Together with his wife, this 2024 Lifetime Achievement recipient has eaten well over 25,000 meals in the dining common during their years at BJU!  This is a man whose family and lifetime of accomplishments are woven into the fabric of Bob Jones University. SHAPING HIS WORK ETHIC Dr. Phil Smith’s dad, Hubert, with only an eighth-grade education, worked as an inspector for Frigidaire Corporation. In this capacity, Hubert had the opportunity to observe young Frigidaire executives as they were beginning their corporate careers. Hubert Smith observed, “Those men who worked hard and did their best got ahead in their first

Blaine Fox experienced a childhood characterized by grief, neglect and abandonment. He married young and the union produced four children. But with only an eighth-grade education, his options were few. Uncle Sam called, and Blaine Fox answered – serving four years in World War II. Upon returning home, he scratched out a living – but it wasn’t much. In 1966, his wife, Gladys, died. Blaine turned to alcohol for comfort … to escape a life of loss and failure. One year later, he lost his children to the North Carolina foster care system. A few months after losing his children,