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Australian Robert Caldwell was a self-supporting literature evangelist who worked in Singapore, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, and was the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary in the Philippines. He also worked in Hong Kong, China, and Australia eventually becoming a Bible worker and, for a short time, preceptor (dean of men) at Avondale College.
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William John Cannon was a pastor, evangelist, professor, psychologist, author, and founder of the first psychology degree program in Seventh-day Adventist higher education.
Septimus and Edith Carr commenced the first Seventh-day Adventist training school in Fiji and were the first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in New Guinea.
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Agnes Elvira Lewis Caviness was a pioneer educator, dean of women, missionary, and author, who wrote under the pen name of Mother Naomi.
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George and Alma Caviness were educators and missionaries. George was also an ordained minister and college president.
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Leon Leslie Caviness was born August 19, 1884, in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the home of Uriah Smith. A pioneer educator, Caviness participated in the Advanced Bible School, forerunner of the Adventist Theological Seminary, and lead in creating the Bible Research Fellowship, progenitor of the Biblical Research Institute.
Frank and Bertha Chaney were missionary educators who contributed to the development of Adventist schools in Australia and New Zealand and served, in varying capacities, in the United States, the Philippines, the West Indies, and Mexico.
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Alfred George Chapman was an Australian educator and missionary who made a notable contribution to education in Papua New Guinea.
George Worth Chapman was an Adventist educator and missionary who helped establish the Spanish-American Academy in Costa Rica and the Coloveno Industrial Academy in Colombia. This article focuses on Chapman’s years in Colombia.
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F. N. Chase was an American missionary educator in Kenya serving for six years as the principal of the Kamagambo High School and Training College in Kenya. Prior to that, he had served at Bugema in Uganda before moving to the Middle East and eventually returning to the United States.
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Dr. C. Joan Coggin, pediatric cardiologist, co-founded the Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team which initiated and upgraded open-heart surgery programs in hospitals around the world.
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George Washington Colcord was a pastor, evangelist, conference president, and educator who founded two academies that were forerunners of universities (Walla Walla University and Southern Adventist University).
Milton Conger served as a missionary teacher in China and a pastor, conference president, and college lecturer within the Columbia Union Conference.
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John Benjamin and Elizabeth Celia Conley were Australian missionaries in India. John Conley also served as teacher and evangelist in Australia and New Zealand.
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Arthur Ray and Patsy Carolyn Corder served the church as missionary educators in Philippine Union College (now Adventist University of the Philippines) and Antillean College (now Antillean Adventist University) in Puerto Rico.
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Molleurus Couperus was a professor of dermatology at Loma Linda University during the mid-twentieth century. He enjoyed broad interests, especially those involving issues related to science and faith. He served as the founding editor of the independent Adventist journal Spectrum.
Hugh Stowell and Myra Cozens were Australian missionaries to French Oceania and Cook Islands. They served the Seventh-day Adventist church in various other capacities.
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Cuno P. Crager was a missionary educator and administrator who served in Africa and Latin America with his wife, Reba Hatton Crager.
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Minnie Hawkins Crisler was a proofreader and editor for multiple denominational papers, one of the first teachers at Avondale School and at Far Eastern Academy, a missionary to China, a World War II Japanese internment camp survivor, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
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Edith Ellen Armstrong was a Bible instructor in the Lake Union for close to four decades.