Emery Bopp [SEP] medical condition
, Darell Koons and Carl Blair, in founding Hampton III Gallery, one of the first commercial galleries in Upstate South Carolina. Bopp also enjoyed performing in BJU films and Shakespearean productions, nearly making a career of playing harmless old men.
In 1948, Bopp married Marian Meyer. They had three children, including Jay Bopp, who eventually succeeded his father as chairman of the BJU Division of Art. In 2003 Emery Bopp was diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer's disease, but he continued to paint and held a final
Emery Bopp
Emery Bopp (May 13, 1924 – February 1, 2007) was an artist and long-time chairman of the Division of Art, Bob Jones University.
Early life and education.
Bopp was born in Corry, Pennsylvania but largely reared in Louisville, Kentucky, except for an impressionable year spent living with a grandfather in rural Stony Creek, New York. After graduating from Louisville Male High School in 1942, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served as a hospital corpsman at a naval