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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.
The Museum & Gallery, Inc. is currently located on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. It was established in 1951, and focuses on sacred art, mainly European Old Master paintings, but also includes smaller collections of sculpture, furniture, architectural elements, textiles, Greek and Russian icons, and ancient ...
The three Bob Joneses, especially Bob Jones Jr., sharply criticized the Roman Catholic Church. For instance, Jones Jr. once said that Catholicism was "not another Christian denomination. It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men....It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation—'the Mother of Harlots.'"
The authorized history of BJU notes that both Bob Jones Sr. and Bob Jones Jr. "played political hardball" when dealing with the three municipalities in which the school was successively located. For instance, in 1962, Bob Jones Sr. warned the Greenville City Council that he had "four hundred votes in his pocket and in any election he would have ...
Stephen Jones is the son of Bob Jones III, the grandson of Bob Jones Jr., and the great-grandson of Bob Jones Sr, the university's founder. Originally Stephen Jones hoped his older brother, Bob IV, would "take the administrative side of the presidency" allowing Stephen to concentrate on the "preaching, traveling, [and] people side" of the ...
Pettit was named president in 2014, the first non-Jones family member to hold the job since the school was founded by Bob Jones Sr. The founder was succeeded by Bob Jones Jr., Bob Jones III and ...
Bartosch, a 1982 graduate of Bob Jones University, was hired in 2007 and was named chief brand officer last year.
Bob Jones Jr. Bob Jones University president and chancellor [111] Lisa S. Jones: Businesswoman, founder of EyeMail Inc. [112] Henry Lehman: Cotton broker and financier, company developed into the Lehman Brothers conglomerate [113] Adolph S. Moses: Rabbi of Kahl Montgomery [114] Jerry Parr: Secret Service agent, saved Ronald Reagan during his ...