Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 60, number 4, October 1967

COLUMBIA
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DR. GREEN DIES

Professor Emeritus J. B. Green died
on September 7. 1967 at the age of 96.
Dr. Green had remained vigorous in
mind and body until a comparatively few
months before his death. From 1921
until 1951 he served
as Professor of Syste-
matic Theology and
also taught courses in
Homiletics, Ethics and
English Bible. His
course in The Psalms
was particularly ap-
preciated by his stu-
dents.

Dr. Green was a
graduate of Peabody College and Union
Seminary in Virginia. He held pastorates
at Columbia and Fayetteville, Tennessee
and was for 13 years pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Greenwood,
South Carolina. Dr. Green taught first
at the seminary when it was located in
Columbia, South Carolina and was the
last living member of the faculty who
moved with the seminary to Decatur.
Deeply dedicated to Columbia and con-
vinced of its importance to the church,
Dr. Green's influence was an important
factor in the decision against the merger
of Columbia with another seminary dur-
ing the difficult depression years.

In speaking of Dr. Green at a memor-
ial service conducted at the Decatur
Presbyterian Church, Dr. J. McDowell
Richards recalled the record of David
mourning the death of his captain, Ab-
ner, when he spoke to his servants and
said, "Know ye not that there is a prince
and a great man fallen this day in Israel."
Dr. Richards spoke of Dr. Green as "a
man entrusted by God with a clear and
logical mind, who used his talents well
in the task to which he was assigned."
Dr. Green's teaching was marked by
"sincerity and earnestness," he said, and
his life was characterized by "genuine
humility."

Dr. Green is survived by his wife,
Lillian, a leader in the forrnation of
Columbia Friendship Circle and for years
its key advisor, and four children.

Colu

I

s 140th Year

Professor Ludwig Dewitz, who had
just returned from a Sabbatical Year of
study in Europe and the Near East, de-
livered the opening address as Columbia
began its 14()th year on September 13th.
Forty-five new members of the Junior
Class are among the 193 students in the
student body this fall.

In his address. Dr. Dewitz took the
congregation on an imaginary tour
through theological regions to the Prom-
ised Land. "God is God of the present
and future as He was God of the past,"
Dr. Dewitz said, "therefore, let us go
on to perfection." Stressing that our
century is like the first and sixteenth
centuries, a time when things are be-
ginning to happen. Dr. Dewitz urged
the students to look at the foundations
that have been made and then go forward
into the problems of our century. He
urged the students "to go forward with
a feeling that they are being carried on
to perfection by God Himself," and that
"they are dependent on the Holy Spirit."
Dr. Dewitz challenged the faculty to con-
tinue studying and the students to adopt
an attitude of "I know, help thou my
ignorance."

The entering class of B.D. students this
year includes the largest percentage of
men and women coming direcdy from
college that Columbia has had in recent
years. Of the entering class of forty-five,
24 are single students and only 21 are
married, again an unusually high per-
centage of single students. These students
come from 15 states and from the Bap-
tist, Methodist and United Presbyterian
Churches as well as the Presbyterian
Church, U.S. Among the students who
come from other vocations are a radio
announcer and engineer, a former church
denomination Public Relations Director,
several teachers, an engineer and an air-
line executive.

Activities at the beginning of the new
school year included a three day faculty
retreat at Callaway Gardens, Georgia.
Dr. James N. Lapsley, Associate Profes-
sor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton
Seminary led the faculty during a portion
of their retreat in the study of com-
munication.

New students participated in a three
day orientation program directed by Dean
O. H. Lyon and a committee of students
with Dwight Bayley as Chairman. A

major portion of the orientation program
was devoted to group activities designed
to equip the entering students for more
effective participation in the give and
take of the seminars in the courses of
the new curriculum. Associate Professor
of Christian Education, Milton Riviere,
and other faculty members joined with
selected returning students to provide
leadership for these special activities.

College Student Conference

"1988 ... A Look Twenty Years Into
the Future" has been chosen as the
theme for a conference for college stu-
dents to be held at Columbia, January 26-
28, 1968. Student co-ordinator, Dwight
Bayley and James T. Richardson, Di-
rector of Admissions, are currently lining
up leaders in business, politics, educa-
tion and the professions to share with
college students their insights into the
prospects for their fields in 1988. Mem-
bers of Columbia's faculty and student
body will join with the visiting college
students in a consideration of the predic-
tions made by these leaders and the im-
plications of these projections for the
ministry of the church in the world.

"The conference is being planned for
all college students who have a concern
for the ministry of the church in the
world and are willing to think about the
various possibilities for their involve-
ment in that ministry," Mr. Richardson
said. "Attendance will not be limited to
those who have made some commitment
to vocations in the church. Those who
have made such a commitment will be
welcome and will be given the opportuni-
ty of talking with seminary faculty mem-
bers and students. They will also see
Columbia's facilities and learn of its pro-
gram of studies." The conference will
include activities on the Columbia camp-
us and in the Atlanta community. The
Board of National Ministries of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S. is sharing in
the program and will provide an oppor-
tunity for the students to think about
the role of the church in the changing
world.

Persons interested in attending the
conference or any pastor or adult leader
desiring additional information should
write to James T. Richardson, Director
of Admissions, Columbia Seminary,
Decatur, Georgia 30031.

Ministers' Week at

Davies

Robinson

Homrighausen

Dr. Horton Davies, Dr. William C.
Robinson, Jr. and Dr. E. G. Homrig-
hausen were the principal speakers dur-
ing Ministers' Week, October 23-27. Dr.
Davies, who delivered the Smyth Lec-
tures, is the Putnam Professor of Religion
at Princeton University. Alumni Lectur-
er, Dr. Robinson (B.D. '48), is an As-
sociate Professor at Perkins School of
Theology at SMU and Dr. Homrighaus-
en, the Visiting Preacher is the Eerdman
Professor of Pastoral Theology at Prince-
ton Theological Seminary.

"The Art of Adoration: Christian
Worship" was the general theme of Dr.
Davies' lectures. In the course of his
lectures he traced the development of
Christian worship from its earliest forms
in Jerusalem down through some of the
ecumenical and experimental worship of
our own time. Dr. Davies, who came to
Princeton University in 1956 to help
inaugurate a new program of Graduate
Study in Religion, is a native of South
Wales and a graduate of the University
of Edinburgh and Oxford. Dr. Davies
has devoted himself primarily to the
teaching ministry but he has also served
as a pastor and during World War II
was in charge of 55 recreational and
study centers in Germany, Belgium,
France and Holland. He has served in
the ecumenical movement and he or-

ganized the first Department of Religion
in an English speaking university in
South Africa.

Dr. Robinson delivered four lectures
growing out of his study of Paul and
Corinth. The lectures dealt with the Word
of the Cross, Tradition and Authority,
Christology and the Life of the Christian.
Dr. Robinson, who received degrees
from Davidson and Columbia and the
University of Basel was a pastor in
Raleigh, North Carolina and Professor
of Bible at King College before going
to his present position in 1960.

Dr. Homrighausen preached each day
at the Morningside Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta in addition to his preaching
on the seminary campus. From 1958 to
1965 he served as a member of the Sur-
vey Committee whose studies led to Co-
lumbia's current Expansion Program.
Prior to his acceptance of the Chair of
Pastoral Theology at Princeton in 1954,
Dr. Homrighausen had been for 16 years
the Professor of Christian Education
there. He also has had experience as a
pastor in Illinois and Indiana and has
preached and lectured at churches, uni-
versities and seminaries around the world.
He is the author of several books and
a contributing editor to "Theology To-
day."

Mrs. Wood Honored

Mrs. Walter Wood, Jr., Promotion
Secretary of Columbia Friendship Circle,
and Secretary to the Assistant to the
President, has been elected the first
woman Ruling Elder of the Memorial
Drive Presbyterian Church in Stone
Mountain, Georgia. In addition to her
many responsibilities at the seminary and
with her family at home, Emily has been
an exceptionally active member of the
Memorial Drive Church, singing in the
choir regularly, serving on numerous re-
sponsible committees and playing an
active part in the work of the Women
of the Church.

Students Work With
Pilot Program in Fla.

Three Columbia Students were partici-
pants this summer in a Pilot Project of
Field Education sponsored cooperatively
by Columbia and the Board of Christian
Education of the Presbyterian Church,
U.S. The students, Dwight Bayley of
Jacksonville, Florida; Richard A. Cur-
now, Jr. from Jackson, Mississippi and
Mac M. Irvin of Miami, Florida, spent
the summer working with local churches
in the introduction of the Home and
Family Nurture Ministry.

Dr. Ernest Stricklin, Secretary, Divi-
sion of Family Life, The Reverend Bill
Belk, Regional Director of the Synod
of Florida, Professor Milton Riviere,
Associate Professor of Christian Educa-
tion and The Reverend Steve Bacon, As-
sistant to the President of the Seminary
planned the program and participated in
the training of the students. Response
from the churches in which the students
worked and from the students themselves
has been quite favorable and plans are
being projected for the repetition of the
summer's program in coming years.

During the summer the students were
involved in discussions with Sessions and
special committees in local churches.
Vacation Church School classes. Area
Leadership Schools, and a variety of
other activities. Their work took them
to the Roswell Church, Roswell, Georgia;
the Hope Church, Clearwater, Florida;
the New Covenant, Riviera and Miami
Shores Churches in the Miami area; the
Homestead Church, Homestead, Florida;
the Memorial Drive Church, Stone
Mountain, Georgia; the Arlington
Church, Jacksonville, Florida; the First
and Conway Churches, Orlando, Florida;
and the Second Annual Brevard County
Leadership School, Merritt Island, Flor-
ida, sponsored by the Merritt Island,
Cocoa, St. Lukes, Trinity and Eastmin-
ster Churches.

Alumni News

BOB NEWMAN (B.D. '61) has been
named head of the Department of Phi-
losophy and Religion at Morris Harvey
College . . . DR. MARSHALL DENDY
(B.D. '26), Moderator of the General
Assembly, Presbyterian Church, U.S.,
spoke to the students at Columbia Semi-
nary at a recent chapel program . . .
LEONARD COOPER BLANTON (B.D.
'51) composed and named hymn tunes
for President and Mrs. Richards and
Dr. Wm. C. Robinson during the past
year . . . WILLIAM VAN ARNOLD
(B.D. '66) has been awarded a Garrett
Graduate Fellowship for work toward the
Doctor of Theology Degree at The South-
ern Baptist Theological Seminary .

Survey Features Grads

Exciting aspects of the ministry of Bill
Markley (B.D. "62) and Paul Mixon
(B.D. '61) were featured in the Sep-
tember issue of Presbyterian Survey. Bill
is now the pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church of Gainesville, Georgia
and Paul, an Air Force Chaplain, is sta-
tioned at Tyndall Air Force Base near
Panama City, Florida.

In Gainesville, Presbyterians have tak-
en the lead in an interdenominational
movement to provide an adequate Chris-
tian educational opportunity for young
people and adults. Plans are being made
for the teaching of subjects related to
the Christian Faith on a par academical-
ly with the work being done in the
Junior and Senior High Schools. The
program plans to take advantage of re-
leased time opportunities. The new pro-
gram now taking shape comes out of the
concern of the congregation and Mr.
Markley that a large segment of the
church congregation was engaged only
sporadically in serious study of their
faith.

Paul Mixon has broken through some
of the traditional barriers and is en-
gaging young service men in serious
dialogue at the Halfway House. Here, as
in other Coffee Houses, music, coffee
and candlelight provide an atmosphere
conducive to honest talk and discussions.
With Chaplain Mixon's leadership, this
non-traditional program has become an
important part of the Base Chapel Pro-
gram.

Plans for Rock Eagle

Plans are being made for the Sixteenth
Annual Missions Conference at the Rock
Eagle 4-H Camp Grounds at Eatonton,
Georgia. The conference will be held
April 12-14, 1968.

The conference is sponsored by the
student Society of Missionary Inquiry
and is planned by the SMI officers and
a committee of other students. Working
with the committee in their initial plan-
ning have been Professor Richard Bass,

Guthrie to Teach at FPC

Dr. Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr., Professor
of Systematic Theology, will be a guest
professor at Florida Presbyterian College
for their winter term in January 1968.
Dr. Guthrie will lead a small group of
students in the study of Theology of
Revolution.

The winter term at FPC is a special
four week period of independent study
for all undergraduates. It is designed to
develop the qualities of self-discipline and
requires the student to work without the
customary routine of classroom and lec-
ture hall on a single problem growing
out of his other studies and to present
his findings in final form. Approximately
15 students will be in the group working
with Professor Guthrie.

Both Columbia and Florida Presby-
terian are supported by the synod of
Florida. The current Campaign for
Christian Leadership in Florida seeks to
raise financial support for both insti-
tutions. The campaign will provide Co-
lumbia with an additional $1,000,000
endowment for the program of the semi-
nary.

Dr. Robinson to Retire

The Alumni Association honored Dr.
William C. Robinson at their meeting on
October 24th. Dr. Robinson, who has
been Professor of Church History since
1926 will retire at the end of the fall
quarter. Dr. J. Davison Philips, Chair-
man of the Board of Directors of the
Seminary and a former Alumni Associa-
tion President, was the main speaker for
the luncheon. Dr. J. McDowell Richards
also spoke words of appreciation for Dr.
Robinson's long and faithful service as
a professor at Columbia.

A highlight of the meeting was the
presentation to Dr. and Mrs. Robinson
of a 1968 Dodge Polara. The air-con-
ditioned car was a gift to the Robinsons
from the alumni and Board of Directors
and friends. Also announced at the Alum-
ni Luncheon was the planned publication
by John Knox Press of a volume of es-
says to honor Dr. Robinson. Contributors
to the Festchrift are: Professors F. F.
Bruce, Oscar Cullman, Joachim Jeremias,
George Eldon Ladd, John Leith, Bo
Reicke, James M. Robinson, William C.
Robinson, Jr. and T. F. Torrance. The
book will be released in connection with
graduation exercises in June 1968. Pre-
publication purchase of the volume is
being handled through the Alumni Office,

Visiting Professor of Missions and repre-
sentatives of the Board of World Mis-
sions and the Board of National Min-
istries.

Information about the conference will
be distributed to pastors as it is available.

C.F.C. Sets New Goal

Columbia Friendship Circle reported
an increase in memberships during the
1966-67 year and gifts of nearly $22,000
which were used to purchase an elevator
and additional book stacks for the library.
For the year 1967-68 they have set a
goal of $25,000, the first $7,500 of which
will purchase books for the library to be
called the "Friendship Collection." The
balance of gifts received will be desig-
nated for Continuing Education for Pas-
tors. Gifts for the year 1965-66 also
were designated for the Continuing Edu-
cation Program which provides two week
periods of reading and study at the semi-
nary for local pastors.

Mrs. Walter S. Moore of Walhalla,
South Carolina was reelected President of
Columbia Friendship Circle for the new
year. Other officers are: Mrs. C. Irwin
Crais. Birmingham. Alabama, Vice-
President and Mrs. R. L. Tilghman,
Riviera Beach, Florida, Secretary-His-
torian.

Oberg Fund Enlarged

The Oberg Endowment Fund has been
more than doubled by a second gift from
Mrs. Azalea Oberg of Urbana, Indiana.
This recent gift of $45,000 is another
tangible sign of Mrs. Oberg's lifelong
interest in the work of the church and
more especially the church's educational
institutions. Mrs. Oberg's interest in
Columbia Seminary extends back many
years and includes faithful service as a
member of Columbia Friendship Circle
and as CFC Chairman in Florida.

The establishment and increase of the
Oberg Endowment Fund are of particu-
lar importance to Columbia because of
the part they play in Columbia's current
campaign to claim a $1,000,000 chal-
lenge fund. To claim the gift Columbia
must raise $4,000,000 in capital funds
by December 31, 1972. Mrs. Oberg's gift,
those of other friends of the seminary
and capital funds campaigns in the sup-
porting synods will enable the seminary
to reach this goal.

7967-68 Student

Body

In the B. D. program

Third year

. 50

Intern year

- 3

Second year

- 41

First year

46

140

In the M.C.E. program .

2

In the Th.M. program

32

Special and Auditing students.

19

Total student body

193

Student Fights Fires

Fighting forest fires and spreading tar
and gravel on the roads were a part of
summer field education for Ed Morrison,
a Columbia senior. Ed served as Director
of the Christian Ministry in Glacier Na-
tional Park m Montana this summer. In
addition to his full-time work on a gov-
ernment road crew he supervised the
work of some 25 seminary and college
students engaged in the ministry to the
tourists and workers in the park. He was
chairman of the Committee of Permanent
Park Personnel who plan the ministry
and personally directed all promotion of
the program and the coordination of the
schedules for the various activities. His
responsibility to evaluate the work of the
students under his supervision brought
him into close contact with the other
students.

Ed and his wife, Gwen, both worked
in the program in Glacier Park last sum-
mer. Ed was a clerk in a store and Gwen
assistant housekeeper in a lodge. In addi-
tion to the secular work, Ed had preach-
ing services twice each Sunday and par-
ticipated in other phases of the ministry
in the park. On the basis of his work
last year, he was chosen by the per-
manent committee in the park to be di-
rector of the program this summer, the
most responsible position open to a semi-
nary student in the ministry in the Na-
tional Parks.

Babbage Now President
At Conwell Seminary

Dr. Stuart Barton Babbage, Visiting
Professor of Practical Apologetics and
Church History has been elected Presi-
dent of the Conwell School of Theology
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Bab-
bage has assumed his responsibilities at
Conwell on a limited basis during the
fall quarter and will take up duties there
full-time January 1, 1968.

A native of New Zealand, Dr. Babbage
has served on the faculty at Columbia
since 1963. He was visiting lecturer dur-
ing the academic year 1961-62. Prior to
his coming to the United States he had
served as Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral,
Melbourne, Australia, President of Mel-
bourne College of Divinity and Principal
of Ridley Theology College.

In addition to his responsibilities of
teaching in Practical Apologetics and
Church History, Dr. Babbage has served
as the editor of the Seminary Faculty
Bulletin, written several books and filled
lectureships in this country and overseas.

Conwell School of Theology, an inter-
denominational seminary in its seventh
year, is the successor of the School of
Theology of Temple University which
was founded by Dr. Russell H. Conwell
seventy-five years ago. Plans are being
made for its growth and expansion as a
center of training emphasizing urban
ministries and Christianity and the Arts.

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DEDICATION, a twenty minute color
movie about Columbia Seminary has just
been released for use in local churches.
The film presents the story of the semi-
nary through the experiences of four of
its recent graduates. Through the film
the four students share the struggles and
triumphs of their seminary education and
enable viewers to see the various aspects
of Columbia's work.

The film was produced by Jacoby-
Storm Productions of New York City
and was made possible by a special gift
from a member of the Seminary's Board
of Directors. The film has been designed
for use in local congregations and is
available without charge except for re-
turn postage. Requests for additional in-
formation or scheduling of the film may
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the President.

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