The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 1963 Page: 9 of 28
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Wedne.day, September II, ,963 ^ T H^E BELLAIRE TEXAN
Opportunity, Tension, Commitment Ingredients
Of Christian Education, Says Dr. Denham
Dr. William E. D3nham, Jr.
told several thousand people
Sunday afternoon that the three
ingredients of Christian educa-
tion at the college level are op-
portunity, tension and commit-
ment.
Dr. Denham, pastor of River
Oaks Baptist Church, was the
principal speaker for the dedica-
tion service and cornerstone lay-
ing ceremony at the Houston
Baptist College. The cornerstone
has structural significance, Dr.
Denham, who is also chairman
of the College Board of Trustees,
reminded his audience, but it
also marks the end of an earlier
period of prayer, planning and
development.
“This also is a time of look-
ing forward tc the bright expec-
tations which we have of the
future,” he added.
The Houston pastor also spoke
of discoveries in space explora-
tion, medicine, psychology and
psychiatry, saying,
“A liberal arts college, ... is
to do more than expose students
to, or educate them in, the facts
of the new frontiers. Perspective
must be provided f-om the past
from all that mankind has
thought, believed and produced.
There is history, art, literature
and religion.
“It is important to note that
Houston Baptist College gradu-
ates will live in this contempor-
ary world of so vast a knowl-
edge and will have to provide
leadership for the issues of their
own mature generations.
/“All this spells opportunity.
This opportunity is fraught with
great possibility of peril, but it
is opportunity if we can under-
stand aright.”
“In addition,” said Dr. Den-
ham, “there are the deeply per-
sonal tensions which each stu-
dent will face as he makes spe-
cific choices relating to voca-
tion, marriage, character, Chris-
tian dedication—and a host of
others.
“It is to be expected that ten-
sions will be an integral ex-
pression within a Christian col-
lege—and that only out of such
tension can come the portents
of new and more glorious days.”
Dr. Denham said the time was
past when a man could live a
quiet bucolic life without ten-
sion. He said that sharply de-
fined vocabularies of this age
often make it difficult for the
technician in one field to under-
stand the technician in another,
causing misunderstanding and
failure of communication.
He said other tensions exist
in the realm of attitudes and
viewpoints with other kinds of
tensions evoked by calling out
such words as race, Communism,
psychotherapy and existential,
ism.
Dr. Denham said commitment
may be missing in some denomi-
national schools, but commit-
ment is the key to achieving the
fundamental purposes for which
Houston Baptist College was es-
tablished.
“Commitment ,or dedication,”
he said, “is largely the respons-
ibility of the trustees, the ad-
ministration and the faculty.
Only if it is present in these
three groups can it become
meaningful to the students and
to the world.”
Dr. Denham said there must
be commitment to Jesus Christ
as the final absolute and com-
plete revelation of God to man;
commitment to the Bible as the
written expression of God’s mes-
sage to man; commitment to the
personal Christian experience ''
which each one has in individual
encounter with Christ; commit-
ment to discover the continuing
will of God in the individual life
by honest Bible study, by prayer
and by devotion; commitment to
provide for the ministerial stu-
dent and the lay student the
tools for understanding the Bi-
ble; and commitment to use the
methods of Jesus in presenting
the Christian faith.
“The actual cornerstone of the
College is Jesus Christ as Lord,”
said Dr. Denham. “For we be-
lieve that He is the way, the
truth, and the life. It is in this
deep conviction that we today
lay the cornerstone for Houston
Baptist College.”
Dr. William H. Hinton, presi-
dent of the college, presided over
the dedication and expressed
thanks to the thousands of Bap-
tists and friends who made
Houston Baptist College a reali-
ty.
Dr. Hinton said the new col-
lege would make a lasting con-
tribution to the city of Houston,
both culturally and academical-
ly.
Stewart Morris, Houston at-
torney, Baptist layman and a
member of the board*of trustees
conducted the cornerstone lay-
ing ceremony, assisted by other
trustees.
Other participants were John
F. Baugh, L. D. Morgan, Rex G.
Baker, and James W. Farker, all
trustees and all of Houston.
Special music was provided by
Claude H. Rhea, Jr., chairman of
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the Division of Fine Arts. Paul
Green, professor of choral mus-
ic, directed the group in the
singing of a hymn, “Lead On, O
King Eternal.”
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on August 27 through August
31 at the Shamrock-Hilton pool.
Thirty-one teams from four
states participated in the four-
day swimming and diving meet.
In the 10 and under age group,
Pam Elliott took first in the
110-yard breaststroke event with
a 'new national record time of
1:40.5, breaking the old record
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the 110-yard freestyle, fifth in
the 110-yard butterfly, and fifth
in the 220-yard individual med-
ley. In the same age group,
Stuart Diamond captured a
fourth place in diving.
Swimming in the 11-12 year
old category, John Bihr took
fourth in the 110-yard butterfly,
while leading the boys 220-yard
medley relay composed of John
Bihr, Stan Cohn, Ralph Elder
and John McCleary to a third-
place finish, and leading the
'boys 220-yard freestyle relay of
John Bihr, Ralph Elder, John
McCleary and Dick Waddell to
fourth 'place. The 11-12 girls
220-yard medley relay team of I
Pam Elliott, Laurie Johnson,
Nina Johnson and Anna
Schweppe finished fifth.
Martha Campbell took sixth
(place in the 440-yard freestyle
for 13-14 year old girls, while
Larry Greer finished fourth in
diving. In the same age group,
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freestyle relay of Jim Adamson,
John Coerver, Robert Elder and
Matt Howard, and fifth place
•for the boys 440-yard medley
relay of John Bihr, John Coer-
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Howard.
In the 15-17 age group, Laura
Schweppe finished third in the
440-yard freestyle and fifth in
the 110-yard backstroke; Paul
Roberts took fifth in the 110-
yard breaststroke while Ted
Donnelly finished fourth in div-
ing. In this age group the relay
teams swam to the following
places: third place in the 440-
yard freestyle relay and fourth
place in the 440-yard medley
relay with both relays composed
of Claudia Cohn, Lynn Greer,
Laura Schweppe and Marti
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 1963, newspaper, September 11, 1963; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521391/m1/9/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.