• Texas Baptist layman Fred Roach will receive the Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award at a June 3 presentation at Independence Baptist Church in Independence. Roach, a member of The Heights Baptist Church in Richardson, is a former president of Texas Baptist Men and vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and he has served on numerous denominational boards and committees. He and his wife, Gloria, served as co-chairs for the Mission Texas emphasis, raising more than $20 million to help start 2,000 churches in Texas in the late 1980s. Events begin at 10 a.m., with Sunday school, taught by Ed Rogers, retired pastor and denominational leader from Georgetown. During the 11 a.m. worship service, Independence Association President Bill Pitts of Waco will present the Elder Statesman Award. Bill Pinson, BGCT executive director emeritus, will preach. A church picnic will follow, and guests are asked to bring a dessert.
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Rudy Camacho, who enabled many young people to earn college diplomas, received an honorary doctor of Christian education degree from Baptist University of the Américas. University President René Maciel said the university wanted to honor Camacho "as a champion for active lay involvement in Texas Baptist life, a champion for making the Baptist General Convention of Texas a fellowship committed to working as brothers across cultural barriers, a champion for Hispanic education and a champion for changing our world." Camacho and his wife, Micaela, have established two endowments to fund college scholarships, one at his alma mater, Howard Payne University, and the other through the Hispanic Baptist Convencion of Texas. In addition to being elected president of the Convencion and first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, he served 23 years as a member of the BGCT Executive Board, 13 years as a trustee of Howard Payne University and five years on the advisory board of Truett Seminary. He is a member of Gambrell Street Church in Fort Worth.
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• Texas Baptist universities conferred degrees in recent graduation ceremonies. Howard Payne University awarded 150 bachelor's degrees and four master of education in instructional leadership degrees. Dallas Bap-tist University conferred 365 baccalaureate degrees, 275 master's degrees and five doctorates. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor presented 291 baccalaureate degrees, 42 master's degrees and 16 doctoral degrees. Hardin-Simmons University awarded 238 bachelor's degrees, 55 masters' degrees, and presented the first graduate of its doctor of ministry program. At East Texas Baptist University, 147 students received bachelor's degrees, and 18 earned a master's degree. Baptist University of the Américas awarded 26 bachelor degrees and six associate degrees. BUA's Baptist Bible Institute awarded 120 diplomas and certificates, and its Latina Leadership Institute presented certificates to six students. Wayland Baptist University students earned 82 bachelor's degrees and 35 master's degrees. Baylor University conferred 1,790 bachelor's degrees, 36 master's degrees and 36 doctorates.
• Erin James-Brown, a recent master of divinity graduate of Hardin-Simmons University's Logsdon Seminary, is the winner of the Addie Davis Award in Preaching. The national award is presented by Baptist Women in Ministry. The award recognizes an outstanding woman in ministry. While attending HSU, she was the teaching pastor at Cross Point Fellowship in Abilene. She will receive the award in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in Fort Worth June 20.
• Darrell Watson, distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, has been named a Piper Professor for 2012 by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. He is one of only 10 Texas professors selected for the award which recognizes superior college teaching. The awards is $5,000. He has taught chemistry and directed student research at UMHB 31 years.
East Texas Baptist University students involved with ETBU Cares, the ongoing ministry to nearby Lee Elementary School, encouraged kindergarten through fourth- grade students as they walked and raised more than $4,000 for the school. ETBU senior Jacqueline Ramos poses with an elementary school teacher during the walk-a-thon.
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• Gary Huckabay has been named associate executive director of Children's Emergency Relief International. He will oversee the organization's operations and build new partnerships.
• Texas Baptist Ministry Assistants celebrated the organization's 25th anniversary at its recent meeting. Officers elected include president, Yvonne McBryde of Golden Triangle Association; vice president/programs, Beck Powers of South Park Church in Houston; vice president/publicity, Linda Bright of South Central Area; and secretary/treasurer, Candy Carroll of Lubbock Area Association.
• Betty Broome, executive assistant to the president at Howard Payne University, was honored with the Yellow Rose Award by the university's woman's club. At the same meeting, Lillie Davis, a crosscultural studies major from Lampasas, received the Yellow Rose Scholarship.
• Rebecca Brown, director of international student services, is Dallas Baptist University's staff member of the year.
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Anniversaries
• Donna Shaw, fifth, as preschool/children's minister at Birdville Church in Haltom City, June 1.
• Aaron Walden, fifth, as worship leader at Birdville Church in Haltom City, June 3.
• Ron Segers, 30th, as pastor of Victory Church in Marshall, June 10. A lunch will follow the morning service.
Death
• Joe Garvey, 80, May 15 in Young County. A public school teacher and principal, he was a member of the First Baptist Church of Graham, where he was the Sunday school director 13 years, a deacon, a Sunday school teacher and a choir member. A Hardin-Simmons University graduate, he served the school as a member of HSU Board of Development from 1994 to 1996, the HSU Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2005, as HSU Athletic Board chairman from 1997 to 2005 and as a member on the HSU Board of Development in 2006. Garvey was also a cattle rancher and investor. He was preceded in death by his wife, Myrl. He is survived by his son, Joe Dale Jr.; sister, Gladys McGlothlin; and four grandchildren.
Retiring
• Dennie Lambert, as pastor of Gravel Hill Church in De?Kalb. He served the church 30 years.
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