Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967.
Dates
- Existence: 1900 - 1967
Biographical Statement
Victor Raymond Edman was born in 1900 to Swedish immigrant parents and one of six children. He left home in 1918 to join the army and served for one year, spending much of that time in Allied-occupied Germany. After returning home, he attended college and became a missionary to the Quichua Indians in Ecuador from 1923 to 1928. During this time he married Edith Olson, whom he had met in the United States. He came to Wheaton College in 1936 as an associate professor of history and became the college’s fourth president in 1940, a position he held until he became chancellor in 1965.
During his term as president, the College expanded its financial endowments, its enrollment, and its campus. Fourteen major buildings were erected during his twenty-five year presidency. Buildings included Centennial Gymnasium, Memorial Student Center, Old Dining Hall, Smith Hall, Breyer Science Building, McAlister Conservatory, Health Center, Nicholas Library and Edman Chapel, named by the Trustees in his honor. During this time the College also acquired land for the Black Hills Science Station in South Dakota and HoneyRock Camp in Wisconsin.
Over the years Dr. Edman had a number of serious health problems: typhoid fever (from which he nearly died while in Ecuador), cataracts, gallstones, and ever-increasing heart attacks. One of these attacks, which finally proved fatal, occurred on September 22, 1967, while he delivered a chapel message entitled, “In the Presence of the King.”
Dr. Edman had been a very active public speaker with engagements in Africa, Europe, the Far and Near East, South America, and, of course, all over the United States. He authored nineteen books and numerous articles, most of them devotional in nature. Many were translated into several foreign languages. His correspondence often gave personal counsel and advice and reached thousands. He was a personal friend of Billy Graham and often worked with him on his crusades.
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection 225 Records of the Baptista Film Mission
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection 264 Records of Pioneer Ministries
Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection 567 Papers of H. Wilbert Norton
Collection 607 Oral History Interviews with Herbert and Frieda Atkinson
Collection 625 Papers of Lois Gregory
Class papers and notes, correspondence, hymns, manuscript, post cards, sermon notes, and thesis documenting the ministry of Lois Vashti Gregory, American Methodist evangelist and teacher of Christian values to young people. Her ministry not only included preaching to adults but also teaching young people, especially children, in Christian ethics and living a morally pure life. Gregory was particularly active in the northeast region of the United States.
Helen Renich Papers.
Herbert J. Taylor Papers
Wheaton College Revivals Collection
Oral history interviews, questionnaires, reports, videos, and other materials relating to spontaneous revivals on Wheaton College campus in the twentieth century. There are restrictions on some material in this collection. The collection primarily documents the March 1995 revival at the College, largely through oral history interviews conducted during or shortly after the event; also included are thirteen follow-up interviews conducted two years after the revival.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conversion. 15
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 13
- Missionaries. 13
- Children of missionaries. 12
- Church and state. 11
- Evangelicalism. 10
- Women 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Women missionaries. 10
- Children. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Missions. 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 9
- Christianity and culture. 8
- College students. 8
- Culture shock. 8
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Missions, Medical. 8
- Boarding schools. 7
- College students in missionary work. 7
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 7
- Medical care 7
- Tribes. 7
- Animism. 6
- Catholic Church. 6
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 6
- Education 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Revivals. 6
- Sex role. 6
- World War, 1939-1945. 6
- Children -- United States 5
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Christian leadership. 5
- Christian life. 5
- College students -- United States 5
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 5
- Youth 5
- Belief and doubt. 4
- Children -- Religious life. 4
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 4
- Christian education -- United States. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Fundamentalism. 4
- Intercultural communication. 4
- Mass media in religion. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Radio in religion. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 4
- Worship. 4
- Youth -- Religious life. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian education of children. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Family. 3
- Girls 3
- Girls -- United States 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Mass media in religion -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Motion pictures in church work -- United States. 3
- Motion pictures in church work. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Radio in religion -- United States. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Sunday schools. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 3
- Animism -- Nigeria. 2
- Apartheid. 2
- Athletes 2
- Athletes -- United States 2 ∧ less