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Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
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 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
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
Collection 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline
Collection
Identifier: CN 477
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stanley R. Kline and extensive photo albums, relating to Kline’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1940 to 1977. Topics covered in interview include: his family background in Philadelphia, conversion, Percy Crawford's influence, evangelism in Philadelphia, rescue mission work, call to missions, his wife Carmel Anthony, his evangelism and educational work in the Congo between 1940 and...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1999
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
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Helen Renich Papers.
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- Conversion. 6
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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
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- Muslims. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
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- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
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- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Stam, Harry. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kenyatta, Jomo. 1
- Kline, Carmel. 1
- Kline, Stanley R. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- MacPherson, Merrill T. 1
- Maxwell, Ernest. 1
- Maxwell, Freeda. 1
- Maxwell, L. E. 1
- Maxwell, Ruth Lillian, 1955- 1
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Prairie Bible Institute. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 1
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 1
- Stauffacher, Florence. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stony Brook School (Stony Brook, N.Y.) 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Winsor, Earl. 1
- Wright, Gladys. 1
- Young People's Church of the Air. 1 ∧ less
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