Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 61, number 3, July 1968

SEMINARY

Officers Announce Plans

Columbia students will be led next
year by two men who feel students need
to be more aware of the needs of people
in the community around the seminary
and across the world, and more involved
in meeting these needs. Charles Scott
will be president of the Student Govern-
ment Association and Bill Dudley presi-
dent of the Student Society of Mission-
ary Inquiry.

Mr. Scott, a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee, has been engaged in
field work in the inner-city during his
two years at Columbia Seminary. On
campus he has been captain of the sem-
inary's basketball team and active in
many student activities. As president of
the Student Body he is particularly con-
cerned for the people in the seminary's
immediate community which is a chang-
ing neighborhood. He hopes to lead in
programs that will enable Columbia
students and faculty to get to know per-
sonally and help young people within
the neighborhood.

Mr. Dudley, from Opelika, Alabama,
is a graduate of Auburn University. He
has been involved in many of the activi-
ties of the Student Society of Missionary
Inquiry. In leading the SMI he will be
keeping before the students the work and
challenge of the church's program of
foreign missions.

"Student disorders in colleges have
their effect on seminary students," Mr.
Scott said, "even though Columbia stu-
dents have not been involved in any of
the disorders themselves." The disorders
raise the question of the involvement of
students in the life of the seminary. With
Columbia students it is also a question
of a wider involvement in and responsi-
bility for the adjacent community and
the church around the world.

The missions conference for college
students at Rock Eagle will be the "main
thrust" of SMI in 1968-69, Mr. Dudley
reported. Already, under his direction,
students are at work selecting a theme
and securing speakers for this confer-
ence. The SMI will also highlight mission
activity as they report on their project
for this year, the support of loanne
Smith T, the first Presbyterian U.S. mis-
sionary in Viet Nam.

Columbia's curriculum, these student

Scott and Dudley

leaders reported, stimulates student-facul-
ty contact. Students are forced to de-
clare themselves and struggle with the
issues involved. "They are now attempt-
ing to make the same approach to prob-
lems of the world around them," Mr.
Scott said. The student community will
offer its services to students in area
schools in a full-scale tutoring program
this fall. Many of the children moving
into the area have a weak educational
background and need outside tutoring to
maintain their place in school but are
financially unable to acquire private tu-
tors.

Graduates Become Pastors

An affirmative vote for the work of
the local church was cast by Columbia's
seniors this year. In the acceptance of
calls for service in the church, 75% of
this year's graduating class chose the
local parish. 28 will be pastors and 9
assistant pastors.

Degrees and diplomas were presented
this year to 62 men and women. 49 of
these graduates received the B.D., 2 the
M.C.E. 11 Master of Theology degrees
were awarded.

These graduates will be serving in 12
different states. In addition to work in
local churches, graduates will be engaged
in teaching, graduate studies, specialized
or experimental ministries, serving as
Army chaplains and in the Peace Corps.

Dr. Miller Elected

MODERATOR OF G. A.

Dr. P. D. Miller was elected Moder-
ator of the 108th General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, U.S. Dr. Miller
is the fourth person to be elected Assem-
bly Moderator while serving on the fac-
ulty at Columbia. He has been Visiting
Professor of Homiletics for the past
three years. Prior to his joining the Co-
lumbia faculty he served as Executive
Secretary of the Board of Church Ex-
tension and as a pastor in Georgia and
Texas.

Other Columbia faculty members who
have received this high honor are the late
J. B. Green (1946), President Richards
(1955) and Dean F. B. Gear (1964).
The retiring Moderator, Dr. Marshall C.
Dendy is a Columbia alumnus.

Graduates Challenged

Dr. Edwin Harrison, President of
Georgia Tech told graduating students
that they should take an active part in
building a bridge between technology and
theology. He described technicians as
people who are "different but not indif-
ferent." Their method of working from
proven facts to proven solutions separ-
ates them from the idea-oriented people
of the humanities but their concerns are
the same, to solve the problems of man-
kind. Although the technically-minded
people are different they have much to
offer to the solution of the day's prob-
lems and are "ready to apply their spe-
cialized skills to these solutions," Dr.
Harrison told the graduates. He encour-
aged them as they go out into churches
and accept places of leadership there to
take initiative in understanding and work-
ing with people who are involved in the
problems of technology.

Earlier the graduates heard their min-
istry compared to that of the Apostle
Paul. In his baccalaureate sermon, Dr.
Arnold B. Poole, pastor of the Pine
Shores Presbyterian Church, Sarasota,
Florida, challenged his listeners to pro-
claim the whole gospel of Christ boldly.
Stressing devotion to Christ and a dis-
ciplined life, Dr. Poole told the grad-
uates that one of the gravest perils they
faced was the improper use of each day.
"A high sense of mission gives meaning
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Students Support Missions

BOOKS

Students at Columbia have given over
$2,200.00 to the support of Dr. Joanne
Smith T. This is the largest offering ever
received for a missions project by the
Society of Missionary Inquiry, which is
composed of the entire student body at
Columbia. The free-will offering was tak-
en when Dr. Smith T. spoke at the sem-
inary on May 3rd.

Dr. Smith T, the first official mission-
ary to Viet Nam from the Presbyterian
Church, U.S., previously spoke at the
annual Rock Eagle Missions Conference
in April. She is a native of Opelika, Ala-
bama, a graduate of Agnes Scott College
and Johns Hopkins University, and serv-
ed as a Presbyterian Missionary to Korea
for three years. She served with the
American Medical Association in Viet
Nam from October 1967 to January
1968. Completing language school in
Washington, D. C, Dr. Smith T will
leave for Viet Nam in July.

Faculty Changes Made

Dr. R. T. L. Liston has been named
Visiting Professor of New Testament for
the 1968-69 academic year. President
Richards also has announced that Dr.
Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, Visiting Pro-
fessor of New Testament has resigned to
accept an appointment to the faculty of
Conwell School of Theology, Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Liston recently retired from the
Presidency of King College, Bristol, Ten-
nessee. He formerly served as a pastor
in Virginia, on the faculty at Southwest-
ern at Memphis and Union Seminary in
Virginia and as President of Davis and
Elkins College. He will be teaching at
Columbia during the Sabbatical leave of
Professor Charles B. Cousar.

Before coming to Columbia in 1964
Dr. Hughes held parish posts in South
Africa and in the Mortlake Parish
Church of London, was lecturer at the
University of Bristol and Secretary of the
Church Society, London.

Radekop, John H. The American Far
Right: A Case Study of Billy James Har-
gis and Christian Crusade (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1968) $4.50.

This scholarly study of the relationship
between Christian fundamentalism and
the political right should be read by re-
sponsible Christian laymen and pastors
before November. The author, teaches
Political Science at Pacific College, Fres-
no, California. To political and religious
concerns that are frequently burdened
with passion and emotion he brings
needed clarity and objectivity. His style
is readable, his analysis revealing. This
is not propaganda. It is factual data up-
on which the reader may build his in-
formed political stance.

Hubert V. Taylor

Jordan, Clarence The Cotton Patch
Version of Paul's Epistles (Association
Press. 158 pages. Paper. $2.25. 1968)
(Cloth-bound, $4.50).

Dr. Jordan, a Southern Baptist min-
ister with a Ph.D. in New Testament,
founded Koinonia Farm in Americus,
Georgia, and has spent many years in
that effort to bring more justice to the
poor whites and blacks. From those two
backgrounds he has made a new para-
phrase-translation of the thirteen epistles
of Paul. Some of the volume is most
interesting, striking, and suggestive. Some
of it is shocking, if not even vulgar and
sacrilegious. The reader will get many
good laughs and real challenges from
the book. At times he will be offended
and perplexed. This version will not take
the place of King James or the RSV,
but it will probably be the source of
many clever sermon topics and some real
honest thinking about some of our con-
temporary problems. Ministers and lay-
men alike should enjoy this little book.
Samuel A. Cartledge

Hess, Gary R. Sam Higginbottom of Al-
lahabad: Pioneer of Point Four to India.
(The University Press of Virginia, Char-
lottesville, 117 pp.) $5.50.

"More than any other individual in
the twentieth century, Sam Higginbottom
promoted the improvement of Indian
agriculture." From his arrival in India
in 1903 to his death in 1958, this man
of vision, dedication and talent labored
unceasingly against great obstacles for
the people of India and especially the
poor villagers. The book is a history of
the Allahabad Agricultural Institute he
founded.

If anyone doubts that anything can be
done to aid the poor people of the world,
he should read this book.

If anyone doubts that practical as well

Summer Work Varied

Summer comes and theological edu-
cation goes right on. The classroom is
different, but the work being done by
the students is still an integral part of
their seminary preparation.

This summer Columbia students are
engaged in field education projects in
18 states. Some are serving as pastors,
youth workers or summer assistant pas-
tors in local churches. Others are tak-
ing part in special ministries in the inner
city, in national parks and at conference
centers. Hospital clinical studies and
other special educational projects have
been chosen by some students.

Throughout Columbia's curriculum
class studies and field education are com-
bined. During the academic year the
field education occupies only a portion
of the student's time. Two summers are
used for full-time involvement in the
work of the church.

STD Program Clarified

Graduate Dean S. A. Cartledge has
released more information about the new
doctoral program which will begin in
September 1969. This new course of
study is designed to help men who are
pastors and who wish to remain in the
pastorate, and is not intended to prepare
men for teaching.

Requirements for the degree will in-
clude a year of class and seminar work
to be taken in residence and five quarters
of supervised work, one or two in clin-
ical training and the others related to the
candidate's pastorate.

An average of B or above on B.D.
studies is prerequisite to admission for
the doctorate and no exceptions will be
made. Fees for the program have not
been established but will likely be some-
what higher than those for the M. Div.
program. At the present time no funds
will be available for fellowships or as-
sistantships. A brochure about the S.T.D.
program will be available this fall and
all inquiries should be addressed to Dr.
Cartledge.

as evangelistic efforts have a place in
the missionary enterprise, he should read
this book.

If there are those who are discouraged
by our government's foreign aid pro-
gram, they should read this book but they
should be prepared for a sharp rebuke
for their miserly support of the mission-
ary enterprise and especially of its prac-
tical and institutional efforts.

And there are still poor and underfed
people in India, in Africa, and even in
the U.S.A. a challenge to our churches
and governments and to our men and
women of vision who would still heed
the call of the Christ.

Dean G. McKee

CFC at 70% of Goal

Over $16,000 has been received toward
the goal of $25,000 set by Columbia
Friendship Circle to provide books for
the Library and underwrite the program
of Continuing Education for pastors. The
project year will continue through Sep-
tember. Nearly 9,000 women from the
supporting synods have joined CFC this
year and contributed to this project.

At the Pilgrimage in April Mrs. Harold
Barber of Gulfport, Mississippi was
elected President of the Circle for 1968-
69. Other officers elected were Mrs. W.
B. Whitfield of Huntsville, Alabama,
Vice-President and Mrs. Gilbert Gragg
of Bainbridge, Georgia, Secretary-His-
torian.

Over 500 attented the Pilgrimage and
selected their project for next year. Be-
ginning October 1st the women will seek
funds to renovate, equip and furnish one
or more of the present classrooms, so that
professors may make the fullest possible
use of audio-visual materials in teaching.

Graduates Challenged

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to each day of life," he said, and the
"most pitiful creature on God's earth is
a preacher who has gone sour on the
ministry, church or people in general.
Usually such a man has lost his high
sense of mission. Lose this and you lose
your effectiveness as a prophet of God."
Decrying the church's lack of involve-
ment in meeting man's problems today,
Dr. Poole reminded the students that the
prophet's role was unpopular but that
"the church has always been at her best
when she has been at tension with the
world about her."

Visiting Professor of Missions, Rich-
ard Bass, delivered the sermon before
the Society of Missionary Inquiry. He
contrasted those in America who drift
without purpose and those who find pur-
pose and destiny in life because Jesus
Christ is in control. Reflecting on the
crisis and disturbances in our time he
challenged the students to be involved
in the changing situation of today for
Christ. "Christ is the Lord of creation
and redemption and the movements of
men need the light of the gospel shining
on them," he said.

Professor Bass, a missionary to Mexi-
co, reminded the seniors that millions in
the world today do not know that re-
conciliation has taken place through Jesus
Christ. "Your challenge is to share the
good news of what God has done in
Christ. At the same time," he said, "Our
Lord is calling us to a deeper penetra-
tion of the gospel here in our own south-
land. What we do at home affects our
witness overseas. We cannot fail here
without hurting our work there."

Faculty Profile . . .

Don. M. Wardlaw

Dr. Don Mark Wardlaw, Associate
Professor of Homiletics at Columbia
Seminary since January, 1967, believes
every church, regardless of size or loca-
tion, can have an exciting witness in the
area it serves.

His father, the late Rev. Claude D.
Wardlaw, had pastorates at Kansas City,
Little Rock and Lake Charles, and Dr.
Wardlaw moved to Columbia from pas-
torates at Germantown, Tenn., and
Memphis.

As pastor of Memphis' Shady Grove
Presbyterian Church, he saw church
members being trained to work with
emotionally disturbed children at the
city's downtown mental health center,
and in the homes of members. He said
many perceptually handicapped chil-
dren were being helped by the program.

"I've seen things just as exciting, per-
haps more so, in smaller churches," he
said. "They don't get as much publicity,
but the witness is there."

He believes adult education is the big
need in many churches. At Shady Grove
they did some experimenting with good
results. Using CLC materials, Dr. Ward-
law started a year-round leadership pro-
gram of courses which he taught initially.
There was no DCE, he explained, so
there was really no other way.

"The Leadership Class" graduated 16
adults per year, or eight teams of two
who used the team-teaching method.
Church membership increased from 350
I to 650 during his four-year Shady Grove
pastorate.

In 1959, Dr. Wardlaw took his Ph.D.
in New Testament at the University of
Aberdeen. He was one of only three
American students attending the univer-
sity. The other two were Columbia Sem-
inary's Dr. Charles B. Cousar (now on

sabbatical in Germany), and the Rev.
Jack Crawford, Presbyterian missionary.

At Aberdeen Wardlaw best remembers
playing golf regularly with Professor
A. M. Hunter, well-known author and
New Testament theologian. They played
on a beautiful public course for two
cents a hole, or 35 cents for 18 holes. It
was economical golf, but Wardlaw values
more highly the one-to-one relationship
he enjoyed with Professor Hunter who
was also his teacher.

The two Wardlaw boys, David 11,
and Paul 9, were born in Scotland. There
is also a daughter, Leslie, age 4.

Mrs. Wardlaw was Ruth Pierson of
Garden City, N. Y. She met Dr. Wardlaw
when he was studying at Columbia Col-
lege and she at Barnard. Both schools
are undergraduate divisions of Columbia
University.

Dr. Wardlaw took his BD degree from
Union Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Va. in 1957. In the summer of 1966 he
did graduate work and some teaching at
Princeton Theological Seminary.

This summer he is enrolled in the
graduate program at New York Univer-
sity to learn more about writing, direct-
ing and producing religious material for
television, radio and films.

Dr. Harrison and Dick Sanner, one of two Ga.
Tech Alumni in the Class of 1968.

Student Has Special Service

Middler Cecilio "Woody" Lajara and
his wife Carmen are helping introduce
Atlanta's Inman Park Presbyterian
Church, and its pastor, The Rev. Charles
G. Helms, to Spanish-speaking families
moving into the area.

At Sunday worship, a Scripture read-
ing and five to ten minutes of the ser-
mon are in Spanish, compliments of Mr.
Lajara.

Mrs. Lajara, who has her master's
degree in social work, helps the new
families locate homes, jobs, furniture and
clothing.

About forty of the newcomers attend
church school regularly. Two of the
families have recently become church
members.

Pres. Richards To Stay

President J. McDowell Richards has
responded to the urging of the faculty
and Board of the Seminary and deferred
his previously announced decision to re-
tire as President of the Seminary. Dr.
Richards, who was 65 this past Novem-
ber, had announced his retirement deci-
sion prior to the Board's May meeting.

In a letter signed by all the members
of the faculty, President Richards was
urged to remain as president of the sem-
inary, a post he has held since 1932, to
guide it through the important years im-
mediately ahead. The faculty mentioned
the development of the S.T.D. Program
and the Urban Training Organization and
the questions concerning the regrouping
of theological schools into a center of
theological education in Atlanta as three
important reasons why his continuing
leadership was needed.

"We doubt," the faculty wrote, "that
ever before has a respected and recog-
nized voice in the church such as yours
been so crucial in helping to dissipate
the fear, uncertainty and perhaps even
the hostility occasioned by these times."

In reply, President Richards said that
he was "deeply moved by the request of
the faculty" and would give serious con-
sideration to their request. Following an
additional request for reconsideration
from the Board of Directors, Dr. Rich-
ards announced his decision to defer his
retirement.

Four Receive Fellowships

L. to R. Wood, Coleman, Gehman, Swann.

Fellowships for graduate study were
awarded to four members of the Class of
1968. Donald D. Wood of Colfax, North
Carolina, Hunter Coleman from Tifton,
Georgia, and Philip Gehman of Tyler,
Texas received Fannie Jordan Bryan Fel-
lowships. Charles E. Swann from Colum-
bus, Georgia, was awarded an Anna
Church Witner Fellowship.

Mr. Wood will begin his graduate
studies this fall at Fuller Theological
Seminary. Union Theological Seminary
in Virginia has been chosen by Mr. Cole-
man for his studies. Mr. Gehman will
attend the University of Chicago.

Mr. Swann has accepted the pastorate
of the First Presbyterian Church, Bain-
bridge, Georgia and will defer his grad-
uate studies for several years.

All four of the men receiving fellow-
ships completed their seminary studies
with honors. The total value of their fel-
lowships was $5000.

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Speakers Announced For
Shortened Ministers Week

The schedule for Ministers' Week, Oc-
tober 28-30 has been changed to give
more pastors an opportunity to be pres-
ent for the whole series of lectures. This
year's Smyth Lecturer, Dr. James D.
Smart, will speak on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday. The preacher for the
week will be Dr. John Calvin Reid.

Dr. Smart is Jesup Professor of Bib-
lical Interpretation at Union Seminary in
New York. His lectures, Hemeneutics
and Homiletics, will be a study of the
implications of recent developments in
interpretation for the church's exposition
of the Scriptures.

The preacher, Dr. John Calvin Reid,
is pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Hilton Head Island, South Caro-
lina. He served for over 20 years as
pastor of the Southminster Presbyterian
Church in Pittsburgh and was before
that pastor of the First Church of Co-
lumbus, Georgia. Dr. Reid will be
preaching each morning during the week.

Alumni activities during the week will
include the annual alumni meeting and
luncheon on Tuesday, Octobr 29 at
12:30.

Robinson Presented Book

Soli Deo Gloria, a book of New Testa-
ment essays, has been published by John
Knox Press. The book includes essays by
theologians from England, Scotland,
Germany, Switzerland and the United
States. It's publication was initiated by
Columbia's faculty to honor Dr. William
Childs Robinson at the time of his re-
tirement. A specially bound copy of the
book was presented to "Dr. Robbie" dur-
ing this year's commencement program.

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