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Collection 487 Oral History Interview with Kathryn M. Feldi
Collection
Identifier: CN 487
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi (1912-2015) in which she describes her parents, who were Africa Inland Mission workers in Tanzania; mother's conversion at a Billy Sunday campaign; her own attendance at Wheaton College; memories of Billy Graham as a college student; the Wheaton revival of 1943; favorite professors; and the effect of World War II on the Wheaton campus. The time period covered by the interviews is 1922 to 1993.Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi was...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates:
Created: 1988-1989
Collection 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
Collection 319 Oral History Interview with Jesse W. Hoover
Collection
Identifier: CN 319
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Jesse Wilbert Hoover (1908-2002) in which he discuesses his pietistic background and beliefs, his education at Messiah and Wheaton Colleges, his involvement in Mennonite relief work in Europe and the Far East and his evangelistic work in Canada. The time period covered by the interviews is 1908-1947.
Jesse W. Hoover was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on October 7, 1985 in Greenfield, Indiana.
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 486 Oral History Interview with Helen R. Jongewaard
Collection
Identifier: CN 486
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Ruth Supplee Jongewaard (1922-2005) in which she describes her time as a student at Wheaton College. Among the topics discussed are aquaintance with Billy Graham; the Boethallian Literary Society; memories of professors such as Carl Henry, William Nordin; Russell Mixter, Merrill Tenney, V Raymond Edman, and others; revival of 1943 on Wheaton campus; and the effect of World War II on Wheaton. The time period covered by the inteview is 1920 to 1943....
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 489 Oral History Interview with John A. MacDonald
Collection
Identifier: CN 489
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with John Allan MacDonald (1921-2014) in which he discusses his education and activities at Wheaton College from his graduation in 1943; literary societies; friends and faculty; the impact of World War II on the campus; Billy Graham and his role in the United Gospel Tabernacle in Wheaton; MacDonald's evangelistic and church ministry among San Francisco hippies in the late 1960s and work with Jews for Jesus (JFJ) and its founder Moishe Rosen. The second interview...
Dates:
Created: 1993-1994
Collection 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon
Collection
Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 465 Oral History Interview with Merry E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
Collection 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 325
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 196 Oral History Interview with Edna Louise Asher Case
Collection
Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1929
Collection 381 Oral History Interview with Peter Deyneka, Jr.
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
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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
Collection 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.
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
Collection 134 Papers of Marian Chapman
Collection
Identifier: CN 134
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Marian Gold Chapman, a missionary with Latin America Mission in Cartagena, Colombia (1957-1975); Bogota, New Jersey (1975-1977), and Coral Gables, Florida (1977-1979).
Dates:
Created: 1980, 1995
Collection 326 Papers of James Edwin Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 326
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal notebook relating to the ministry of James E. Wright with Youth for Christ in India, Mexico, and the United States.Series 1: Audio TapesOral history interviews with James E. Wright in which he describes his youth, conversion and spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College and Multnomah School of the Bible, involvement with Youth For Christ in Portland, Oregon, India and Mexico, counseling and follow-up...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1986
Collection 567 Papers of H. Wilbert Norton
Collection
Identifier: CN 567
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, pamphlets, and manuscripts relating to Gustav H.W. Norton's (1915-2017) work as an administrator and professor of theology and missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College, as well as his involvement with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelical Literature Overseas, and Mid-American Keswick. The collection documents Norton’s childhood, education, and career as professor of missions...
Dates:
Created: 1950-2000
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
David M. Howard, Sr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents
Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1993
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
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- Evangelistic work. 21
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 18
- Missionaries. 15
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 14
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 11
- Conversion. 10
- Christianity and culture. 9
- College students. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 9
- Women 9
- Women -- Religious life. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Church and state. 8
- College students -- United States 8
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 8
- Evangelicalism. 8
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- World War, 1939-1945. 7
- Christian leadership. 6
- Christian life. 6
- Missionaries' spouses. 6
- Sex role. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Depressions 5
- Depressions -- 1929 5
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 5
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
- Family. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Revivals. 5
- Children. 4
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Church growth. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- International relief. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Congresses. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Missions. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 4
- Sunday schools. 4
- Worship. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible. 3
- Children -- United States 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian education -- United States. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church schools 3
- Church work with students. 3
- Church work with youth. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Ethiopia 3
- Ethiopia -- History 3
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 3
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Mass media in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Nairobi (Kenya) 3
- Persecution. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- AIDS (Disease) 2
- African Americans. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Christian education -- Niger. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2 ∧ less
- Names
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 12
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 10
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 5
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 3
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 3
- Dyrness, Enock. 3
- Mixter, Russell L. 3
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- United Gospel Tabernacle (Wheaton, Ill.) 3
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 3
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 2
- Armerding, Hudson T. 2
- Bright, Bill. 2
- Central American Mission. 2
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 2
- Deyneka, Peter, 1931-2000. 2
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 2
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 2
- Dortzbach, Karl. 2
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 2
- Engstrom, Ted W. (Ted Wilhelm), 1916- 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 2
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 2
- Ford, Leighton. 2
- Grigolia, Alexander, 1896-1979. 2
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 2
- Howard, David M. 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 2
- Latham, Lance B. 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- Long, Burt E. 2
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
- Mellis, Charles. 2
- Messiah College. 2
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Nordin, H. William. 2
- North Side Gospel Center (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Northwestern College (Roseville, Minn.) 2
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 2
- Slavic Gospel Association. 2
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 2
- Tenney, Merrill C. 2
- Torrey, Edith C. 2
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 2
- Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982. 2
- Trotman, Dawson E. 2
- Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 2
- Welsh, Evan D. 2
- Wheaton '83 2
- Wolgemuth, Sam. 2
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 2
- World Vision International. 2
- Youth for Christ/USA. 2
- Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 1
- American Association for Jewish Evangelism. 1
- American Board of Missions to the Jews. 1
- American Indian Crusade. 1
- American Messianic Fellowship. 1
- American Society of Missiology. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Arzoomanian, Rose. 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Asher, Virginia Healey, 1869-1937. 1
- Asher, William. 1
- Asia Missions Association (Korea) 1
- Asia Theological Association. 1
- Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions. 1
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
- Association of Theological Schools in South East Asia. 1
- Awana Clubs International. 1
- Baptist Mid-missions (Organization) 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
- Barrows, Cliff. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Berry, Donald W. 1
- Bibletown Community Church (Boca Raton, Fla.) 1
- Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939. 1
- Bihl, Carl J. 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Brethren in Christ Church. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Bryan College. 1
- Bryant, Anita. 1
- Campbell, Ken, 1934- 1
- Carnell, Edward John, 1919-1967. 1
- Case, Edna. 1 ∧ less
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