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Posted: 12/03/04

Texas Tidbits

Wayland dedicates 11 scholarships. Wayland Baptist University celebrated homecoming 2004 by dedicating a record 11 endowed scholarships. They are the Salla Stephens Bradshaw and John Ray Stephens Endowed Scholarship, the Earl and Ollie Greene Endowed Music Scholarship, the Claude Hutcherson Family Endowed Scholarship, the Vernon and Mary Wilson Jackson Endowed Scholarship, the Charles and Elizabeth Jinks Endowed Scholarship, the Jodie and Bessie Jopling Endowed Scholarship, the Lucile and Earl W. Miller Endowed Music Scholarship, the Lucian and Audrey Morehead Endowed Scholarship, the Ailese Parten/Charlene Clay Root Endowed Scholarship, the W. Neil Record Endowed Scholarship and the Guy Woods Endowed Music Scholarship.

Scholarships endowed at HSU. Music, science and math students at Hardin-Simmons University will benefit from two recently endowed scholarships established at the Abilene university. Henry and Koma Fields of Claude established the Robert and Barbara Dennis Endowed Music Scholarship. Scholarship recipients must be music majors who are full-time students and must maintain a 2.5 overall grade point average and a 3.0 grade point average in music. The Joe and Lynn Sharp Sciences and Mathematics Endowed Scholarship has been established to assist full-time Texas undergraduate students enrolled in the Holland School of Sciences and Mathematics at HSU. The scholarship may be awarded to one or more students with a 3.0 grade point average. Recipients must be active in a local Baptist congregation and be in good disciplinary standing.

Baylor faculty member named ETS officer. Francis Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies and associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University, was elected vice president of the Evangelical Theological Society at its recent meeting in San Antonio. In November 2005, he will become president-elect of ETS and serve as program chair at the organization's 2006 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Fordham University and the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Beckwith is the author or editor of more than a dozen books.