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Carl D. Anderson was a distinguished scholar and advocate of Seventh-day Adventist education who served as the head of the History Department at Oakwood College from 1969 to 1975.
Charles Landis Anderson played a significant role in promoting psychiatry in the Adventist medical system and in creating dialogue between physicians and clergy.
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Emma Marie Thompson Anderson was a pioneer Adventist missionary to China, author, bookkeeper, Bible worker, and educator. She along with her husband, Jacob, and sister, Ida Thompson, were the first group of official missionaries to China in 1902.
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Roy Allan Anderson gained global recognition within the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church as an illustrious evangelist, a gifted musician with a fine bass voice, talented writer, theologian, and an educator of ministers.
Hattie Andre was a missionary, Bible teacher, and educational leader influential in the formative years of three Adventist institutions of higher learning.
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Wayne Andrews was an American-born missionary educator, administrator, and youth ministries leader as well as a broadcasting evangelist and musical minister in Kenya. He served from 1947 through to 1954 in the East Africa Union. He is perhaps best known as one of the founders of the Bugema Missionary College, which is today called Bugema University in Uganda.
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Lucy Andrus taught in church schools in Minnesota and Washington State for a decade before giving 16 years of active mission service in China as a teacher and Bible worker.
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Linda Austin was a pioneering educator and administrator who was one of the founding members of the East Caribbean Training School (now the University of Southern Caribbean), in Maracas Valley, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Yolanda Maluf de Azevedo, teacher, was born on December 18, 1913, in the city of Santa Cruz da Conceição, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Zilda Marlene de Azevedo, singer, teacher, and musical producer, was born February 2, 1941, in the city of Serrana, São Paulo state.
Floyd Bates (貝茨Bèi Cí) and Margaret Bates were missionaries in China. Floyd was a teacher and mission director, and Margaret served as the principal of the mission school for girls in Swatow. Later, after obtaining medical training in America, they established the Canton Hospital, Guangdong Province. Floyd served as physician and superintendent, and Margaret was in charge of the nursing staff and a three-year nursing course.
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A staunch advocate of Seventh-day Adventist education, James Irving Beardsley, the first president of Oakwood Junior College, served the denomination for more than thirty years as a teacher, principal, college president, and conference administrator.
Lucy Beavis gave 41 years of service as a church school teacher. She taught in small, one-teacher schools, often located in the rear of Adventist churches or in buildings that housed the school during the week and the church on the weekend.
Charles de Vere Bell, known as Vere, was a versatile teacher, minister, and director of the Advent Bible School for the Australasian Union Conference.
As the founding teacher of the denomination’s first official sponsored school, Goodloe Harper Bell is considered by some historians as the “founder” of the educational work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Alma and Adolpho Bergold made an important contribution to the Adventist Church as employees of two denominational institutions. Adolpho’s dedication to the agricultural sector contributed to the development of the Brazil College’s farm in its early days and to Sandia View Academy. Alma contributed significantly in the educational field to which she dedicated her life.
David and Veronica Birkenstock were educators and missionaries in South Africa and the Philippines.
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Alma Montgomery Blackmon was an outstanding musician and educator who taught school for 42 years, including 12 at Oakwood College (now a university).
Frances L. Bliss was a longtime educator who spent most of her professional career at Oakwood College, teaching there for more than thirty years.
John Henry and Augusta Boehm were educational pioneers in Brazil.
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