Columbia Theological Seminary Inform, 67, number 5, July 1973

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Vol. 67 No. 5 July 1973 News Bulletin From Columbia Theological Seminary

Decatur, Georgia

GRADUATES AND FACULTY HONORED

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orty-one men and women received
degrees five "with distinction' 1
three faculty members were named to
endowed chairs of instruction, and
four prizes and awards were given at
Columbia's - 141st commencement ser-
vice at the Columbia Presbyterian
Church Sunday, June 3, at 4:00 p.m.

Of the 31 men and women who re-
ceived the Master of Divinity degree,
the five receiving it with distinction were
William A. Bryant. Jr., Quincy, Fla
Elizabeth Henry Dunlap, York, S. C
William J. Holmes, Jr., Columbia, S. C
John F. Sloop, Decatur, Ga.; and Eric
K. Swenson. Atlanta.

In addition, one English diploma was
awarded, two men and women received
the Master of Christian Education de-
gree, three were awarded the Master
of Theology, and two earned the Doctor
of Sacred Theology.

"Now we are one (clergy and laity),
called to companionship, named the
Church to exist fully as the Body of
Christ," Lois Harkrider Stair told the
degree recipients.

At the 11:00 a.m. baccalaureate ser-
vice that same day at the Clairmont
Presbyterian Church, Prof. Samuel A.
Cartledge had reminded the graduates

that "living in the present, taking (cer-
tain) things from the past, we look to-
ward the future for the perfection we
find in the Word of God." Speaking on
"Looking Backward and Forward," he
said "We build upon our past and glory
in it."

Mrs. Stair, a former moderator of the
United (Northern) Presbyterian Church
mentioned the variety of names clergy
and laity give each other in the Church,
and stated that names cannot change
things, determine character or behavior,
but that a "name is that by which the
thing is summoned into thought."
"Names," she continued, "tell us who
and whose we are, and bring us into
full existence."

Chairman of the Board of Directors
Erskine Love conferred the degrees, and
President C. Benton Kline, Jr., charged
the graduates.

About 30 of the graduates arc enter-
ing pastoral service, with the remainder
in graduate study, administrative posi-
tions, returning to overseas churches, or
npt yet decided by the time of Inform's
deadline.

Named the first occupant of the J.
McDowell Richards Chair of Biblical
Exposition was Associate Professor J.
Will Ormond, the Cartledge Chair of
New Testament will be filled by Pro-
fessor Charles B. Cousar, and Professor
Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., will occupy the
J. B. Green Chair of Systematic The-
ology. The Richards chair was estab-

lished in 1965, after a campaign among
alumni during 1960-65, to honor Co-
lumbia's former president, the Rev. Dr.
J. McDowell Richards.

During the afternoon ceremonies the
Wilds Book Prize was awarded to Mr.
Holmes, the Indiantown Rural Church
Award went to Harry H. Barrow, Baton
Rouge, La., and the Paul T. Fuhrman
Church History Prize to John Roper.
Wagran, N. C.

The American Bible Society Award
was given to Terry Smith, Hartsville,
S.C.

Prof. Ralph Person (I) congratulates graduates John
Sloop (r) and P. David Snellgrove after the recessional
reached the porch of Columbia Presbyterian Church at
the close of the commencement service June 3.

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ROM THE PRESIDENT

Columbia Theological Seminary is an
institution created by the church to
serve the church. Just now with newly
aligned synods re-examining their mis-
sion and organization and their rela-
tionships to institutions, the role of the
Seminary as the servant of the church
has been subject to evaluation. How is
the Seminary the servant of the church?
How well does the Seminary serve? How
can it serve in new ways?

The first question is what I want to
answer here. The Seminary serves the
church in several ways in its formal
programs and through the activities of
faculty members.

Above all, Columbia Seminary serves
by preparing men and women for the
ministry of the church. The basic pro-
gram of the Seminary and the major
portion of its time and effort is directed
to equipping persons to begin their
ministry. The learning of the Old and
New Testament, the history and theol-
ogy of the church, and the skills of
preaching, teaching, leading, and helping
are what we are about most of all.

Ministers in the service of the church
have needs for further learning. They
want to go deeper in Biblical, historical,
doctrinal, or pastoral studies. They want
to increase their skills or acquire new
ones. So they come back for graduate
study or for short courses during the
year or in the summer.

The Seminary is called on to provide
education in connection with the pro-
gram of the church. So boards of the
church ask us to provide training events,
synods and presbyteries call on us to
plan and carry out learning experiences,
and local churches come to us for
special help.

But beyond this, the faculty of the
Seminary serves the church. On presby-
tery commissions on the minister and
his work and candidate committees, on
synod committees, on General Assem-
bly boards and committees, Columbia
faculty members give leadership and
service. Every Sunday sees several
preaching while others teach adult or
youth classes in local churches. Some
faculty members are at work on books
or articles to share their knowledge and
insight with the whole church. And
daily from all across the church come
letters and phone calls for advice, coun-
sel, or pastoral help.

With Paul, we say "For what we
preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ
as Lord, with ourselves your servants
for Jesus' sake." (II Cor. 4:5)

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EW FACULTY, STAFF
APPOINTMENTS

Six faculty and staff appointments have
been announced by President C. Benton
Kline, Jr. All were elected or confirmed
at the May Board of Directors meeting.

The Rev. Dr. Jack B. McMichael,
now associate professor of Christian
education and Church administration,
was elected by the Board of Directors
as professor of Church administration
and polity, and confirmed as dean of
ministry development. As dean of minis-
try development, he will be responsible
for continuing education, the D. Min.
( in-career ) degree program, and the
supervised ministry programs.

The Rev. Jasper N. Keith, Jr., will
become director of supervised ministry
October I. A new position, created to
meet the needs of the new Doctor of
Ministry degree program, this office will
select and train pastoral supervisors,
and will place, supervise, and evaluate
degree candidates in the required year's
practice of ministry and in the initial
guided summer of ministry in churches.

The Rev. Dr. Frederick Bonkovsky
has been elected associate professor of
Christian ethics. "His expertise in politi-
cal science will help students and faculty
alike be pointedly reminded of the reali-

ties of the world in which we minister
helping us become better able to minis-
ter to His world," says President Kline.

Mr. Glenn R. Wittig will become
associate librarian of Columbia's Camp-
bell Library July 1. In this new position,
he will be responsible for the reference
and serials functions of the library.

Associate Professor of Biblical Expo-
sition J. Will Ormond was elected to
tenure in that position, and Associate
Professor of Pastoral Theology and
Counseling Theron S. Nease was also
elected to tenure in his post.

Dr. McMichael, a former presbytery
executive secretary ( Paris, Tex. ) and
regional director for the Synods of
Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas, came to
Columbia in 1968. He is the author of
The New Superintendent and The
School of the Church, and has held
pastorates in the First Presbyterian
Churches of Lafayette, La., Vicksburg,
Miss., and Charleston, W. Va.

A Columbia alumnus. Dr. McMichael
received an A. A. degree from Marion
(Ala.) Institute, the B. A. degree from
East Texas State Teachers College, and
the Ed. D. degree from Columbia Uni-
versity.

Mrs. McMichael is the former Fran-
ces Jackson of Decatur.

Mr. Keith has been an institutional
chaplain for ten years at Central State
Hospital, Georgia Mental Health Insti-
tute, and Georgia Regional Hospital. He
is currently chief of chaplains at Geor-
gia Regional Hospital, where he has
twice been a program director (mental
retardation, and alcohol and drug re-
habilitation). He holds certification as
a supervisor from the Association for
Clinical Pastoral Education. Since 1965
he has been a clinical instructor at both
Candler School of Theology and at
Columbia.

He is secretary of the Southeast Re-
gion of the Association for Clinical
Pastoral Education, and chairman of its
certification and accreditation commit-
tee, in addition to numerous other pro-
fessional memberships. Seven profes-
sional papers are to his credit. He has
held pastorates in Sandcrsville and Pine
Mountain, Ga.

In 1971 Mr. Keith was named Young
Man of the Year by the DeKalb County
Jaycecs. He has also been active in
Little League baseball and football,
coaching both for several years.
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OLLMBIA THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY CLASS OF 1973

ALLEN

AYCOCK

BOWEN

CAMPBELL

Master of Divinity

ANDERSON

BARRETT

BRYANT

CARRUTHERS

Vernon Eugene Abshier, undecided

cox

DILL

Faked Abu Akel, to complete degree
during 1973-74

Robert R. Allen, director, Camp Mon-
roe, Laurel Hill, North Carolina

Robert P. Anderson, pastor, Monticello
Presbyterian Church, Monticello,
Georgia

Thomas J. Aycock, associate pastor,
First Presbyterian Church, Beaufort,
South Carolina

Steven E. Barrett, undecided

Dewey Bowen, pastor, Lemira Presby-
terian Church, Sumter, South Caro-
lina

William A. Bryant, staff person in evan-
gelism, Board of National Ministries,
Atlanta, Georgia

George E. Campbell, Jr., undecided

Peter C. Carruthers, chaplain intern,
Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

Bennett E. Cox, pastor, James Island
Presbyterian Church, Charleston,

South Carolina

Jerry W. Dill, pastor, Boston Presby-
terian Church, Boston, Georgia

FISHER

GIRARD

HART

HOLMES

DUNLAP

FORD

HARRIS

HESTIR

LANCASTER

McKAY

NELDON

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Dean DuBois, to complete degree during
1973-74

Elizabeth Henry Dunlap, educational
evangelistic missionary of the Presby-
terian Church in the U.S., professor,
Ecole Unie de Theologie, Ndesha,
Zaire

Helen Quarterman Fisher, undecided

Kenneth R. Ford, pastor, McDowell
Presbyterian Church, Greeley ville,
South Carolina, and St. Stephens
Presbyterian Church, St. Stephens,
South Carolina

Scott C. Girard, pastor, Society Hill
Presbyterian Church, Society Hill,
South Carolina

H. Eugene Harris, pastor, First Presby-
terian Church, Swainsboro, Georgia

Charles Edgar Hart, graduate study

B. Bradford Hestir, HI, National Parks
Ministry, Big Bend National Park,
Texas

William J. Holmes, Jr., associate pastor
Second Presbyterian Church, Charles-
ton, South Carolina

William P. Lancaster, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Seven Oaks Presbyterian Church,
Columbia, South Carolina

Sherwood C. McKay, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Conyers Presbyterian Church,
Conyers, Georgia

Richard P. Neldon, undecided

NICOLSON

RIMES

RUGGLES

SNELLGROVE

SULLIVAN

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ROSSMAN

STANFORD

SWENSON

John H. Nicolson, Pilgrimage Prcsby
terian Church, Norcross, Georeia

Ronald L. On, assistant pastor. Trinity
Presbyterian Church, Pensacola,
Florida

Ja/m-s Quillin, (ndiantown Presbyterian
Church, Hemingway, South Carolina
(not pictured)

E. Joyce Rimes, assistant minister,
Morningsidc Presbyterian Church,
Atlanta, Georgia

Joseph E. Rossman, pastor, Henry Me-
morial Presbyterian Church, Dublin.
Georgia

G. Al Ru\>i>les, pastor. Villa Rica Pres-
byterian Church, Villa Rica, Georgia

John Sloop, pastor, I.ithonia Presby-
terian Church, I.ithonia, Georgia

P. David Snellgrove, pastor. First Pres-
byterian Church, Ripley, Mississippi
(English diploma)

Richard Stanford, chaplain intern
Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

Thomas B. Sullivan, Seven Mile Ford,
Seven Springs, and McCall's Gap
Presbyterian Churches, Seven-Mile
Ford, Virginia

Eric K. Swenson, chaplain intern, Geor-
gia Regional Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.

William S. Trouttnan, pastor, Summer-
ton Presbyterian Church, Summcrton,
South Carolina

James Mark Wilburn, undecided

TROUTMAN

WILBURN

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WATSON

ANDREWS

HANSON

Master of Theology

(not pictured)
John Meivin Crow, graduate study
Prakobb Deetanna, minister to students,
North Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Atlanta, Georgia
Cecilio Nicolas Lajura, associate pas-
tor, Druid Hills Presbyterian Church,
Atlanta, Georgia
William Fairfax Savoy, undecided
Jonathan Yu, assistant professor of
pastoral care, Taiwan Theological
College, Taipei, Taiwan

Doctor of Sacred Theology

(not pictured)
Cedric Charles Benz, Jr., pastor, Morn-

ingside Presbyterian Church, Atlanta,

Georgia
Charles Lee Holland, Jr., pastor, Gaston

Avenue Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas

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ONTINUING EDUCATION
SET FOR SUMMER AND
EARLY FALL

Columbia's summer program of con-
tinuing education will open with a
session on worship and preaching led
by Prof. Wade P. Huie, July 16-20.
"Pastoral Care of Families", the second
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Larry W. Wilson, pastor, Maple Grove
and Spring Creek Presbyterian
Churches, Abingdon, Virginia

W. Stephenson Watson, to complete de-
gree 1973-74

Master of Christian Education

Leslie A. Andrews, director of Christian
Education, First Christian Missionary
Alliance Church, Atlanta, Georgia

Enoch Victor Hanson, probation offi-
cer. Juvenile court, City of Atlanta,
Atlanta, Georgia

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He and his wife, the former Betty
Morgan, have three sons. Mrs. Keith
is a graduate of Georgia State Univer-
sity with a double major in elementary
and special education. She is a second
grade teacher at the Mountain Park
Elementary School in Gwinnett County.

A former field education supervisor
for Gordon Conwell Divinity School
when he was director of the Gordon
Seminary Boston Inner-City Project, Dr.
Bonkovsky has been an assistant pro-
fessor of political science at Vanderbilt
University since 1970. Previously, he
had been assistant dean and instructor
at Harvard University, pastor of Hill
Memorial Church in Boston, and coordi-
nator of the Gossner Institute in Ger-
many.

Dr. Bonkovsky's B. A. degree was
earned at Muskingum College and the
M. Div. degree at Yale. He holds a
certificate from the Free University of
Berlin, and Harvard University awarded
him the Ph. D.

His latest book, Ethics in Interna-
tional Politics and Policy, will be pub-
lished this summer. His articles have
appeared in Journal of Trans-National
Law, Soundings, Journal of Church and
State, Reflections, Christianity Today,
and Worldview, and he has contributed
chapters to several books. In addition,
Dr. Bonkovsky has been a panelist,
leader, or speaker for many professional
society meetings. He is a member of the
Society for Religion in Higher Educa-
tion, and the American and Southern
Political Science Associations.

Mrs. Bonkovsky, the former Elizabeth
Leitch, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Addi-
son Leitch, has just been awarded her
Ph. D. in American history by Boston
University. The Bonkovskys have one
son.

Associate librarian at Trinity Evangel-
ical Divinity School from 1966 to 1969
and now completing a four-year term
as reference librarian at Princeton
Theological Seminary. Mr. Wittig has
also been interim Bible librarian at Bay-
lor University, and reference librarian
and head of adult services at Waco
McLennan County Library in Waco,
Tex.

He is a graduate of Tennessee IVmple
College, earning a B. A. degree in I
lish and Bible, and has done graduate
work in psychology and religion at
Baylor University and the University
of Michigan and in library science at
Rutgers, the State University (N. J.).

Mr. Ormond. who will receive his
Ph. D. from the University of Glasgow
this July, joined the Columbia faculty in
1966. He had previously been the pastor
of the Marion (Ala.) Presbyterian
Church, and was the organizing pastor
of the Covenant Presbyterian Church.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. While in Alabama, he
was moderator of the Presbytery of
Tuscaloosa, and of the Synod of Ala-
bama.

Mr. Ormond is the author of Youth
Entering Into Covenant for the Cove-
nant Life Curriculum, and of several
units in the Uniform Lessons for Youth.

A former pastor and a chaplain, Mr.
Neasc received his Ph. D. magna cum
laude from Princeton Theological Semi-
nary in May. He came to Columbia in
1966 after a term as Protestant chaplain
at Roosevelt Hospital (NYC) and the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church of Madill, Okla. Presently a
staff member of the Pastoral Counseling
and Referral Service of the Georgia As-
sociation of Pastoral Care and a consul-
tant with the Georgia Mental Health
Institute, Mr. Neasc has been council
secretary of the Georgia Clinical Pas-
toral Education Cluster and chairman
of the pastoral counseling sub-committee
of the graduate professional studies
committee of the Atlanta Theological
Association.

He is a frequent speaker and leader
for seminars and conferences.

Mrs. Ncase, a psychiatric social
worker, is the former Judith Allgood of
New York City and Cleveland.

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week, will be led by Prof. Theron Nease
July 23-27.

Laymen will join ministers in the last
hall of the summer's program for a
week's unit on adult participation in
the life of the church (July 30-Aug. 3),
and "Church Officer Development",
Aug. 6-10, with the Rev. Dr. John
Rhea, from the Presbyterian, US, Board
of Christian Education.

During the third week. Dean Charles
B. Cousar, professor of New Testament
at Columbia, will lead Bible study from
the new Covenant Life Curriculum. The
Proposed New Confession will be the
subject of discussion sessions during the
fourth week, under the leadership of
Prof. Shirley C. Guthrie.

All of the summer sessions are $35
per week for each person; the fee covers
registration, room and board. Spouses
of registrants are invited to attend at
the same fees, but there can be no
provision for children.

The first program of the 1973-74
academic year, "Eschatology: Theology
of Hope", has two units. Prof. Landon
Gilkey from the University of Chicago
wiil lecture Oct. 16-19, and the follow-
ing week (Oct. 23-25) Columbia's
theology faculty will lead reading and
discussion programs as an outgrowth of
his lectures.

Registration, under the same condi-
tions as the summer program, will be
$50 per person for the two-week period.

Applications should be sent to Dr.
Jack B. McMichael, Dean of Ministry
Development, Columbia Seminary, Post
Office Box 520, Decatur, Georgia,
30031.

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FC ELECTS
WOOD; NAMES
LIBRARY PROJECT

Mrs. Walter Wood, Jr., Maitland, Fla.,
former promotion secretary for the
Columbia Friendship Circle and secre-
tary in the development office, was
elected 1973-74 president of CFC when
the group had its annual meeting on the
campus April 12. She succeeds Mrs.
Dwight B. Goodner, Tallahassee, Fla.

Vice president is Mrs. F. D. Rogers.
Bcnnettsvillc, S. C, and Mrs. Rudolph
W. Johnson, Atlanta, is secretary-trea-
surer.

The project for the 1973-74 year will
underwrite the acquisition of books and
selected materials and specialized ser-
vices for the Campbell Library.

In 1970 the CFC honored Mrs. Wood
with the establishment of a scholarship
fund at the seminary. Ordained an elder
at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church,
Stone Mountain, Ga., she has been
active on session committees there and
at St. Marks Presbyterian Church, Al-

Mrs. Walter Wood, Jr., (I) checked details for the
annual CFC "Come and See Columbia Day," with
Mrs. Dwight Goodner, the 1972-73 president of CFC
Mrs. Wood was elected president for 1973-74 at the
annual meeting.

tamonte Springs, Fla. where she is pres-
ently a member. In addition for nearly
twenty-five years she has served as
president, circle chairman, and Bible
moderator in local Women of the
Church groups, and, since 1972, she
has been vice president of the Women
of the Church of St. Johns Presbytery.

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