Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, president of The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., of Virginia Beach and host of CBN's daily ninety-minute television show The 700 Club, is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. A former Golden Gloves boxer, he saw combat duty as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in Korea. Later he graduated from Yale University Law School and subsequently earned a Master of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary. He was ordained a Southern Baptist clergyman in 1961.

Pat Robertson has guided the growth of CBN since its incorporation in 1960 and its first telecast from a one-kilowatt station on October 1, 1961. Today the international satellite communications and production entity includes syndication of original programming to broadcast television stations around the world, and a 24-hour family entertain-ment cable TV programming service (CBN Cable Network) carried by 4,344 cable systems to 23 million homes.

Robertson is founder and chancellor of CBN University, a graduate-level institution offering degrees in communica-tion, education, business administration, biblical studies, and public policy. He is also a member of the Board of Regents of Haifa University in Israel.

William Proctor, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School and a former writer for the New York Daily News, is the author or co-author of more than twenty books, includ-ing Pat Boone's Pray to Win and Art Linkletter's Yes, You Can! He is a contributing editor of Christian Herald maga-zine, and the co-founder and editor of Church Business Report.