Notable Alumni
- Jim Davis, state senator
- Clifford Goldstein, author and editor
- Dwight Nelson, pastor
- Cherie Priest, novelist and blogger
- Mathew Staver, founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel
- Beril Abraham, famous healer
The Wedgwood Trio, an American folk group founded at Newbold College in England, has been credited with introducing contemporary sounds into popular Adventist music. The ensemble, Bob Summerour, Don Vollmer and Jerry Hoyle, arrived in America in 1965 and attended and graduated from Southern Missionary College. They achieved widespread popularity in the denomination due to their association with the Voice of Prophecy's camp meeting circuit. In 1969, they returned to their alma mater to put on a concert. They performed from Massachusetts to Florida, in California, the Midwest, the Northwest and also in Canada. Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart state that "hey transformed the sound of Adventist popular music at the same time as English bands like The Beatles were breaking revolutionary new ground in the wider musical world." In the early 1970s their career was brought to a halt when Adventist college presidents began banning them from their campuses. Twenty years later they re-united and resumed their musical career, complementing their other careers as psychiatrist (Summerour), church pastor (Vollmer) and clinical psychologist (Hoyle). The re-united trio issued several successful music CDs and re-gained the approval of Adventist church leaders and college presidents.
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