In 1997 Bob Perkins joined WRTI-FM at a university founded by what Baptist Minister?
Russell Conwell
Title: Bob Perkins (radio)
Passage: Bob Perkins is an American radio personality.  He is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-area Jazz program host and (DJ) for WRTI, and has been on air for more than 30 years.  His radio career began in 1964 in Detroit, Michigan.  He went on to work for WDAS and WHYY in Philadelphia.  In 1997 he joined WRTI-FM Temple University Radio.  Known for his laid-back and mellow style, Perkins is a favorite of night-time jazz listeners in the Philadelphia area.  One of his well-known sayings is "This is BP with the GM!" , meaning ""B"ob "P"erkins with the "g"ood "m"usic."  He is also an accomplished radio news journalist and a First Call Master of Ceremonies for regional jazz music events.  He has earned well over forty different honors and awards from major government, artistic, journalistic and community organizations.  Information about his on-air schedule may be found at WRTI's website.  Bob once announced that he expected his personal website project to go online in late 2009 or 2010.
Title: Joseph Swain (poet)
Passage: Joseph Swain (1761 – 14 April 1796) was a British Baptist minister, poet and hymnwriter.  Born in Birmingham, and orphaned at an early age, he was apprenticed as an engraver in Birmingham and afterwards in London.  He experienced a religious conversion in 1782, and was baptised by John Rippon in the Baptist meeting-house in Carter Lane, Tooley Street, Southwark, on 11 May 1783.  He subsequently became a Baptist minister in Walworth from 1792 until his death in 1796.  He was a popular preacher, and during the period of his ministry it became necessary to extend the church building on three occasions.
Title: George W. Gayles
Passage: George W. Gayles (June 29, 1844 - March 5, 1924) was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi.  He was in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1875 and to the Mississippi Senate from 1878 until 1886.  He was a candidate for United States House of Representatives in 1892, but received only 6% of the vote due to the voter suppression laws of that period.  He was also a noted Baptist minister and was known as the "Father of the Convention" of African American Baptists in Mississippi.
Title: Temple University
Passage: Temple University (Temple or TU) is a state-related doctoral university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.  It was founded in 1884 by Baptist Minister Russell Conwell.  In 1882, Conwell came to Pennsylvania to lead the Grace Baptist Church while he began tutoring working class citizens late at night to accommodate their work schedules.  These students, later dubbed "night owls," were taught in the basement of Conwell's Baptist Temple, hence the origin of the university's name and mascot.  By 1907, the institution revised its institutional status and was incorporated as a university.
Title: L. Douglas Brown
Passage: Rev. Lloyd Douglas Brown was born December 10, 1907, in Waterford, Ontario, Canada into the home of a Baptist minister, to the daughter of a Baptist minister, James Beach Moore who was the son of a Quaker.  He is notable for having migrated theologically from a conservative Baptist tradition to Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, and within that tradition distinguishing himself as a servant of the people even to the point of administering free dental care in the basement of his church.  He died May 29, 1964, while serving in Cayuga, Ontario, Canada.
Title: John Burton (minister)
Passage: John Burton (1760–1838) was a Baptist minister in Nova Scotia and was one of the first to integrate black and white Nova Scotians into the same congregation.  (David George was the first baptist minister.)  In 1811 Burton’s church had 33 members, the majority of whom were free blacks from Halifax and the neighbouring settlements of Preston and Hammonds Plains.
Title: Lew Perkins
Passage: Lew Perkins (born March 24, 1945) is a former athletic director, most recently at the University of Kansas.  Perkins joined KU in June 2003, taking over for Al Bohl.  Perkins previously held similar positions with the University of Connecticut, University of Maryland, College Park, Wichita State University and University of South Carolina Aiken where he gained a reputation for successfully cleaning up schools suffering under NCAA violations.  Under Perkins direction, the athletics program at KU had several successful seasons, including winning the 2008 Orange Bowl in football and the 2008 Men's Basketball Championship.  His tenure, though, ultimately ended in scandal and early retirement in 2010.
Title: William H. Brackney
Passage: William H. Brackney (born 1948 in Washington D.C.) is the Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and an ordained Baptist minister, presently accredited by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and the American Baptist Churches, USA.  He was previously the Dean of Theology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and has published numerous books and articles dealing with post-Reformation Protestant thought, particularly the Baptist and Radical Reformation traditions.  Most recently, Brackney has done significant work in the areas of global ethics and human rights, and is currently the Director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies.  He is also a regular columnist for websites focused on ethics.
Title: Courts Redford
Passage: Samuel Courts Redford (September 4, 1898 – April 1977), was a Southern Baptist minister, professor, university president, and executive secretary-treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board from 1954 to 1964 (now the North American Mission Board).  Having surrendered to preach at the age of 12, he later graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK.  He pastored churches, later served on the faculty of his alma mater, then in 1930 assumed the presidency of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.
Title: The Survivors Live
Passage: The Survivors Live is a live album by country/rockabilly musicians Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis, released in 1982 on Columbia Records.  It was recorded on April 23, 1981 in Böblingen, near Stuttgart, West Germany, when all three singers, who had been labelmates at Sun Records at the beginning of their careers, were touring Europe.  The show had initially been meant to feature only Cash, but Lewis and Perkins joined him onstage on a night when they did not have a concert scheduled themselves.  Without rehearsal, the three performed a number of songs they were known for - including Cash's "Get Rhythm" and Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" - as well as slightly more obscure compositions.  Perkins, Cash and Lewis had previously collaborated with each other, and with Elvis Presley (who had died in 1977), during the Million Dollar Quartet session, and would later collaborate for the album "Class of '55" with Roy Orbison in 1985.  For the last song on the album, "I Saw the Light", Cash, Perkins and Lewis were joined by Cash's son John Carter and his daughter Cindy Cash.
Temple University Bob Perkins (radio)