The Banner, Vol. 3 No. 2 - October 29, 1954

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Vol. Ill    No. 2
El Monte, California
October 29,  1954
STATE   TO   CONSIDER   PROPERTY
1400 WITNESS
EXTENSION CLASS
FORMAL OPENING
"I am deeply grateful — inexpressibly
delighted," began Dr. Timothy Chambers,
"this occasion is heavenly."
These words might well be remembered
through the history of California Baptist
College as marking the formal opening
of the extension classes among the Negro
people in Los Angeles, September 27, in
the auditorium of the Zion Hill Baptist
Church.
An estimated fourteen hundred persons, largely Negro, including three
choirs and six outstanding educational
leaders were in attendance for the occasion. Special music was offered by Paradise Baptist Church Choir, Zion Hill Baptist Choir, and the California Baptist Col-
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DAVID CAMPBELL
OPENS STUDENT
CONVENTION
The California Baptist Student Union
State Convention opens tonight in Berkeley with David Campbell, president presiding.
Campbell is the second California Baptist College senior to preside over the
convention. Following his leading is a
bus load of CBC students, in addition to
numerous individual car loads which will
register for the opening session. The bus
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CHOIR HERALDS
BUSY SEASON
With two public appearances completed, the California Baptist College
choir and mixed ensemble are spending
numerous hours rehearsing for additional
appearances, according to S. E. Boyd
Smith, head of the Department of Music.
The sixty-voice choir made its first appearance for the year at the opening of
the extension division at Zion Hill Baptist Church September 27. Choirs from
the Zion Hill Baptist Church and the
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EXTENSION CLASS
OPENS IN NORTH
California Baptist College is supporting two extension classes this semester,
according to President P. Boyd Smith.
In addition to the Negro classes under
the direction of Rev. C. A. Butler, a second group of classes was opened at Live
Oak, near Yuba City, in the First Baptist
Church of Live Oak. Rev. Sheldon Russell, pastor of the church at Live Oak
serves as teacher along with Dr. Robert
Stapp of Calvary Baptist Church, Yuba
City, and Rev. James Drake of Grace
Baptist Church of Oroville.
The more than twenty-four students
enrolled are receiving instruction in Christian Doctrine and Old and New Testament survey studies, it was learned.
President P. Boyd Smith attended the
formal opening of the classes.
PLEDGES MOUNT; CASH GIFTS SLOW
AS $100,000 CAMPAIGN CONTINUES
Reports as of October 1 on the California Baptist College $100,000 Campaign are encouraging. The campaign has
been extended to January 1, 1955, by the
State Board of Directors.
Cash receipts from the $100,000 campaign total $25,600.15 with $4,066.20
of that amount from out of state and
miscellaneous gifts. An additional
$290.75 has been received from interest
on $15,150 in Broadway Bonds received
in the campaign.
A total of $5,200 pledged by students
and faculty of California Baptist College
with an additional $1,700 pledged by
Texas Baptists brings the pledges of
churches and associations in California to
a total of $68,009.
With a goal of $15,000 set for the
Christian Education offering early in June
only $5,401.52 has been received to date,
it was reported.
RIVERSIDE SITE
IS POSSIBLE
CBC LOCATION
Teaching Field
Is Emphasized
Following a pre-session meeting of the
State Board of Directors in Sacramento
November 2, messengers to the California
Southern Baptist Convention meeting in
that city, will receive the recommendation
to accept or reject a recent property transaction as the permanent home of California Baptist College, according to President P. Boyd Smith.
The action stems from the September
20 meeting of an estimated forty members
of the Los Angeles Associational Board,
the executive committee of the state board
of directors and the executive committee
of the college board of trustees, meeting
at the property site in Riverside. The men
voted almost unanimously to enter into
agreement with Neighbors of Woodcraft,
a subsiderary of Woodman of the World
to purchase seventy-five and six-tenths
acres of fertile land on which is now located five buildings with a total of more
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DR. G. E. JENNINGS
JOINS CBC STAFF
Dr. George E. Jennings was added to
the faculty family in September of this
year. Dr. Jennings is teaching Bible in
the division of Religion and serving as
instructor in the extension courses for the
colored people in Los Angeles.
He also is a returned missionary of ths
Foreign Mission Board having served
three and a half years as missionary to
Spain. Dr. Jennings returned in September of 1951 when conditions became impossible for full time work in the education of young peeople, he stated.
A native of Middle, Tennessee, Dr.
Jennings felt called to the work of training young people for Christian Service.
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