142 CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL from June 1925 until January 1927. D. B. Eastep replaced Byrd and continued as the Calvary Baptist Church pastor for 35 years. In 1927, on Christmas Day, the first church bulletin was published. One of Pastor Eastep’s early innovations was to place offering boxes in the rear of the church instead of passing offering plates. In July 1931 he began a program called the Whole Bible Study Course. The first course booklet was published in 1937. The popularity of the course, along with other writings by Eastep, led to creation of the Calvary Baptist Church Book Room, where religious books and related items were sold, with the stipulation that all profits be used to support missions. Dr. Harry Ironside, who donated a complete set of his books to the Calvary Baptist Church’s library, was the guest speaker at the first Bible Conference in March 1933. On Anniversary Sunday, February 24, 1934, Eastep asked everyone to take one building fund envelope and put seven pennies in it, one for each year of his ser vice. Thus began the Calvary Baptist Church’s Building Program. In 1938 the church initiated local broadcasting over radio station WCPO. That year also marked the purchase of property at W. Southern and Tibbatts Sts. in Latonia. On January 4, 1939, the cornerstone of the chapel was laid there, and on September 17, 1939, the first ser vice was held in the new building. The total cost of the building was only $20,000 because church members did much of the work. The church’s first Vacation Bible School was held in 1942. The church voted in 1944 to build a larger auditorium, which was completed and opened on April 30, 1950. When the city of Covington ended its kindergarten program, Calvary Baptist Church, in 1959, built a building to house its own kindergarten program. That same year Warren Wiersbe spoke for the first time at Calvary Baptist Church; in 1960 he returned for a fall Bible Conference. Wiersbe was called as an associate pastor on June 14, 1961. Upon Eastep’s death, March 19, 1962, Wiersbe assumed leadership of the church. During his tenure Wiersbe refined the Whole Bible Study Course, and his published booklets were distributed worldwide. The church broke ground for a new auditorium in 1967, and the building opened on October 2, 1968. Wiersbe resigned on August 8, 1971, to become the pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago. Galen Call, Calvary Baptist Church’s assistant pastor, was called to become the church’s senior pastor on January 12, 1972. Six months later, Call led the church to approve the creation of Calvary Christian School. On October 21, 1979, Call resigned and Randall Faulkner was named interim pastor. On May 14, 1980, the church called Faulkner as Calvary’s next senior pastor. In 1985 Calvary began participating in the Awana program, a ministry to children ages 3–12. On September 6, 1987, Robert Montgomery, the minister of music, resigned from that position and began a new program for senior adults called Young at Heart. Pastor Faulkner resigned in late 1989, and in February 1991 Dr. Charles U. Wagner became the senior pastor. Wagner placed special emphasis on missions and also implemented a visitation program
called Organized Obedience. In August 1995 the church began a year-long 75th-anniversary celebration, during which many former pastors returned as guest speakers. One highlight of the year was visits to the church’s former meeting sites. In 1999 the church built the Calvary Center addition. The church purchased the adjoining eight-acre property, formerly Liberty Cherry’s processing plant, to be used for future expansion and additional parking. Wagner retired as pastor in 2003 to give his full time to conference speaking. The church called Dr. Curtis DeGraaff to become the new senior pastor in May of that year. Currently, Calvary Baptist Church, with a membership of about 1,800, is one of the largest Baptist churches in Northern Kentucky. “Calvary Baptist to Break Ground for Fift h Building Project,” KP, March 21, 1998, 8K. “Church Is Sold,” KP, December 1, 1921, 1. “This Sunday, We Welcome Our New Senior Pastor— Dr. Curtis deGraaff,” KE, May 10, 2003, B4.
Marv Price
CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL. Calvary Baptist Church in Latonia started the Calvary Christian School in 1973 as a ministry in which religious education would be central and primary to every aspect of the curriculum and every extended program. With the strong pastoral leadership of Senior Pastor Galen Call, the church congregation committed to a two-phase building program, designed for a maximum enrollment of 700. The Calvary Christian School operates solely on the basis of tuition and gifts; the school and church leadership have chosen not to receive any federal or local government funding. Beginning in 1973, with 64 students enrolled through grade four, classes were held for the first two years in the facilities of the Calvary Baptist Church. During that period, Phase I of construction of the school was under way at 5955 Taylor Mill Rd. in Independence. Students first began using the new facility in fall 1975. The following year Phase II was completed. Thirty years later, during the 2003–2004 academic year, 673 students were enrolled in preschool and kindergarten through grade 12. In 1979 the Calvary Christian School celebrated its first graduating class with 19 students. In 1994 the school was awarded its first accreditation by the Association of Christian Schools International. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted accreditation to the school in 2001. The school’s executive committee approved joining the Kentucky High School Athletic Association beginning with the 2000 academic year. Calvary Christian School Records, Calvary Christian School, Independence, Ky. “Placing Faith in Private Schools,” KE, February 12, 1995, A1. “School Marks 30 Years of Growth,” KE, August 23, 2003, 61.
Donald James
CALVERT, JAMES W. “J. W.” (b. July 2, 1817, Lexington, Ky.; d. August 18, 1889, Burlington, Ky.).
James Williamson Calvert, a Boone Co. attorney, was known to friends and family as J. W. He was the son of Willis and Elizabeth Ewing Calvert. The family moved to Boone Co. and J. W. attended the Morgan Academy (known then as the Boone Academy). His mother died November 13, 1827, and his father married Rebecca Ragsdale. After his father’s death in 1849, J. W., who never married, lived in the same household as Rebecca Calvert and several of his siblings. Calvert was instructed in the profession of law by attorney James M. Preston of Burlington. In 1841 Calvert was admitted to the bar in Boone Co. and practiced law until his retirement at age 61. He was also active in the Masonic Order (see Masons) in Burlington and was a member of the Christian Church. By 1860 Calvert was living in Foster’s Hotel in Burlington, where Fountain Riddell, another Boone Co. attorney and former student of Morgan Academy, also lived. Calvert was a mentor to Riddell. The 1870 census listed Calvert’s assets as real estate holdings of $2,000 and a personal estate valued at $4,500. A portion of his personal holdings no doubt included his collection of antique coins and paper money; some pieces in his collection were 200 years old. In 1889 Calvert contracted malarial fever and died. The body was initially interred in a vault in the Burlington Independent Order of Odd Fellows cemetery (the New Burlington Cemetery) and soon afterward moved to the Old Burlington Cemetery on Bullittsville Rd. Boone County Recorder, July 1, 1885, 3; August 21, 1889, 2; August 28, 1889, 3; September 4, 1889, 3. Worrel, Stephen A., and Anne W. Fitzgerald. Boone County, Kentucky Marriages: 1798–1850. Falls Church, Va.: S. Worrel, 1991.
Jannes W. Garbett
CAMMACK, ALLEN B. (b. January 6, 1899, Owenton, Ky.; d. July 10, 1985, Chapel Hill, N.C.). Allen Berriman Cammack, a legislator and a businessman, was the eldest of eight children born to Judge James W. Cammack Sr. and Nell Allen Cammack. He graduated from Owenton High School and, on May 1, 1917, volunteered to serve in World War I. Cammack went into the U.S. Navy and was trained at the Navy Radio School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. After the war, he entered law school at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, where he graduated in 1923. Allen Cammack practiced intermittently in his father’s Owenton law firm from 1924 through 1942. He was the state representative from Owen Co. between 1923 and 1925 and was Owen Co. attorney from 1930 to 1932. He was also in charge of the National Youth Administration’s Industrial Work Shop Training program for Kentucky from 1936 through 1942. In 1942 Cammack moved to Burlington, N.C., to work for the Fairchild Aircraft Company. Eventually, he owned the Cammack Office Supply Company. He also became involved in politics and civic ser vice projects in Burlington, serving on that city’s council from 1955 to 1959 and at one time acting