FOREIGN MISSION BOARD MINUTES
April 9-11, 1973
Mobile, Alabama
The Foreign Mission Board held its Conventionwide-Semiannual meeting, April 9-11,
1973, in Dauphin Way Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, with the Board's president,
W. Douglas Hudgins, presiding.
PRESENT: State Members: Alabama : Drew J. Gunnells, Jr., J. R. White, Jaroy Weber;
Arizona: Harold Friend; Arkansas : W. 0. Vaught, Jr.; California : Loyed R. Simmons;
Colorado: Glen E. Braswell; D.C. : Kenneth E. Thornton; Florida: Don Mott, T.
Rupert Coleman; Georgia: Mrs. John I. Alford, Mrs. Lindsey Barron, Join W . Langdale ,
Ohlen R. Wilson; Illinois : Raymond L. Odle; Indiana : Othar 0. Smith; Kansas :
J. W. Pace; Kentucky: Eldred M. Taylor; Louisiana: Perry R. Sanders; Maryland ;
Ralph D. Walls; Michigan: Hubert G. Keefer; Mississippi : W. Douglas Hudgins,
John Lee Taylor; Missouri : John W. Goodwin; New Mexico: J. D. Ratliff; North
Carolina: Mrs. Carl E. Bates, Mrs. W. K. McGee, Grady Baxter Wilson, Mrs. Thomas
C. Womble; Oklahoma: Robert L. Lynn, Harvey Albright; Oreg. -Wash. : W. D. Malone;
South Carolina: Robert L. Deneen, Ira Q. Craft; Tennessee : B. Greer Garrott, C.
Clifton Ward ; Texas : Clyde J. Childers, James G. Harris, B. J. Martin; Virginia:
Mrs. H. Cowen Ellis.
SBC President and Wife: Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Cooper, Yazoo City, Mississippi
Local Members: Robert B. Bass, Mrs. R. B. Carter, Sr., J. Roy Clifford, Austin W.
Farley, Joseph B. Flowers, V. Allen Gaines, David S. Hammock, Scott C. Humphrey,
J. Leonard Moore, John W. Patterson, Meredith K. Roberson, Mrs. Ross S. Shearer, Mrs.
E. S. Stratton, Mrs. Thomas Whalen.
Staff : Baker J. Cauthen, James D. Belote, Charles W. Bryan, Louis R. Cobbs, Winston
Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, Everett L. Deane, Samuel A. DeBord ,
Roger Duck, Jesse C. Fletcher, Franklin T. Fowler, Cornell Goerner, lone Gray, W.
Eugene Grubbs, Eugene L. Hill, Dwight A. Honeycutt, J. D. Hughey, Ralph A. Magee,
Frank K. Means, Floyd North, R. Keith Parks, Sam Pittman, G. Norman Price, Don Reavis,
Sidney C. Reber, W. David Lockard, Rogers M. Smith, W. L. Smith', Richard M. Styles,
Wilbur N. Todd, Melvin E. Torstrick, Joseph B. Underwood, Ralph West, Elbert L. Wright,
Elizabeth Minshew.
Regional Personnel Representatives: Robert C. Covington, Don Reavis.
Radio-TV Commission Representative (working in liason with Foreign Mission Board in
Richmond): Fred Laughon •
Wives/husbands of Board members and staff, and guests were recognized, including Dr.
and Mrs. R. B. Jasper from Kentucky (guests of Dr. and Mrs. Eldred Taylor); Dr. and
Mrs. Robert Naylor of Southwestern Seminary (to witness appointment of their daughter,
Rebekah) ; and Dr. and Mrs. Kendall Berry, executive secretary-treasurer , Southern
Baptist Foundation; Dr. and Mrs. George Bagley, state executive secretary of Alabama;
Dr. Porter W. Routh, executive secretary-treasurer, SBC Exec. Com., (guest speaker
on Wednesday); Miss Mary Essie Stephens, executive secretary, Woman's Missionary
Union of Alabama; friends from the Mobile Woman's Missionary Union, and others.
Monday, April 9, 1973
3:00-4:00 P-tn. - Meeting of the "Special Committee on Feasibility Study of the
Foreign Mission Board Headquarters Expansion" - Palm Room A, Rodeway Inn, Mobile,
Alabama. The following Board members serve on that committee:
W. 0. Vaught, Chrm. J. Carroll Chadwick Scott C. Humphrey
J. R. White Joseph B. Flowers V. Allen Gaines, Ex Of
T. Rupert Coleman Robert B. Bass W. D. Hudgins, Ex Of
4:00-5:45 p.m. - Meeting of the "Salary Study Committee" - Palm Room A, Rodeway
Inn, Mobile, Alabama. The following Board members serve on that committee:
Drew J. Gunnel Is , Jr., Chrm. V. Allen Gaines
Robert B. Bass J. D. Ratliff John L. Taylor
Glen E. Braswell Meredith K. Roberson C. Clifton Ward
T. Rupert Coleman Perry R. Sanders W. Douglas Hudgins, Ex Of
The Full- Board and members of its staff, including their wives and/or his bands,
were the guests of Alabama Baptists and Executive Board for Dinner on Monday even¬
ing, 7:00, Bay ley's Restaurant (famous seafood smorgasbord).
A delightful period of fellowship was enjoyed and Dr. George Bagley who presided
at the Dinner, introduced the Executive Secretary, Division Directors and other mem¬
bers of the Foreign Mission Board staff, along with Baptist state leaders from Alabama
and invited guests from the Mobile area.
