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Posted: 1/09/04

As Kara Lea Oliver receives her degree from East Texas Baptist University, her family honors the letter of a request to hold applause until the ceremony’s end by silently holding homemade signs. Oliver graduated summa cum laude.

Texas Tidbits

DBU names missions professor. Southwestern Seminary missions professor Robert Garrett is joining the faculty at Dallas Baptist University. As the first professor of missions at DBU, he will develop the university's missions studies curriculum at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as coordinate student missions programs.

Robert Garrett

A former missionary to Argentina, Garrett was a professor at the Seminario Internacional Teologico Bautista in Buenos Aires from 1981 to 1994. He served as a guest professor at Southwestern Seminary in 1994, prior to his election to the faculty the following year. He served as director of the seminary's World Missions Center from 1996 to 1999 and has held the George W. Bottoms Chair of World Missions since 1999.

ETBU graduates 69. Lynn New, psychology professor and dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences at East Texas Baptist University, delivered the charge to the 69 graduates at the school's commencement ceremony last month.

Baylor social work grads get high marks. According to the Texas State Board of Social Work, graduates from the Baylor School of Social Work Bachelor of Arts program achieved a 100 percent passing rate on its licensing exam. Graduates from the Baylor Master of Social Work program achieved an 88 percent passing rate. The overall passing rate for Texas schools is 69 percent.

HBU celebrates Founders' Day. Voddie Baucum was the featured speaker at Houston Baptist University's Founders' Day convocation last month. The event also featured the debut of "Christ is Our Foundation," a hymn composed by Ann Gebuhr, music professor and director of the HBU School of Music.

Pinson lectures set. "The 'Baptist' in Houston Baptist University" is the theme a lecture series by Bill Pinson Jan. 22-23 at HBU. Pinson is executive director emeritus of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and volunteer director of the BGCT Baptist Distinctives Committee's Texas Baptist Heritage Center.

UMHB accreditation reaffirmed. The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced last month that the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor's accreditation was reaffirmed. The action followed two years of self-study and peer review by college administrators across the nation. Universities generally go through the accreditation process every 10 years.

DBU graduates 365. Dallas Baptist University awarded degrees to 265 undergraduate and 100 graduate students at its Dec. 19 commencement. Hubert Martin, chief financial officer at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, received an honorary doctor of humanities degree. Martin' tenure at Southwestern Seminary spans three decades.

Benefit concert marks centennial. Baylor University's School of Music will celebrate 100 years of conferring music degrees with an on-campus benefit concert Jan. 23. "Collage: Degrees of Excellence" will feature all performance areas of the music school. Proceeds benefit Baylor School of Music scholarships and programs. For ticket information, call (254) 710-1161.


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