Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 60, number 2, Spring 1967

Graduates Hear Outstanding Church Leaders

Seventy graduates received degrees or
diplomas at Commencement Exercises on
June 5th. Charles L. Weltner, Atlanta
attorney, told the class in the commence-
ment address that the separation of church
and state, though a valid and valued prin-
ciple, has dangers. "The greatest danger,"
Dr. Weltner said, "is that religious influ-
ence and the Christian Gospel will be
separated from public matters." The
preacher who avoids the issues of politics
is depriving the public of every intimation
of Christianity. "Those involved in the
tension of racial struggles need to hear:
'Love thy neighbor.' Those who are con-
tent with the way things are going need
to hear: 'Feed my sheep.' In the crisis in
Southeast Asia we need to hear the will
of God." Dr. Weltner, a member of the
First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, was a
member of the 88th and 89th Congress
representing the Atlanta area and is now
Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee.

The Baccalaureate preacher this year
was Dr. C. Benton Kline, Jr., Professor of
Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty at
Agnes Scott College in Decatur. Dr. Kline
had taught many of the seniors during
1964-65 when he was Visiting Professor of
Theology at Columbia. In his sermon, Dr.
Kline reminded the seniors that, "we are
given life and we lose it and are given it
back, therefore we are under obligation.
We are under obligation to Jesus Christ,
the strangest of all masters, for He is a
servant too, sharing in every measure of
our lives with us." Dr. Kline told the
students that the greatest temptation was
to see their call as unique. "We must
realize that the call of God in Christ does
not come to us alone but to many, and
that we are called as a company of the
obligated. The Church of Jesus Christ is
our base of support as we go forth to
serve but just as Jesus Christ was truly
man, so the world in which we serve is
truly the world and our obligation to the
world requires realism about the world.
The thing that makes our task bearable is
that we are under obligation. We may
bear the task because we believe we've
been put there and we have not chosen it
for ourselves."

Dr. Keith R. Crim, Book Editor of
John Knox Press, who was for fourteen
years a Presbyterian Missionary in Korea

KLINE

CRIM

WELTNER

delivered the sermon before the Society of
Missionary Inquiry. Speaking on "Old
Mission New Mission," Dr Crim told
the students that the Apostle Paul, the tra-
ditional model for missionaries, should be
our model as to message and dedication
but his methods which were for pioneer
situations are no longer appropriate for
the mission work of the Presbyterian
Church, U. S. He acknowledged that there
arp many problems to be faced in mis-
sionary situations today but spoke especi-
ally of two that demand examination, the
presence of other missionaries and the
presence of a national church. He told the
students that the presence of other mis-
sionaries brings tensions and pressures to
the situation and in some young churches
the divisive spirit of the young churchmen
has been learned from the missionaries
themselves. "The presence of the national
church should not be something that the
missionaries accept grudgingly but a joy-

Graduates Become Pastors

Again this year the majority of Co-
lumbia's graduating class have accepted
calls to pastorates. Of the 54 B.D. stu-
dents, 31 will become pastors, 10 assistant
pastors, four will enter military chaplaincy,
one will be teaching, one will be an over-
seas missionary, two will be doing further
study and the plans of five are not com-
pleted. Of those going to serve in local
churches, nine will be going to Florida,
eight to Georgia, seven to Alabama, six
to South Carolina, three to Mississippi
and North Carolina, two to Virginia and
Tennessee, one to Arkansas and West
Virginia.

ous experience of sharing with brothers,"
Dr. Crim said. He praised the nationals as
oftentimes more highly trained than the
missionaries themselves. He acknowledged
certain shortcomings of the national
churches and their leaders but indicated
that many of these problems could be
solved by cooperative effort in bringing
national church leaders to the United
States for periods of one to three years
for intensive work here and sending some
of our best leaders to the national
churches for longer periods of time. He
challenged the students to gain a firm
grasp of the unchanging m.essage and to
pray for grace to forgive others as Christ
has forgiven them.

Million Dollar Challenge

Two foundations and a group of friends
have together offered Columbia a Chal-
lenge Gift of $1 million. To claim the
gift, Columbia Seminary jnust raise $4
million in capital funds between June 1 ,
1967 and December 31, 1972. President
J. McDowell Richards announced this
Challenge Gift to the Board at their meet-
ing in May and laid out the seminary's
plans for campaigns to claim the Chal-
lenge Gift.

The present financial effort is a second
part of the over-all development program
of the seminary launched as the result
of a survey of the seminary's needs in
1958. The first phase of the program
brought $5 million in gifts to the semi-
nary. From this amount $2.3 million was
used for physical additions and improve-
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Thompson Takes Pastorate

Dr. Cecil A. Thompson, Professor of
Missions and Evangelism, has resigned to
become pastor of the J. J. White Memorial
Presbyterian Church at McComb, Missis-
sippi. During the commencement program.
Dr. J. Davison Philips, Chairman of the
Board, presented Dr. and Mrs. Thompson
with a silver service from the Board and
Faculty as an expression of appreciation
for Dr. Thompson's 21 years of service
to Columbia Seminary. Dr. Thompson
came to the seminary from the First Pres-
byterian Church of Valdosta in 1946.

For a number of years he served as
Director of Field Work as well as Profes-
sor of Evangelism and of Country Church
Work. Later he was released from his
duties as Director of Field Work and
became also Professor of Missions. In the
latter capacity he visited most of the
Mission Fields of our church, and had a
personal acquaintance with a large ma-
jority of our missionary force.

In speaking of Dr. Thompson's con-
tribution to the seminary, President J.
McDowell Richards said, "In addition to
his work in the classroom he has con-
tinually displayed a pastor's heart in his
relationships on the campus, and he has
been a true friend to all members of the
Student Body and of the Faculty. It is
with real sadness that we see Dr. Thomp-
son and his family leave our campus, yet
we understand the urge to be again in the
pastorate which is taking him from our
midst."

Dr. Thompson, a native of Monrovia.
Alabama, is a graduate of the University
of Florida, Columbia Seminary, and Bibli-
cal Seminary in New York. He received
a D.D. from Davidson College in 1949.
The appointment of a new professor
will be made next year.

FACULTY NEWS

SAMUEL A. CARTLEDGE will be
doing supply preaching and writing Sun-
day School lessons for the Christian Ob-
server .... CHARLES COUSAR will be
teaching in Columbia's Summer Language
School .... preaching assignments, plus
work on his dissertation, are planned by
THERON S. NEASE .... THOMAS H.
McDILL will teach at the Mississippi Sy-
nodical Training School and serve on the
faculty of the Southeastern School of
Alcohol Studies .... DEAN G. McKEE
will teach a course for adults at the
Family Bible School at the First Presby-
terian Church, Anniston, Alabama; a
course at the Georgia Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Atlanta, and serve on the faculty
of the Alabama Synodical Training School,
Montgomery, Alabama .... J. WILL
ORMOND will teach at the Family School
at Decatur Presbyterian Church, serve as
Discussion Group Leader at the Montreat
Bible Conference, August 14-19, and
spend time working on his thesis .... a
grant-in-aid has been awarded by the
Board of Christian Education to MIL-
TON RIVIERE, who plans to complete
work towards his Ed.D. degree at Teach-
ers College of Columbia University ....
beside teaching in a workshop for chap-
lains at Camp Gordon on the Use of Mass
Media, and serving on the faculty at the
Episcopalian Radio-Television Institute,
HUBERT VANCE TAYLOR will attend
meetings of the Editorial Committee for
the Speech Association of America and
the Hymn Selection Committee for the
UPUSA and US Churches .... DON
WARDLAW will ^each at the First Pres-
byterian Church, Anniston, Alabama, in
their School of the Church, will lecture at
the Missouri Synodical Training School
and the Synod of Tennessee Adult Con-
ference. Beginning in July he will serve
as interim pastor of the Hillside Presby-
terian Church, Decatur . . . . S. BARTON
BABBAGE will be lecturing on "Fiction:
Friend or Foe?" for the Family School of
Christian Growth, Peachtree Presbyterian
Church, Atlanta; speaking at the Confer-
ence on "Surrealism and Salvation" at
Princeton, New Jersey, and completing
the manuscripts for two new books and
the revision of a third .... WILLIAM C.
ROBINSON will serve as supply pastor
of the Westminster Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta in June and of the Capitol View
Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, during July
and August .... SHIRLEY C. GUTH-
RIE will complete writing the CLC study
for adults for use in 1968, teach at Union
Seminary in Richmond during the gradu-
ate summer session and be a conference
speaker at Mo Ranch, Texas .... WADE
P. HUIE, JR. will be leaving in August
to begin a sabbatical year of study at the
Graduate Theological Union in Berke-
ley, California . . . . O. HAL LYON

New Missions Professor

The Reverend J. Richard Bass, a Pres-
byterian U. S. missionary serving as a
professor at the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary in Mexico City, Mexico, has
been appointed Guest Professor of Mis-
sions at Columbia for 1967-68. Mr. Bass,
a graduate of Columbia, is well known
to the students and faculty because of the
growing ties of interest and support be-
tween the seminaries in Decatur and
Mexico City.

Professor Dean G. McKee was in
Mexico City this past February to lecture
on the Books of Samuel and Kings in the
Pastors' Institute at the Seminary. The
Institute is a part of the Mexican Sem-
inary's program of Continuing Studies for
Mexican pastors. Dr. Ludwig Dewitz of
the faculty has also spoken at the In-
stitute.

The students at Columbia have had a
part in this educational program for
Mexican pastors through their annual
mission gift. The gift last year amounted
to over $ 1 ,000 and was presented to the
seminary in Mexico for the publishing of
the lectures of Dr. Dewitz and a booklet
by Dr. McKee. In writing of the gift,
Richard Bass told the students, "We do
not have many good works available in
Spanish on theology. If I were going to
list the needs we have here in Mexico in
priority, I would place the training of
national leadership first and publication
of good materials in Spanish second."

Florida Begins Campaign

The Synod of Florida has begun its
campaign for Christian Leadership. This
joint financial campaign to underwrite the
work of Columbia and Florida Presbyter-
ian College has a total goal of $2'/2 mil-
lion. Columbia's share in the campaign is
$1 million. This money will be used to
provide endowment for two new profes-
sorships, student aid, the library, and
continuing education.

Mr. James C. Robinson of Orlando
and Dr. Arnold Poole of Sarasota are the
co-chairmen for the campaign. Mr. Rob-
inson is a partner in the law firm of
Giles, Hedrick and Robinson in Orlando
and an Elder in the First Presbyterian
Church. Dr. Poole is the pastor of the
Pine Shores Presbyterian Church in
Sarasota.

will be completing work on the thesis for
his Th.M. degree this summer . . . RON-
ALD S. WALLACE has returned to
Scotland for the summer .... FELIX B.
GEAR, PAUL T. FUHRMANN and
JAMES H. GAILEY will be in Decatur
during most of the summer for study,
reading and preparation of their work for
next year .

Richardson to Emphasize

Church Vocations

The Reverend James T. Richardson has
become Director of Admissions at Co-
lumbia. Since assuming this position in
January, he has traveled to over thirty
colleges and universities in the Southeast
to meet and talk with students, faculty and
staff members concerning vocations in the
church. This summer he will be counsel-
lor at "The Left Bank" at Montreat, the
Board of Church Extension's ministry to
college students. In this position he will be
the minister to the students working at
Montreat.

Fellowships Announced at Honors Day

In addition to working with college stu-
dents and groups, Mr. Richardson will be
providing assistance to local churches,
presbyteries and synods in presenting the
challenge of church vocations. The sup-
porting synods of Columbia acted favor-
able this year on a recommendation of
the seminary to encourage local churches
to give serious consideration to presenting
the challenge to church vocations. Each
session has been asked to carefully study
the role of young people and to send to
the seminary the name of the one person
who should be seriously challenged to
consider church vocations. Mr. Richard-
son will be working with churches that
respond to this request and with their
young people.

This fall a team of students will be pre-
pared to work under Mr. Richardson's
direction in local churches for week-end
programs of emphasis on vocations in the
church. Information about this team and
other aspects of this work can be obtained
from Mr. Richardson.

Prior to coming to the seminary staff
Mr. Richardson had been Assistant Pastor
of the Central Presbyterian Church, An-
derson, South Carolina.

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Left to right: Daughdriil, Heck, Piephoff, and Hightower.

The inauguration of Ronald S. Wallace
as Professor of Biblical Theology and Dr.
Wallace's inaugural address were the high-
lights of the annual Honors Day program
in May. Dr. Wallace was the pastor of the
Lothian Road Parish Church, Edinburgh,
Scotland, before coming to the seminary
in 1964. He is a graduate of Edinburgh
University and New College and author
of several books. Dr. Wallace's address,
"Biblical Theology Today," will be printed
in the summer issue of the Seminary
Bulletin.

Four fellowships for graduate study
were awarded and the Howerton and
Indiantown Awards presented. The James
Robertson Howerton Award, presented
annually to the student writing the best
paper in Presbyterian History and Polity,
was awarded to Ross Hightower and Eu-
gene Witherspoon. Charles C. Ansley and
J. Douglas Heck were awarded the Indian-
town Church Award which was estab-
lished by the Indiantown Presbyterian
Church of Hemingway, South Carolina,
to encourage interest in and promote the
development of country church work.

Fannie Jordan Bryan Fellowships of
$1,000 each were awarded to J. Douglas
Heck of Miami, Florida: Ross T. High-
tower of Florence, Alabama; and Jim
Daughdriil of Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Heck,
a graduate of Wheaton College, Wheaton.
Illinois, has served as a Summer Assistant
in Guerrant Presbytery, Kentucky, while
a student at Columbia. He has accepted
a call to serve the Bethel and Brittain's
Cove Presbyterian Churches in North
Carolina after graduation. Mr. Hightower
is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He
has served as Student Minister at the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Anniston,
Alabama; Chaplain of the Atlanta Flor-
ence Crittenton Home, and Executive
Secretary of the Greater Atlanta Council

of Churches, Atlanta. During his Senior
Year, Mr. Hightower served as President
of the Society for Theological Scholarship.
After graduation he will enter training as
a Chaplain Intern at the Georgia Mental
Health Institute. Mr. Daughdriil attended
Davidson College and graduated from
Emory University. He has served as stu-
dent assistant at the Northwest Presby-
terian Church, Atlanta, and as a teacher
at the Westminster Schools, Atlanta. Mr.
Draughdrill was President of the Student
Government during his senior year at
Columbia Seminary. He has accepted the
call of the St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Robert P. Piephoff of Greenville, S. C,
received an Alumni Fellowship of $1,000.
Mr. Piephoff, a graduate of Presbyterian
College. Clinton. S. C, has served as Stu-
dent Assistant at the Plains Presbyterian
Church, Zachary, La., and the Gatlin-
burg Presbyterian Church, Gatlinburg,
Tenn. From September '65-August '66 he
served an intern year as Student Assistant
at the Forest Lake Presbyterian Church,
Columbia, S. C. During his senior year
Mr. Piephoff was Editor of Student Pub-
lications at the Seminary.

Alumni News

BILL TALMAGE (B.D. 1965) has
been appointed by the Board of World
Missions to do student work in the Congo
.... John Knox Press has recently pub-
lished a book by JOHN WILLIAM ALD-
RIDGE (B.D. 1960) The Henneneutic
of Erasmus .... LUTHER MUNDY
(B.D. 1956) read a paper at the spring
meeting of the Society of Biblical Litera-
ture and the American Academy of Re-
ligion. Other CTS Alumni attending were
CHARLES FOSHEE (B.D. 1954); PETE
HAY (B.D. 1954); TOM STALL-
WORTH (B.D. 1958); TOM REEVES
{Continued on page 4)

Summer Work Varied

Ninety-nine Columbia students will be
serving in local churches and engaging in
special ministries in 18 states this summer.
About three-fourths of the students will
be in field education projects in the sup-
porting synods, the other one-fourth will
be scattered from border to border and
from coast to coast. Their ministries are
as varied as their geographic locations.

Many of the students will serve in local
churches, assisting with the regular pro-
gram of the church. The summer field
education program does, however, allow
opportunity for students to engage in spe-
cial ministries and there are large num-
bers of these. Students will travel to Mon-
tana and California to participate in the
Christian Ministry in the National Parks,
others will be engaged in Inner-City work
in Atlanta, Camp and Conference Work
in several locations, clinical training, and
a special co-operative project in Home
and Family Nurture Ministry in Florida.

New Degrees Offered

Beginning this summer Th.M. degrees
will be offered in two new areas. Pastoral
Care and Pastoral Supervision. These two
new programs are in addition to the two
masters programs presently offered in the
Department of Pastoral Counseling.

The new degree in Pastoral Care will
require both an internship and a residency
in the Georgia Association for Pastoral
Care, 35 hours of academic work, part of
which may be accomplished during the
two years of internship and residency,
and in lieu of a thesis the student will be
expected to achieve accreditation as an
Assistant Chaplain Supervisor. In the pro-
gram leading to the Th.M. in Pastoral
Supervision, the requirements include the
interning and residency and 35 hours of
work and accreditation as an acting Chap-
lain Supervisor.

OUTSTANDING TEAMS

Columbia Seminary students, playing
in a Decatur adult league, have won both
local and district championships in bas-
ketball this year. The team, made up
mainly of members of the Junior Class,
was successful in winning the tournament
in the Decatur Recreation League and
later was awarded a trophy for their vic-
tory in the regional tournament of the
Recreation Department. In the final re-
gional game the team was 1 1 points be-
hind at half-time but won the game 81-77
with two shots from the foul line clinch-
ing the victory with four seconds left.

The Seminary's tennis team also had a
very successful season, playing matches
with West Georgia College, Georgia State,
Emory University, Oglethorpe and the
Federal Penitentiary. The seminary won
four matches and lost one. Paul Bennett
and Art Jones, who played No. 1 and 2
on the team; were undefeated in number
1 doubles and David Russell, No. 5 on
the team, was undefeated in singles.

ALUMNI NEWS

(Continued from page 3)
(B.D. 1964): JAMES GAILEY (B.D.
1941): JOHN HARE (B.D. 1962) and
CHARLES TALLEY (B.B.E. 1963) ... .
J. DON ADERHOLD (B.D. 1951) was
elected president of the Southern Baptist

Home Mission Board JOHN AKERS

(B.D.' 1965) has been named Belhaven
College's "Professor of the Year."

Fall Speakers Announced

Dr. Horton Davies, Professor of Re-
ligion at Princeton University, will be
the Smyth Lecturer during the annual
Ministers' Week scheduled for October
23-27, 1967. The Alumni Lecturer during
the week will be Dr. William Childs Rob-
inson, Jr., Professor of New Testament
at the Perkins School of Theology. The
preacher during the week will be Dr.
E. G. Homrighausen, Dean and Profes-
sor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton
Theological Seminary.

Dr. Davies' lectures will be entitled
"The Art of Adoration". The Alumni
Lectures will be entitled "Paul and
Corinth".

Alumni activities during the week will
include the annual meeting and luncheon
of the Alumni Association on Tuesday,
October 24th, at 12:30, and reunions of
the classes of 1922, 1927, 1932, 1937,
1942, 1947, 1952, 1957 and 1962.

Million Dollar

{Continued from page 1)
ment on the seminary campus and $2.7
million were added to the endowment.

The $5 million sought in the second
part of the development program will be
placed in the seminary endowment in
order to provide the financial resources
required to keep Columbia in its place of
leadership and to expand its service to
the Church. The endowment will be desig-
nated for teaching, student aid, the library
and the seminary's developing program of
Continuing Education for Pastors.

The Campaign for Christian Leadership
in the Synod of Florida is the first part of
the over-all campaign to claim the Chal-
lenge Gift. Campaigns are planned in the
Synod of Alabama in 1970, the Synod of
South Carolina in 1971 and the Synods
of Georgia and Mississippi during the
challenge period.

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