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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 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.
Dollar was born in 1917 in a small town outside Saint John, New Brunswick as the first and only son for a young fisherman who died the same day Dollar was born. As brother to 14 younger half-siblings (although two died during childhood), Dollar would often listen to American radio thanks to a neighbor who would open the window so the children could listen.
Robert Reynolds Jones Jr. (October 19, 1911 – November 12, 1997) was the second president and chancellor of Bob Jones University. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Jones was the son of Bob Jones Sr., the university's founder. He served as president from 1947 to 1971 and then as chancellor until his death.
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.
Ruckman attended Bob Jones University, where he received a master's degree and Ph.D. in religion. [ 2 ] Ruckman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Pensacola, and his writings and recorded sermons are published by his Bible Baptist Bookstore. [ 5 ]
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 ...
He also received honorary graduate degrees from Bob Jones University and Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary in Sacred Theology. He was the brother-in-law of auto racing legend Hector Honore . Sumner died in December 2016 at the age of 94.