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Carl Blair (1932–2018), painter and sculptor; Emery Bopp (1924–2007), painter and sculptor; chair, Division of Art, 1953-92 [1]; Walter Fremont (1924–2007), Dean of the School of Education, professionalized BJU's education curriculum; leader in the Christian school movement; namesake of the university's fitness center [2]
Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. It is known for its conservative and evangelical cultural and religious positions. The university, with approximately 3,000 students, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) and the ...
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.
Pages in category "Bob Jones University" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Steve Pettit was born in Quitman, Georgia, but his parents, who had met in the United States Air Force, moved to Columbia, South Carolina, when he was three.Pettit spent his childhood in Columbia, performing in a workshop theater founded by his mother and playing the tuba in his high school band.
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 ...
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.
As a sophomore at Bob Jones University, he was asked to make sketches for a production of Cyrano de Bergerac and ended by designing the sets. In 1954, shortly before graduating from BJU with an M.A. in music, he was flabbergasted to be asked by the then-president, Bob Jones Jr. , to become dean of the School of Fine Arts.