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Marion Lane Conrow (1894-1986) was a missionary in Korea for forty years. She received a B.A. from Fairmount College (now Wichita University) in 1918, an M.A. from Boston University in 1929, and completed coursework for an advanced degree at the University of Chicago University in 1937. In 1956, Conrow received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Ewha Woman's University in Seoul. Prior to working as a missionary, she taught high school in Mulvane, Kansas (1918-1920) and Beloit, Kansas (1921-1922).

In 1922, she arrived in Seoul and began teaching at Ewha Woman's University. She remained in Korea until 1940, when war conditions forced her evacuation to the United States. While in the United States, she served as Dean of Women and professor of English at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois, from 1941 to 1943. In 1943. Conrow returned to Kansas where she was director of the Girl Reserve program of the Wichita City Y.W.C.A. for one year. From 1944 to 1947 she was an associate secretary of missionary personnel for the Methodist Board of Missions in New York City. It was not until 1948 that Conrow was able to return to Korea.

Conrow continued to teach English at Ewha University unitl 1950, when she was evacuated to Japan due to the Communist threat. She remained in Japan until 1952 and taught at Tokyo Woman's Christian College. When she returned to Korea, the University had been moved behind United Nations lines to Pusan, and would remain there until 1953. While at Ewha Conrow was instrumental in establishing the English House on campus.

In 1960 a scholarship fund was established in her name at Ewha. The University of Wichita honored her with its annual Almuni Award in 1963. Conrow was a member of the National Mortar Board Honor Society; Pi Kappa Delta, an honorary forensic society; Alpha Psi Omega, an honorary dramatic society; and the Delta Gamma Sorority. She retired from missionary work in 1962

Frederick Merritt Pyke (1884-1976), American missionary, and his wife, Frances Louise Taft Pyke (1887-?), their colleagues and missionary stations are the subjects of a collection of photographs.

The Pykes were both children of pioneer missionaries to China. His parents were James Howell and Annabel Goodrich Pyke, and her parents were the Reverend and Mrs. Marcus L. Taft.

The Japanese interned the Pykes in a camp at Weihsien, China, for thirty months during World War II.

The Pykes had three children: Louise, Ruth, and James. In 1958, Frederick became a member of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church.

Amanda Johnson (?-1901) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary in India. She married Dr. Thomas Johnson in 1855 and for awhile was stationed at Lucknow in the North India Annual Conference.

Zula Terry (1896-1986), American Missionary, was born in 1896. Zula graduated from the University of Texas with her B.A. and graduated from Peabody College with her M.A. Upon graduation Zula entered into missionary service with the Women's Missionary Council through the Texas Branch in 1925 and started work in 1926 as an education and church service organizer to Brazil. Her work centered on the Instituto Gymnasial and Porto Alegre along with other locations. In Porto Alegre Zula concentrated upon evangelism and organizing, training and overseeing indigenous Bible Women along the lines of the successful China Bible Women program. Besides her work mentioned above, other areas of ministries include the following: The Day School at the Institutional Church as superintendent of the Primary Department for Sunday School and part-time work at the Colegio Americano. Reflecting her experience as a missionary, Zula contributed an article to the Missionary Voice concerning the need for the Institutional Church in Porto Alegro in April 1934. Zula departed from the field on December 22, 1961 and died on January 24, 1986.

Sources Consulted A Model Home Base For Missions: Mary Decherd, The University Of Texas Epworth League, And The Brazil Mission by Robert W. Sledge Annual Report Woman's Council - M.E. Church, South, 1934 (p. 179, 181, 246) "Five Dollars and Myself": The History of Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1845-1939 by Robert W. Sledge (p. 272) New World Outlook - March 3, 1986 Woman's Division of Christian Service Minutes - 1961-1964 (Twenty-second Annual Meeting, January 9-14, 1962, p. 62) The Missionary Voice - "A Model Home Base for Missions: Mary Decherd, The University of Texas Epworth League, and the Brazil Mission" by Robert Sledge - October 1927

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1867, Laura Marsden White (1867-1937) was a missionary to China for about 43 years of her life. Her work there included teaching, translating, writing, editing a magazine, and organizing schools.

Before her work as a missionary, White taught in public schools in Philadelphia for five years, then attended Wellesley and Chicago Training School, graduating in 1890 with a B.H.

She sailed for China in 1891 under the auspices of the Philadelphia branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and taught school in Chinkiang. Then in 1907 she moved to Nanking, where she was given the task of turning the school there into a college. In 1912, the first building for the junior college in Nanking was dedicated. In 1915, this school merged with several different denominational mission institutions to become Ginling College.

White was chosen in 1912 by the Christian Literature Society in China to edit The Woman's Messenger, one of the first missionary literary projects developed for women. In 1915, she moved to Shanghai to work full-time with the Christian Literature Society. White retired from mission work in 1934, and died in 1937.

Lila Jean Fraizer (?-?), Methodist A-3 missionary to India, was educated at Northwestern University. Fraizer married Morris Dean Frazier before being appointed short term missionaries to India during the mid-1950s. Fraizer's assignment was social work, whereas her husband supervised the business administrator of the mission field. The Fraizers had two children. Sadly, one child died while on the mission field, whereas the other survived into adulthood.

Marian Warner (1917-2013), Methodist missionary and educational administrator, was born in Fairfield, Iowa, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. She received her education in the John Fletcher College (1925); State University of Iowa ( B. A. in 1929; M. A. in 1943). She taught in Davenport, Iowa (1926-1928). Miss Warner was sent in October 1929 as a regular missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church to India. She served Queen's Hill School, Darjeeling, India (1930). She was assigned as principal of the Middle School and Hostel in Baihar, India (1931-1950). It is recognized as the coeducational school for Balaghat, Jabalpur and Narsinghpur districts. After 19 years of service, she was appointed vice principal of Hawabagh Women's College, a teacher's training school, in Jabalpur (1951-1967). It is now a part of Saugor University in Jabalpur, India. Warner retired from the Indian Mission field in June 1968.

James David Gillilan (1858-1935) Methodist missionary in Utah. He was also a minister, principle, and presiding elder. He was born on May 19, 1858, in Jackson, Ohio. His early schooling was in the public schools there, but mostly he educated himself. On May 19, 1880, he married Alice Wiseman.

He joined the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1883. He was sent to the Utah mission, where he served for fifteen years, including several as superintendent. He joined the Idaho Conference in 1898, and served there until his retirement in 1933. During this time, he served as the superintendent of the La Grande District, (1904-1910), and of the Boise District, (1911-1917). He was named delegate to the General Conference three times, 1904, 1912, and 1916. In 1918, he served on a commission sent to the Orient to survey the Church's missionary work there.

He died in 1935. The date and location are unknown.

Spencer Lewis (1854-1939) was a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to China. He received a B.A. from Northwestern University (1879) and attended Garrett Biblical Institute. Lewis married Esther Bilble ( 1859-?) in 1881. Later that year they sailed for China. Upon arrival in Chinkiang he was ordained, and he remained there for one year of language study. In 1882 he moved to Chungking where he began preaching in rural areas. Lewis was appointed superintendent of the West China Mission in 1888 and established a school for boys that year. His wife began a school for girls the following year.

Willard Edwin Graves (1880-1966), an American missionary and educator, was born in Oak Hill, Clay County, Kansas, on April 5, 1880. His wife, Almyra Alford Graves was born in Beloit, Kansas, on May 31, 1884. Both graduated in June 1907 from Kansas Wesleyan University and were married that same month.

Willard and Almyra Graves were commissioned by the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church to serve as teaching missionaries in Rangoon, Burma beginning in 1908. Willard taught and later served as principal of the Methodist Episcopal Church School for Boys in Rangoon. Almyra suffered ill health and returned home for a year. She returned to Burma, but her health deteriorated again, which necessitated their final departure for the United States in 1913. She died on July 7, 1914.

Following his wife's death, Graves earned his master of arts degree at the University of Chicago. He never returned to the mission field, though he remained an ardent supporter of missions all of his life. He married Edna B. Murphy in 1915. They had four children. He continued to teach in Kansas and Colorado, and later became a sales representative for a company that published textbooks in New York. He died in Milwaukee on December 10, 1966.