 May 5, 1999
Texas Tidbits
___ Hardin-Simmons taps leaders. New officers for the board of development at Hardin-Simmons University are Chairman Truett Latimer of Houston, Vice Chairman Eddie Huffman of Wichita Falls and Secretary Kathy Bevers of Cypress.
___ HSU reorganizes. Trustees of Hardin-Simmons University have approved an academic reorganization that creates a new School of Sciences and Mathematics and renames the College of Arts and Sciences as the College of Liberal Arts. Lawrence Clayton, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will become dean of the College of Liberal Arts. A new dean of sciences and mathematics will be named.
___ HPU to honor three. Howard Payne University will award honorary doctor of humanities degrees May 8 to Juan Andrade Jr., president of the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute; Robert Cavin, director of the Texas Baptist Leadership Center; and Betty Sue Cutbirth, a longtime university trustee and retired businesswoman from Brownwood.
___ BGCT committee to meet. The committee to nominate Executive Board members for the Baptist General Convention of Texas will meet Aug. 10 at 10 a.m. in the Executive Conference Room of the Baptist Building at 333 N. Washington in Dallas. John Taylor, retired pastor of First Baptist Church of Hallsville, is committee chair.
___ DBU given $1 million. Orville and Esther Beth Rogers of Dallas have given Dallas Baptist University $1 million for a new women's dormitory. The $6 million facility currently under construction will be occupied next fall. The Rogerses have been members of First Baptist Church of Dallas since 1946.
___ HSU to honor two. Hardin-Simmons University will grant honorary doctor of humanities degrees May 8 to Wilton Davis, a Dallas real estate developer who also has been active with Texas Baptist Men, and Clinton Wolf, an El Paso businessman and former city councilman.
___ Baylor hires expert on Holocaust. Marc Ellis, an authority on contemporary Judaism and the Holocaust, has been named university professor of American and Jewish studies at Baylor University. Ellis has taught at Baylor this year as a visiting scholar. He moves from Harvard University.
___ Jennings dies. Frank Jennings, 62, founder and executive director of Evangelist Outreach Ministries (Clay County Mission Outreach) died April 22 in Wichita Falls. He was a Mission Service Corps volunteer and consultant for MSC in Clay, Wichita, Archer, Denton, Wilbarger, Hardeman, Childress, Baylor and Young Counties. Survivors include his wife, Phyllis, and daughter, Jessica. At the time of his death, Jennings was awaiting a lung transplant. He was the subject of a Christmastime feature in the Baptist Standard.
___ Religious leaders credited with good. Americans often point to their religious leaders as those doing the most in their communities to help build a more inclusive society, a study concludes. The results of a nationwide poll of adults on the topic were released April 26 by the National Conference for Community and Justice. Seventy percent of the 1,035 adults surveyed said their religious or faith leader is doing "some" (24 percent) or "a lot" (46 percent) to make U.S. society more inclusive. Such inclusiveness was defined as aiding in the creation of equal access to real opportunities, such as jobs.
___ Operation Rescue has new name. Operation Rescue, which finished a weeklong anti-abortion campaign in Buffalo, N.Y., April 25, has announced a change in name and focus. Spokeswoman Eileen Schopf said the organization now will be known as Operation Save America and will work to fight against not only abortion, but teen sex, homosexuality, child pornography and the absence of God from the classroom.
___ Atheist can't be forced to attend AA meetings. An atheist cannot be forced to attend meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, a federal appeals court has ruled. The ruling, issued April 19 by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upheld a lower court ruling. But it also declared that the atheist's award of $1 for damages by the lower court was "just about right." Robert Warner had argued that the Orange County Department of Probation in New York erred when it required him to attend AA meetings after he was convicted of driving while impaired.
___ ACLU sues to block sponsorship of Boy Scouts. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit April 14 in Chicago seeking to stop federal agencies and public schools from sponsoring or aiding Boy Scouts because the youth organization requires an oath to God. The suit, filed in Chicago, named the city's public school system and the United States Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base in southern Illinois as defendants.
___ "Deprogrammers" can be held liable. A cult-information network can be held partially liable for an illegal forced "deprogramming" of an 18-year-old resident of Washington state, according to a ruling left standing by the U.S. Supreme Court March 22. The court refused to hear Cult Awareness Network's claim that it should not be held responsible for violating the civil rights of Jason Scott, who was abducted and turned over to a deprogrammer recommended to his mother by a CAN volunteer.
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