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Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame

 Collection
Identifier: CN 255
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Helen Nowack Frame (1908-1999) in which she discusses her childdhood growing up in China, decision to become a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship, education at Wheaton College, years of service in China, culture and political events in China; leaving China in 1951 with her husband Raymond and their children and resettlement in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy, development of the Bible Institute, return and activities in Wheaton. The time...
Dates: Created: 1983

Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph

 Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates: Created: 1981

Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman

 Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.

Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.

Dates: Created: 1978

Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett

 Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include  Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

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 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett

 Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

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

Collection 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane

 Collection
Identifier: CN 182
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and curriculum material from James Herbert Kane and Winnifred Mary (Shepherd) Kane's missiology courses, and three oral history interviews. Materials document the Kanes' missionary work in China and Dr. Kane's teaching in the U.S.  Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1932 to 1950.

Dates: Created: 1934-1987

Collection 057 Papers of Susan Bartel

 Collection
Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
Dates: Created: 1932-1979

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Children of missionaries. 8
China -- History. 8
Evangelistic work. 8
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
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Women -- Religious life. 8
Women missionaries. 8
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 7
Evangelistic work -- China. 7
Christian education. 6
Christianity and culture. 6
Missionaries -- Training of. 6
China. 5
Christian education -- China. 5
Family. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
Language in missionary work. 5
Missionaries' spouses. 5
Missions. 5
Tribes. 5
Catholic Church. 4
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
Church and state. 4
Conversion. 4
Medical care 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Rural missions. 4
Bible. 3
Buddhists -- China. 3
Buddhists. 3
Catholic Church. -- China. 3
Chinese -- Missions. 3
Chinese. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
Medical care -- China. 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
Persecution. 3
Refugees 3
Refugees -- China. 3
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
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Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
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China -- Description and travel. 2
China -- Religion. 2
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Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
Christian life. 2
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Church and state -- China. 2
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Crime and criminals 2
Crime and criminals -- China. 2
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Education 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
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Nursing. 2
Organizational change. 2
Persecution -- China. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Rural churches -- China. 2
Rural churches. 2
Theology 2
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Amharic language. 1
Ancestor worship. 1
Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
Boarding schools -- China. 1
Boarding schools -- Ecuador. 1
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Catholic Church. -- Philippines. 1
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 7
China Inland Mission. 5
Moody Bible Institute. 4
OMF International. 4
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
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Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Crossett, Vincent. 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Advent Christian Church. 1
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
Barrington College. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christian Medical Society. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Frame, Helen. 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Jones, Clarence W. 1
Jones, Howard O. 1
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Kuhn, John Becker. 1
Larson, Reuben. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
Nee, Watchman. 1
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Salzman, Esther. 1
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
Straw, Darien A. 1
Sudan Interior Mission. 1
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976. 1
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