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- 
(Continued on page 4) 



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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