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SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD 419
Co-operative Mission Study in March
Volunteer Enlistment Week in April
Student Retreat at Ridgecrest in June
Volunteer Summer Service—June, July, August
Secretarial Force—Decidedly the most outstanding and encouraging advancement
made in the work of the department is that of the increased number
of full-time student religious secretaries which have been placed on local
campuses, in city-wide, in statewide positions, and the additions to the Southwide
staff. The number of such secretaries now approaches the one hundred
mark. Many others could be placed if suitable workers could be found. The
most outstanding advancement in this field is the number of Baptist colleges
that are now employing full-time student religious secretaries. The standard
is still held high. The Department of Student *Work insists that student secretaries
not only be college graduates but have the Master's degree or its
equivalent in life service. Much of the success of the work is due to maintaining
this insistence upon properly prepared adults being employed as student
secretaries. There are now serving as—
Southwide secretaries 5
Statewide secretaries 18
Statewide associate secretaries 3
City-wide secretaries 7
Secretaries on a single campus (Baptist) 16
Secretaries on a single campus (state and private) 33
Due appreciation is given for a great host of thoroughly efficient people
who give a part of their time to work with college students. While we do not
call them student secretaries, we recognize their efficiency and contribution to
the work. They are included in all plans for the promotion of the student work.
State B.S.U. Presidents—The students listed below are serving unselfishly
and effectively as presidents of the state B.S.U. organizations.
Ralph Gandy Alabama Poly. Institute, Auburn
Miss Jo Tharp Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
William Keltner.. Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Ark.
Miss Ercell V. Bigge George Washington Univ. Med. School, D. C.—Maryland
Louis Wilkinson Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
Herschel Darsey Mercer University, Macon, Ga.
Miss Evelyn Reichman Sou. Illinois Normal Univ., Carbondale
Dean Kaufman Sou. Baptist Theol. Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
H. C. Brown, Jr.. Louisiana College, Pineville
Miss Dorothy Lee Jefferson Blue Mountain College, Mississippi
Dick Wallace William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.
Benjamin Bedford Eastern New Mexico College, Portales
Miss Florence Gordon Woman's College of Univ. of N. C, Greensboro
Art Driscoll Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee
Miss Carolyn Ezell Limestone College, Gaffney, S. C.
Robt. Boozer Univ. of Tenn. Jr. College, Martin, Tenn.
Frank Bounds Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas
Walton Connelly, Jr University of Richmond, Virginia
State Student Headquarters—For the first time it is now possible to report
that, with two exceptions, each state of the Southern Baptist Convention territory
east of New Mexico bas a full-time state student secretary, with a
separate department within the State Mission Board. All states have provided
leadership for the student work, but in a few instances the appointed secretary
promotes another interest along with that of the B.S.U. This development
has been long anticipated and marks a distinct step forward in the work. To
state it differently, we now have in the Southern Baptist Convention fourteen
full-time state secretaries and four others who share their time with some
other interest.
Baptist Student Centers—Marked progress has been made in the matter of
purchasing houses, or building houses, to be used as student centers on or
adjoining the campuses of Baptist, tax supported, and privately endowed schools.
In several states plans have been announced for providing such buildings for
every campus in the state. This is among other outstanding developments in
the progress of student work throughout the South.