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Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967.

 Person

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 61 Collections and/or Records:

Paul D. Votaw Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 105
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul Dean Votaw (1917-2007) in which he describes his childhood; education at Wheaton College, Dallas Seminary, and Princeton Seminary; and missionary activities in Syria and Lebanon. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1917-1954.Reverend Paul Votaw was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 4, 1980, at the Graham Center offices in Wheaton. The first ten minutes of the interview are barely decipherable due to technical difficulties. The...
Dates: Created: 1980

Peter Deyneka, Jr. Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 381
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Peter Simon Deyneka, Jr. (1931-2000) in which he describes his father, Peter Deyneka Sr; his own education at Wheaton College; and his early Christian work in Alaska, South America and Korea. Other topics discussed include: Deyneka's childhood in Chicago as the child of Russian immigrants, spiritual life on Wheaton College campus, decision to go into full-time ministry with the Slavic Gospel Association, working among the Aleut people in Alaska, refugee camps in...
Dates: Created: 1987

Pioneer Ministries Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 264
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, photos, slides, tapes, curriculum materials, manuals, etc., relating to the work of the PM (formerly Pioneer Girls) in North American Churches. Materials document PM's early history, camping program (philosophy and history of Camp Cheriths and reference materials used to operate a camp and train camp staff), communications functions depicting the variety of tools used to communicate news and information to participants in its programs, orientation materials for field...
Dates: Created: 1939-1983

Postcards of Wheaton College campus.

 Unprocessed Material — Container: 1
Identifier: 2022-0011
Dates: 1930 1960

Raymond Buker Jr. Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates: Created: 1983

Robert C. Van Kampen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 313
Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, etc., related to Van Kampen's responsibilities on the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as various board committees, the boards of BGEA subsidiaries or affiliated institutions (Billy Graham Benevolent Fund, Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry, Inc., Billy Graham Evangelistic Trust, Billy Graham Foundation, Grason Company, World Evangelism and Christian Education Fund,...
Dates: Created: 1944-1982

Torrey Maynard Johnson, Sr., Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates: Created: 1919 -2001

W.H. Auden speaking at Lyceum.

 Unprocessed Material — Container: 1
Identifier: 2021-0063
Dates: Majority of material found in 1963 - 1963

Wheaton College Photographs

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2024-0001
Dates: 1928-1972

Wheaton College Revivals Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 514
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Created: 1936-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-1995

William J. Barnett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates: Created: 1983-1997

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Type
Collection 45
Unprocessed Material 15
Digital Record 1
 
Subject
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 25
Conversion -- Christianity. 24
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 20
Evangelistic work -- United States. 16
World War, 1939-1945. 15
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Language in missionary work. 14
Women missionaries. 14
Women -- Religious life. 13
Evangelicalism -- United States. 12
Missions -- Educational work. 12
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 12
Christianity and culture. 11
Missionaries -- Training of. 11
Culture shock. 10
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 10
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 9
Missions -- Finance. 9
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 8
Children of missionaries. 8
Christian life. 8
College students in missionary work. 8
Religious institutions. 8
Revivals -- Illinois -- Wheaton. 8
Christian education -- United States. 7
Christian leadership. 7
Evangelicalism. 7
Fund raising. 7
Fundamentalism. 7
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 6
Children -- United States -- Religious life. 5
Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
Church development, New. 5
Ecumenical movement. 5
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 5
Families. 5
Huao Indians. 5
Mass media in religion -- United States. 5
Missions, Medical. 5
Sex role. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 5
Children -- Religious life. 4
Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 4
Christian education -- Philosophy. 4
Church work with students -- United States. 4
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
Education, Higher -- United States. 4
Evangelistic invitations. 4
Evangelistic work -- China. 4
Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 4
Marriage. 4
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
Missions -- China. 4
Missions -- Congresses. 4
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
Motion pictures in church work -- United States. 4
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 4
Presbyterians. 4
Public worship -- Christianity. 4
Radio in missionary work. 4
Radio in religion -- United States. 4
Rural missions. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 4
Youth -- Religious life. 4
Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
Belief and doubt. 3
Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
Christian education of children. 3
Christianity and culture -- United States. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Church and state -- United States. 3
Church discipline. 3
Church work with youth -- United States. 3
Communism -- China. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 3
Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism. 3
Evangelistic sermons. 3
Evangelistic work -- Japan. 3
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018 -- Sermons. Selections. 3
Holy Spirit. 3
Intercultural communication. 3
Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
Liberalism (Religion) -- United States. 3
Medical care -- China. 3
Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Missions -- Ecuador. 3
Missions -- India. 3
Missions -- Kenya. 3
Missions to Muslims. 3
Missions. 3
Organizational change -- United States. 3
Prayer groups -- United States. 3
Preaching. 3
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