Collection 501 Oral History Interviews with Beverly Yates
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Beverly (Pannell) Yates in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, family history, her brother (evangelist William Pannell), her conversion and spiritual growth, impact of B.M. Nottage on her life, work as a nurse, her ministry among women, Ruth Bentley, Melvin Banks, the black church in Chicago, the development of the Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference, and the Westside Holistic Center. The time period covered by the interviews is 1931-1994.
Beverly Yates was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on May 16, 1994 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates
- Created: 1994
Conditions Governing Access
Portions of tapes T2 and T3 are closed to researchers until 2075.
Biographical Information
Full Name: Beverly Pannell Yates
Birth Date: 1931 in Sturgis, Michigan Family:
Parents: William and Olive Gertrude (Davison) Pannell Siblings: One brother, William; six half brothers and sisters by her mother's second marriage
Marital Status: Married Leroy L. Yates Sr. in December 1951
Children: Three girls and two boys
Conversion: At about the age of sixteen
Education:
ca. 1949 Graduated high school in Sturgis, Michigan
ca. 1950-1953 University of Illinois Hospital, Cook County School of Nursing
?-1984 Attended Moody Bible Institute (evening school)
Career:
1956- Coordinator of Women's Ministries in Westlawn Gospel Chapel of Chicago, a congregation she and her husband helped start
1961 Helped to found the Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference, for which she was a board member from the beginning and of which she served as president 1968-1970, 1979-1982,1986-1990. Program includes seminars, Bible studies, workshops and retreats for some 2000 women.
1968- University of Illinois Hospital, Critical Care Nursing
1975 to 1978 University of Illinois Hospital, Assistant Head Nurse, CTU
1979 to 1989 Food Service Director, Circle Y Ranch Bangor, Michigan. She and her husband helped start the camp, which was intended to provide an outdoor Christian experience for black inner city youth
1980- Board member of Westside Holistic Family Services (also served as vice President 1985-1987 and chairman, Personnel Committee 1990-?
Other significant information: Frequent speaker and teacher at Christian conferences and workshops in the Chicago area. Author of magazine articles and Heart Health for Black Women: A Natural Approach to Healing and Preventing Heart Disease (2000); contributed to Women's Ministry Handbook, ed. Carol Porter (1992)
Extent
3 Audio Tapes
178 Minutes
Language of Materials
English
Accruals and Additions
The materials in this collection were given to the Billy Graham Center Archives by Beverly Yates in May 1994.
Accession: 94-45
September 5, 2000
Robert Shuster
Revised: December 1, 2000
Robert Shuster
- African American churches.
- African American clergy.
- African American evangelists.
- African American leadership.
- African Americans -- Economic conditions.
- African Americans -- Education.
- African Americans -- Families.
- African Americans -- Religious life.
- African Americans -- Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- Banks, Melvin E., 1934-
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis.
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference.
- Christian life.
- Church work with women -- United States.
- Church work with women.
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- United States.
- Conversion.
- Family -- United States.
- Family.
- National Black Evangelical Association.
- Nottage, B. M.
- Nurses Christian Fellowship (U.S.)
- Nursing.
- Pannell, William E.
- Race relations.
- Racism -- United States.
- Racism.
- Sex role -- United States.
- Sex role.
- Westlawn Gospel Chapel (Chicago, Ill.)
- Westside Holistic Family Center (Chicago, Ill.)
- Women
- Women -- Religious life.
- Women clergy -- United States.
- Women clergy.
- Yates, Beverly.
- Yates, Leroy L.
- Title
- Collection 501 Oral History Interviews with Beverly Yates
- Author
- Bob Shuster
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Roman Script
Repository Details
Part of the Evangelism & Missions Archives Repository