LONG-TIME NOBTS REGISTRAR PAUL GREGOIRE REMEMBERED AS FAITHFUL SERVANT TO ALL

from Vision Magazine Spring 2023

A WORD FROM OUR DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI: CLAY CARROLL

Paul Gregoire, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Registrar for 29 years, passed away March 21 after a brief battle with cancer.

“Paul Gregoire was a faithful servant who embodied what we are about at NOBTS, servants who seek to be faithful to His calling,” said Jamie Dew, president.

Gregoire joined the NOBTS staff in 1987 as a computer analyst as the seminary first ventured into the computer age. At that time, registration involved long lines of students snaking through the library with “four-part McBee slips” hand-signed by faculty members.

Registrar from 1993 until his retirement as Registrar

Emeritus in 2022, Gregoire superintended 134 graduations and signed an estimated 16,000 diplomas.

“Dr. Gregoire believed deeply in the ministry of the seminary and gave his life’s service to make us more effective,” said Norris Grubbs, Provost. “He served generations of students and faculty during his time as Registrar.”

Grubbs said Gregoire taught throughout his tenure as an adjunct professor and particularly enjoyed teaching in the seminary’s prison extension center.

Gregoire earned the associate, master’s and the Ph.D. degrees from NOBTS, all completed while pastoring St. Bernard Baptist Church in Chalmette, La. and raising two sons with his wife, Mae.

For some time, Gregoire held the distinction as the only Southern Baptist seminary registrar who served also as dean of admissions. Gregoire once said that his job began the moment the ink dried on a student’s application letter.

Gregoire was known for his faithful attention and care in helping international students navigate registration and graduation processes. For Gregoire, his greatest joy, he once said, was seeing students “through from application to graduation.”

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