Thomas, Howard, 1909-1986
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Presbyterian missionary, educator; born September 11, 1906; attended Stony Brook School (1928-1930) and Wheaton College (1930-1934); married Ruth Hatcher, 1934; received additional degrees from McCormick Theological Seminary and Cornell University; worked in leper colony management and training in southwestern China, 1937-1941, 1946-1947; taught at Cornell University, served as a consultant to his denomination, worked as a communisty development advisor in Laos with the USAID, and taught at Montreat College in Swannanoa, North Carolina; died in 1991.
From the description of Papers of Howard E. Thomas, [1946?], 1985. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 31200233
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Subjects:
- Christianity and culture
- Christian life
- Church and social problems
- Conversion
- Drug traffic
- Evangelistic work
- Indigenous church administration
- Language in missionary work
- Leprosy
- Medical care
- Missions, Medical
- Missionaries
- Missions
- Missions to Buddhists
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy
- Opium trade
- Presbyterians
- Rural missions
- Tai (Southeast Asian people)
- Tribes
- World War, 1939-1945
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Places:
- China (as recorded)
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) (as recorded)
