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I've been to college A LOT. Both at HAC and public universities. Ask your kids this: Do you have to really dig in a course to hope you can get a "B" much less and "A"? If the honest answer is no, it's not tough academically.

My impression is that when you see that only nine churches in the country had more than 25 buses, that’s not a lot. And it’s no wonder those were the “mega churches” of the day. It’s a numbers game.

I’m deep in the southeast.

I've been away from the IFB stuff for many years. Are there still churches trying to utilize the bus ministry that way they were 45-50 years ago? I know FBC still runs buses. What percentage of buses are they running from the peak -- whenever that was? I really do not know of a church remotely...

Agree 100%. That was pretty much me in the late 70s. I have no idea what he/she is referring to, except the obvious reference to Dave Hyles and Wendell Evans. On that note, I frankly don’t know a lot of facts. Elsewhere in this thread “bgwilkinson” (I also wonder if he’s still around or posts –...

I knew him just a little at HAC. I think he's a dedicated guy. I went to his organization's website not long ago. I noticed that his bio contained no mention of Hyles Anderson College. It did mention that he had a degree from Luther Rice Seminary. I don't hold it against him. 😁

I only vaguely remember him. I don't think he began his official duties as the Employment Czar until I left in 1981. But I wanted to take this space to thank someone who was very instrumental in helping me find a good job while at HAC. His name was Sammie Wooldrige. Sammi came to the school...

In 1976-77, I was at Balmoral Woods. For those of you who might not remember, the enrollment was too large that year to house all of the guys at Baptist City, so the school was able to rent a couple of floors of a motel in Crete, IL. It was probably 25 miles from campus, so it presented very...

What was your most fulfilling time at HAC? What made it so? Mine was in my junior year, I worked on the blind bus with a guy named Alan Stewart. I forget how we cultivated the bus route but we went over a lot of Chicago and picked up the blind members and took them home afterwards. One that I...

I am not familiar with him in any manner.

I knew Danny. Good man! But this in fact, happened. Since my original post I confirmed the event, including the names of the principals involved as well as my own recollection of Bro. Hyles telling the story at the Southwide Baptist Fellowship in December 1975. I’m not going to state the...

We were ignorant. Definitely. Btw, I got a confirmation of the event from a friend this afternoon. He confirmed all the stuff I set forth and confirmed that it happened in the Fall of 1975, which is when I heard Bro. Hyles tell it at a conference. He said the security guard left the school...

I’ve been a Southern Baptist most of my life. I follow the issues. I don’t know how to respond to your last question.

First, this memory is very fuzzy, so I may have it wrong... Does anyone remember back in the seventies an event where a security guard made up a story of getting assaulted and knocked out one night (or early morning) on campus and and then these supposed terrorists set the bridge at the lake on...

Back in the 1970's I knew of a good many churches who withdrew from the SBC for various reasons having to do with a drift to the left, both doctrinally and ministerially. When people like Adrian Rogers, Jerry Vines and Charles Stanley seized control in the eighties, I began to believe that the...

How tragic.

Is she still up in that area and in the ministry?

i assumed you had read many experiences of those of us who attended in the early years. Does your experience differ greatly from what you read of the early years?

Do you feel your experience of thirty years ago was in line with those stories that you have read of much further back? Although I concede that Bro. Hyles was till very much alive when you finished, so I would expect that it is.

I understand that it takes a while to wash it out of your system, but I just wondered if more recent students ever came on and told their experiences. I understand that it would likely be taboo for a current student. From what time period is the most recent former student you have ever seen post...