Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Downtown Dallas on Sunday morning has the look of frontier tranquillity. The streets are clean and nearly free of traffic-except on the midtown corners that surround the First Baptist Church. Here, beginning shortly before 8 a.m., cars crowd in to disgorge loads of early worshipers. A few of the young women wear miniskirts, bouffant hairdos and unlikely eyelashes. Their female elders, considerably less chic, carry the aura of talcum and printed voile that spells the Sabbath all over the South...
With 14,825 members, the First Baptist Church of Dallas is the biggest Southern Baptist church in the U.S. This year the church celebrated its centennial and, coincidentally, its pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. A. Criswell, is serving as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Despite its urban location, First Baptist preserves the folksiness and fervent spirit of a country congregation. Architecturally, the church is a 19th century red brick horror, but inside age and polish have mellowed its determined ugliness. The services, too, have a turn-of-the-century flavor. Sermons, by Criswell or one of his three assistant...
Baby of the Week. Worship is only the beginning of First Baptist's activities. Between the two morning services (the second is at 10:50), twelve Sunday school classes teach every age group from kindergarten kids to "senior adults." Babies are cared for in a beautifully appointed nursery. In one ornate crib reposes "the Baby of the Week," the youngest of all the infants making their debuts in the nursery that...
...First Baptist's facilities, which take up three blocks, are kept humming by a host of other goings on. The two top floors of the parking building (capacity: 300 cars) are given over to a mammoth gymnasium, a bowling alley and game and craft rooms. The recreation facilities are open year-round from early morning until 10 p.m. There are adult-education and hobby classes in everything from Spanish to candlemaking. These manifold activities help account for First Baptist's popularity, and all are free, except bowling. The costs are paid for by the church's capacious...
Harvard Chess Team, 4 years (Captain '66-'67, V.P. '68-'69); Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republicans; Member Dudley House Committee; Dudley House Football; Harvard-Radcliffe Baptist Student Union (V.P. '67-'68); Phillips Brooks House Prisons Committee Program (Concord '67, Dedham...