December 2025

John Noble Wilford (1933-2025)
December 17, 2025

Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter John Noble Wilford died on Dec. 8. Raised in western Kentucky, Wilford spent much of his career writing for the New York Times, best known for his science reporting and especially his insights about the space program during […]

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Ted Baehr (1940-2025)
December 17, 2025

Ted Baehr was for many years the de facto grand vizier of the Calvin McClung Historical Collection, the no-nonsense supervisor of that reference library as most of its patrons came to know it. When I first met Ted, maybe 40 […]

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