___ Baylor commencement set. Baylor University will confer degrees on 1,400 graduates during spring commencement exercises May 12 at 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. President Robert Sloan will give the traditional charge to students at both ceremonies. During the morning ceremony, the Baylor Alumni Association will present the George W. Truett Distinguished Church Service Award to brothers and Baylor graduates Richard (Dick) Baker and BO Baker. Both attended Baylor following World War II and were among the leaders of the Youth Revival Movement that swept America during the 1940s and '50s. At the 3 p.m. ceremony, Judge John Boyd, chief justice of the Seventh Court of Appeals in Amarillo and a former Baylor regent, will be presented with the alumni association's Price Daniel Distinguished Public Service Award.
___ DBU plans commencement. Dallas Baptist University will award undergraduate and graduate degrees to 385 students at spring commencement May 11 at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. The speaker for both ceremonies will be graduating DBU student Sanjay Purushotham, a fourth-generation Christian from southeast India. During the morning ceremony, Bob Dean, pastor of Northlake Baptist Church in Garland, will be presented with an honorary doctor of divinity degree. Receiving an honorary doctor of divinity degree in the afternoon service will be Hal Kinkeade, pastor of First Baptist Church of Springtown.
___ Garza promoted at Buckner. Felipe Garza has been named vice president of Buckner Children and Family Services. He is the first Hispanic to be appointed as a vice president at Buckner. A Buckner employee since 1982, Garza assumed his new duties May 1 after serving a year as regional director of Buckner Children and Family Services of Central Texas. As vice president, he will oversee Buckner Children and Family Services' programs in 25 Texas communities and supervise Buckner regional directors and administrative staff.
___ HSU names dean. Alan Stafford, professor and head of the department of
___criminal justice at Hardin-Simmons University since 1986, has been named
___dean of the university's College of Liberal Arts. He succeeds the late Lawrence Clayton. Stafford earned three degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi, including the doctor of education, master of science and bachelor of science.
___ UMHB gets grant. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor has received a $209,000 grant from the Sid Richardson Foundation of Fort Worth for expansion of the Scott & White School of Nursing.
___ HBU notes gifts. Houston Baptist University recently received major gifts of $500,000 from the John Dunn Research Foundation for a professorship in clinic nursing, $250,000 from the Andersen Foundation for general operating expenses and $57,770 from the Dolores Welder Mitchell charitable annuity trust for campus improvements.
___ Baylor names associate provost. David Lyle Jeffrey, distinguished professor of literature and humanities, has been appointed associate provost of Baylor University. In the newly created position, he will work with Provost Donald Schmeltekopf on recruitment of new faculty and serve as a resource to junior faculty in developing their scholarly objectives.
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