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106. The final session of the Convention opened at the Bandshell
Amphitheater at 6:45 P.M. with a service of song.
" 'Widening Reach and Heightened Power' in Training Union
Work" was considered with Secretary J. E. Lambdin, Tennessee, in
charge: "Adventuring with Intermediates," led by Versil S. Crenshaw;
"Marching with Young People," led by R. Maines Rawls and
Will Frank Steely; songs by a Miami Youth Choir, directed by Robert
York, and by the Petworth Girls Quartette.
107. To President Neff two gavels were presented: one of Florida
ironwood secured from the Brickel Hammock south of Miami, presented
for Arthur W. Wood, M.D., by his brother, Waldo E. Wood;
the other of orangewood cut from an orange tree in his back yard by
Allen N. Wigginton and presented by F. G. "Pat" Railey. Felicitous
acknowledgment was made by the President.
108. The Committee on Boards, appointed by President-elect Newton,
was announced:
Committee on Boards—J. W. Storer, Oklahoma, Chairman; Carlton Prickett,
Alabama; J. G. Cothran, Arkansas; J. N. Campbell, Arizona; B. O. Herring,
California; Luther J. Holcomb, District of Columbia; J. Powell Tucker, Florida;
Monroe Swilley, Georgia; W. T. Waring, Illinois; Lucius M. Polhill, Kentucky;
J. Norris Palmer, Louisiana; W. Clyde Atkins, Maryland; Norman W. Cox,
Mississippi; Walter P. Binns, Missouri; W. R. Buchanan, New Mexico; Ralph A.
Herring, North Carolina; F. C. McConnell, South Carolina; J. T. Warren, Tennessee;
Wallace Bassett, Texas; Ray F. Hough, Virginia.
109. The following messages were received with appreciation:
Reykjavik Via RCA
The Southern Baptist Convention
Miami
Greetings and best wishes to the Convention.
SIGURGEIR SIGURDSSON, Bishop of Iceland
Columbia, Missouri
Southern Baptist Convention
Miami, Florida
Greetings delegates, our missionaries and friends. May this be our greatest
Convention in history.
PEYTON AND MARY T. STEPHENS,
Former Missionaries to China
St. Petersburg, Florida
Southern Baptist Convention
Miami, Florida
The Convention of Christian Churches of Florida now in session at St. Petersburg
extend the unanimous greetings of Christian fellowship and goodwill to you
one and all. May our works be well done today and tomorrow that a needy world
may at last see the light of peace through faithfulness of all Christian stewards
everywhere. ^ .
DOROTHY CLARK TOMLIN, Secretary of
' Convention Christian Churches of Florida