Seminary Extension

Seminary Extension will celebrate its 50th anniversary next June at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans.

State conventions, associations, extension centers and churches will have their own 50th anniversary celebrations anytime between now and the end of 2001 — honoring past and present students, teachers and administrators.

Right now I am collecting information about some of the early Seminary Extension students, so they can be honored at these celebrations.

In 1965 George M. Patrick, a Scott Paper Company employee in Mobile, was one of the first four men to enroll for the Brotherhood Standard Certificate, offered jointly by Brotherhood and Seminary Extension.

I am also seeking information about Wayne Upton, a serviceman who was Seminary Extension’s first student. He enrolled in Old Testament in September 1951.

If your readers have information or photos about these persons or know of any other interesting Seminary Extension related items from the 1950s and 1960s, they can write me at 901 Commerce Street, Suite 500, Nashville, TN 37203; or telephone me at 615-782-8639.

Leonard Hill                                                                                                                                                                      Nashville, Tenn.