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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 ...
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.
Bob Jones University v. Simon; Bob Jones University v. United States; D. Davis Field House; H. History of Bob Jones University; J. Bob Jones Sr. W. WBJU-TV
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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