When the Light Begins to Flicker

D. Thomas ("Tom") Hanks, Jr. (Ph. D.) taught English literature and composition for over fifty years, forty-one of those years in the English Department at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, where he remains a professor emeritus. He was named a Master Teacher at Baylor, then in 2023 Named to Baylor’s Hall of Fame. He met his wife Carole in 1965; they eloped in 1966, to remain married for fifty-seven years. Dr. Carole Hanks (Dr. of Public Health, Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, RN) died in 2023 after seven years of Alzheimer’s Disease.