The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, January 21, 1966 Page: 1 of 4
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ABILENE TEXAS JANUARY 21 1966
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Dr. Robert Collmer chairman of the BEST sominar hold in the
Student Center Jan. 15 looks over BEST literature with Richard
Crawley H-SU Trustee and Dr. James H. Landes H-SU president.
(Staff Photo).
Su
mmer Missionaries
Receive
Student Summer Missionaries
from Hardin-Simmons have been
named by the Student Work Div-
ision of the Texas Baptist Con-
vention. Jim LaSalandra has been
assigned to Hawaii as a preach-
H-SU PIO Head Attends
Workshop in Kan. City
Charles Richardson head of the
Hardin-Simmons Public Inform-
ation Office is attending the
Baptist Public Relations Associ-
ation Workshop in Kansas City
Mo.
After flying to Kansas City
Jan. 18 Richardson attended
sessions beginning Jan. 19. Lloyd
Wright director of the Press and
Publications Department of the
United States Information
Agency and a 1953 graduate of
Hardin-Simmons spoke at the
workshop.
Richardson Sunday editor for
the Abilene Reporter-News just
Erior to his appointment at PIO
ead at H-SU is married and has
an eight month old son. He re-
sides at 926 S. Willis.
ROTC
News
The Reserve Officers Training
Corps held a trircollege news con-
ference Jan. 17 to disseminate in-
formation concerning ROTC to
the students of Hardin-Simmons
McMurry and Abilene Christian
College.
Col. Johnny M. Rice professor
of military science at H-SU talk-
ed to four reporters from H-SU
ACC and McMurry and a camera-man
from KRBC-TV in the
ROTC headquarters building on
the north side of the campus.
Since the passage of the Uni-
versal Military act of 1955 each
able young man must serve a
minimum of six years two years
on active duty.
Explaining the role of ROTC
in the college careers of men Col.
Rice explained the 4-year 2-year
and OCS programs which enable
college graduates to receive com-
missions in the Reserves of the
U. S. Army.
The ROTC programs are open
to all male H-SU McMurry and
ACC students.
The four-year program is divid-
ed into the basic course fresh-
man and sophomore years and
the advanced course the Jast fpur
semesters of college work plus
a summer camp between the jun-
ior and senior years.
Designed initially as a program
Assignments
er. Going to Alaska is Dean
Allen who will preach and be
engaged in revival work.
iRod Hickman will be in liter-
acy teaching in San Antonio. He
will use the Laubach method of
instruction.
President of the H-SU Relig-
ious Activities Council Larry
Ware will lead singing and teach
Vacation Bible School in the San
Antonio area.
The Minnesota special work
project is the destination for
Linda Loutherback. Church con-
struction work will occupy her
daytime duties while at night she
will help with Vacation Bible
School and revival work.
Marshall Walker director of
student religious activities said
that more students were chosen
from H-SU than any other indi-
vidual school in Texas.
The students will receive their
preliminary orientation March
11-12 at Mt. Lebanon Baptist En-
campment near Dallas.
On March 13 at the Student
Missions Conference they will
receive further training.
Final training will take place
April 22-24 at Latham Springs
Baptist Encampment.'
Holds College
Conference
for junior colleges and later ex-
panded to include senior colleges
the two-year program substitutes
an intensive summer camp ses
sion that replaces the two-year
basic course. A student then
goes into the advanced course.
A college graduate may now
sign up for Officer Candidate
School to begin soon after grad-
uation. It includes a six week
basic training course an eighf
week advanced individual course
and a 23-week OCS course. (
Col. Rice explained that a man
who "washes out" of OCS reyerts
to his original unit as an enlisted
man for the remainder of the
fwo-year active duty time.
The Colonel expressed his
opinion that a college man should
serve his military obligation as
an officer an officership being
commensurate with his education
and the fact that he is in the
upper 10 percent academically
of his age group.
"It just doesn't make sense to
me for a college graduate to go
in as a private at $87 a month
when he could eo in as a second
lieutenant at $425 a month"
Men in the advanced course re-
ceive $40 a month for a 10-month
period each school year. Tor the
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Baptist Leaders
Hold BEST Meet
The BEST (Baptist Education
Study Task) group that met on
the campus Jan. 15 helped in-
augurate the first of 24 such
meetings that will be convening
all over the Southern Baptist
Convention. Similar seminars
were held in Dallas Jan. 14 and
in Houston Jan. 17.
BEST is the Convention's two-
year effort to identify and study
relate and consolidate the prob-
lems and solutions of the institu-
tions that are connected with
SBC .
Presiding at the meeting was
Dr. Kobert Collmer dean at
Wayland Baptist College Plain-
view and formerly acting head of
the English department at Hardin-Simmons.
Attending the
meeting from H-SU were Presi-
dent James Landes Executive
Vice-President George Graham
(acting as recorder) and Dean of
Faculties Wm. S. Mathis.
Other members of the panel
included Mrs. Bernice Proctor
and Mrs. Agnes Beckham of Abi-
lene members of the H-SU
Board of trustees; Richard Craw-
ley president of the First Na-
tional Bank of Lamesa also a
member of the H-SU Board; and
Dr. A. J. Turner dean of stu-
dents at Howard Payne College
Brownwood.
Also attending were: Rev.
Floyd Bradley First Baptist
Church Floydada; Dr. Jerry
Dawson Wayland College; Pres-
ton Johnston Lubbock; Rev.
sell Pogue First Baptist Church
Petersburg; Dr. Franklin Swan-
ner Caprock Plains Area Mis-
sionary Plainview; Mrs. J. How-
ard Hodge of Midland; Lattimore
Ewing educational director First
Baptist Church Lubbock; Henry
Heck of Lubbock.
Members of the press were
permitted to attend the other-
wise closed meeting. Dr. Coll-
mer's definition of the meeting
for the press was that it was in
formal and not meant to come up
with firm answers.
Collmer Slates Purpose
Dr. Collmer's opening state-
ments to the participants of the
meeting summarized the purpose
of the 24 regional meetings that
were taking place. "We have
come together to discuss our topic
without definite conclusions hav-
ing been cast before us" he said.
One of the reasons for the study
is to find out what the constituents
of the Baptist schools want and to
present the capabilities and prob-
lems of the schools to the con-
stituency. The regional meetings
are to discuss seven of the nine
'areas set up by the national
BEST committee.
Topics for discussion are ac
VjW 111 V .
Col. Johnny M. Rice Hardin-Simmons professor of military
science talks with Miss Edna Byxdt McMurry "Warwhoop" editor
and James Storm Abilene Christian College's "Optimist" assistant
editor during the new conference Jan li (Photo by John Latimer)
cording to the pamphlet publish-
ed by the Education Commission
of SBC: Biblical basis for Chris-
tian higher education; The his-
tory of Southern Baptist higher
education; Preface to a philoso-
phy of Southern Baptist higher
education faith and learning;
Academic scope of Christian
higher education; Religious scope
of Christian higher education;
The Christian college teacher;
Financing Christian higher edu-
cation; College - denominational
H-SU Applies For
More Student Aid:
Tuition Raise Set
The raise in tuition voted by
the Hardin-Simmons Board of
Trustees has been set by the
Board's Executive Committee. In
a release from the office of Dr.
George Graham executive vice-
president tuition will be raised
approximately $54 per semester
for a student with a full-time
load of 12 semester hours the
raise to become effective the first
summer session.
The Executive Committee also
authorized the participation by
H-SU in the recently enlarged
Federal student aid program. The
program includes funds for Na-
tional Defense scholarship Loans
College Opportunity Grants for
students from low-income fami-
lies and a college work-study
student employment program.
This week H-SU made applica
tion for $450000 m Federal
funds for these programs. The
University received $200000 for
the NDSL program.
Tuition will be increased from
$18.50 to $23 per semester hour
with lab and other fees remain-
ing the same. Applied music
courses will increase from $30 to
$37.50 per lesson with a $1 in-
crease in most special music fees.
Board and room rates will re-
main unchanged.
The monies accrued from the
raise in tuition will be used to
raise faculty and staff salaries
to provide equipment for aca-
demic departments and to reduce
the annual operating deficit.
Student paychecks for Janu-
ary will be ready for distribu-
tion on Thursday Feb. 10th.
The delay for this month is
due to the peak-load of Spring
semester registration work
says Kenneth Lambert assist-
ant controller.
relationships; and Academic free
dom and responsibility.
The first two topics are being
researched and discussed in
papers by individuals while the
other seyen are the topics for the
24 regional seminars. The topic
for the meeting at H-SU was
"The Academic Scope of Chris-
tian Higher Education."
Three papers had been writ-
ten to help stimulate and gene-
rate discussion in the seminars.
The papers were on the subject
of the seminar "Academic
Scope." They were written by
Warren F. Jones president
emeritus Union Un. Jackson
Tenn.; Henson Harris executive
vice-president and academic deanv
also of Union Un.; and Bruce E.
Whittaker president Chowant
College Murfreesboro N. C.
Student Importance
One of the questions brought
to the participants by the papers
was that of the importance of
the student. "What are the col-
leges and universities in exist-
ence for if not for the student?"
This question had been raised in
the Jones paper.
Are the schools and the peo-
ple satisfied with the product of
Christian higher education?
Along with this question was the
query of whether in the papers'
and the literature and the pro
ceedings of the discussion
whether the terms "Baptist" and
"Christian" were being used in-
terchangeably. During the break in the morn-
ing session Dr. Collmer was
asked by a Brand staff reporter
whether students of Baptist col-
leges and universities were being
directly involved in the BEST
program. He replied "Students
should be involved. There is no
direct participation of students
other than through pastors and
Just prior to the break semi-
nar participants were asked to-
fill out a questionnaire to be sent
to the national BEST co-ordinating
committee. Dr. Collmer ex-
plained that the results of the
questionnaire would be to pro- n
vide information to closely cor- N
relate the conclusions of each
seminar with the prejudices and
opinions of all the participants.
Questionnaires Answered
The information requested on
the questionnaires included the
usual educational and profes-
sional inquiries as well as others'
dealing directly with higher edu-r
cation in the Baptist context.
Some of the questions asked' '
were; "Do you believe that Bap-
tist colleges should' employ non-
Baptist professors teachers etc.?"
(Continued on Page 2)
Reminder to Faculty
and Students
The administering of any
final examinations out of
schedule to be givei under
extraordinary conditions is the
responsibility of the individual
faculty member in consulta-
tion with the departmental
chairmen. It is also under-
stood that a notice of any such
arrangement shall be sent to
the Office of the Dean of Fac-
ulties. INDEX OF CONTENTS
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Editorial Column
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