FOREIGN MISSION BOARD MINUTES
December 11, 1973
The Foreign Mission Board held its regular monthly meeting at 2:30 p.m. , December
11, 1973, in the Baker James Cauthen Chapel, Foreign Mission Board headquarters,
Richmond, Virginia. The President, W. Douglas Hudgins, presided.
The December meeting of the Board was scheduled to meet at 2:30 p.m., rather than
at the usual hour of 3:00 o'clock, in view of the necessity to adjourn at 4:00 p.m.,
to travel by bus to the Appointment Service, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., the Parkview
Baptist Church, Newport News, Virginia.
PRESENT: (Board Meeting and/or Appointment Service, Newport News, Virginia)
State Members: Alabama: Drew J. Gunnells, Jr., J. R. White; Arkansas : W. 0.
Vaught, Jr.; Colorado : Glen E. Braswell; D . C. . : Kenneth E. Thornton; Florida :
Don Mott; Georgia : John Langdale; Illinois : Raymond L. Odle; Indiana : Ronald
Liesmann; Kentucky: Eldred Taylor; Michigan: Hubert Keefer; Mississippi: W.
Douglas Hudgins; Mew Mexico: J. D. Ratliff; North Carolina: Mrs. J. E. Collette;
Ohio: W. Paul Payne; Oklahoma : Harvey Albright, Robert L. Lynn; Oregon: William
0. Crews; South Carolina: Robert L. Deneen, Ira Craft; Texas : Morris G. Cobb,
E. H. Westmoreland; Virginia: Mrs. James T. Cravens, Lonnie E. Quillen, Jr.
Local Members: Robert B. Bass, Mrs. R. B. Carter, J. Roy Clifford, Paul E. Crandall,
Austin W. Farley, Joseph
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Flowers, Scott C. Humphrey, John W. Patterson, Julian
Pentecost, Bruce H. Price, M. Hunter Riggins, Jr., Meredith K. Roberson, Mrs. Ross
S. Shearer, Mrs. E. S. Stratton, Mrs. Thomas Whalen, H. I. Willett.
Board's Attorney: John C. Williams. Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, Louis R. Cobbs,
Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, E. L. Deane, Samuel A.
DeBord, James G. Edwards, Jesse Fletcher, Franklin Fowler, Cornell Goerner, lone
Gray, Ward Hildreth, Eugene L. Hill, Dwight Honeycutt, J. D. Hughey, Ralph Magee,
Frank K. Means, Floyd North, F. Keith Parks, Sam Pittman, Norman Price, Sidney C.
Rober, Davis L. Saunders, Fon H. Scofield, Rogers M. Smith, Truman Smith, W. L.
Smith, Richard M. Styles, Wilbur Todd, Melvin Torstrick, Joseph B. Underwood, E.
L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew.
Visitors : Rev. Lee Porter, Director of Organization, Christian Life Commission,
SBC; Dr. Earl Kelly, Executive Secretary, Mississippi Baptist Convention Board;
’•'red Laughon, Radio-TV Commission Representative (working in liaison with Foreign
Mission Board in Richmond); Melvin Bradshaw, Missionary to Japan (on furlough);
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Alexander, Missionaries to Argentina (on furlough in Chesapeake,
Virginia) .
The President recognized the Assistant Treasurer of the Board, Ralph Magee, and
his wife. Deep appreciation was expressed by the entire Board and staff upon the
return of Mr. Magee to a regular schedule from a recent illness.
The meeting was called to order.
Sidney C. Reber, director of the Board's Management Services Division, led the
audience in singing an opening Hymn.
Ronald P. Liesmann, Board member from Indiana, read a passage of Scripture and
led in the opening prayer.
Minutes of the Board for November 6, 1973 were approved.
The President recognized the visitors individually.
L I u? Executive Secretary, Baker J. Cauthen, was recognized.
Dr. Cauthen referred to the following highlights of his formal report:
1. Special mention was made of the recent deaths of two staff members: Clarence
: hompkins , who had served on the janitorial staff of the Board for a number of
years and Miss Virginia Lee Priddy, a member of the Board's staff who had served
in several capacities during her long term of service with the Board.
2. Regret was expressed on behalf of the resignation of Board member Jaroy Weber,
from Mobile, Alabama, and the loss that will be sustained by the Board by Dr.
Weber's resignation, made necessary by his acceptance of the pastorate of the
First Baptist Church, Lubbock, Texas, effective December, 1973.
3. Appreciation was expressed on behalf of the recent Layman's Prayer Breakfast
in Dallas, Texas, co-sponsored by the Brotherhood Commission, SBC, and the Foreign
Mission Board, with an attendance of approximately 800.
