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Mrs. Whale are stationed at Fada N ’Gour- ma, Haute Volta, Afrique Occidentale Française. Mr. and Mrs. Alan N. Dodd (Thelma Green, ’27) left May 1 for a trip of three or four months to England, where they will visit Mr. Dodd’s people. Mrs. Dodd has been secretary for the American Bible Society at Cristobal, Canal Zone, for the past three years. Among the men who received degrees from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., at the seventy- third annual commencement, April 30 to May, 2, 1933, were Kenneth Owen White, ’22, Th.M., and Archibald Ernest Greene, ’29, E. S., Th.B. Bom To Bertel ( ’27, E. S.) and Mrs. Pagard (Pauline Siefert, ’27), a son, December 22, 1932, Swaziland, South Africa. To Eldon L. (’25) and Mrs. Peterson (Gwendolyn Beach) a daughter, Janet Leah, March 25, Tacoma, Wash. Married Henry A. Senff, ’23, and Lillian Welty, at Nairobi, Kenya Colony, Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Senff are missionaries of the Africa Inland Mission. They will be stationed at Kasenyi, Congo Beige. Clifford Bush and Mary Marie Sprout, ’32, May 10, at the Bible Institute. I. R. Wall, ’22, and Bertha Wall, ’25, De cember 11, 1932, Shafter, Calif, Mr. and Mrs. Wall are doing pastoral and evangel istic work in the Sacramento Valley. With the Lord Mrs. A. J. Anderson (Marie Mack, ’23) passed away on February 18, from Guate mala, Central America, where she and her husband, A. J. Anderson, ’23, served as missionaries o f the Central American Mis sion. Mr. Anderson is the dean o f the Bible Institute in Guatemala City. His two little daughters, Virginia, 5, and Lenore, 2, are a great comfort to him. On April 18, Ross Allen Harris, M.D., a valued instructor in the medical missionary course of the Bible Institute, entered into the presence o f the Lord whom he had faithfully served for many years. A beautiful letter was written to the Alumni Association by Hulda Knickrehm Glinn, ’ 18, after the death of her father, William Knickrehm. He was an uncle of Ruth Ender, ’32, and Mrs. Robert Chrisman (Esther E n d e r , ’27). Mrs. Glinn’s letter concluded: “ Let me take this opportunity o f testifying to the grace of God in the hour of sorrow. It is won derful how He directed every minute detail that we could not possibly have directed ourselves,” On the evening o f May 6, while motor ing from Los Angeles to Wasco, Calif., to visit his parents, an automobile accident occurred which resulted in the death, the following day, of Clinton Kraft, ’31. Mr. Kraft was at the time a student at the Los Angeles Baptist Theological Seminary, and his life and testimony were every where an inspiration and benediction. Traveling with him were Dan Berg,’30, and Herbert Schmidt, whose injuries, though severe, yielded to treatment at thji San Joa quin Hospital, Bakersfield. ' f Dr. John McNeill, a former (pastor o f the Church o f the Open Door aid member of the faculty of the Bible Institute, en tered into heavenly rest from liis home in England, Frinton-on-Sea, on April 19. His was a long life and fruitful nfnistry.
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Alumni Officers for 1932-33 W illiam W eightman , ’26, P. G. ’27, President. H arold A . A nderson , ’32, Vice- President. P earl P iatt , ’30, Treasurer, Room 626, Bible Institute. H elen W hite , ’20, S e c r e t a r y , Room 610, Bible Institute. Dues Alumni dues are $1.50 a year, payable to either the Treasurer or Secretary.
William G. ( ’27) and Mrs. G r a v e s (Madge Henderson, ’23) are doing evan gelistic work in San Francisco. They were recently visited by Adolph ( ’24) and Mrs. Kurkowske (Anna E. Cederlund, ’24), who are doing splendid work for the Lord in Modesto, Calif. Mr. Graves is hoping, the Lord willing, to arrange another Bible conference for boys, similar to the one conducted last year with such blessed re sults, at Big Bear. When last heard
from, -Bennett H. Williams, ’27, was acting as tempor ary pastor o f the St. Albans Baptist Church, St. Albans, Christchurch, N. Z. Mr. and Mrs. W il liams were looking forward to return ing to their beloved Pigmy work in the Congo. George Hall, ’22, is secretary of the Sunday Christian
the schools in America. Allan Macintosh, ’24, and I had a great time together not long ago.”. Dr. Isaac P. Ward was the speaker at a series of meetings held in the Brooklyn Heights Presbyterian Church, San Diego, Calif., on the occasion of the church’s twenty-first anniversary. Clifford F. Jones is the pastor. Conviction attended the preaching, and the response to the evan gelistic appeal was most encouraging. On Decision Day in the Sunday-school, thirty- three young people accepted Christ. Jack Wells, ’31, who is a pastor in San Diego, attended when possible, and helped with the music. Harold C. Chrisman, ’31, has preached at Audubon, N. J., while he and his wife have been attending the Missionary Train ing Institute, Nyack, N. Y. In April, they were on their way to Los Angeles, having applied to the Christian and Missionary Alliance to be sent to Burma. Ella Bennett, ’20, has returned to Guate mala, and is doing visitation work and teaching. She reports conversions every week. Frank Martens, ’29, came to the Alumni office and paid his dues for four years— $1.50 a year! He has been enjoying the medical course at the Institute and is look ing forward to missionary service in the Belgian Congo. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. McKenrick (Betty Pierson, ’ 14) are teaching in the W . Y. Moffat Memorial Bible Training Institute, Africa Inland Mission, Kijabe, Kenya Col ony, East Africa. In the accompanying picture, four tribes are represented. Four of the students (two on either side of Mr. McKenrick) were graduated from the three-year course in April, 1932, the first to complete the work.
B ennett W illiams and D aughter .
Observance, with headquarters in Mel bourne, Australia. Eleven thousand leaf lets dealing with the subject o f the Chris tian’s use o f the Lord’s Day have recently been distributed. Richard Reigart, ’30, was ordained to the gospel ministry on March 2, at the First Brethren Church of Long Beach, Calif. Writing o f him, the pastor, Dr. Louis S. Bauman, said: “Dick is one of our own boys. His life is consistent; he is a grad uate o f Occidental College and the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles; and above all, he loves his Lord with all his heart.” Mr. Reigart has been a pastor at Yountville, Calif., for nearly two years, carrying on home missionary work on a faith basis. When he went there, he found a Sunday- school o f seven scholars and one teacher; there were no church services. Now there are sixty in the Sunday-school, divided into seven classes. Besides regular preach ing services on Sunday, there is a Bible study class, a prayer meeting, and a choir practice held each week. Souls have been saved, and the Lord has been blessing the work. Lucy Radford, ’26, E.S., 154 Langley Ave., Toronto, writes of a happy Biola re union that was held at the Missionary Training Home of the Toronto Bible Col lege, where Nicholas A. Thomas, ’25, and Mrs. Thomas make their home. Others present were Herbert J. Scott, T8, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, Ont., and Mrs. Scott; Donald Mackay, ’25, and Mrs. Mackay. Later, several members o f this group met again, in honor o f Elsie Bennett, who for over nine years was a switchboard operator at Biola, and who at the time was spending the winter in Toronto. Rachel Seiver, ’25, American Mission, Fayoum, Egypt, had the thrill o f hearing missionaries at home on furlough speak one Sunday morning over KDKA, Pitts burgh. “ The music and messages from the home folks to those on the foreign fields came through so nicely,” she says. “ It was wonderful to think we could pick their words out o f the air from so far away.” David Doerksen, ’27, is located at Lu- bero, Irumu, Congo Beige, East Africa. “My second year in the Congo is now his tory,” he writes. “ Two years like the last two here are more o f an education than all
G roup at B ible T raining I nstitute , A frica . Far away, on the edge of the Sahara desert, in Tibiri, Afrique Occidentale Française, a lovely wedding ceremony was solemnized when Grace Erna Feldges, ’28, was married to Frederick B. Whale, of Scotland. Fellow missionaries and natives spent hours in preparation for this first Christian wedding to be witnessed by the natives. The home and church were dec orated appropriately, and a wedding din ner was served. No doubt this very fair bride made quite a contrast to the tiny black boy who carried the ring. Mr. and
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