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Interviewee	Summers, Ray
Interviewer	McGee, Daniel B.
Title	Oral memoirs of Ray Summers
Interview details	interviewed by Daniel B. McGee on 18 occasions from 11 August to 29 August 1980 in Waco, Texas.
Number of interviews	18
Interview Date(s)	1980
Item type	Transcript
Genre	Oral histories
Description, transcript	624 pages; index
Description, sound recordings	analog audio tape; 22.00 hr.; analog video tape; 23.50 hr.
Project	Texas Baptist Project
Subproject	Baylor University Faculty
Summary	Volume I, interviews 1-9, 319 pages. Ray Summers was professor at Southern Baptist seminaries and chairman, Department of Religion, Baylor University; birth; extensive family history; call to ministry; first sermon; childhood, Allen, Texas; early education; home life; religious background; siblings; conversion experience; father's interest in politics; education, Burleson College (BC), Greenville, Texas; first pastorate, Clear Lake [Texas] Baptist Church; closing of BC; effect of Great Depression on Greenville; wife's family history; education, Baylor; recollections of J. B. Tidwell; pastorate, Rosamond Chapel Baptist Church; Baylor faculty; marriage; pastorates, Big Spring, Krum, and Chilton, Texas; Volunteer Band; recollections of W. A. Criswell; impact of the death of Samuel Palmer Brooks on Baylor; Pat Neff's presidency, Baylor; relationship between Waco and Baylor; impression of Waco's Baptist churches; education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) with wife; SWBTS faculty; fellow students at SWBTS; decision to teach at SWBTS; H. E. Dana's presidency, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri; millennialism controversy at SWBTS; writing Worthy is the Lamb; teaching assignments at SWBTS; L. R. Scarborough's and E. D. Head's presidencies, SWBTS; children; J. Howard Williams's presidency, SWBTS; administration-faculty conflicts at SWBTS during 1950s. Volume II, interviews 10-18, index, 305 pages. Robert E. Naylor presidency, SWBTS; academic differences between Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) and SWBTS; writing projects; sabbatical in Europe; study, University of Edinburgh; recollections of John Baillie, James Stewart, and Mathew Black; study, University of Basel; teaching, SBTS; his teaching philosophies; Duke McCall's presidency, SBTS; Abstract of Principles; assassination of John F. Kennedy; decision to come to Baylor; visits to other schools offering Ph.D.'s in religion; additions to religion faculty; Ph.D. curriculum and entrance requirement, Baylor; first class of Ph.D.'s; purchase of library holdings of Crozier Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; religion department's relationship with churches and denominational agencies in Texas; endowed chairs in religion department; the Welch report; outside criticism of H. J. Flanders's book People of the Covenanf; other publications; wife's writings and work; plans for the future; reflections on work and ministry.
Subject--Library of Congress	Baylor University. Dept. of Religion--History Baptist universities and colleges--History Baptist theological seminaries--History Baptists--Texas--History--20th Century
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Deposit Date	1984
Genre source	local
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

Interviewee	Summers, Ray
Interviewer	McGee, Daniel B.
Title	Oral memoirs of Ray Summers -- Volume 1
Interview details	interviewed by Daniel B. McGee on 18 occasions from 11 August to 29 August 1980 in Waco, Texas.
Number of interviews	18
Interview Date(s)	1980
Item type	Transcript
Genre	Oral histories
Description, transcript	624 pages; index
Description, sound recordings	analog audio tape; 22.00 hr.; analog video tape; 23.50 hr.
Project	Texas Baptist Project
Subproject	Baylor University Faculty
Summary	Volume I, interviews 1-9, 319 pages. Ray Summers was professor at Southern Baptist seminaries and chairman, Department of Religion, Baylor University; birth; extensive family history; call to ministry; first sermon; childhood, Allen, Texas; early education; home life; religious background; siblings; conversion experience; father's interest in politics; education, Burleson College (BC), Greenville, Texas; first pastorate, Clear Lake [Texas] Baptist Church; closing of BC; effect of Great Depression on Greenville; wife's family history; education, Baylor; recollections of J. B. Tidwell; pastorate, Rosamond Chapel Baptist Church; Baylor faculty; marriage; pastorates, Big Spring, Krum, and Chilton, Texas; Volunteer Band; recollections of W. A. Criswell; impact of the death of Samuel Palmer Brooks on Baylor; Pat Neff's presidency, Baylor; relationship between Waco and Baylor; impression of Waco's Baptist churches; education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) with wife; SWBTS faculty; fellow students at SWBTS; decision to teach at SWBTS; H. E. Dana's presidency, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri; millennialism controversy at SWBTS; writing Worthy is the Lamb; teaching assignments at SWBTS; L. R. Scarborough's and E. D. Head's presidencies, SWBTS; children; J. Howard Williams's presidency, SWBTS; administration-faculty conflicts at SWBTS during 1950s. Volume II, interviews 10-18, index, 305 pages. Robert E. Naylor presidency, SWBTS; academic differences between Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) and SWBTS; writing projects; sabbatical in Europe; study, University of Edinburgh; recollections of John Baillie, James Stewart, and Mathew Black; study, University of Basel; teaching, SBTS; his teaching philosophies; Duke McCall's presidency, SBTS; Abstract of Principles; assassination of John F. Kennedy; decision to come to Baylor; visits to other schools offering Ph.D.'s in religion; additions to religion faculty; Ph.D. curriculum and entrance requirement, Baylor; first class of Ph.D.'s; purchase of library holdings of Crozier Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; religion department's relationship with churches and denominational agencies in Texas; endowed chairs in religion department; the Welch report; outside criticism of H. J. Flanders's book People of the Covenanf; other publications; wife's writings and work; plans for the future; reflections on work and ministry.
Subject--Library of Congress	Baylor University. Dept. of Religion--History Baptist universities and colleges--History Baptist theological seminaries--History Baptists--Texas--History--20th Century
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Deposit Date	1984
Genre source	local
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

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