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Mack was a significant contributor to Bob Jones College during the Depression—when Murphy Stores were actually expanding—and he underwrote major building projects on the Cleveland campus. Mack also gave business advice to Bob Jones, Sr. and "Lefty" Johnson before his death in 1940. The BJU library is named for him and a residence hall for ...
Joshua Leigh Crockett (born January 17, 1979) is a Baptist pastor and the sixth president of Bob Jones University.. Crockett earned a Bachelor of Arts in rhetoric and public address, [1] a master's degree in counseling, and a Master of Divinity from Bob Jones University.
Evangelist Bob Jones Sr. founded Bob Jones University out of concern with the secularization of higher education. BJU has had six presidents: Bob Jones Sr. (1927–1947); Bob Jones Jr. (1947–1971); Bob Jones III (1971–2005); Stephen Jones (2005—2014); Steve Pettit, (2014-2023); and Joshua Crockett, (2024 to the present).
Bob Jones University was founded in Bay County, Florida, then moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, before arriving in Greenville in the mid-1940s. Bob Jones Sr. was an evangelist, who said he saw young ...
Bob Jones Sr., the university's founder During the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy of the 1920s, Christian evangelist Bob Jones Sr. grew increasingly concerned about what he perceived to be the secularization of higher education and the influence of religious liberalism in denominational colleges.
Bob Jones University Stephen Davis Pettit, Sr. (born November 27, 1955) is an American Christian evangelist who served as the fifth president of Bob Jones University from 2014 to 2023. Early life and education
Joseph Bartosch was hired in 2007 by Bob Jones University. Sixteen years before, he was charged with soliciting a prostitute. Roughly 1 in 5 American adults have arrest or conviction records, and ...
As a sophomore at Bob Jones University, he was asked to make sketches for a production of Cyrano de Bergerac and ended by designing the sets. In 1954, shortly before graduating from BJU with an M.A. in music, he was flabbergasted to be asked by the then-president, Bob Jones Jr., to become dean of the School