Foreign Mission Board
April 7-8, 1959
The Fore.ign Mission Board met in semi-annual session April 7-8, 1959, with
Mr. Jenkins presiding.
Present: State Members: James E. Davidson, Ala.; W. 0. Vaught, Jr., Ark.;
George Wilson, Ariz.; Robert D. Hughes, Calif.; S. Lewis Morgan, D. C.;
Preston B. Sellers, Fla.; Monroe F. Swilley, Ga.; Clifton A. Forrester, Ga. ;
Howard P. Giddens, Ga. ; Otho Williams, Ill.; Fred T. Moffatt, Ky. ; Carroll
Hubbard, Ky.; James W. Middleton, La.; W. Clyde Atkins, Md. ; Lewis F. Rhodes,
Miss.; J. Edwin Hewlett, Mo.; A. A. DuLaney, N.
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; E. Norfleet Gardner,
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V. Ward Barr, N. C.; Mrs. Foy J. Farmer, N. C. ; James A. Canaday, Tenn. ;
W. Fred Kendall, Tenn.; M. B. Carroll, Tex.; T. A. Patterson, Tex.; Mrs. R. L.
Mathis, Tex.; Arthur E. Travis, Tex.; Neal W. Ellis, Va.
Local Members: Howard L. Arthur, J. E. Boyles, Lawrence Bradley, Mrs. Kenneth
Burke, Solon B. Cousins, Horace Ford, J. Levering Evans, Oscar L. Hite, L.
Howard Jenkins, C. Bailey Jones, Garis T. Long, Elton Phillips, Emmett Y.
Robertson, Herman P. Thomas, James Todd, Mrs. John C. Tyree, P. Earle Wood.
Staff : Baker J. Cauthen, Frank K. Means, Winston Crawley, Cornell Goerner,
Elmer S. West, Eugene L. Hill, Everett L. Deane, E. L. Wright, Fon
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Scofield,
Rogers M. Smith, Genevieve Greer, Edna Frances Dawkins, lone Gray, Ralph A.
Magee, Bill B. Cody, Floyd H. North, James G. Stertz, Mary E. Fuqua.
Guests : Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Maddry, Dr. John Buchanan, Dr. and Mrs. Peyton
Thurman, Dr. Cal Guy, Dr. Luther Copeland, Mrs. T. Justin Moore, Dr. and Mrs.
T. F. Adams, Dr. Edward Willingham, Dr. E. C. Routh, Dr. Porter Routh, Dr. J.
Ray Garrett, Dr. Gray Allison, Dr. Rush Loving, Miss Alma Hunt, Miss Dorothy
Weeks, Mrs. Robert Fling, Miss Elaine Dickson, Miss Ethalee Hamric, Miss
Elsie Reeves, Miss Bernice Elliott, Mrs. Earl Hartley, Mrs. Evan Lacy, Dr.
John Maguire, Mr. Gus Johnson, Dr. J. H. Landes, Dr. Roy Gresham, Dr. S. A.
Whitlow, Dr. M. A. Huggins, Dr. Robert Lee, Dr. Lucius Polhill, Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Naylor, Dr. Leland Waters, Dr. and Mrs. Glendon McCullough, Dr. Bob
Denny, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Storer, Dr. and Mrs. James Sullivan, Dr. J. Wash
Watts, Dr. George Schroeder, Miss Mar}' Essie Stephens, Miss Almarine Brown,
Miss Nancy Cooper, Mrs. Carleton M. Long, Miss Josephine Jones, Miss Janice
Singleton, Mrs. Collins Webb, Miss Josephine Norwood , Miss Edwina Robinson,
Miss Mary Bidstrup, Miss Eva In-l-ow, Miss Miriam Robinson, Miss Margaret
Hutchison, Miss Carrie Vaughan, Mrs. Albert J. Smith, Miss Sima Cobb, Mrs.
Everett Hill, Mrs. L. S. Casazza, Mrs. George Holland, Mrs. C. 0. Smith,
Mrs. J. R. Lobaugh, Mrs. J. T. Lyons, Mrs. R. L. Crozier, Mrs. M. K. Hall,
Mrs. W. K. McGee, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Earl Stark, Mrs. 0. C. Hancock,
Mrs. Russell Ashmore, Mrs. Paul Hays, Miss Helen McCullough, Dr. Hugo Culpepper,
Miss Pearl Johnson, Miss Mary Alexander, Dr. I. N. Patterson, Miss Jessie
Green, Miss Ruth Rumphol, Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Snuggs, Mrs. T. B. Ray, Miss
Sophie Lanneau, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Hipps, Dr. and Mrs. J. 11. Wiley, Miss Annie
Root, Dr. and Mrs. John Tumblin, Dr. and Mrs.
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H. Westbrook, Miss Ola Lea,
Miss Hazel Moon, Miss Eva Sanders, Dr. A. S. Hillyer.
The first session was held at the First Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 7, 1959.
The devotional period was led by Dr. James M. Middleton of Louisiana.
Dr. Cauthen gave the following report:
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
We have gathered for a highly important meeting of the Foreign Mission Board.
The significance of this occasion is indicated by the large number of leaders
in Baptist life who in addition to our Board members have turned aside from
their own responsibilities to be with us. We are honored by the presence of
executives and representatives of the Southern Baptist Convention, its agencies
and institutions. We are grateful for the presence of state convention execu¬
tive secretaries as well as leaders of Woman's Missionary Union, both Southwide
and from the states. We are also honored by the presence of leaders of the
Baptist World Alliance and executives of several other Baptist Foreign Mission
Boards. Among them we are particularly honored by the presence of Dr. Edward
B. Willingham, the son of Dr. R. J. Willingham, who was one of the most beloved
executive secretaries ever to serve this Board.
