Newsmakers, January 2010
AWARDED: Andrew Benton, the Distinguished Alumni Award by Oklahoma City University. Benton is president of Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif. Rob Scobey and Larry Souder, 2009 Gold Pen Awards winners, and Paul Ladd, “Best Locally Produced Specialty Show” by the International Association of Business Broadcasters. Scobey, Souder and Ladd work for World Christian Broadcasting, Franklin, Tenn.
 
HONORED: Loy Mitchell, pioneering missionary, for 28 years of full-time ministry in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at the World Mission Workshop at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn. Jim Bill McInteer and Andrew Factor for years of service by Herald of Truth, Abilene, Texas.
 
APPOINTED: Jimmy Smith, chairman, Dan Newsom, vice chairman and Wendell Eubanks, secretary for the board of Crowley’s Ridge College, Paragould, Ark. Craig Russell, regional vice president for ASIS International. Russell is director of public safety for Harding University, Searcy, Ark. Larry Lyons, director of intercollegiate athletics, Ohio Valley University, Vienna, W.Va.
 
NAMED: Marley D. Nicholas, Anne-Claire Tans, Lisa Clark, Rachel L. Green, Megan Heldreth, Lauren Elizabeth Jones, Rebekah A. Moore, Hannah Jean Poole, Mandy L. Roseberry and Jordan Tuten to the West Virginia Zeta chapter of Alpha Chi national honor society. All are students at Ohio Valley University.
 
NEW ELDERS: David Goodnight, Glen Johnson and Manuel Soto, the Lake Dallas, Texas, church.
 
ANNIVERSARIES: 70th: J.C. and Arlyene McCurdy, Abilene, Texas; Bill and Gracie Brown, Happy Valley, Ore. 68th: Elton and Eleanor Dilbeck, Roswell, N.M. 64th: Luchin and Dorothy Daugherty, McKinney, Texas.
 
BIRTHDAYS: 87th: Gene Martin, Sherman, Texas..
 
PASSAGES: Jack Bills, 89, long-time preacher and member of various churches in Oklahoma, Nevada and California. Dean Martin, 101, long-time member and elder of the Western Heights church in Sherman, Texas. JoAnn Nolen Walker, 70, Dec. 7, longtime Bible school teacher for children and women, longtime volunteer with World Bible School and member of the A&M church in College Station, Texas.
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