Items of Personal Interest Concerning the Missionaries

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1916

Items of Personal Interest Concerning the Missionaries

The San Francisco Company

THE following items of information regarding the personnel of this large company will be of interest:—

Elders R. C. Porter and R. F. Cottrell, with their companions, are returning to their field in China, Brother Porter as president of the Asiatic Division and Brother Cottrell as president of the Central China Mission field.

Brother and Sister J. G. White have been connected with the New England Sanitarium for a number of years, he as business manager and she as matron.

Mrs. C. E. Weaks goes to join her husband, who is general secretary of the publishing work in the Asiatic Division.

Dr. John N. Andrews is the grandson

of Elder J. N. Andrews. He took two years of his medical work in Loma Linda, completing his course at the George Washington University last year. Mrs. Andrews is the daughter of Elder and Mrs. W. A. Spicer.

Brother and Sister R. D. Loveland are medical missionaries, having taken their course at Loma Linda.

Prof. and Mrs. O. F. Sevrens go to connect with the training school in the Philippine Islands. Professor Sevrens was a public-school teacher in the islands at one time, and there learned the truth. He is a graduate of one of the Eastern universities, and spent some time at Pacific Union College.

Prof. and Mrs. S. L. Frost have been connected with the school in South Lancaster He goes to take charge of the Missionary Volunteer work in the Asiatic Division.

RECRUITS FOR THE ORIENT
(Sailing from Seattle, Wash., August 9)
From left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Dallas S. Kime and child; Elder and Mrs. C. F. Lowry and two children, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hilliard, Miss Lena Mead. — RECRUITS FOR THE ORIENT (Sailing from Seattle, Wash., August 9) From left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Dallas S. Kime and child; Elder and Mrs. C. F. Lowry and two children, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hilliard, Miss Lena Mead.

Prof. and Mrs. Irving Steinel go out from South Lancaster Academy. He will take the principalship of the Philippine school.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto B. Kuhn will take up medical missionary work in China. Brother Kuhn has been one of the head nurses in the Washington Sanitarium for several years. His wife is a school-teacher, and spent some time in Bermuda.

Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Conger have attended school for several years in Takoma Park. Brother Conger received the degree of B. A. last spring, and his wife is a school-teacher.

Clarence Morris and R. J. Brines likewise graduated from the Washington Missionary College last spring, receiving their B. A. degree.

C. E. Blandford goes out directly from the New England Sanitarium, accompanied by his wife.

Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Jacques attended school last year in Washington. Brother Jacques is a graduate nurse, and his wife is a sister of Prof. H. L. Benson of Japan, to which field they are assigned.

Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Barto expect to go to Sumatra. Sister Barto is a graduate nurse, a sister of R. J. Brines. They expect to take up teaching.

H. O. Swartout was science teacher in Mt. Vernon Academy.

Mrs. J. E. Fulton and daughter go to China to join Elder Fulton, who is secretary of the Asiatic Division.

E. J. Urquhart and his family, also H. B. and Mrs. Parker and children of California, accepted a quick call for service in China, and sailed with this large company August 1.

Specific work or a particular mission field has not yet been assigned to some of these recruits, but this will be done on their completion of the year’s language study which all the new recruits are expected to take on reaching the Orient.

The Seattle Company

Brother and Sister Dallas Kime go from College Place, Wash., as medical missionaries to Singapore.

Elder C. F. Lowry has attended several of our schools; was pastor of the church in Memphis, Tenn., and with Mrs. Lowry goes to Rangoon, Burma, as superintendent of that field.

Brother and Sister W. I. Hilliard are graduate nurses from the Glendale (Cal.) Sanitarium.

Sister Lena Mead goes to Singapore as a teacher.