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Prominent Waco lawyer Cullen F. Thomas donated a 25-bell Deagon tubular chime that was installed in the new Pat McNeff Hall and dedicated on December 21, 1939.
The chime started coughing up blood in the late 1970s and by 1986 had given up its tones. It was sold and relocated to the home of Charles Kegg of Kegg Pipe Organ Builders in Uniontown, Ohio.
Texas businessman Drayton McLane, Jr., his family and the McLane Company Inc. donated a 48-bell Paccard carillon that was dedicated on November 4, 1988 with a recital given by George Gregory.
References
1938 Cullen
Fleming Thomas (16 Jun 1868 - 8 Dec 1938) grave
1939 "Call to Class Will be Music to Ears of Baylor Students," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 23, 1939, Page 5.
1939 "Chimes Ceremony is Tonight," The Daily Lariat, December 21, 1939
1939 "5,000 to Hear Baylor's New $15,000 Carillon," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 21, 1939, Page 15.
1988 "Baylor Bells to arrive on campus July 25," The Waco Citizen, July 19, 1988, Page 3.
1988 "Bells for Baylor's tower bypass Texas by mistake, land in Mexico," El Paso Times, July 27, 1988, Page 4B
1988 "McLane carillon dedication set for Nov. 4," The Waco Citizen, November 4, 1988, Page 3.
1991 "The McLane Carillon at Baylor University," Herbert Colvin, Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America 40:18-21 (1991)
2023 "A Carillon of Bells," Baylor Magazine (Winter 2023)
How
the McLane Carillon Missed its Stop
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