Before he joined the army as a chaplain in World War II, L. L. Morriss was a very young pastor of several Texas Baptist Churches. A former student at the College of Marshall (now ETBU), during the academic year 1941-1942 at Baylor University, he had this to say about the value of journalism studies for pastors:
Because I was weary of getting out the church bulletin with a duplicating machine, I led the church to begin using the back page of The Baptist Standard for their church page. This was started February 26th. Bear in mind I was continuing to carry my load at Baylor and drive back and forth from my preaching appointments. While at Baylor I had taken a course on journalism under Professor Burckhart. It was one of the most refreshing courses I took because it was practical and pointed out the need of pastors having the right relationship with newspapers and how to write articles for the paper and get them printed. This course has been a great help to me through the years. I would say that any pastor needs to have the right relationship with the local paper and he will get a lot of publicity and can promote his church.
[Excerpt from Dr. L. L. Morriss' web biography, in progress.]
All Right!!!!!
Our Model United Nations team this year, led by Dr. Israel Nandamudi and Mrs. Jennifer Hoover to Chicago for the AMUN conference, had another great experience. It was good, too, to see that The Marshall News Messenger ran a front-page story (Saturday, December 9) on the trip. This year Dr. Frank Lower, who retired this past spring, came back to help the team prepare for the conference argument procedures before their departure for Chicago. This is a wonderful program for ETBU students, and I appreciate Dr. Nandamudi for his leadership. In spring 2008 we hope to see ETBU MUN at the United Nations for the New York City conference — it will be on the class schedule that spring, and for now there is plenty of time to prepare. Again, congratulations to the faculty and the team; we look forward to MUN development in future years.
. . . AND let’s not forget Dr. Bob Utley’s number one partner in ministry, Peggy. Marshall, Texas, is home to their ministry organization of many years and of truly international scope. AND the teaching is biblically sound and applicable to life in so many ways. AND I notice on the BLI Web Site that Bob’s sermons and commentaries are available now in video, CD-ROM, DVD, and MP3. It’s all good, useful stuff, and I recommend it. SO, Take a look!
So far this late fall the interest in travel study trips is mixed. In the School of Humanities, the HIST 3308 Modern China travel course has not caught much interest. The HIST 3309 History of Christianity in connection with the Religion travel course to Turkey - the Churches of the Revelation - is in the same position. But!!! . . . The travel courses for the United Kingdom/England are the real deal if we judge by student interest.
~ The courses: HIST/POSC 3364 British Studies (Dr. Summers); ENGL 4310 British Modernists (Mrs. Falke); and ENGL 2321 British Literature (Dr. Watson/Mrs. Falke). This will be a strong combination! Mrs. Falke has a fresh perspective and has been making progress with her doctorate at University of York — one of our major stops for sure while we are there! Dr. Summers has led two other student trips to the UK in 2000 and 2003 and also spent a sabbatical semester in Oxford and London in winter/spring 2002. This trip will probably run 14 days. More later . . .