Mrs. Bill Daniel Famil donates village Baylor was presented a 19th century plantation ranch worth an estimated S3-4 million in September by Govenor and Mrs. Bill Daniel. This village will be under the supervision of the Iohn K. Strecker Museum directors. Baylor officials are consider- ing making the exhibit into an outdoor living history museum similiar to the historic Colonial Williams- burg township near Rich- mond VA. , The Daniels and their four children, long-time Baylor supporters, have donated 15 buildings and 7,000 artifacts. The gift also includes a S300,000 cash endowment for the maintainence opera- tion and employment of a full-time curator. The buildings are to be moved from the Daniel's Plantation located on the east bank of the Trinity River in Northern Liberty County to one of the three sights mentioned. Calvin Smith, director of the Strecker Museum, said the village relocation will be the largest move of a single village in the history of the U.S. More funds, of the same amount as the Daniel's en- dowment, must be matched before the relocation can begin, he said. The village will become part of a three exhibit area formula with Strecker Museum's theme, Man and His Relationship to the Environment. 24 Baylor's Ranch

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I I Baylor University's unique character was formed by the determined idealism of its founders. Those first educators foresaw a universi- ty grounded on moral courage, Christian con- ciousness and humanitarian learning. A science class works during the early 1900s. The actual classroom is in the Carroll Science Building. K -A- Centennial t1tVlaco Educations earned today Reinforced with rich heritage They believed that just as faith without works is dead, so a university whose first premise is Christ must excel in every way - from the quality of its learning to the servanthood-commitment of its student body. Such a university, born before Texas became a state, was meant to fulfill the dream of its early Baptist founders - to perpetuate the qualities of democratic leadership and committed living. Many of Baylor's founders were also key figures in establishing the Republic of Texas in 1836. They founded their university - intended as a major source of Texas leadership - upon a plan so broad that it would meet the demand of all ages to come. That broad plan, and the faith of those who fashioned it, has made Baylor what it is today. Baylor students have always believed that Chris- tian commitment and profes- sionalism go hand in hand. They are idealists. They are possibility thinkers in the first order. If an idea can be con- ceived, it can be fulfilled, their actions say. Initiative, that is the hall- mark of Baylor students. Thej think big, and they produce results. When they graduate they expect to succeed - ir law, in medicine, in business, in politics and education, if outreach and ministry to fellow humans. And so they have. Their high motivation, refined in a Christian at- mosphere, is the basis for the conviction that success must be balanced with service. Look on the boards of any church or humanitarian agen- cy and you will likely find a Baylor graduate - commit- ted, believing, caring.