Around the State

Posted: 11/11/05

Around the State

Abilene physician Carl Trusler, Houston-based missionary Betsy Brown and information management consultant Larry English were named Hardin-Simmons Uni-versity's 2005 Alumni of the Year.

Howard Payne University has inducted four people into its Sports Hall of Fame. Barney Hale coached at HPU from 1933 to 1935 and 1941 to 1947, with his 1942 football team not giving up a single point. When the football program was suspended during World War II, he became the basketball coach, leading the team to its first undefeated season. Billie Hamrick was a four-year starter on the football team and went on to become a successful high school coach for 26 years. Melvin White was an outstanding athlete for HPU in football, basketball and golf. Ray Jacobs played football at the school and went on to a career in the National Football League.

Yoo Yoon, pastor of Glory Korean Church in Dallas, recently returned from his 10th trip to North Korea, each time taking food donations for orphans and elderly people. Yoon was the point person for a $30,000 donation: $10,000 from Texas Baptist Men, $15,000 from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and $5,000 from individuals and the Korean-American Sharing Movement of Dallas. TBM receives the donations and sends them to China, where a trading company purchases the food and ships it by train to the city of Dan-Dong. Here, Yoon helps a child-care worker lead children at an orphanage in a song.

Debra Berry, associate professor of nursing, and David Capes, professor in Christianity, have received Houston Baptist University's Opal Goolsby Award for Outstanding Teaching.

The Baylor Alumni Association has honored five recipients with the W.R. White Meritorious Service Award. They are Jackie Birdwell, Vince Clark, William Long, Kent Newsom and Jim Patton.

The Bells, the newspaper of Mary Hardin-Baylor University, won awards in writing, photography and design at the Baptist Press Excellence in Journalism conference. The paper won first place overall in its division. Natalie Kaspar is the newspaper's editor.

Anniversaries

Iglesia El Buen Pastor in Katy, 10th, Oct. 16. Pastor Roberto Garay founded the church and celebrated his 10th anniversary as the church's pastor.

Robert Garcia, 15th, as pastor of Primera Iglesia in Louise.

Kenny Eiben, 15th, as pastor of Calvary Church in Corpus Christi.

Danny Sutton, 15th, as youth minister at Padre Island Church in Corpus Christi.

Death

Dana Jones, 40, Nov. 1 in Dallas, after a brief struggle with cancer. She spent her childhood and early adult years at Casa View Church in Dallas before moving to Park Cities Church in Dallas. She was an employee of Buckner Orphan Care International since 2002. She led the organization's missions department in coordinating trips to Russia, Romania, China, Kenya, Guatemala, Botswana, Bulgar-ia, Latvia and Peru. Through-out the last five years, she traveled on her personal vacations to Cuba with Park Cities Church and to Kenya, Russia and Guatemala with Buckner. She also was a longtime volunteer with Buckner's Shoes for Orphan Souls drive. She is survived by her parents, Janice and Richard Jones; sisters, Christy Tomlinson and Renee Anderson; and grandfather, Buck Chitty.

Ordained

Debbie Potter to the ministry at Trinity Church in San Antonio.

Josh Vaughan to the minsitry at South Oaks Church in Arlington.

Jackie Barnett, Paul Campbell, Shad Schlueter and Harry Weidhaas as deacons at South Oaks Church in Arlington.

Paul Hill and Raymond Booker as deacons at Cedar Lane Church in Cedar Lane.