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MARSHALL, Texas (1/12/15) - Christmas came four days early for a family from Mount Pleasant as a prayer was answered.  The prayer of Jill and Kevin Kent was to one day see all five of their daughters earn college degrees.  Their prayer was answered as daughters, Karson and Kaitlyn, the fourth and fifth from the family graduated from East Texas Baptist University during Fall Commencement held December 20th.  All five of the Kent's daughters are now alumni of ETBU.

MARSHALL, Texas (1/09/15) - A mock disaster of a vehicle crash with injuries occurred on the East Texas Baptist University Cornish Soccer Field during the past fall semester. The ones responding to the planned chaos were ETBU nursing students; the practice exercise was planned by students in the Medical Surgical II class.

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER: (12/23/14) -  Zwolle, Louisiana, native Sade "Slim" Stewart came to East Texas Baptist University with two things on her mind after graduating as valedictorian from high school in 2004 - getting her education and playing basketball.

Stewart has always played basketball.

"I started playing at the age of 3, and then I got injured in college at the age of 21 as a senior," she said.

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (12/27/14) - Melissa Goodreau recently completed training to become an officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety. She will be stationed in northwest Texas after January 17, 2015.

Melissa Goodreau, 29, of Marshall, wasn't a typical girl when she was growing up.

According to her dad, Bobby, Melissa Goodreau was into everything.

"She was always interested in hunting and fishing," Bobby Goodreau said, "and she would crawl under the truck and help me fix it."

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (1/4/15) - Lawrence Ressler, interim president of East Texas Baptist University, arrived in Marshall in 2013 to serve as interim provost, and didn't expect to stay longer than six months.

That was until Samuel W. "Dub" Oliver announced his resignation in February of 2014 as ETBU's president. Ressler was then named by the board of trustees as the interim president of the college.

The beginning of the fall semester marked Ressler's first as ETBU's interim president.