AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Amarillo students who have already applied and accepted a place at Baylor University spent Sunday evening with a meet and greet with Baylor President Ken Starr. The event was a send-off party for area students who are headed to Baylor in the fall.
Each summer, the Baylor parents league hosts send-off parties all across the country, where baylor students are greeted by other members of the baylor family in their own communities before they even arrive on the Waco campus.
It's a way to ask questions and understand the importance of education. "It's part of why this country became the greatest country on Earth so we have to preserve and protect and defend this country and that includes higher education without it we sink. Uh, higher education is the ticket to a good life of citizenship and frankly one of prosperity," said Ken Starr, the Baylor University President.
While it is called a send-off party, the new freshman won't actually leave for school until right before classes start.
