Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
Collection 465 Oral History Interview with Merry E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
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- Animism. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Administration. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Brazil -- Religion. 1
- Brazil. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- Christian education -- Brazil. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Greece. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Depressions 1
- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Ethiopia. 1
- Education -- Greece. 1
- Education -- United States. 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Education, Higher -- United States. 1
- English language 1
- English language -- Foreign speakers. 1
- Ethiopia 1
- Ethiopia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ethiopia -- History 1
- Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974. 1
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 1
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 1
- Evangelicalism -- Greece. 1
- Evangelicalism. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Greece. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 1
- Family. 1
- Greece 1
- Greece -- History 1
- Greece -- History -- 1917-1944. 1
- Greece -- Social life and customs. 1
- International relief -- Greece. 1
- International relief. 1
- Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Liberalism (Religion) 1
- Mass media in missionary work. 1
- Medical care 1
- Medical care -- Brazil. 1
- Medical care -- Zaire. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missions -- Brazil. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 1
- Missions -- Greece. 1
- Missions -- Zaire. 1
- Orphans 1
- Orphans -- Greece. 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
- Persecution -- Ethiopia. 1
- Persecution -- Greece. 1
- Persecution -- Turkey. 1
- Persecution. 1
- Presbyterians. 1
- Radio in missionary work. 1
- Refugees 1
- Refugees -- Greece. 1
- Refugees -- Turkey. 1
- Sex role. 1
- Sunday schools. 1
- Turkey 1
- Turkey -- History 1
- Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 1
- World War, 1939-1945. 1 ∧ less
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