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FOREIGN MISSION 3QARD MINUTES
October 8-10, 1979
The Foreign Mission 3oard met in annual session, October 8-10, 1979, in the
Board headquarters, Richmond, Virginia. The President, John W. Patterson,
presided .
PRESENT: State Members: Alabama: Charles T. Carter, A1 Finch, L. Earl Tew;
Arizona: Mrs. Glen E. Crotts; Arkansas : Mrs. Jewel Moore, Janes F. Sawyer;
California: Mrs. Cherry Y. K. Chang, Mrs. Wilma G. Eurich; D.
С.
: B. Ross
Morrison; Florida: Mrs. R. J. Alexander, Andrew M. Hall, James B. Henry,
Mrs. James A. Ponder; Georgia: William Lee Clinton, J. Hoffman Harris, Mrs.
L. G. Hicks, Jr., William L. Self, Mrs. W. Jack Smith; Illinois : Mrs. William
D. Richardson; Indiana: Ronald P. Liesmann; Kentucky: Rollin S. Burhans Mrs.
Ray Mullendore; Louisiana: John G. Alley, W. N. Prather, Sr.; Maryland : Mrs.
Mary Maddry Strauss; Michigan: Mrs. Fern Dannelley; Mississippi : Joe Neil
McKeever, Janes Richardson, Gene Triggs ; Missouri : Homer D. Carter, John W.
Goodwin, Mrs. Carter Reed; New Mexico: James A. McKinnon; North Carolina:
Ray W. Benfield, William Henry Crouch, J. Albert Leath, Jr., Mrs. T. C. Womble;
Ohio: T. A. Benefield; Oklahoma: Jerry Fielder, William Neptune, Charles A.
Tope; Oregon-Washington: Roy Phillip Belcher; South Carolina: Ira Q. Craft,
Lonnie H. Shull, Jr.; Tennessee : Wendell C. McClinton, Trevis Otey, Carroll C.
Owen, Jonas L. Stewart; Texas : Travis S. Berry, Harold T. Branch, Morris G.
Cobb, Richard M. Cobb, Robert E. Smith, Sam Sorrell, Joe E. Trull; Virginia:
W. Curtis English, Lonnie E. Quillen, Jr., Mrs. R. L. Rhodes, Jr.; SBC Pres¬
ident: Adrian ?. Rogers and wife; Immediate Past President: Jimmy Allen and Wife.
Local Members: V. Allen Gaines, Franklin D. Hall, Hiram L. Harrison, Neal T.
Jones, Bruce H. Price, M. Hunter Riggins, Jr., Mrs. E. S. Stratton, Robert B.
Bass, Gurney W. Grant, J. Leonard Moore, John W. Patterson, Raymond L. Spence,
Jr.
Board's Attorney: Paul D. Stotts.
Staff: Baker J. Cauthen, J. Bryan Brasington, Charles W. Bryan, Thurmon E.
Bryant, James W. Cecil, John R. Cheyne, Louis R. Cobbs, Robert C. Covington,
Winston Crawley, Edna Frances Dawkins, William K. Dawson, Everett L. Deane,
James G. Edwards, Franklin T. Fowler, lone Gray, W. Eugene Grubbs, George H.
Hays, Ward S. Hildreth, Thomas W. Hill, J. D. Hughey, Harold E. Hurst, Carl
W. Johnson, W. David Lockard , William W. Marshall, John E. Mills, Lewis I.
Myers, Jr., Floyd H. North, William R. O'Brien, R. Keith Parks, Samuel M.
Pittman, G. Norman Price, Sidney C. Reber, Rogers M. Smith, Truman S. Smith,
Robert L. Stanley, J. Murphey Terry, Roger L. Thompson, Melvin E. Torstrick,
Joseph B. Underwood, Ralph L. West, E. L. Wright, Elizabeth Minshew.
GUESTS : Retiring Missionaries: Miss Darline Elliott, Miss Frances Hammett,
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Medling, Mr. and Mrs.
И.
W. Schweinsberg , Miss Elizabeth
Truly, Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Williams, Miss Miriam Willis;
Missionaries on furlough and Emeritus Missionaries fin Richmond area) ;
Fraternal Representatives: Curtis Askew (Hawaii), Ernest B. Myers (Nevada),
Jack P. Lowndes (New York), Gordon Dean (South Dakota), David Shephard
(Pennsylvania) ;
Members of the Family of Dr. and Mrs. Cauthen: Ralph and Jane Cauthen fSon and
Wife); Carolyn Mathews (Daughter); Mrs. Trudy Chang and Miss Lois Glass (Mrs.
Cauthen's Sisters); Bentley Glass (Mrs. Cauthen's Brother);
Members of Headcuarters Staff f current and retired-^;
Members from the following groups : Former Board Officers and Board Members,
Executive Committee, SBC; SBC Boards and Agencies and Commissions; Baptist
World Alliance; Southern Baptist Seminaries (Missions Professors and Presi¬
dents); Woman's Missionary Union (SBC, State, and Local); State Executive
Secretaries, State Brotherhood Secretaries, State and Local Baptist Editors,
and other SBC Leaders.
