November 11, 2002
___ Shorter faculty support change. Shorter College faculty members voted to show support for a decision by the school's trustees to amend bylaws on how trustees are selected. Under a new bylaw approved by trustees May 31, the university and the Georgia Baptist Convention would develop a list of potential trustees. The school would decide which candidates are qualified, and the state convention would choose nominees from that list. Trustees said they made the change to comply with requirements for accreditation. Georgia Baptist Convention officials oppose the change. Sixty-eight full-time faculty members teach at the college. Of those voting, all but one reportedly supported the change.
___ New Mexicans resolve against east and west. A resolution adopted by the Baptist Convention of New Mexico in its annual session Oct. 29-30 commends convention leadership for not following the path of Baptists to the east or west. The resolution thanks Executive Director Claude Cone for not allowing "the controversies that have infected the Baptist convention of our neighbor to the east to distract New Mexico Southern Baptists from their purposes," a reference to Texas. New Mexico Baptist Foundation President Lee Black was thanked for "maintaining a sound, conservative investment posture despite the siren song of 'go-go' investing that infected the Baptist foundation of our neighbor to the west throughout the 1980s and early 1990s," a reference to the failed Baptist Foundation of Arizona.
___ "Baptist Hour" gets new name. The name of the Southern Baptist Convention's "Baptist Hour" radio program has been changed to "Strength for Living." Officials with the SBC's North American Mission Board said the new name better reflects the program's shorter format and practical content. That Baptist "hour" actually runs only a half-hour now. The program, first broadcast in 1941, has featured such Southern Baptist pulpit giants as M.E. Dodd, George W. Truett, W.A. Criswell, J.D. Grey and Frank Pollard. NAMB President Bob Reccord took over preaching duties on the program earlier this year.
___ Arizona foundation officials indicted again. An Arizona grand jury has issued a new indictment accusing five men of defrauding investors of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona. The 35-count indictment alleges fraud, racketeering and theft. The charges replace earlier ones thrown out by a judge who said prosecutors presented a prejudicial piece of evidence to a grand jury. Those accused are former chief executive William Crotts, former general counsel Thomas Dale Grabinski, former directors Lawrence Dwain Hoover and Harold DeWayne Friend and consultant-accountant Richard Lee Rolfes. Rolfes faces nine counts, while all the others face 31, said the Arizona Corporation Commission, the state agency that regulates securities.
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