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Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. It is known for its conservative and evangelical cultural and ...
Dan Forrest was born in Breesport, New York, and began piano lessons with his elementary school music teacher at age 8.In high school Forrest won numerous piano awards, accompanied honors choirs, and performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Elmira Symphony.
Bob Davis Reynolds Jones [1] was the eleventh of twelve children born to William Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones. In 1883, when Bob was born, Alex Jones, a Confederate veteran, was working a small farm in Dale County, Alabama, but within months the family moved to Brannon Stand west of Dothan. All the unmarried Jones children helped work the ...
BJU Press is the largest book publisher in South Carolina, and more than a million pre-college students around the world use BJU textbooks. [5] The press also publishes trade books under two imprints.
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 ...
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 ...
Paragon Assoc. was founded in 1975, by Bob MacKenzie and Bill Gaither (gospel singer). Paragon sold its interest to Zondervan in 1983, where under the leadership of Bob Jones, Jr. saw the Benson company grow even bigger in the 1980s. Artists included Gold City, The Kingsmen Quartet, DeGarmo & Key, Dallas Holm, and others producing several hits. [1]