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Christian Focus Week March 22-26 A t HPC
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VOL. XXXVIII NUMBER 17
HOWARD PAYNE COLLEGE BROWNWOOD. TEXAS
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ROSS COGGINS
DR. E. F. HALLOCK
MRS. FRANK LEAVELL
R. OTHAL FEATHER
Weil-Known Leaders Compose
HPC Focus Week Team
With one hundred and thirteen students at work completing committee assignments and
twelve student-leader specialists enlisted as team members plans for the Baptist Student
Department-sponsored Christian Focus Week at HPC March 22-26 are complete R. B. Coop-
er. BSU president has announced.
The week will be devoted to sermons and lectures at chapel and evening convocation
hours seminars group and personal conferences dormitory discussions and other program
features designed to help the student to relate his religious faith to everv area of his life on
campus and beyond Cooper said.
The focus personnel he reports includes men and women trained and experienced for
their roles of adult leadership of college students.
The list has been announced as
EUELL PORTER
DR. W. F. HOWARD
DR. E. N. JONES
follows:
Dr. Othal Feather professor
at Southwestern seminary Fort
Worth; Dr. E. F. Hallock pastor
of First Baptist church Norman
Okla.; Dr. Herbert Howard pastor
of Park Cities Baptist church
Dallas; Dr. E. N. Jones president
Texas Technological College Lub-
bock; Mrs. Frank Leavell home
department Sunday School Board
Nashville Tenn.; Bill Mead
Mead's bakeries Lubbock; Euell
Porter department of nmsie Har-din-Simmons
University Abilene;
Miriam Preston student director
Rice-Baylor Med Houston; Harold
Riley football coach Plainview
high school; Dr. Wallace Sham-
burger Jr. physician at Pharr;
Dr. W. F. Howard director of
Texas Baptist student work and
Ross Coggins Dr. Howard's as-
sistant. Student committees for Focus
Week arrangements are headed
by Sylvia Rundell. sophomore
and Billy McClellen freshman.
Committees and committee
members are as follows:
Program Committee
Parkie Hitt and Marie Brintle
are co-chairmen of the program
committee. Assisting them are
Danny Proctor Jimmy Thigpen
Joy Goodman Shirley Moore
Bobby Bryan Ann Murray How-
ard Ford and Joyce Garner.
Spiritual Preparation Committee
Heading activities of the spirit
ual preparation committee will be
Allene Jacobs. On the committee
are Bob Beaman and Camie Jay.
Music Committee
John Brown and Mary Price
are co-chairmen of the music com-
mittee. Assisting them are Rich-
ard Camp Mary Neal Huff Let-
tie Owings Dennis Oliver and
Betty Wilson.
Hospitality Committee
Hospitality co-chairmen are
Flora Frazer and Don Inqle. Their
assistants are Dean Simpson Paul
Watson Norma Jackson Jean
See FOCUS WEEK Page 3
AN EDITORIAL
Give Focus Week a Chance
For Chance of Your Life
you're tired o f i holy Joe out of me
O.K. so
"weeks."
Thus far this year we've had
Friendliness Week Sadie Haw-
kins Week Mission Emphasis
Week etc. not to mention Dead
Week. It's come to the point that
rising each Monday we ask our-
self "Well what is it this week?"
Next week it's Christian Focus
Week. We can hear the groans
from here!
And that's not playing fair.
How many of you really know
what a Focus Week is?
"Well I've got my ideas and
if they think they can make a
we are. evervthine wi Hn
Well we can see right off you To poinl up the chall of
don l know what it is. christian living a number of well-
"They want to make us all known leaders in their fields will
preachers and missionaries and i be on the mmnnc nv .
Sunday school teachers!"
Well the Sunday school teacher
part might not be so far off but
you're still not very well in-
formed. The week is designed to show
uv the need of bringing our va-
litus chosen vocations into focus
with the Christian principles of
life. Its sole purpose is to show
that Christ wants to be a part of
our life. That means a part of all
They represent the teaching m-o-
fession medicine the ministry.
They come from all walks of life
athletics music and student
work. They will lead in seminars
private interviews dormitory after-hours
meetings. Chapel serv-
ices will be held each day with
one of the twelve leaders speak-
ing as well as services each eve-
ning. See EDITORIAL Page 3
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