Student witnesses fatal crash on PCH
Two people died in an automobile accident Tuesday on Pacific Coast Highway between Santa Monica and Malibu. Senior Keltie Cole said she witnessed a horrific incident when a gold Mercedes hit a telephone pole and then the garage of a home on PCH.
One pedestrian died as the Mercedes struck him. The passenger in the vehicle was also killed. No charges had been filed against the female driver of the car as of Wednesday night.
Former administrator inaugurated as president of Oklahoma Christian
Former Vice chancellor Dr. Mike E. O’Neal was named the fifth president of Oklahoma Christian University on Jan. 18. He officially took office June 15 after ending his 26-year career at Pepperdine.
O’Neal, 56, started at Pepperdine in 1976 as general counsel and was also vice president for finance and administration before he was named vice chancellor.
He attended Oklahoma Christian before completing his degree in accounting and business at Harding University. He earned his jurist doctorate from Stanford University in 1974.
While O’Neal was with Pepperdine, his office helped raise over $250 million for the university.
Before coming to Pepperdine, O’Neal served on the faculty of Harding University as assistant professor of business administration.
As a former CPA, O’Neal worked with the accounting firms of Coopers & Lybrand; Touche, Ross & Co; and Ernst & Ernst. He scored first in Oklahoma and 17th in the nation on the CPA exam.
O’Neal has been a member of the California and Arkansas Bar Associations, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Oklahoma and Arkansas Boards of Public Accountancy.
He served on the board of directors of California Christian School, was of counsel to the African Christian Hospitals Foundation and is a frequent seminar speaker on the topics of fund-raising and estate planning.
He also received the Christian Service Award from the San Diego Christian Foundation, served as president for the Church of Christ Foundation and as a director of the Los Angeles Church Property Cooperation.
O’Neal is a lifelong member of the Church of Christ and has served as an elder, Bible class teacher, song leader, preacher, vocational missionary, ministry leader and building committee chair.
O’Neal said at the school’s annual Bible Lectureship that he was coming there “to serve to the best of his ability in the same model of service as Jesus Christ.”
O’Neal is also a native of Hugo and Antlers, Oklahoma and was born Feb. 6, 1946.
“It is wonderful to be home,” O’Neal said about his return to Oklahoma.
Internationally renowned political scientist speaks
Dr. Edward Laurance, professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, will present a lecture on “Graduate School and Careers in International Studies” Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Raitt Recital Hall.
All students are welcome to attend this lecture by an internationally renowned political scientist. Laurance was one of two experts chosen by the United Nations to advise it on measures to control small arms and light weapons.
Amnesty International rallies to abolish the death penalty
Amnesty International USA will be having an online event in conjunction with its fifth annual National Weekend of Faith in Action on the Death Penalty.
The 10-day event will be held from Oct. 7 to Oct. 16.
This event features audio interviews with key religious leaders, discussion boards, live audio chats and more. The focus of the event is on the role of the faith community in the movement to abolish the death penalty, according to ThePetitionSite.com.
For information or to sign up, the Amnesty International Web address for this event is: www.care2.com/go/z/2811.
October 03, 2002