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Both Bob Jones Sr. and Bob Jones Jr. believed that film could be an excellent medium for mass evangelism, and in 1950, the university established Unusual Films within the School of Fine Arts. [96] The studio name derives from a former BJU promotional slogan, "The World's Most Unusual University".) [ 97 ] Bob Jones Jr. selected a speech teacher ...
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Varner studied at Bob Jones University, B.A.; Dropsie College, M.A.;Biblical Theological Seminary, M.Div; Th.M.; and Temple University, Ed.D. . [1] He and his wife, Helen, have had three children and four grandchildren. He grew up in South Carolina in a non-Christian home and became a Christian at the age of 17.
Walter Fremont, Dean of the School of Education, was an "enthusiastic supporter," and much of the early academic direction of the press was provided by the university's provost, Philip D. Smith. [1] The press also published the university's magazine, Faith for the Family from 1973 until it was discontinued in 1986.
The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States (461 U.S. 574). The university refused to reverse its interracial dating policy and (with difficulty) paid a million dollars in back taxes.
Troy University: Troy, AL Bob Jones III: 34 years 1971 2005 Bob Jones University: Greenville, SC Served as President until 2005, then Chancellor. Charles Paul Conn: 34 years 1986 2020 Lee University: Cleveland, TN Kenneth C.M. Sills: 34 years 1918 1952 Bowdoin College: Brunswick, ME Joseph W. Polisi: 34 years 1984 2018 The Juilliard School: New ...
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 ...
Fremont became an evangelical Christian in 1941. Even as a teenager, he made an interdenominational Bible study the focus of his spiritual and social life. [6] In 1950, with one year of GI Bill benefits remaining, Fremont decided to study Bible at fundamentalist Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, because of the University's reputation for “instilling soul-winning fervor ...