Columbia Theological Seminary Inform, 66, number 5, July 1972

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Vol.66 No.5 July 1972 News Bulletin From Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia

SPRING CALENDAR EVENT -FULL

A.

.president took office, new officers
were elected for seminary organizations, 41
students received degrees, and five seniors
were awarded fellowships and prizes during
the spring of Columbia's 143rd year.

The seminary inaugurated a new presi-
dent for the first time in nearly 40 years in
a service marked by colorful banners and
attended by members of many parts of the
seminary's family. The Rev. Dr. C. Benton
Kline, Jr., was installed as Columbia's fifth
president and professor of theology in a
two-minute ceremony during the April 15
inaugural service. Speakers during the
three-day inaugural were the Rev. Dr.
James I. McCord, president of Princeton
Theological Seminary, the Rev. Dr. J.
Davidson Philips, former chairman of the
Columbia Board of Directors, and the Rev.
J. Leighton Ford, vice president and
associate evangehst, Billy Graham
A^^ocin tion

Gifts of nearly S20,000 during 1971-72
for the Richards Fund for Graduate and
Continuing Education were announced at
the April 13 CFC meeting. Officers elected
to serve with the other 1 1 members of the
executive committee were Mrs. Dwight
Goodner of Tallahassee, Fla., president,
Mrs. Rudolph W. Johnson of Atlanta, vice
president, and Mrs. Thomas 0. Cox of
Climax, Ga., secretary. The group also
approved the 1972-73 project, "Share the

Cost", to help provide the additional
monies needed for the support of each
Columbia student beyond benevolence
gifts and endowment income.

The Rev. C. Jarred Hammett, minister
to students at the University of South
Carolina, was elected president of the
Alumni Association for 1972 during
Alumni Day activities on April 14. Vice
president is the Rev. Wilson L. Nearing,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
Thomasville, and the secretary is the Rev.
William Watts Satterwlrite, pastor of the
Riverdale (Ga.) Presbyterian Church.

At the 139th commencement on June
4, 29 Master of Divinity, two English
diplomas, eiglit Master of Theology, and
two Doctor of Sacred Theology degrees were
awarded. Dean James Thomas Laney of
Candler School of Theology addressed the
graduates before they received their de-
grees and were vested with their hoods.
"Jesus' ministry makes our ministry vahd,"
the Rev. Dr. J. Davison Philips, baccalau-
reate preacher, told the graduates. He is
pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian Church
and immediate past chairman of the
Columbia Board of Directors.

Earlier in the year, Mr. Kenneth P.
Wackes (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) received the
Bryan Fellowship and the Society for
Theological Scholarship theology award.
He was awarded the Master of Divinity
degree with distinction. Mr. James Bartow
McLain, Jr. (Marietta, Ga.) received the
Alumni Fellowship. Other S. T. S. awards
went to Mr. C. 0. Magee (Corpus Christi,
Tex.), the Samuel A. Cartledge Exegesis
Prize; Mr. William A. Bryant, Jr. (Quincy,
Fla.), historical; and Miss Mary Jones
(Tuscumbia, Ala.), pastoral.

Middler Sherwood McKay, Jr., Atlanta,
was elected to head the Society of Mis-
sionary Inquiry. The group's other 1972-73
officers are Middler Thomas B. Sullivan,
Jr., Lafayette, Ga., vice president; Junior
Harry H. Barrow, Baton Rouge, secretary;
and Junior David L. Beville, Lithia Springs,
Ga., treasurer.

Under a newly adopted constitution the
student body elected executive and judicial
officers and nine representatives. President
for 1972 is Middler William J. Holmes of
Columbia, S. C. Middler Brad Hestir,
Atlanta, is vice president, Junior Thomas
Barclay, Corpus Christi, Tex., treasurer,
and Junior Beverly Hageman, Winfred,
Neb., secretary.

Student wives elected Mrs. Glenn A.
Ruggles of Dade City, Fla., president of the

(Continued p. 4, col. 2}

President C. Benton Kline (I) and Board Chair-
man Frank B. Davis chat with Board Member
James O. Speed following the April 15 inaugural
service. Photo by Swenson

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V^ OLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY CLASS OF 1972

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BROWN

FIFE

HUIE

JOHNSTON

CAMPBELL

CUTHILL

HOLMES

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JOHNSON

JONES

LASSITER

LEACH

Master of Divinity

Theodore E. Blackwell, minister, Peneola
and Crossnore Presbyterian Churches,
Crossnore, N. C, Holston (not
pictured)

George A. Brown, Jr., pastor, First Presby-
terian Church, Hartwell, Ga., Athens

Norman Campbell, assistant minister,
Second Presbyterian Church, Spartan-
burg, S. C, Enoree

Wendell Craker, Wesleyan

James Lawrence Cuthill, assistant pastor,
Georgia Avenue Presbyterian, Atlanta,
Ga., Atlanta

John Fred Fife, undecided

Dan Hogan, music director-organist, Hill-
side Presbyterian Church, Decatur, Ga.,
Atlanta (not pictured)

R. Michael Holmes, assistant pastor, North-
west Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Ga.,
Atlanta

Renee Huie, producer, Ideas on Tape,
TRAV, Atlanta, Ga. (English diploma)

J. Ernest Johnson, undecided

Brian I. Johnston, pastor, First Presby-
terian Church, Cedartown, Ga.,
Cherokee

Mary N. Jones, Methodist

Norman Eugene Lassiter, pastor, Allendale
Presbyterian Church, Allendale, S. C,
Charleston

S. Caroline Leach, assistant campus minis-
ter, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga., Atlanta

MAGEE

MCNAULL

MUSSELMAN

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QUILLIN

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SHOCKLEY

MCRIGHT

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PLATT

RIGHTMYER

STEARNS

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Clarence O. Magee, Jr., pastor, Olivia and
Barbecue Presbyterian Churches, OUvia,
N. C, Fayetteville

James B. McLain, student. University of
Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

James E. McNaiill, assistant pastor. North-
minister Presbyterian Church, Macon,
Ga., Augusta-Macon

Danny A. McRight, chaplain intern. Clini-
cal Pastoral Ed., Georgia Regional Hos-
pital, Decatur, Ga., North Alabama

Thomas L. Musselman, pastor, Andrews
Presbyterian Church, Andrews, N. C,
Asheville

Charles N. Neder, assistant pastor. Seven
Oaks Presbyterian Church, Columbia,
S. C, Congaree

Ronald L. Odiim, pastor, Franklin Presby-
terian Church, Frankhn, N. C, Ashe-
ville

Joseph W. Piatt, undecided

James H. Quillin, undecided

Joseph B. Rightmyer, assistant pastor.
Chapel Woods Presbyterian Church,
Decatur, Ga., Atlanta

Howard G. Shockley, pastor, Piney Flats
and New Bethel Presbyterian Churches,
Piney Flats, Tenn., Holston

Douglas B. Steams, chaplain-intern, Central
State Hospital, Milledgeville, Ga.,
Augusta-Macon

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VERMEIRE

WACKES

WATSON

ZACHRY

Master of Theology

(not pictured)

Vladimir Doule, pastor, Brno, Czechoslo-
vakia

Robert Allen Foster, pastoral counselor at
Foothills Mental Health Center, Lenoir,
N. C.

Raymond Francis Horan, Jr., pastor.
Catholic Church of St. Joseph, Athens,
Ga.

Kui Chid Lee, lecturer in homiletics, Hanil
Womens' Theological Seminary, and
editor, Pok-twen Malsem, Chunju,
Korea

Sun Young Lee, pastor, Korean Church,
Chicago, 111.

Ken-Ichi Nogi, pastor, Osaka, Japan

George Harvey Porter, Jr., pastor, Hapeville
Presbyterian Church, Hapeville, Ga.

David George Shoemaker, public school
teaching and youth work, Stone Moun-
tain, Ga.

Doctor of Sacred Theology

(not pictured)
James Don Aderhold, pastor, Columbia

Drive Baptist Church, Decatur, Ga.
James Russell Mason, associate professor of

Bible, St. Paul Bible College, St. Paul,

Minn.

David E. Swindall, assistant minister/
chaplain-intern, First Presbyterian
Church/Central State Hospital, Milledge-
ville, Ga., Augusta-Macon

Ronald M. Thomas, pastor, Jefferson,
Rocky Creek, McBee Presbyterian
Churches, Jefferson, S. C, Pee Dee
(English diploma)

Calvin L. Vermeire, pastor. First Presby-
terian Church, Miami Beach, Fla., Ever-
glades

Kenneth P. Wackes, student, Vanderbilt
University Divinity School, Nashville,
Tenn.

James E. Watson, minister. New Dublin
Presbyterian Church, Dublin, Va.,
Abingdon

John A. Zachry, officer in training, Hamil-
ton National Bank, Chattanooga, Tenn.

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ROM THE PRESIDENT

June brings each year a sense of sadness
and of joy. Sadness because we graduate a
group of students who have spent three
years on our campus and have been our
friends. We have shared together in the
discovery of truth, in the pain of growth,
in higli moments of worship, and in times
of grief, illness, and depression. So there is
sadness at the departure of friends.

But there is joy, too, because these men
and women are going out to serve Jesus
Christ and His Church and His world.
Preparation is ended. Service begins. And
there is joy that a new group of ministers is
entering that service.

In our sadness and joy, we offer prayers
of thanksgiving for the churches from
which these men and women have come to
us; for the rich experiences of learning,
worshipping, and sharing life on this
campus; for the service they have already
given in churches, camps, hospitals,
prisons; above all for the call to the service
of Jesus Christ and for the daily presence
of His Spirit.

So we also raise prayers for the work to
which they go, the people they will serve,
the Church in which they minister, and,
above all, for them that they may be
guided, equipped, sustained, and blessed in
tlieir ministry.

I hope you wUl join in the prayers for
these who graduate, are still in Columbia
Seminary, and for those who come to
begin in July and September, and for us
who teach.

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4) 350,000 SOUGHT IN
MISSISSIPPI BY 1975

Leadership has been secured and activities
begun in the Columbia Challenge Campaign
in the Synod of Mississippi. Approved by
the synod three years ago, this campaign
has a financial goal of $350,000. Advance
gifts will be sought from individuals this
summer, and presentations made to church
sessions this fall. The payment period is
1973-75.

Student financial aid will receive
$125,000, and 850,000 is sought to re-
model 20-year-old student apartments. The
purchase of property adjacent to the
present campus will be made possible by
$50,000 from Mississippians. The Con-
tinuing Education Program for pastors will
receive $50,000, and $75,000 will go for
general endowment.

Student apartments to be remodeled.

The Rev. Robert Smith, Tupelo, and
Mr. Frank Mitchener, Sumner, are chair-
men for the campaign in St. Andrew
Presbytery, and Columbia board member
Erst Long of Ripley is working with them.
In Central Mississippi the Rev. Dr. Cecil

Thompson, a member of Columbia's board,
is serving as coordinator. Another board
member, the Rev. Dr. Richard Summers,
Gulfport, is chairman for South Mississippi
Presbytery. The Rev. Al Jepson,
Columbia's director of development, is the
staff leader.

(Continued from p. 1)
Wives Club for 1972-73. Others elected to
serve with her are Mrs. Lamar Potts,
Newnan, Ga., secretary-treasurer; Mrs.
Whaley S. Barton, Miami, Fla., hospitality;
Mrs. Martin L. Harkey, III, Danville, Va.,
Bible study; Mrs. Richard P. Neldon,
Atlanta, publicity; and Mrs. P. David
Snellgrove, Loudon, Term., social.

Middler Joyce Rimes, Birmingham, is
1972-73 president of the Society for Theo-
logical Scholarship.

N,

EW TEACHING
PROGRAM OUTLINED

Six selected Columbia seniors have been
teachers to their fellow students in a pilot
teaching seminar during the spring.

The men and women taught the two-
hour weekly junior teaching practicum, in
rotation, as a requirement for their senior
teaching practicum. At least twice each one
was totally responsible for it; at other
sessions they taught with the course's
instructor.

Then Prof. A. Milton Riviere, who is the
faculty leader for the senior teaching prac-
ticum, met with the six men and women
for another two hours to help them
critique their skills and experiences. The
project will be repeated next year.

V^ ONTINUING EDUCATION
PROGRAM EXPANDED WITH
NEW COURSES

Ten new and repeated courses are planned
for the 1972-73 Columbia Continuing
Education Program, Prof. A. Milton
Riviere, dean of ministry development, has
announced.

"Development of Church Officers",
"Theology, Ministry, and Economic Sys-
tems", "Skills of Inter-personal Communi-
cations Through Groups", and "Mission
Development" are new listings for the
October through May series.

Complete details about these and other
courses will be included with the an-
nouncement to be distributed early this
summer. Requests for information should
be made to Dean Riviere at the seminary.

Visiting Instructor in Pastoral Ministry Irvin
Elligan listens as Senior Mary Jones makes a
point during one of his class sessions this quarter
on "Exploring Mission in Urban Settings Beset by
Social Change."

Photo by Stanford

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Vol.66, No. 5, July 1972

Elizabeth Andrews, Editor

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