Loescher, RDs, & B

I assume if you're reading this that you already know something about Loescher Hall. But then again, maybe you do not--however, this might be to your advantage. Think of Loescher Hall as a safe place to become. I say that because none of us who live in Loescher have become anything yet. We are college students, living on the campus of Baptist Bible College, and Loescher is home to fifty-some of us. I need to point out that one of the many distinctives of our school (BBC) is our dorms. Rather than filling barrack-styled buildings with as many students possible, the deans of BBC decided to create a living environment suitable to create, encourage, and cultivate community to some degree. To accomplish this, living quarters were built into the four corners of each three-story building. There are three rooms in each "suite" built around a bathroom and a shower. Typically there are six people in each suite, two per room. Their responsibilities include keeping their suites clean, and especially, as possible as this is for guys, their bathrooms. Now this set-up opens a large living space for lounging and socializing on each floor. The only exception of course is the floor where the Resident Director's apartment is located. For Loescher, unlike the other dorms, the Resident Director (RD) and his wife and baby live on the bottom floor. The RD's are basically dorm parents to guys or girls in their dorms. As parents, they work for the Office for Student Development (OSD) providing supervision and direction for the resident students. And then there are the dorms that have parents who are able to do much more than that. Loescher is one of these dorms. Not only is Ted Boykin (whom we affectionately call 'B') a full-time Bible/Theology professor, husband, and father, he also is father to fifty-some of us, a shepherd, a counselor, a mentor, a best-friend, and an unmistakably 6 foot 5, 250 lb. black man. B's been an RD for 12 years, and he's been married to Sherry for the past 5 of them. (9 in Christen Hall, and 3 in Loescher) We're all partial to Sherry, or mama B, not just for her cooking, but for her motherly advice and council, among other things. B is the first member, the original member, as well as the founding member of this sextuplet. I know you'll understand all of this by the completion of our story, but such are introductions. Keep reading.
(see also: Prof. Boykin, tedthegraceaholic )