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Alumni have comprised several General Authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two church presidents (Thomas S. Monson '74 and Ezra Taft Benson '26), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two ...
Russell Marion Nelson Sr. (born September 9, 1924) is an American religious leader and retired surgeon who is the 17th and current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [4] Nelson was a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly 34 years, and was the quorum president from 2015
Bishop and President of the Pacific Province for the Episcopal Church. [1] William B. Oden S: Oklahoma State University, 1957 Bishop, United Methodist Church [1] Hugh W. Pinnock: University of Utah, 1958 First Quorum of the Seventy and Presidency of the Seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: William McFerrin Stowe S ...
Kathleen Ross, SNJM, is founding president of Heritage University, [1] [2] [3] which opened in 1982. [4]A member of the religious order of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, she graduated from Fort Wright College with a B.A., from Georgetown University with a M.A., and from the Claremont Graduate School with a Ph.D., where she studied with Peter Drucker and Howard Bowen.
1997 Silver Medal, C. S. Lewis Award from the Christian Educators Association [25] 2001 Inducted into the Christian Booksellers Association's Hall of Honor [46] 2002 William Ward Ayer Award for excellence from the National Religious Broadcasters [47] 2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award in Christian Education for her book When God Weeps [48]
Walter Banek – alumnus; bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church; Paul Benware – faculty; pastor, author and former professor of Bible and theology [8]; Mary McLeod Bethune – alumnus; the daughter of former South Carolina slaves, McLeod Bethune also graduated from Scotia Seminary for Girls before starting a school for girls in Florida which has become Bethune-Cookman University; She ...
Lewis Kaplan, violinist, co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, professor at Juilliard School; Alan Kostelecky, physicist; Jaime Laredo, Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor; J. Scott Long, statistician; Maurice Manning, poet; John Holmes McDowell, professor of folklore studies, Latin American studies scholar
On August 18, 1951, he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary action on November 1–2, 1950. [34] However, his fellow soldiers and POWs felt that Kapaun deserved the Medal of Honor. In 2001, U.S. representative Todd Tiahrt began a campaign to award the Medal of Honor to Kapaun. [35]