Texas Tidbits
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Wayland names vice president. Glenn Saul has been named Wayland Baptist University's vice president of academic services. He fills a vacancy created when Bill Hardage was named provost earlier this year. Saul currently lives in Avondale, Ariz., where he has been director of Wayland's Arizona center since 1998.
___ Buckner given Mavericks tickets. Dan O'Neal, president of the Heartland Insurance Group, recently donated 51 sets of season tickets to Dallas Mavericks games to Buckner Children and Family Services. The tickets are to be used by children served in Buckner programs as a means to help build character, he said. O'Neal also gave Buckner a cash gift of $13,500 to be used for character development programs.
___ HSU honors Pinson. Hardin-Simmons University will present an honorary doctor of laws degree to Bill Pinson Dec. 11. Pinson will retire in January as executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___ Associations affirm SBC article. Two Baptist associations in Texas have gone on record affirming the 1998 article on family added to the Baptist Faith & Message statement by the Southern Baptist Convention but rejected by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Pastors and staff members of Henderson Baptist Association voted to affirm the family amendment in their weekly meeting Nov. 22, reported Casey Perry, pastor of First Baptist Church of Malakoff and moderator of the association. A similar action was taken by the executive board of Gulf Coast Baptist Association Nov. 16,
___ Correction: The Nov. 17 article on Texas Baptists in the 1920s incorrectly stated that Frank Groner became president of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in 1928. He actually became president of the College of Marshall, which later became East Texas Baptist University.
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