Baxter, Batsell

Creator

Lipscomb University

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Description

Batsell Baxter served Lipscomb twice as president, called each time to bring peace to a campus in turmoil. Quiet and unassuming, he pursued his work with zeal and confidence. He won the confidence of others with his devotion to truth, his humility, facile comment, quick humor, deep personal faith, and firmness of purpose. He launched the Lipscomb Expansion Program that would elevate the school to senior college status. In the final years of his life he served as Bible department chair and taught his classes on the day of his death in 1956, culminating a life spent in selfless service to God.

Induction Year

1998

Institutional Role

Faculty/Administrator