Joe Black
Erskine
College and Theological Seminary to Hold Commencement
Ceremonies May 14
Erskine College Commencement is scheduled for
Sunday, May 14, 2000, at 2:30 p.m. under the towers
of the Erskine Building, with 107 graduates expected
to march in the college's 155th commencement. Joseph
Tribble Black, a 1969 Erskine College graduate, will
be the commencement speaker.
Black worked in the textile industry with Milliken
and Company, based in Spartanburg, S.C., for 15
years. In 1986, he established his own consulting
firm, Executive Quality Management, in Spartanburg.
He is now living in Buena Vista, Colorado, with his
wife Kathy. Black has served on the Board of Trustees
and as co-chair of the Living Endowment at Erskine
College. He is the author of Passing Through:
Reflections on Life,published in 1997.
Baccalaureate services will be held prior to
commencement at 11 a.m. in the Due West Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church. The scheduled
baccalaureate speaker is the Rev. John Kimmons,
pastor of Christ Community Church, Greensboro, N.C.
Honorary degree recipients this year are Lawrence
Edward Davis, Stated Clerk of the Evangelical
Presbyterian Church, who will receive the Doctor of
Divinity degree, and James Elliott McDonald, of the
Greenwood firm Burns, McDonald, Bradford, Patrick
& Tinsley, L.L.P., who will receive the Doctor of
Laws degree.
Erskine Theological Seminary Commencement, with 64
students to be awarded degrees, is scheduled for May
14, 2000, at 6 p.m. in the Due West Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church. The speaker for
seminary commencement is Dr. Luder G. Whitlock, Jr.,
since 1979 president of Reformed Theological Seminary
in Oveido, Florida. He was executive director of the
New Geneva Study Bible and is a director of the
National Association of Evangelicals.
Erskine College, founded by the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church in 1839, is the oldest four-year
church-related college in South Carolina. Erskine
Theological Seminary was founded by the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1837.
