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Rutler, Russell A. [Interviewer]
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Oral History: Interviews with Maynard L. Ketcham and John H. and Bernice Burgess.

Springfield, MO : N.p., February 29, 1976.

90-minute tape.

Counter: 001-158 Maynard Ketcham tells about VIctor Plymire in Tibet; 160-736 John Burgess gives his early heritage and background (Side 1).

000-020 John Burgess recites a poem about India; 020-732 John Burgess tell about missionary services conducted in South India. Bernice also tells a little about the woman's role as a missionary.

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Oral history interview submitted for Pentecostal Foundations class at Evangel College with George R. Stotts as instructor.

Student interviewer comments: First par of tape has M. L. Ketcham, a professor at C.B.C. and Evangel College, who had been a missionary in India for twenty-five years and field secretary of the Far East of the Assemblies of God. Here Brother Ketcham tells the story of Victor Plymire, one of the only missionaries ever to enter Tibet. The story was heard firsthand in 1927. It is important because it mentions information not accounted for in Victor Plymire’s book, High Adventure in Tibet.

Further student comments: Rev. and Mrs. John Burgess were missionaries to India from 1926 to 1950. Brother Burgess was born on February 9, 1903 of a Christian family, who soon afterwards came to a Pentecostal experience. He is responsible for one of the first Pentecostal Bible schools in South India. The interview took place on February 29, 1976.

Further student comments: Brother Burgess, who appears to be about 60 years old, is in reality 73 years of age. He has a good memory and shows no outward signs of senility. Mrs. Burgess, who was married to Rev. Burgess in India, 1927, speaks a little about the woman’s role as a missionary. She also is very capable of remembering and communicating her Indian experiences. The important aspects of this tape are the accounts of the Bible school at Mavelikara and of Mrs. Chapman, who was in India as a Pentecostal missionary before the formation of the Assemblies of God churches.

Russell Rutler interviews Maynard L. Ketcham, former missionary to India and Eurasia. On the same tape he also interviews John and Bernice Burgess, former missionaries to India.

Ketcham, Maynard L.
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Burgess, John H.
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Burgess, Bernice (Mrs. John H.).
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Missionaries--Eurasia.
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India.
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