Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman
Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.
Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.
Dates:
Created: 1978
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1985
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 5
- China -- History. 5
- Evangelistic work -- China. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions, Medical -- China. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Church and social problems -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian martyrs -- China. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and state -- China. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Communism. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
- Family. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Refugees 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Sex role -- China. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- Philippines. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- Manners and customs. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Chinese -- Philippines. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Chinese. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Philippines. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Church and social problems -- United States. 1
- Church growth -- China. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with children -- China. 1 ∧ less
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