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October 08, 2005

*thump*

That sound you just heard was the sound of the other shoe dropping.

A DeKalb Superior Court judge signed a consent order Friday disbanding Shorter College’s pre-existing Board of Trustees and installing one elected by the Georgia Baptist Convention.

The signing of the order, which took effect immediately, was more of a formality following the Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling in May that Shorter College had improperly broken its ties with the Baptist organization in an attempt to strip the GBC of its power to elect trustees.

Nelson Price, the retired pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta, has been named the interim trustee chairman for Shorter, a title he will hold only until the board convenes and appoints a permanent chairman, said GBC spokeswoman Diane Reasoner.

Theoretically, Gary Eubanks has also released an outgoing statement in which he gives the GBC what-for for electing the new board members without any college input - in a move that surprised just about no one whatsoever. They won the dadgum case, after all. But I haven't been able to find hide nor hair of the statement.

That's all the news that's out there right now - and I know only marginally more than any of you (I'd heard murmurings over the past few days that this might be about to happen, but they were only murmurs and I was too busy with other things to pay too much attention to them). The standard Baptist press wires don't have anything to say yet (although ABP does have a nifty story on Kate Campbell, and if you haven't heard of her you really should, but forgive the tangent). The only newspaper that's touched this so far is the Rome News-Trib, even the frighteningly-reliable K-98 radio website has nothing.

In other words, yay uncertainty.

I'll keep y'all posted if I hear something reliable.

One other thing to Shorter people, though: Please don't freak out and start expecting that you're going to be coming onto a completely new GBC University when you come back on campus on Wednesday. It would benefit nobody for anybody to come on-campus in the middle of the semester and start axing people. There may be long-term changes in the offing, but there's still a PHY 1030 exam on Friday too. We have immediate business to take care of; let's take care of it.

UPDATE, Wednesday morning: Before my ability to link to it completely goes away, I ought to be complete and link to Sunday's story in the News-Trib as well. You might not see anything new in it at all. You might see in it reasons for optimism. You might see in it reasons for pessimism. I'll just go ahead and leave that take to you - I fully expect you can predict what I can see...

ANOTHER UPDATE: There is now an Associated Baptist Press story up, also quoting from this mythical Gary Eubanks press release (boy, I really want to see that) and nothing interestingly that "Georgia Baptist leaders have been low-key since the May court decision." Take that to mean what you will.

Posted by Chuck at October 8, 2005 11:23 AM

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