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 16 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman
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.
Collection 105 Oral History Interview with Paul D. Votaw
Collection 259 Oral History Interviews with Donald A. Cook
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.
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 344 Oral History Interview with Paul B. Long
Collection 381 Oral History Interview with Peter Deyneka, Jr.
Collection 489 Oral History Interview with John A. MacDonald
Collection 567 Papers of H. Wilbert Norton
Collection 607 Oral History Interviews with Herbert and Frieda Atkinson
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
- Missionaries. 13
- Conversion. 12
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Church and state. 8
- Education 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Catholic Church. 6
- College students. 6
- Missions, Medical. 6
- Missions. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- College students in missionary work. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Medical care 5
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 5
- Revivals. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Animism. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Church growth. 4
- College students -- United States 4
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Sex role. 4
- Worship. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Prayer groups -- United States. 3
- Prayer groups. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Apartheid. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work -- United States. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Depressions 2
- Depressions -- 1929 2
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 2
- Evangelical Free Church of America -- Missions. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Family. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Honey Rock Camp (Wheaton College) 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Honduras. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Moravian Church -- Missions. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nursing. 2 ∧ less