List of Bob Jones University people

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This is a list of notable people associated with Bob Jones University, located in the American city of Greenville, South Carolina.

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Notable graduates

Notable faculty and staff

  • 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]
  • Dwight Gustafson (1930-2014), conductor and composer; assumed the position of acting dean of the BJU School of Fine Arts in 1954, when he was 24 years old, and served as dean for forty years; known for writing and arranging more than 160 musical compositions; namesake of Dwight Gustafson Fine Arts Center[3]
  • Eunice Hutto Morelock (1904-1947), mathematics professor; one of the first female academic deans of a coeducational college in the US;[4] namesake of a wing of the Bob Jones Academy quadrangle
  • Robert Kirthwood "Lefty" Johnson (1910-1971), University business manager from 1935 until his death; namesake of a residence hall
  • Darell Koons (1924-2016), painter
  • Laurence Morton (1924-2002), chairman of the BJU piano department for more than forty years
  • Robert N. Schaper (1922-2007), evangelical theologian, resigned from the BJU faculty in 1952 and completed his academic career at Fuller Theological Seminary
  • Katherine Corne Stenholm (1917-2015), founding director of the University's Unusual Films studio; one of the first women film directors in America; keynote speaker at the Cannes Film Festival, 1958[5]
  • Christy Award; her Winter Birds was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by Publishers Weekly[6]

Notable honorary degree recipients

Notable benefactors

  • Exalted Cyclops (chapter president) of the Montgomery branch of the Ku Klux Klan when he was first elected governor, he was also a progressive who sought to improve public education in Alabama. Graves served as a member of the board of trustees of Bob Jones College and a BJU residence hall was named for him until 2011.[8]
  • Bob Jones, Sr. and "Lefty" Johnson before his death in 1940. The BJU library is named for him and a residence hall for his wife.[9]
  • Robert Lee McKenzie (1870-1956), developer and first mayor of Panama City, Florida. The college charter was signed in the office/library of his home, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[10] The Dixon-McKenzie Dining Common is named in honor of him, his wife, and his sister-in-law, Mary Elizabeth Dixon.
  • Bob Jones, Sr.

Notable former students (non-graduates)

  • Billy Graham, evangelist, attended one semester
  • Katherine Helmond, actress, attended one year and had role in Unusual Films' Wine of Morning (1955)
  • Master's College
    ; attended two years
  • Rich Merritt, American LGBT activist, adult film actor, writer, and attorney
  • Fred Phelps, pastor of Westboro Baptist Church; known for "God Hates Fags" website and public protests; his association with the school ended abruptly after three semesters; once claimed he left because of opposition to the school's racial policies and later denied that he had ever attended[11]
  • Charles D. Provan; his Bible and Birth Control provides a theological justification for Quiverfull; attended two years
  • Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist during season 6; attended three and a half years

See also

References

  1. ^ Bopp obituary; Bopp memorial article in the Greenville News, February 3, 2007
  2. ^ Turner, Standing Without Apology, 282-84; Fremont obituary
  3. ^ Turner, Standing Without Apology, pp. 284-86.
  4. ^ Reflecting God's Light, 11.
  5. ^ Stenholm biography at IMDB.
  6. ^ Biographical information on Turner
  7. ^ Former Georgia Gov. Maddox dies Wednesday, June 25
  8. ^ Biography of Graves from the Alabama state web site; Dalhouse, Island in the Lake of Fire, 36; Dictionary of American Biography, Sup. 3: 317-18.
  9. ^ Information on Mack and Murphy stores; Turner, Standing Without Apology, 59-60, 350
  10. ^ Biographical information on McKenzie from Florida Heritage website
  11. ^ News article from the Columbia (SC) State Archived May 22, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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