Gladys Allen Hall

ID: 977 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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Workers completed construction on three new residence halls for Baylor students in 1954. The university named one of these dormitories on the south side of campus in honor of Gladys Allen.

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Gladys Allen

By Dayton Kelley, ed., The Handbook of Waco and McLennan County, Texas

Efforts of civic leaders in the late nineteenth century to provide greater educational opportunities established Waco as the “Athens of Texas.” This reputation was later preserved in the early to…