The Opal Goolsby Award

The Opal Goolsby Outstanding Teaching Award is a traditional recognition of our very best teaching on the HBU campus. Some of the best judges of great teaching are our students. Our Student Government Association conducts nominations each Spring for faculty representatives from each of our colleges and schools. A selection committee with representatives from Student Government Association, the faculty Professional Development Committee and the Provost’s Office examine the record of accomplishment for each nominee and carefully select the faculty member who best represents the ideals of outstanding teaching. We’re proud to shine the spotlight on these wonderful examples of wisdom and inspiration on the HBU campus.

Professor Opal Goolsby

Opal Goolsby was a legendary faculty member at Houston Baptist College. She was a member of the original faculty in 1963 and taught English and French. With her husband, Bill, Opal had experienced a global life in a day when the presence of a woman in some sections of the globe had to be justified. She told of wonderful Middle East events where her presence at an oil contract signing with her husband in the desert, under a tent, on a Persian carpet was permitted because she had been named the guest of honor by the Sheik. She learned French at the Sorbonne when she became separated from her husband for more than a year in the political strife in Europe in the late thirties. She was a quick study and taught French the rest of her life. She was a generous, selfless teacher, who loved life and demanded the best of her students while endlessly offering them her encouragement and assistance.

2011-12 Opal Goolsby Outstanding Teaching Award Winner:

J. Daryl Hinze, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Business
School of Business

Professor J. Daryl Hinze completed his third year of teaching at HBU in May 2012.  He demonstrates an original teaching style combined with examples of real-life experiences in his Business Law, Business Ethics, Legal Environment of Business and Tax Procedure courses.  He was recently recognized as the HBU Outstanding Advisor of the Year and Piper Nominee from the School of Business.  Professor Hinze earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Philosophical Theology from Criswell College and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center.

2010-11 Opal Goolsby Outstanding Teaching Award Winner:

Nicole Pinaire, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Biology
College of Science and Mathematics

Dr. Pinaire has just completed her second year in the College of Science and Math. She has earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Saint Louis University and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Cancer Biology from The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston. Her teaching focus is on general biology including botany, animal systems and anatomy and physiology. Dr. Pinaire has been teaching general biology and anatomy/physiology courses during her time here at HBU. She is a dynamic instructor and very successful with engaging students in complex material and rigorous study.

2009-10 Opal Goolsby Outstanding Teaching Award Winner:

Saul Trevino, PhD
Assistant Professor in Chemistry
College of Science and Mathematics

Dr. Trevino completed his second year of teaching at HBU in May 2010. Prior to coming to HBU, he spent a year teaching at Blinn College. Dr. Trevino earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences with an emphasis in protein chemistry from the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. He is very active with the chemistry students here at HBU as sponsor of the Lion’s Club and the Dead Chemists Society.

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