dr. culpepper holds a bachelor of science and honorary doctorate of divinity degree from lee university. he also served for 12 years as chairman of the lee university board of directors. in 1999, raymond was selected as lee university’s distinguished alumnus of the year. as a student at lee, he was one of the early members of upsilon xi, and was honored in 1988 as upsilon xi’s alumnus of the year. raymond also holds a masters from the california graduate school of theology.