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Coping (or Not) With Change By Gilbert Valentine
S
eminary Dean William G.C. Murdoch was flummoxed and irritated. It had been difficult to keep General Conference President Robert Pierson happy. The
president had been critical of the seminary in the past and was increasingly insistent that behavioral standards be maintained along with traditional Adventist orthodoxy. And now, in January 1971, Dean Murdoch had a headache. Two students were persisting in wearing beards against the clearly spelled out regulations. Murdoch was sure that Pierson would hear of this, somehow. Everything seemed to find its way onto his desk
Robert Pierson
in Washington, D.C. Murdoch wanted to get in front of this problem and other even more serious challenges emerging on the campus in Berrien Springs. He wrote the
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