FOREIGN MISSION BOARD MINUTES
April 12-14, 1976
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Foreign Mission Board held its Conventionwide-Semiannual meeting, April 12-14,
1976; at the Skirvin Plaza Hotel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with the Board President,
James G. Harris, presiding.
State Members: Alabama: Charles T. Carter, L. Earl Tew, J. R. White; Arizona:
Harold Friend; Arkansas : James F. Sawyer; California : Mrs. Cherry Y. K. Chang;
Colorado : Glen E. Braswell; District of Columbia: B. Ross Morrison; Florida:
Andrew M. Hall, Don Mott; Georgia : Mrs. Lindsey Barron, Mrs. L. G. Hicks, Jr.,
Ohlen R. Wilson; Illinois : A. F. Tuck; Indiana : Ronald P. Liesmann; Kansas : J.
W. Pace; Kentucky : Rollin S. Burhans, Mrs. Ray Mullendore; Louisiana : John G.
Alley, Miss Myra Gulledge; Maryland : Ralph D. Walls; Michigan : Hubert G. Keefer;
Mississippi: James Richardson, John L. Taylor; Missouri : Homer D. Carter, John
W. Goodwin; New Mexico : J. D. Ratliff; North Carolina: Ray W. Benfield, Mrs. J.
E. Collette, Grady Baxter Wilson, Mrs. Thomas C. Womble; Ohio : W. Paul Payne;
Oklahoma : Harvey Albright, William Neptune; Oregon : William 0. Crews, Jr.;
South Carolina: Ira Q. Craft, Lonnie H. Shull, Jr.; Tennessee : Jonas L. Stewart,
C. Clifton Ward; Texas : Travis S. Berry, Harold T. Branch, Morris G. Cobb, James
G. Harris, Lory Hildreth, Joe E. Trull, E. H. Westmoreland; Virginia : Lonnie E.
Quillen, Jr.
Local Members: V. Allen Gaines, Franklin D. Hall, Hiram L. Harrison, Bruce H.
Price, M. Hunter Riggins, Jr., Mrs. E. S. Stratton, Robert B. Bass, J. Roy Clifford,
Paul E. Crandall, Julian H. Pentecost, H. I. Willett.
Board Attorney: Paul D. Stotts.
Staff : Baker J. Cauthen, J. Bryan Brasington, Charles W. Bryan, Louis R. Cobbs,
Robert Covington, J. Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson,
Everett L. Deane, Franklin T. Fowler, Cornell Goerner, lone Gray, W. Eugene Grubbs,
George H. Hays, Ward S. Hildreth, Dwight A. Honeycutt, J. D. Hughey, Billy Kruschwitz,
Ralph A. Magee, Frank K. Means, Floyd H. North, R. Allen Orr, R. Keith Parks,
Samuel M. Pittman, G. Norman Price, Don A. Reavis, Sidney C. Reber, Davis L.
Saunders, Fon H. Scofield, Rogers M. Smith, W. L. Smith, Richard M. Styles, George
H. Tate, Melvin E. Torstrick, Joseph B. Underwood, William R. Wakefield, Ralph L.
West, Randy M. Wood, E. L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew.
Retiring Board Attorney: John C. Williams and Mrs. Williams.
Radio-TV Commission Representative: Fred Laughon.
Board Guests - Invited:
Emeritus Missionaries: Mrs. Robert F. Ricketson, Miss Lucy Smith, Rev. Walter E.
Craighead .
Furloughing Missionaries: Dr. and Mrs. Leroy B. Hogue.
State Baptist Leaders of Oklahoma: Dr. and Mrs. Joe L. Ingram, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle
Garlow, Mr. and Mrs. Bill G. Haggard, Mr. Zack Pannell, Mr. and Mrs. Laddie Adams,
Mr. Gene Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Tal Bonham, Mr. Bob Lee, Mr. C. Fred Williams, Mr.
J. T. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brown, Mrs. Margaret Brower, Miss Peggy Collins,
Mr. J. T. Elliff .
Other Denominational Leaders: Miss Carolyn Weatherford, Dr. and Mrs. Porter
Routh, Dr. and Mrs. Herschel Hobbs.
Former Board Members: Dr. and Mrs. Anson Justice, Rev. and Mrs. C. Murray Fuqua.
OBU Faculty and Leaders: Dr. and Mrs. William G. Tanner, Miss Eunice Short.
Monday, April 12, 1976
2:00 P.M. - COMMITTEE on BOARD MEETINGS AWAY from RICHMOND - Rm. 916 - Skirvin
Plaza Hotel
Robert Bass, Chrm. John Goodwin
Ira Craft Mrs. Womble James Harris, Ex Of
2:00 P.M. - RETIREMENT COMMITTEE - Rm. 716 - Skirvin Plaza Hotel
