Thursday February 8th, 2018

MBHC (1976).  R.A. McLemore Memorial Service 1st Baptist Church Clinton, MS.

MBHC (1975).  Dr. Charles Martin

I arrived at the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission at 8:00 a.m.  I resumed digitizing audio cassettes.  As previously stated, I had moved from digitizing oral histories to even speeches.  On Tuesday, I retrieved the next batch of audio cassettes from the vault.  Dr. R.A. McLemore's Memorial Service was available on two audio cassettes which I digitized.  In addition to being the Director of Mississippi College, Dr. McLemore also served as the Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MBHC, 1976).  The memorial service took place on September 2nd 1976.  Dr. McLemore passed away on August 31st, 1976.  I took a break for lunch at 12:43 p.m. and returned at 1:13 p.m.The next audio cassette was of an oral history by a Mississippi College alumnus which took place on January 27th, 1975.  Another oral history taken with Dr. Charles Martin gave much insight into the early mission and goals of Mississippi College.  Evidently, the college was originally founded for the purpose of preparing people for the ministry (MBHC, 1975).  However, that would evolve into a more academic role.  The final oral history I digitized was conducted by the aforementioned Dr. R.A. McLemore in 1972 with Mrs. Lulie Baley concerning the very history of the First Baptist Church of Jackson.  I left the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission at 4:30 p.m.