Craig Price was named as dean of students at New Orleans Seminary, effective Jan. 1.

Price has 25 years of pastoral experience serving churches in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Texas. He comes to NOBTS after serving as pastor of Hot Springs (Ark.) Baptist Church since 1998.

A graduate of Southwestern Seminary and the University of Florida, Price was licensed and ordained for ministry at Kingwood Baptist Church in Moultrie.

Price and his wife, Dee, have been married for 26 years. They have two daughters, Shelley, 18, and Drew, 15.

 

William B. Blackwell, a Southern Baptist campus minister with the United States Military Academy at West Point since 1993, died at his home Dec. 12 of an apparent heart attack.

Blackwell, 46, was a missionary with the North American Mission Board's collegiate evangelism unit who began his ministry at West Point as an associate missionary.

A gradute of Southern Seminary, Blackwell served for 10 years with United States Marine Corps, serving in such roles as a chaplain and platoon commander.

He is survived by his two children: Stuart, 18, and Christina, 15. His wife, Diana, preceded him in death in 2002.

 

Wanda Lee, the top executive of the Woman's Missionary Union, has received the 2004 Alumni of the Year award from Samford University along with retired business executive Marvin Mann.

A 1969 Samford nursing graduate, Lee served as president of WMU from 1996 to 2000 when she was named to her current post as executive director. She is the first woman in WMU history to hold both positions.

Lee has been active at all levels of WMU - church, association, state and national. Early in her career, she worked as a registered nurse in hospitals in Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and the Windward Islands, where she and her husband, Larry, were missionaries from 1979-81.