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Albert C. Fisher

1886 - 1946 Hymnal Number: 545 Author of "Love Is the Theme" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Carolina. Died: February 6, 1946, Dallas, Texas. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas. Fisher attended Fort Worth University and Polytechnic College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vanderbilt University; Southern Methodist University; and earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Asbury College, Kentucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a decade served as a general evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In World War I, he was a military chaplain. After the war, he worked in the East Oklahoma Conference and (beginning in 1944), the North Texas Conference. His works include: Best Revival Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: The Cokesbury Press, 1924) (music editor) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.come/tch)

G. Kearnie Keegan

1907 - 1960 Hymnal Number: 601 Author of "Teach Me, O Lord, I Pray" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Gilbert Kearnie Keegan Born: January 31, 1907, Bunkie, Louisiana. Died: September 13, 1960, St. Louis, Missouri. He died just after boarding a plane to Hawaii. Buried: Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Nashville, Tennessee. Keegan was a graduate of Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, Louisiana (BA 1927), and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas (ThM 1933). He pastored at the First Baptist Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana (1932-35); Emmanuel Church, Alexandria, Louisiana (1937-41); First Baptist Church, Longview, Texas (1941-45); and Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, California (1945-50). In 1945, Howard Payne College awarded him an honorary doctor’s degree. He was for many years a Baptist youth leader, and in 1950, was elected secretary of the Student Department of the Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tennessee. He also served seven years on the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, and on the Board of Trustees of East Texas Baptist College. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Albert Allen Ketchum

1894 - 1982 Person Name: Albert A. Ketchum Hymnal Number: 541 Author of "Why Do I Sing About Jesus" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Little is known about Albert Allen Ketchum, except that he was once a student at Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago, and lived at one time in Long Beach, California. While attending Moody in the early 1920′s, he wrote the words and music for a gospel song called, "Why Do I Sing About Jesus?" It was one of 12 or 15 songs he submitted to Harry Dixon Clarke for publication. --wordwisehymns.com/2010/02/12/ ============== In the 1940′s, Ketchum was associated with Delco Products Co. in Los Angeles, CA, and lived in nearby Long Beach, but little else is known about him, including the time and place of his death, other than that he flourished in the early twentieth century. --hymnstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13

Bob McGee

b. 1944 Hymnal Number: 82 Author of "Emmanuel" in Baptist Hymnal 1991

Dale Grotenhuis

1931 - 2012 Hymnal Number: 222 Harmonizer of "TE VENGO" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Dale Grotenhuis (b. Cedar Grove, WI, 1931; d. Jenison, Mi, August 17, 2012) was a member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal 1987 Revision Committee, and was professor of music and director of choral music at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa, from 1960 until he retired in 1994 to concentrate on composition. Educated at Calvin College; Michigan State University, Lansing; and Ohio State University, Columbus; he combined teaching with composition throughout his career and was a widely published composer of choral music. He also directed the Dordt choir in a large number of recordings, including many psalm arrangements found in the 1959 edition of the Psalter Hymnal. Before coming to Dordt, Grotenhuis taught music at Christian high schools in Washington and Michigan. Under his direction, the Dordt College concert choir participated in annual tours that took members throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He loved the church and the music of the church. His favorite song was "All Glory Be to God on High". Bert Polman (last two sentences from Joy Grotenhuis, daughter-in-law)

Noel Tredinnick

b. 1949 Hymnal Number: 207 Arranger of "MAJESTAS" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Composer

Lanny Wolfe

b. 1842 Hymnal Number: 437 Author of "Greater Is He That Is in Me" in Baptist Hymnal 1991

Jerry Sinclair

1943 - 1993 Hymnal Number: 223 Author of "Alleluia" in Baptist Hymnal 1991

Linda Stassen

b. 1951 Person Name: Linda Stassen-Benjamin Hymnal Number: 214 Author of "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" in Baptist Hymnal 1991

Grace Noll Crowell

1877 - 1969 Hymnal Number: 605 Author of "Because I Have Been Given Much" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Grace Noll Crowell (October 31, 1877 - March 31, 1969) was an American poet, author of 36 books of inspirational verse and 5,000 poems. Her work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Crowell was born in Inland Township in Cedar County, Iowa, to Adam and Sarah Noll. She was educated at the German-English college in Wilton, Iowa. Crowell first attempted writing poetry at the age of 8, but in a rare instance of non-support by her otherwise loving family, found her efforts laughed at as an infantile effort. She stated, "I never tried to write after that until love and romance and a home came to me. That quickened and awakened the desire to write poetry again." After earning her Bachelor of Arts in 1901, that love came to her when she married Norman H. Crowell, also a writer. They had three sons; Norman Crowell died in 1953. With her husband, she moved to Farmington, Minnesota, where he worked as a bank teller and she as a housewife and mother. However, in 1906 she fell gravely ill, and despite receiving the best medical care available at the time, she failed to improve. While resigned to spending life as an invalid, she had no desire to be a burden to her family, and determined to become a writer; her first poem, "The Marshland," was written and published while she was recovering from her illness. It was primarily her long confinement and suffering in various hospitals that led her to write verses of hope, patience, and inspiration; she stated, "The thought kept coming to me, 'I would like to write poetry that will help others who are suffering as I am.'" She continued to write, and many of her works were subsequently published in popular periodicals. Crowell's health improved following a move to Sioux City, Iowa; the family subsequently migrated to Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1917 and two years later to Dallas, Texas where she spent the rest of her life. Her first book of poetry "White Fire," which was published in 1925, received first prize from the Texas Poetry Society. In 1936 she was appointed Poet Laureate of Texas, a position she held for three years. She was awarded the Golden Scroll Medal of Honor as National Honor Poet in 1938. That same year she was designated American Mother of the Year by the Golden Rule Foundation, and American Woman, a biographical publication, selected her as one of the ten Outstanding American Women. Baylor University awarded her an honorary doctorate degree in 1940. She was so popular it was necessary for her husband to quit his job to manage her writing career. Thousands of pieces of correspondence from grateful readers needed to be answered and hundreds of visitors from all parts of the United States and Europe who visited her at her Dallas home needed to be received. Crowell wrote books of poetry, stories for children, and poem and prose devotions. Lee Mero illustrated several of her children’s books. Her "Songs for Courage" went into twenty-five printings. She continued writing until she was 86 years old. "God's Masterpieces," a devotional book was her last published work before her death. Crowell died on March 31, 1969, at age 91, and is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, in Dallas, Texas. "Let the Sun Shine In" was published posthumously in 1970. In 1977 a reprint of her 1965 collection of poems appeared as "The Eternal Things: The Best of Grace Noll Crowell." Although time has relegated her to the status of a minor poet, she was selected by the America Publishers as one of the ten outstanding American Women of 1938, and in the early 1940s she was called "the most popular writer of verse in America." Her poem, "Because of Thy Great Bounty" is included in the 1985 Hymnbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under the title of "Because I Have Been Given Much", set to music by Philip Landgrave. This hymn was originally set as a choral piece by Landgrave and was later included in the 1975 and 1991 Baptist Hymnals. Landgrave named the tune SEMINARY, in homage to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was a professor for many years. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/