In Memory

Dr. Emerson O. Henke, the J.E. Bush Emeritus Professor of Accounting, Master Teacher and former dean of Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business, died Oct. 29 at the age of 91. Henke is credited with helping form a firm foundation for the Hankamer School of Business.
Henke taught at Baylor from 1948-91, serving as professor of accounting and chairman of the accounting department from 1948-67, dean of the business school from 1967-77, and J.E. Bush Distinguished Professor of Accounting until his retirement.
Born Feb. 20, 1916, on a farm near Stendal, Ind., Henke graduated from Evansville College in 1937. He earned a master's degree in accounting in 1939 and his DBA in 1953, both from Indiana University. He authored 14 books, including a groundbreaking 1965 study of accounting for non-profit organizations, which formed the basis for two textbooks that remained in print for more than 25 years.
In 1965, Henke was elected most popular professor in the business school, a designation he cherished till his death. In 1980, he was named Most Outstanding Professor at Baylor, and in 1990, was selected as Master Teacher.

Longtime Baylor supporter and Alumna Honoris Causa Eula Mae Baugh passed away Aug. 29 at the age of 89. With her husband John F. Baugh, the couple's dedication to the University was illustrated by their support of more than 20 programs and projects at Baylor through the years.
"Baylor has lost one of its greatest friends. Eula Mae was the perfect mate for John, and the two of them together were Truett's greatest benefactors," said Paul Powell, longtime friend and retired dean of Truett Seminary. "She was one of the most gracious, caring ladies I have ever known."
Baugh, an Alumna by Choice both of Baylor and of George W. Truett Theological Seminary, was a lifetime member of the Alumni Association, served on Development Council and as a Friend of Truett and was a charter member of the Old Main Society. She received the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service and was named an Alumna Honoris Causa of Baylor, the highest honor bestowed by the University upon non-alumni. The Baughs received the George W. Truett Distinguished Church Service Award and the University's Founders Medallion.
In 1989, Mr. and Mrs. Baugh established the John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business, which supports the theory of family-owned business. They made the lead gift to construct a permanent home for Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary in 1997. The Baughs were the first to be honored as members of the gold level of the Judge R.E.B. Baylor Society, the highest level of the Medallion Fellowship, for their beneficence to the university.

Richard Robinson, 78, a Los Angeles tenor who premiered Igor Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," "Threni" and "Elegy for J.F.K.," and recorded many works under the composer's direction for Columbia Records, died Sept. 6 in Bakersfield.
Robinson was choral supervisor for the city of Los Angeles from 1965 to 1966 and taught voice at Baylor from 1966 until his retirement in 1993, when he moved to Bakersfield. He was married to soprano Caterina Micieli, whom he met in the Roger Wagner Chorale, from 1953 until her death in 2001.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on June 2, 1929, Robinson moved with his family to the Los Angeles area in 1937. He studied at Los Angeles State College (now Cal State L.A.) and USC, sang in the Roger Wagner Chorale and became active in the innovative Evenings on the Roof concert series and its successor, Monday Evening Concerts.
In addition to Stravinsky's "Persephone," "Canticum sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci nominis" and "Noah and the Flood," he recorded works by Schoenberg, Webern and Gesualdo, the latter conducted by Stravinsky's close friend and biographer, Robert Craft.