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IN MEMORIAM
Three significant people in the life of the seminary died in recent
months.
Longtime trustee Milt Jones died February 6, 2003 at the age of
76. A lay leader at First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, Calif., Jones
served on the seminary board for 18 years. He also served four years
as recruitment coordinator for the school.
After 36 years of management with Procter & Gamble, Jones
devoted much of his time in retirement to church-related leadership.
He was president of the American Baptist Churches of the West. He
also served on the board for the American Baptist Homes of the West
Foundation.
“Through Milt’s tenure as a trustee and student recruiter,
he touched many lives with his strong faith, sense of humor, words
of encouragement, and never ending desire to be of service,”
said the Rev. Michelle Holmes, Vice President. “The seminary
has lost a wonderful friend in Milt.”
The Rev. Dr. Culbert G. Rutenber, professor of philosophy of religion
at ABSW’s Covina campus in the early 1970s, died August 6,
2003, in Austin, Tex. He was 94.
Culbert was a past president of the American Baptist Churches
USA, a pastor, author, and well-known educator. He also taught at
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Andover Newton Theological
School.
Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher Jr., an ABSW supporter and grandson
of an early seminary president, died July 13, 2003 at the age of
101. Brougher was pastor of First Baptist Church of Glendale, Calif.,
for 76 years – the longest pastorate in American Baptist Churches.
Brougher endowed a special fund to provide for maintenance of
ABSW’s chapel and protection of the chapel’s chancel
window, designed by famed artist Warner Sallman and known as the
"Christ of the Great Commission." The window is a memorial
to Brougher’s maternal grandfather, Dr. Samuel B. Morse, who
was president of California College, a predecessor school of ABSW,
from 1887-1896.
The seminary also remembers the following alumni/ae:
- Jack Baker (’38) May 2, 2003
- Keith Brininstool (’55) April
7, 2003
- Jose Camacho (’64) Feb. 16,
2003
- Matthew Giuffrida (’19) April
16, 2003
- Lynn Hodges (’58) Jan. 13,
2003
- Virginia Kepner (’37) June
17, 2003
- Lorenz Michelson (’46) June
19, 2003
- Wesley Powell (’59) Feb. 19,
2003
- Raymond Schaefer (’40) June
29, 2003
- Fred Williams (’63) Dec. 8,
2002
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