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Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook Oral History Interviews

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Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates: Created: 1985

Jeanne Blumhagen Oral History Interviews

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Identifier: CN 672
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jeanne Bourland Blumhagen in which she describes her family background; effects of the Great Depression; conversion and spiritual development; education at Whitworth University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois; World War II; medical missionary service in Afghanistan with the American Embassy in Kabul, Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship (BMMF), Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and later Interserve, and serving on the Wheaton College Board...
Dates: 2013-2017

Margaret Crossett Oral History Interview

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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

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Christianity and culture. 2
Families. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Public worship -- Christianity. 2
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Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Women -- Religious life. 2
Afghanistan -- Description and travel. 1
Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation -- 1979-1989. 1
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-1989. 1
Afghanistan -- Social life and customs. 1
Ancestor worship -- China. 1
Animism -- South Africa. 1
Animism. 1
Apartheid -- South Africa. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
Buddhists -- China. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions -- South Africa. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church -- South Africa. 1
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 1
China -- Social life and customs. 1
Christian education -- China. 1
Christian education -- Taiwan. 1
Christian literature -- Publishing. 1
Church development, New. 1
Church work with women. 1
Communism -- China. 1
Conversion -- Christianity. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 1
Crime and criminals -- China. 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
Discrimination -- South Africa. 1
Education -- South Africa. 1
Evangelicalism -- South Africa. 1
Evangelistic work -- South Africa. 1
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 1
Hinduism -- Nepal. 1
Idols and images. 1
Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 1
Interdenominational cooperation. 1
Islam -- Afghanistan. 1
Kabul (Afghanistan) 1
Leprosy -- Afghanistan. 1
Marriage. 1
Medical care -- Afghanistan. 1
Medical care -- China. 1
Medical education -- Afghanistan. 1
Midwifery. 1
Missionaries -- Retirement. 1
Missionaries' spouses. 1
Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 1
Missions -- Afghanistan. 1
Missions -- China. 1
Missions -- Finance. 1
Missions -- Honduras. 1
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 1
Missions -- Rural work -- Afghanistan. 1
Missions -- South Africa. 1
Missions -- Taiwan. 1
Missions, Medical -- Bangladesh. 1
Missions, Medical. 1
Missions, medical -- Afghanistan. 1
Missions, medical -- Nepal. 1
Moravian Church -- Missions. 1
Occultism. 1
Organizational change. 1
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
Race relations. 1
Racism -- South Africa. 1
Refugees -- China. 1
Religious institutions. 1
Rural missions. 1
Sex role. 1
South Africa -- Race relations. 1
Superstition. 1
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 1
Third-culture children. 1
Tribes -- South Africa. 1
Tribes. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1920s 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1950s 1
Women in medicine. 1
World War, 1939-1945. 1
Zulu (African people) 1
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Ericksen, Paul. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) 2
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Afghan Institute of Technology. 1
Ahlman Academy (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1