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Halbrooks Named President of The Divinity School

 Dr. G. Thomas Halbrooks, dean of the faculty at 
Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va., has been 
named the next president of The Divinity School, an American 
Baptist-related theological seminary in Rochester, N.Y.
 The appointment was announced Dec. 17 by the schools 
board of trustees.  Halbrooks will take office July 1, 2000, 
succeeding Dr. James Evans Jr., who is leaving after 10 
years.
 An ordained American Baptist minister, Halbrooks holds 
an M.Div. degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 
and a Ph.D. degree from Emory University.  He also spent a 
year studying at Oxford University in England.
 Halbrooks, who cofounded Baptist Theological Seminary 
in 1991, has overseen that school's growth in eight years 
from 32 students to 285 students.
 He has expressed a vision for The Divinity School 
becoming "a congregationally-focused theological 
institution...that graduates leaders with a spiritual 
dimension that combines piety and social justice." 
 Halbrooks and his wife, Jean Tackett, a registered 
nurse, are parents of a grown son.
 The Divinity School, which currently enrolls 
approximately 200 full-time and part-time students, is one 
of ten seminaries related to American Baptist Churches USA 
through Educational Ministries.

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