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Collection 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
Collection
Identifier: CN 251
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Herbert Downing (1905-1986) in which he describes his childhood as a child of missionaries in Kenya, attending Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the Academy, his father's work as pastor and administrator, Africa Inland Mission's policy on the education of missionary children, and Downing's own work as an educator at Rift Valley Academy. The time period covered by the interview is 1905-1983Herbert Downing was intereviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 189 Papers of Mary Goforth Moynan
Collection
Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.
Dates:
Created: 1918-1994
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
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
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
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- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 2
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- Barnett, Albert E. 1
- Barnett, Elma. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Christian Missions in Many Lands. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Downing, Herbert C. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 1
- Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875. 1
- Fisher, Walter, 1865-1935. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 1
- Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Hess, Ruth E. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Leedy, John W. 1
- Mixter, Russell L. 1
- Moynan, Mary Goforth. 1
- OMF International. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. 1
- Sakeji School (Zambia) 1
- Smith, Oswald J. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, Harry. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Stauffacher, John R. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Westervelt, Josephine B. (Hope). 1
- Westervelt, Theodore. 1
- Wheaton Academy (Ill.) 1
- Wheaton Bible Church (Ill.) 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Winsor, Earl. 1
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