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Office of the President Records (V. Raymond Edman)

Collection

Identifier: RG-02-004

Scope and Contents

Records of the President V. Raymond Edman , include biographical files, subject files, correspondence, financial records, sermons, audio recordings and memorabilia.

Dates: Created: 1918-2020; Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1966

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Office of the Provost Records

Collection — Container: xAccession 2010-1075

Identifier: RG-03-005

Scope and Contents

Records of the Office of the Provost include departmental ten-year reviews, faculty grant information, faculty notices, academic committee minutes and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1960-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 1975-2001

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Office of the Provost Records (Hudson T. Armerding)

Collection

Identifier: RG-03-001

Scope and Contents

Records of the Office of the Provost include departmental ten-year reviews, faculty grant information, faculty notices, academic committee minutes and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1952-1965; Other: Majority of material found in 1963-1965

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Office of the Registrar Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-007

Scope and Contents

Records of the Office of the Registrar include program and enrollment information and administrative, reports and academic committee materials.

Dates: Created: 1919-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1935-1983

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Old Time Gospel Music Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 042

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one audio tape containing American Gospel music sung by Homer Rodeheaver, George Beverly Shea, and F. Carlton Booth, with piano solos by Clayton Erb.Side 1: Sung by Homer Rodeheaver - 1. When God is Near , 2. Wonderful , 3. You Must Open the Door, 4. Jesus Took My Burden, 5. Heartaches, 6. The Glory of His Presence, 7. Saviour, Like a Shepherd -- Piano solo by Clayton Erb, sung by George Beverly Shea - 8. Softly and Tenderly, 9. If We Could See Beyond...

Dates: Created: 1930-1940

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

OMS International, Inc., Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 056

Scope and Contents News releases, prayer letters, reports and field studies. The documents all related to the work of OMS which had workers in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America in the areas of radio broadcasting and Bible distribution. Key OMS figures featured include founder Charles Cowman, his wife, Lettie Burd Cowman, Wesley Duewel, and E.A. Kilbourne.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content Section, the notation "folder 5-2" means "box 5, folder 2."]The collection consists of annual...

Dates: Created: 1963 - 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Onas Scandrette Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-096

Scope and Contents The Onas Scandrette papers are organized into six series that highlight the professional and personal activities of this psychology professor and amateur photographer. The bulk of the collection is composed of the 120 photographs taken by Scandrette. Each photograph is titled and matted. The remainder of the collection relates to Scandrette's teaching and writing and includes copies of his dissertation and published articles. Correspondence in the collection relates to his retirement from...

Dates: Created: 1952-1983

Found in: Special Collections

Oral History Interview of Lisa Whitney Stackpole

Collection

Identifier: CN 731

Brief Description

Oral history in which Stackpole describes her family background, her conversion, and her work with Prison Fellowship first as a volunteer and later as a staff member at the national office and then as state director for Wisconsin.

Dates: November 22, 2022

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Oral history interviews

Collection

Identifier: RG-11-001

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews conducted by history lab students and other interviewers.

Dates: Created: 1816-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1988

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Orlin Kohli Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-136

Scope and Contents The Orlin Kohli material comprises two photo albums. One album is stickered "Pictures, 1918." The photos were probably cut from college publications, then pasted within. The books measure 9 X 11 1/2 and are bound with a string. The images portray familiar Wheaton College staff, faculty and buildings. The majority of the images are unidentified by Kohli; however, he may have written descriptions on the section of the page whereon the photo is attached, thus covering his caption, as indicated...

Dates: Created: 1918-1920

Found in: Special Collections

Orrin Tiffany Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-094

Scope and Contents

The collection contain general biographical information on Dr. Tiffany, including information regarding his activity at Greenville College, Seattle Pacific College, Whitworth College, and Wheaton College. There are materials related to his book, Canadian Rebellion, and a series devoted to the Tiffany Memorial Lectures at Wheaton College. The materials relating to the Tiffany Lectures comprise the bulk of the collection.

Dates: Created: 1931-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980

Found in: Special Collections

Oswald Chambers Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-122

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection came from David McCasland, who is the author of Abandoned to God, a biography of Oswald Chambers. Best known as the author of My Utmost for His Highest, the Reverend Oswald Chambers was an evangelist throughout the United Kingdom, America and Japan. In 1915 he traveled to Egypt to work with the YMCA in Zeitoun ministering to soldiers there. It was here that he suffered from an attack of appendicitis that ultimately took his life. It is to his wife Biddy Chambers...

Dates: Created: 1886-2017; Other: Date acquired: 2002

Found in: Special Collections

Oswald J. Smith Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 322

Scope and Contents Correspondence, audio tapes, hymn and poem manuscripts, lantern slides, phonograph records, negatives, photographs, tracts, posters, audio tapes, clippings, scrapbooks, etc., related to Oswald J. Smith's career as an evangelist, pastor, author and editor, hymn writer and poet, colporteur, and promoter of missions involvement. Includes material on the Smith family; his evangelistic ministry, particularly in Canada; the North American hymn publishing industry, particularly correspondence with...

Dates: Created: 1890-1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Otto F. Schoerner Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 055

Scope and Contents

Papers of Otto Frederick Schoerner a Wheaton College alumnus and missionary with China Inland Mission in Sinkiang, Honan, and Kangsu Provinces of China from 1931-1951. Collection includes an oral history interview, correspondence, autobiography, and photographs.

Dates: Created: 1949-2006

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 215

Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, directories, newsletters, brochures, photographs, book manuscripts, slides, photo albums, and other materials which document the history of the North American branch of the mission. Materials cover the origins of the mission's North American branch; its church planting, evangelistic, medical, educational, and literature work in China until the time of its expulsion in 1951; its reorganization from China Inland Mission into Overseas Missionary Fellowship; its work...

Dates: Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 2001, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1886-2001

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Owen Lovejoy Family Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-170

Dates: Created: 1811-1864; Other: Date acquired: 2006

Found in: Special Collections

Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 172

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, news releases, minutes of meetings, and other materials which describe the origins, planning, purpose, and results of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA) meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 1976, a gathering for evangelical African church leaders and missionaries in Nairobi, which grew out of of an informal meeting of African leaders at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization held at Lausanne, Switzerland. The bulk of this...

Dates: Created: 1975-1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Patricia Barnes Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: SC-181

Scope and Contents

The Patricia Barnes ('60) Scrapbook contains clippings, memorabilia and programs regarding the Wheaton College Centennial 1959-1960.

Dates: Created: 1959-1960; Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1960; Other: Date acquired: 2008

Found in: Special Collections

Paul and Catharine Gieser Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 088

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.

Dates: Created: 1934-1979

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul B. Long Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 344

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Paul Brown Long in which he discusses his childhood, attendance at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College (including individuals Hudson, Taylor Armerding, Edward A. Coray, V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham, Clarence Jaarsma, Clarence Simpson, C. Gregg Singer), missionary work in education, evangelism, and church planting in the former Belgian Congo and in Brazil. Other topics include animism, church discipline, Christianity and culture, rearing a...

Dates: Created: 1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul Bechtel Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-081

Scope and Contents The bulk of the Paul M. Bechtel Papers is devoted to various drafts and proofs of his published manuscript, Wheaton College: A Heritage Remembered, contained in large record center boxes. One half-size document case contains book reviews and articles written by Bechtel (or co-authored with his wife, Mary). Also included are class notes, and material for "Treasury of Devotional Literature," a proposed book based on Bechtel's Ph.D thesis. The Paul M. Bechtel Papers (SC-81) is composed of five...

Dates: Created: 1957-1979; Other: Date acquired: 1976

Found in: Special Collections

Paul Blanshard Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 239

Scope and Contents The tape in this collection consists of an address made in June 1961 to a meeting sponsored by Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State (POAU) on the 170th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. The address was delivered in Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., by Paul Blanshard, on the topic, "The Future of Catholic Power."Blanshard began his address by pointing attention to the United States as a prime exhibit of religious pluralism, its history of...

Dates: Created: 1961

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul D. Votaw Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 105

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul Dean Votaw (1917-2007) in which he describes his childhood; education at Wheaton College, Dallas Seminary, and Princeton Seminary; and missionary activities in Syria and Lebanon. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1917-1954.Reverend Paul Votaw was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 4, 1980, at the Graham Center offices in Wheaton. The first ten minutes of the interview are barely decipherable due to technical difficulties. The...

Dates: Created: 1980

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul F. Hurlburt, Jr., Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 438

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul Frederick Hurlburt (1927-1996) in which he describes the work of his grandfather (Charles E.) and father (Paul F. E.) as missionaries and mission administrators in east central Africa; languages skills among missionaries; the development of Christianity among the nade people of Zaire, including their worship practices and music; and the influence of witchcraft in the area. The time period covered by the interview is approximately 1898 to 1990.Paul...

Dates: Created: 1990

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul L. Maier Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 049

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul Luther Maier in which he describes the relationship between his father, Walter Arthur Maier, of the radio program The Lutheran Hour and Billy Graham. He also discusses Walter F. Bennett and Company, an advertising firm that worked with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Paul Maier was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 9, 1978....

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul P. Stough Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 089

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.

Dates: Created: 1979-1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul Rader Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 038

Scope and Contents Newsletters, sermon manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, photographs, negatives, brochures, a taped sermon, slides, thesis materials, and more, documenting Paul Rader's life and ministry. The material deals mainly with his radio work and the organizations he founded, including the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Additional material includes items about Rader gathered for a planned biography, sermons of other preachers who spoke at the Tabernacle, newsletters and magazines published by...

Dates: Created: 1899-1996

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Paul Tournier Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 183

Scope and Contents

Two audio recordings of lectures given by Paul Tournier at Wheaton College on April 13 and 14, 1961. Topics covered include the relationship between the physical and spiritual, the role of dialogue in medical and spiritual care, human nature, philosophy, science and religion, psychology and psychiatry, and Tournier's personal life anecdotes and spiritual pilgrimage. Each tape is approximately 25 minutes.

Dates: Created: 1961

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Pearl Nielsen Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-143

Scope and Contents The two Pearl Nielsen scrapbooks are contained in two separate boxes. The first box holds a brown book embossed with a crest-like design. Measuring 8.25" x 11.75", it displays paste-ins of 1940 RECORD articles, invitations to social events, lit society notices and commencement exercises. The pages are brittle and disattached from the binding. The second box contains a brown books with raised decorative designs, bound with a string, measuring 12" x 14.5". It begins with a few photos of the...

Dates: Created: 1940-1941; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1941

Found in: Special Collections

Pearl S. Buck Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-230

Scope and Contents

Accession

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 12/13/2011

Found in: Special Collections

Percy B. Crawford and Ruth Crawford Porter Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 357

Scope and Contents

Films, videos, audio tapes, correspondence, a book manuscript, sermon notes, and other materials documenting the evangelistic ministry of Percy and Ruth Crawford, particularly their radio and television work.

Dates: Created: 1922-1989

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Perry Mastodon Excavation and Exhibition Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-10-002

Scope and Contents

Records of the Perry Mastodon Excavation and Exhibition include committee minutes, reports, correspondence, photographs and slides and memorablia.

Dates: Created: 1936-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1963-1978

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Philip Quaque Papers Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 151

Scope and Contents Complete microfilmed letters of Philip Quaque, first non-European ordained priest in the Church of England, native African and missionary to the Cape Coast (present day Ghana) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Microfilm includes letters and other material concerning a wide variety of SPG mission efforts in North America, 1784-91, and Africa, 1817-1855. Letters describe progress in missionary work, relations with political authorities, daily life in colonial...

Dates: Created: 1765-1855

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Phyllis E. Taylor Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 460

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Phyllis Evelyn Taylor in which she discusses her childhood and conversion to Christianity; education at Wheaton College; her experiences as a Christian and Missionary Alliance teacher and evangelist among the Bantu people in the Belgian Congo from 1952-1966; her work in Taiwan from 1968 as an independent missionary; and teaching English as a means of evangelism. Other topics discussed include attending Nyack Missionary Training Institute; memories of the 1950...

Dates: Created: 1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Pioneer Ministries Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 264

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, photos, slides, tapes, curriculum materials, manuals, etc., relating to the work of the PM (formerly Pioneer Girls) in North American Churches. Materials document PM's early history, camping program (philosophy and history of Camp Cheriths and reference materials used to operate a camp and train camp staff), communications functions depicting the variety of tools used to communicate news and information to participants in its programs, orientation materials for field...

Dates: Created: 1939-1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Presbyterian Mission to American Indians Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 152

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 35 reels of microfilm containing nearly 14,000 letters by missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, focused on evangelizing American Indians. All letters are numbered and catalogued, and indexed by both author and tribe in the printed guide. Originals are in the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia. The letters date from 1833 to 1893.

Dates: Created: 1833-1893

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

President's Council Records

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: RG-06-040

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the President's Council

Dates: Created: 1967-1975

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Evangelizacion (CLADE) Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 324

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, press releases, planning and financial records, and manuscripts of Congress presentations (primarily in Spanish). Files in this collection were those of Clyde Taylor, executive secretary of the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association at the time of the Congress. Items document early planning and securing subsidy funding from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, travel arrangements, and daily reports from the Congress. Texts of Congress messages by...

Dates: Created: 1951-1975; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1970

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Prison Fellowship Ministries Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 274

Brief Description Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings and other documents describing the founding and development of Prison Fellowship. Among the subjects covered in the files are the part played in the organization by Charles Colson, the realities of prison ministry, the conditions of prisons in the United States, relations between organizations involved in prison ministries, the testimonies of inmates, and the relationship between PFM and its constituents. Persons featured included those...

Dates: Created: 1961, 1975-1989, 1990, undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Prison Ministries Videos Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 356

Scope and Contents The material in this collection consists of edited videotaped programs produced by the staff of the Institute of Prison Ministries of the Billy Graham Center. Programs contain interviews by director of Institute for Prison Ministries with people involved in the criminal justice system. Prominant people interviewed include Chief Justic Warren Burger, Senator Mark Hatfield, and Attorney General Edwin Meese; also interviewed are prisoners, social workers, gang members, and prison guards. ...

Dates: Created: 1985-1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Programs Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-021

Scope and Contents

Minutes, general files of the Programs Committee

Dates: Created: 1953-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1982

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Psychology Department Records

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: RG-07-037

Scope and Contents

History file of the Psychology Department

Dates: Created: 1991-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1991

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Ralph E. Shannon Papers

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Ralph T. Davis Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 291

Scope and Contents Notebooks, clippings, hymns, poems, photographs relating to the ministry of Ralph T. Davis, as a missionary and executive leader of African Inland Mission. The materials in this collection consist primarily of notebooks apparently used by Davis for sermon materials or in his administrative capacities for AIM. They include: notes on books of the Old and New Testaments; sermon outlines and notes; church history; notes on geographical areas, countries and peoples; hymns and poems; other...

Dates: Created: 1935-1962

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Rare Book Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-010

Scope and Contents

The Rare Book Collection contains significant holdings on a broad range of subjects. Collection strengths include Reformation-era Bibles, as well as theological and devotional material. Collection contents were received through the donation, purchase, or transfer from the general library collection of Wheaton College.

The contents of the Rare Book Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/10

Dates: Other: -

Found in: Special Collections

Ray Schulenburg Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 270

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Roy Harvey Schulenberg (1909-2003) in which he discusses his conversion and involvement in Christian work, his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, the early days of Youth for Christ, evangelistic preaching, and city missions. Other topics discussed include: Rader’s radio ministry, Moody Memorial Church, evangelical figures who worked with or were influenced by Rader (Lance Latham, Richard Oliver, Howard Ferrin, Oswald Smith, Clarence Jones,...

Dates: Created: 1984

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Raymond Buker Jr. Oral History Interview

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Raymond Elliott Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 115

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate...

Dates: Created: 1980

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Raymond Hunt Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-72 through 74

Abstract

The Raymond Hunt Papers archive contains materials relating to the life and work of Charles Williams, including notebooks of Williams's transcribed lectures, Hunt's personal notes, and a small selection of published materials and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1926-1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1932-1947

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Raymond Okebaram (Osuchukwu) Adonai Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 655

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Adonai. Topics discussed include family background and childhood in Nigeria, his conversion and the development of his Christian faith, graduate education in Poland; ministry among university students through the Christian Student Association of Poland (ChSA) and the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES); African students in Poland; Pentecostalism in Poland; founding of the Victory in Jesus Church in Lodz, Poland; impressions of the Wheaton...

Dates: 2010

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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