Newsmakers, June 2017
Randall Voss, left, and Jim Batten. (PHOTO PROVIDED BY IBARAKI CHRISTIAN)Randall Voss, principal of Ibaraki Christian Junior and Senior High Schools in Hitachi City, Japan.
Voss, a graduate of Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City, was in the second group of exchange students to study at Ibaraki in 1976. He joins fellow OC graduate Jim Batten, chancellor of Ibaraki, celebrating its 70th anniversary.
The school has roots in Churches of Christ.
RECEIVED$1.1 million in college scholarships and grants, by the 12 graduating seniors of Clarksville Christian School in Tennessee.
Seven of the 12 seniors will attend a Christian university — either Lipscomb or Harding. This is the school’s fourth and largest graduating class so far.
Clarksville Christian School graduates. (PHOTO PROVIDED BY MICHELLE ROBERTS)
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Perry L. Stepp, president of the Biblical Institute of Zagreb in Croatia.
Brian Walton, executive director of the Central European Education Foundation.
Aaron and Denise Arthaud, houseparents at Carpenter Place children’s home in Wichita, Kan.
Tim Bewley to the Harding University board of trustees.
Lynn Waller Kelly, member of the Pleasant Ridge Church of Christ in Arlington, Texas, as Tarrant County associate probate judge.
