Ruth A. Gress papers [microform], 1939-1966.

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Ruth A. Gress papers [microform], 1939-1966.

The Ruth A. Gress papers contain a wide variety of documents, including personal correspondence with family and friends, a range of post-missionary professional documents, and a small collection of personal mementos and diaries. This collection is divided into seven series: Gress' correspondence, mostly outgoing to her family, and correspondence with Ethel Wallace, a fellow missionary in China; mementos and diaries; a mimeographed document, Lessons to be learned from the experiences of Christian missionaries in China; and material related to conferences attended by Gress. These various documents also address the religious state and welfare of the Chinese in the United States.

2 microfilm reels; 35 mm.

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United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions. Women's Division

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Wallace, Ethel Violet, -1933

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Gress, Ruth A.

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Ruth A. Gress obtained her B.A. at Fletcher College in Iowa and M.A. at the University of Michigan. Gress spent a term at the Garrett Biblical Institute in Illinois and a semester at Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in California. Gress was part of the Women's Division of Christian Services and traveled to China in 1939 where she was stationed in Nanping and Fukien. She worked as an English teacher in a co-educational high school and taught English classes in a nursing school of the Methodist Ho...

National Conference of Christian Work Among the Chinese in America (1958)

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Methodist Church (U.S.)

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