Ethel Cronkite
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Pictured is Ethel Cronkite, class of 1920. Before attending Kalamazoo College, Cronkite was a student at the Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago. In 1921 she traveled to Bengal-Orissa, India under the direction of the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary board. She would serve as a missionary in India from 1921-1939. In 1928, Cronkite would return to Kalamazoo to obtain her Masters degree from the college. One of her accomplishments while overseas included translating the Gospel of Mark into the local language.
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Tidings (June 1927, No. 2)
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Tidings (March 1927, No. 1)
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Tidings (September 1921, No. 5)
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