Ruth Isabel Seabury

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name = Ruth Isabel Seabury


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birthname = Ruth Isabel Seabury
birthdate = June 2, 1892
birthplace = Bangor, Maine
deathdate = July 30, 1955
deathplace = Muskeogn, MI
occupation = missionary, writer, educator
nationality = American
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subject = Culture and Religion
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notableworks = "Daughter of Africa", "Dinabandhu"
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Ruth Isabel Seabury, was born on June 2, 1892 in Bangor, Maine. She is the eldest of five siblings born to Geroge Edwin Seabury, an executive with Boston Edison Power, and Emma Agusta Hodgdon.

Biography

Ruth graduated from Smith College in 1914 and after two years teaching she was elected Young People's Secretary of the Congregational Woman's Board of Missions. Ten years later she became Educational Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a position she held for many years. She was a delegate to the meeting of the International Missionary Council in Madras, India in 1938. In 1940 she received an honorary Litt.D. degree from Elon College, North Carolina. She was involved in many missionary efforts and by the time she wrote "Daughter of Africa", her account of the work of South Africa's Mina Soga in 1945, she had visited twenty-three different countries.

In 1947 Ruth became the educational advisor for Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. [ [http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/information/overview/chronology.php Doshisha University Chronology] Doshisha University Website. Retrieved April 12, 2008.] She served for many years as an adviser to the Danforth Foundation which designed and implimented programs for the enhancement of religion on college campuses. [ [http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7659.html "Danforth Foundation has funded countless education opportunities".] The WUISL "Record". September 8, 2006. Retrieved April 12, 2008.] In 1959 construction of the Seabury Memorial Chapel was completed at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. The chapel was named in honor of her contributions to the founding of the university. [ [http://www.icu.ac.jp/abouticu_e/facilities.html Facilities and Campus Map] International Christian University website. Retrieved April 12, 2008.] She was called "an internationalist by instinct" and was widely known within America and overseas as a speaker on interracial brotherhood and international fellowship, causes to which she dedicated her life. She never married and died at the age of 63 in Muskegon, MI. In addition to authoring or co-authoring various pamphlets and speeches Ruth wrote Our "Japanese Friends" (1927), "Dinabandhu: A Background Book on India" (1938), and "What Kind of a World Do You Want?" which were published by the Friendship Press, "Flight to Destiny!" (1945) published by the Association Press, and "Daughter of Africa" (1945) published by the Pilgrim Press.

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* [http://www.sapc.edu/alumni/magazine/images/fall07/memorylane.pdf "At A Time Like This"]