Orville Boyd JENKINS1
21st Jul 19481 -
Radio Announcer & Record Librarian, Station KOLJ, (and Student) Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Parents
Son of Orville Lee JENKINS & Lou Ila GREGORY.
Life History
between 1948 and 1951 |
Resident in Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1 |
21st Jul 1948 |
Born in Grady County Clinic, Chickasha, Grady, Oklahoma.1 |
between 1951 and 1963 |
Residence2 in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.1 |
1955 |
Baptised in Quanah, Hardeman, Texas, by Dr. W E Norman, pastor, First Baptist Church.1 |
between 1957 and 1961 |
Occupation Radio Announcer & Record Librarian, Station KOLJ, (and Student) Quanah, Hardeman, Texas.1 |
between 1960 and 1970 |
Occupation2 in Rancher, Quanah, Texas, and Conway, Arkansas.1 |
between 1963 and 1971 |
Residence3 in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1 |
between Nov 1963 and May 1966 |
Occupation4 in Assistant Electronic Repair Technician, Jenkins Electronics, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1 |
between Aug 1964 and Sep 1967 |
Occupation5 in Pastor, Springfield, Conway, Arkansas and Cherry Hill, Perry, Arkansas.1 |
between May 1966 and Jan 1971 |
Occupation6 in Radio Announcer and Producer (And Student), KVEE and KCON, Conway, Arkansas.1 |
3rd Jun 1966 |
Graduated in Conway (Arkansas) High School.1,2 |
5th Jun 1966 |
Ordained in North Conway Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1,2 |
1st Aug 1970 |
Married Edith Marie MCSWAIN in First Baptist Church, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, by Pastor William T. Flynt.1 |
1st Aug 1970 |
Married in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1 |
between Aug 1971 and Jun 1973 |
Occupation8 in Assistant to the Director, Baptist Communications Centre (Radio-TV-Film), Nariobi, Kenya.1 |
between Aug 1971 and Sep 1972 |
Residence5 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
between Sep 1972 and Aug 1973 |
Residence6 in Shauri Moyo, Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
between Aug 1973 and Jan 1976 |
Residence7 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.1 |
between Sep 1973 and May 1976 |
Occupation9 in Independent Language Learning Consultant, Graduate Student.1 |
1975 |
Occupation10 in Associate Director, North Texas Christian Communication Commission.1 |
19th Dec 1975 |
Ordination2 in Cliff Temple Baptist Church, Dallas, Dallas, Texas.1 |
between 1976 and 1979 |
Occupation11 in Radio-TV Producer, Baptist Communications Centre, Nairoibi, Kenya..1 |
between Dec 1976 and Apr 1979 |
Residence10 in Ofafa, Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
between 1977 and 1981 |
Occupation12 in Executive Director, Afromedia (TV-Film Production Company), Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
2nd May 1977 |
Birth of son Gareth Boyd JENKINS in Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
between Sep 1977 and Aug 1989 |
Occupation13 in Director, Baptist Language Centre, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
between Apr 1979 and May 1980 |
Residence11 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
24th Jun 1979 |
Birth of son Christopher Kevin JENKINS in Nairobi Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
between May 1980 and Jun 1981 |
Residence12 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.1 |
May 1981 |
Degree2 in Communications, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, MTh.1 |
between Jul 1981 and Jul 1984 |
Residence13 in Kanyawa, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
between Sep 1983 and Aug 1997 |
Occupation14 in Communication Resource Specialist, Limuru-Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
Mar 1984 |
Advanced Degree in Institute for Advanced Studies, Clayton, Missouri, EdD, Applied Linguistics.1 |
between May 1984 and May 1985 |
Residence14 in North Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. USA.1 |
between Jul 1985 and Jul 1989 |
Residence15 in Kanyawa-Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
between Jul 1989 and Jul 1990 |
Residence16 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. USA.1 |
between Jul 1990 and Apr 1991 |
Residence17 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
between Apr 1991 and Jul 1993 |
Residence18 in Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
Feb 1993 |
Doctor's Degree in Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, CA, PhD, Linguistics.1 |
between Jul 1993 and Jan 1994 |
Residence19 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.1 |
between Jan 1994 and Aug 1997 |
Residence20 in Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
between Mar 1994 and Aug 1997 |
Occupation15 in Director, Interfaith Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.1 |
between Aug 1997 and May 1998 |
Residence21 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA.1 |
between Oct 1997 and Nov 2008 |
Occupation16 in Ethnic Researcher and Cross Cultural Communcation Consultant.1 |
between May 1998 and Oct 2001 |
Residence22 in Nicosia, Cyprus.1 |
between Oct 2001 and Oct 2005 |
Residence23 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1 |
between Nov 2005 and Nov 2008 |
Residence24 in Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa.1 |
BET JUN AND NOV 1963 |
Occupation3 in Radio Announcer, Station KVEE, (and Student) Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas.1 |
BET JAN AND JUN 1971 |
Occupation7 in Radio Announcer (and Student), North Carolina.1 |
BET JAN AND AUG 1971 |
Residence4 in Wake Forest, Wake, North Carolina.1 |
BET JAN AND MAY 1976 |
Residence8 in Pine Mountain, Georgia.1 |
BET MAY AND DEC 1976 |
Residence9 in Brackenhurst, Tigoni, Kenya.1 |
Notes
- Since 1977, friends have called me Obiwan. This got started with a young co-worker, because we were both Sci Fi (and Star Wars) fans. I commonly go by Orville Boyd. But this is hard for people to get out, so many call me Orville.
A few friends prefer to call me Boyd, which I also like. I am named Boyd after my Uncle Russell Boyd and like that association. The Boyd family name is an honorable Scottish name, also known as Bute or Buit,a sub-sept of the Stewart clan, which produced the Royal Stewarts of Scotland and England. The name is from the word in the Scots (Northern Anglian) language, originally from medieval French, that also has come into the English language as "butte."
My Kenyan friends and colleagues normally just call me by my initials: OBJ. In my international radio broadcasting in Kenya, I used the radio name O. B. Jay.
Sources
- 1. Orville Boyd Jenkins, Personal Knowledge
- 2. Quanah (Texas) Tribune-Chief, June 1966