Ninth President of Bethany College (1919 - 1932)
A graduate of Butler University in 1906, he earned his Master of Arts in 1907 at Butler. In 1919, he was awarded a doctrate of divinity by the University of Pittsburgh. Butler conferred a doctorate of letters (LL.D.) in 1929. He wrote A Century of Achievement, a history of the Disciples of Christ, which was published in 1930. He spent 15 years researching the life of Robert Richardson. The work was completed by Dwight E. Stevenson and published in 1949 as Home to Bethphage: A Biography of Robert Richardson with Goodnight and Stevenson as co-authors.
Before assuming the presidency of Bethany, he pastored Christian churches in Indiana and in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
A graduate of Butler University in 1906, he earned his Master of Arts in 1907 at Butler. In 1919, he was awarded a doctrate of divinity by the University of Pittsburgh. Butler conferred a doctorate of letters (LL.D.) in 1929. He wrote A Century of Achievement, a history of the Disciples of Christ, which was published in 1930. He spent 15 years researching the life of Robert Richardson. The work was completed by Dwight E. Stevenson and published in 1949 as Home to Bethphage: A Biography of Robert Richardson with Goodnight and Stevenson as co-authors.
Before assuming the presidency of Bethany, he pastored Christian churches in Indiana and in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Ninth President of Bethany College (1919 - 1932)
A graduate of Butler University in 1906, he earned his Master of Arts in 1907 at Butler. In 1919, he was awarded a doctrate of divinity by the University of Pittsburgh. Butler conferred a doctorate of letters (LL.D.) in 1929. He wrote A Century of Achievement, a history of the Disciples of Christ, which was published in 1930. He spent 15 years researching the life of Robert Richardson. The work was completed by Dwight E. Stevenson and published in 1949 as Home to Bethphage: A Biography of Robert Richardson with Goodnight and Stevenson as co-authors.
Before assuming the presidency of Bethany, he pastored Christian churches in Indiana and in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
A graduate of Butler University in 1906, he earned his Master of Arts in 1907 at Butler. In 1919, he was awarded a doctrate of divinity by the University of Pittsburgh. Butler conferred a doctorate of letters (LL.D.) in 1929. He wrote A Century of Achievement, a history of the Disciples of Christ, which was published in 1930. He spent 15 years researching the life of Robert Richardson. The work was completed by Dwight E. Stevenson and published in 1949 as Home to Bethphage: A Biography of Robert Richardson with Goodnight and Stevenson as co-authors.
Before assuming the presidency of Bethany, he pastored Christian churches in Indiana and in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
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