A Visit from the President

ID: 3446 ~ Source: Ligon, Rachel, interviewed by Maria Petrolia on November 13, 2025, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, Texas.

This file appears in: Memorial Hall: Woman's Memorial Dormitory

Baylor alumna Rachel Ligon recalls a story about a prank pulled in Memorial Drawing Room. The Drawing Room is a large room on the first floor of Memorial often used for events and lectures.

This file appears in: Memorial Hall: Woman's Memorial Dormitory

Memorial Hall: Woman's Memorial Dormitory

By Maria Petrolia

Baylor University was the first coeducational university in the South, and only the second in the country. Even so, the education women received at Baylor for many years was fundamentally different…