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 58 Collections and/or Records:
MSS | V. Raymond Edman {2020-0013}
MSS | V. Raymond Edman letter to Homer Dowdy [2020-0008}
Office of the President Records (V. Raymond Edman)
Records of the President V. Raymond Edman , include biographical files, subject files, correspondence, financial records, sermons, audio recordings and memorabilia.
Office of the President: V. Raymond Edman
Postcards of Wheaton College campus.
W.H. Auden speaking at Lyceum.
Wheaton College Photographs
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.
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- Type
- Collection 45
- Unprocessed Material 12
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 34
- Conversion. 24
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 24
- Missionaries. 23
- Church and state. 20
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 20
- Evangelicalism. 17
- Christianity and culture. 16
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 16
- World War, 1939-1945. 15
- Catholic Church. 14
- Indigenous church administration 14
- Language in missionary work. 14
- Missionaries -- Training of. 14
- Women missionaries. 14
- Children of missionaries. 13
- Women 13
- Women -- Religious life. 13
- Christian education. 12
- Education 12
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 12
- Missions -- Educational work. 12
- Missions. 12
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 12
- College students. 11
- Medical care 11
- College students in missionary work. 10
- Culture shock. 10
- Missions, Medical. 10
- Revivals. 10
- Tribes. 10
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 10
- Animism. 9
- Children. 9
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 9
- Missions -- Finance. 9
- Boarding schools. 8
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 8
- Christian life. 8
- College students -- United States 8
- Radio in religion. 8
- Religious institutions. 8
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 8
- Sex role. 8
- Christian education -- United States. 7
- Christian leadership. 7
- Church and social problems. 7
- Fund raising. 7
- Fundamentalism. 7
- Mass media in religion. 7
- Youth 7
- Bible. 6
- Church development, New. 6
- Church work with students. 6
- Family. 6
- Intercultural communication. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 6
- Missions to Muslims. 6
- Motion pictures in church work. 6
- Persecution. 6
- Children -- United States 5
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Church work with women. 5
- Church work with youth. 5
- Ecumenical movement. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 5
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 5
- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Mass media in religion -- United States. 5
- Missions -- Congresses. 5
- Radio in missionary work. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Sunday schools. 5
- Belief and doubt. 4
- Children -- Religious life. 4
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 4
- Christian education of children. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Christian literature. 4
- Church growth. 4
- Church work with students -- United States. 4
- Communism. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Education, Higher 4
- Education, Higher -- United States. 4
- Evangelistic invitations. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Huao Indians. 4
- Leprosy. 4
- Liberalism (Religion) 4
- Marriage. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4 ∧ less