Welcome back to ETBU Dr. Frank Lower! Dr. Lower is teaching three courses while the department seeks God’s best person for the position Dr. Dennis Robertson left when he became V.P. for Student Affairs here. (You can hear) Dr. Lower every day on KMHT - Marshalll 103.9 FM. It’s another exciting transition year with radio and television program development ongoing in an exciting department.
Dr. Israel Nandamudi (Political Science) and Dr. Carolyn Rester (Speech) are surveying a group of prospective student registrants for the Model United Nations spring class. They will travel to compete at MUN New York. It is true that the prospect of participating in the competition, which meets in the United Nations facilities in New York City, is a big draw for students. Equally true, though, is that the MUN program has a success record over the past few years when our teams went to MUN Chicago. It is a fine program for our students and university. Thanks to scholarship support from Academic Affairs and a great deal of hard, focused work from the faculty sponsors, this program has been a success. I hope that tradition of success continues for many years.
Thanks for the chapel program on the ETBU Spanish-language program in Mexico–to continue each summer. Thanks, Mrs. Blanca Jenkins, Dr. Linda Prewett, and Mr. Alan Huesing for the continuing work with the program that is bringing so much benefit to our students and excitement to our Modern Languages programs.
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.
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 . . .
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