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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.
Eugenia Isabella Cartwright Cunningham was a strong supporter of Seventh-day Adventist education who served Oakwood for 51 years as a beloved staff person and administrator.
Nita D’Ray trained as a nurse at the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital and, during a distinguished career, became the matron of both the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital and the Warburton Sanitarium and Hospital in Australia.
Minneola Lanora Dabney-Dixon served Oakwood University for approximately 40 years in various capacities, including secretary/administrative assistant, director of student employment, director of alumni affairs, and director of the museum and archives.
Literary assistant to Ellen White, Mary Ann Davis, known as Marian, was born to Obadiah and Elmira Davis in North Berwick, Maine, August 21, 1847.
M. Bessie DeGraw (Sutherland) devoted her distinguished teaching career to furthering Adventist educational reform. She became part of the progressive program of Edward A. Sutherland early in her career and worked closely with him for the next 60 years, becoming his wife during his last year of life. As a young educator, she became inspired both by Ellen White's calls for educational reform and the educational philosophy and programs of Booker T. Washington and Hollis Burke Frissell.
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Ardella Vernell Delker, a vocal soloist and recording artist known professionally as Del Delker, was associated with the Voice of Prophecy radio broadcast and evangelistic ministry for more than fifty years.
Mary Gibbs was a pioneer missionary nurse to the Karen people in Burma (today Myanmar).
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Cordélia Brandão de Carvalho Denz, primary teacher and school director, was born in 1907, in the city of Aracajú, state of Sergipe, Brazil. Daughter of João Mendonça de Carvalho and Isaura Brandão de Carvalho, she had six siblings: Briolanja, Leida, Cleóbulo, Newton, José, and Tenison.
Joselita Rodrigues dos Santos was a Pathfinder and Adventurer Clubs founder and leader, philanthropist, teacher, and social worker in northeast Brazil.
Goldie Down was an author and missionary to India. With twenty-three published books and hundreds of stories and articles, Down was often acclaimed the foremost Adventist woman writer in Australia.
Ruby Dray was treasurer of the North New South Wales Conference and then the North New Zealand Conference for over thirty years.
Adventist missionary and philanthropist Phebe Helen Rankin Druillard, known as Nellie, was an administrator, treasurer, and founder of institutions.
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Alma Virginia Dunder, née Closser, was a missionary to Tanzania and Kenya with her husband, George, spending 11 years in both countries with the bulk of it in Tanzania.
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Abbie Florence Dunn (Chinese name: 鄧福恩, pinyin: Dèng Fúēn) was a teacher and colporteur in Oklahoma and New Mexico and a long-term missionary to China and Taiwan. Dunn remained in China during World War II, continuing her evangelistic work in “Free China.” After the war she continued as a Bible worker and educator until China expelled foreign missionaries after the Communists won the Chinese Civil War, at which time she was transferred to Taiwan. Dunn was notable for her encouragement of, and participation in, the education and training of local Chinese women as Bible workers.
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Eva B. Dykes, the first African American female to complete requirements for a Ph.D., was a respected scholar and educator at Howard University and Oakwood College (now a university), where she founded the school’s renowned choral ensemble, the Aeolians.
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Euphemia Edie was a missionary, educator, Bible worker, colporteur, evangelist, and advocate for women.
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Eva Edwards was a teacher in Australia and New Zealand and a missionary to Tonga and Fiji.
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Lillie Henrietta Emanuel was an Oakwood College alumna and distinguished language arts professor, who worked in the Seventh-day Adventist educational system for 49 years.