Bob Terry

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP)–The executive committee of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions has recommended the University of Mobile be excluded from the 1998 Cooperative Program budget. That action came after almost four hours of debate behind closed doors July 25 in Montgomery. The executive committee action said the university could be restored to the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP)–The University of Mobile cannot comply with requests made by the executive committee of the Alabama Baptist state board of missions. That was the blunt response of the university’s interim president, Walter Hovell, after the board’s executive committee requested June 3 written certification by July 15 that the university is in compliance with […]

MOBILE, Ala. (BP)–“The University of Mobile has sinned as an institution,” declared Robert Maxwell, chairman of the university’s board of trustees. “We violated the 1994 agreement made with the Alabama Baptist State Convention. The institution did this, and we are guilty.”Maxwell made his comments to the State Board of Missions’ executive committee May 15. Two […]

MOBILE, Ala. (BP)–The University of Mobile sidestepped what officials called “a significant financial problem” when two banks agreed April 30 to expand the school’s lines of credit. “The expanded line of credit will get us through the summer,” said Robert Maxwell, chairman of the university’s board of trustees. “Admittedly the University of Mobile has some […]

MOBILE, Ala. (BP)–The University of Mobile sidestepped what officials called “a significant financial problem” when two banks agreed April 30 to expand the school’s lines of credit. “The expanded line of credit will get us through the summer,” said Robert Maxwell, chairman of the university’s board of trustees. “Admittedly the University of Mobile has some […]