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Alumni board members present for the meeting on May 14 in
Brownwood include: (first row, left to right) Jan Koger, Harry
Mathews and Mike Dabbs; (second row) Amy Davidson, Helen
Dodson, Pam Polaski, Jeannene Farmer, LaVerne Gore,
Bobbette Bell, Ray Bertrand and Mike Nealeigh; (third row) Joyce
Rowe, Henry Brown, Randy Bigbee, Dale Kolls, and Wayne
McAfee; (fourth row) Gisele Grimes, Chuck Simmons, James
Clark, A. J. Knaggs, Bob Allman, James Williamson and Jim
Jones. (Photo by Patricia Bedford)Alumni board makes
recommendations
for Homecoming,
student scholarships
Members of the HPU alumni board
met May 14 in Brownwood. The fol-
lowing is a synopsis of the meeting:
- The Homecoming committee
recommended that the Alumni As-
sociation construct the Queen's float
each year. The Homecoming Court
and the Coming Home Queen will
ride on the float.
- Randy Bigbee '72 recom-
mended that the alumni board pur-
chase a 16-foot low boy trailer with a
maximum price of $1,000. This will
make it possible for the base of the
Queen's float to be constructed per-
manently and stored for future use.
" The membership committee
recommended that the alumni board
meet when students are on campus,
providing them the opportunity to
observe an active board.
" Amy Davidson reported on
the Alumni Association EndowedScholarship Fund. Once the endow-
ment goal of $25,000 is met scholar-
ships will be awarded from the inter-
est off of the corpus. The current bal-
ance is $15,292.
" The board approved a perma-
nent $800 work scholarship in the
alumni office for the child of an alum-
nus or alumna.
- Dates were set for future meet-
ings. These are: Aug. 13, 1994 in
Austin; Jan. 21, 1995 in Brownwood;
May 13, 1995 in Brownwood; and
Aug. 12, 1995 in Austin. U
Alumni board meeting
set for Aug. 13 at
Austin Baptist Assoc.
The HPU alumni board of directors
will meet Aug. 13 at the Austin Bap-
tist Association office.
The meeting will begin at 9:30
a.m. Board members will picnic with
the Austin Alumni Club at The Quar-
ries following the meeting.
For information on the picnic
contact Carolyn Barry at 512-353-
2862 (home) or 353-6760 (work). ERichard Jackson '60 moves
ministry to Brownwood
by HOPE WILLIAMSDr. Richard Jackson '60 is coming
home to Brownwood this summer
to re-establish his Center for Evan-
gelism and Encouragement, previ-
ously located in Phoenix, Ariz.
According to Jackson, the
center is a place where Christians
can find encouragement and de-
velop the tools needed to minister
to others.
"An over-arching concern, for
both ministers and the laity, is that
we be equipped to the utmost for
evangelism, andthat as followers of
Christ, we encourage each other,"
said Jackson.
The Richard A. Jackson Cen-
ter for Evangelism and Encourage-
ment will move to Brownwood in
June.
"I think the primary reason he
wants to be back is so his ministry
can live on," said Dr. Don
Newbury, HPU president. "He
wants to show others how he has
developed his ministry, and who
better than college students.
"We want it to be convenient
to our students because they stand
to gain so much from being in-
volved in ministries that Jackson is
so well versed in - particularly evan-
gelism and encouragement," he
added.
Newbury predicts that the
center will make Brownwood a
more visible location for seminars,
meetings and conferences of reli-
gious nature. He also said Jackson's
excitement will spill over to all ar-
eas of the campus.
"The center will enhance an
already outstanding School of
Christian Studies," Newbury said.(
Richard Jackson
"It will also help attract even more
ministerial students."
Jackson indicated that he will
accept HPU's invitation to be an
adjunct professor in the School of
Christian Studies.
According to Vicki Vaughn,
the center's executive director, the
Jackson Center contains a library/
research room, a counseling room,
a conference room, a "prayer
closet," an audio/video resource
room and meeting rooms.
"The doors to the Jackson
Center will always be open to the
students and the community,"
Vaughn said.
Vaughn said the Jackson Cen-
ter will sponsor and staff seminars,
retreats and training sessions at the
center as well as other locations.
"We will have a variety of fo-
rums and seminars for the
laypeople and clergy," Vaughn said.
"We want to make the reality of
our faith fit in with community
life. Our dream is to cross denomi-
national lines and to reach to the
entire evangelical ministry."
Jackson retired from an active
pastorate at North Phoenix Baptist
Church in January of 1993. In a
quarter of a century the church's
membership grew from less than
1,000 to 22,000. ULINK
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