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Herbert Cookman Withey (1873-1937) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on June 8, 1873. At twelve, he went with his parents, Amos E. and Irene Withey, to the interior of Angola, with the original Bishop William Taylor party in 1885. From his early youth he, like his parents, was devoted to mission work. Withey combined evangelistic, educational, and industrial service in his Christian ministry to the Angolans. He learned the local languages and translated Pilgrims Progress, the catechism, the Discipline, the Psalms, and the New Testament into those languages. At the time of his death on February 9, 1937, he was working on a translation of the New Testament.

Catherine Ezell (1913-1998) was a deaconess in the Methodist Church. She attended Central College (Missouri) from 1931-1933 and received her B. A. (1941) and M.A. (1951) from Scarritt College (Tennessee). Ezell taught in Missouri public schools from 1935 to 1939 and was commissioned a deaconess in 1940. From 1941 to 1945 she did rural church and community work in the Missouri Conference. In 1946 Ezell became the superintendent of Scarritt College's Rural Center in Crossville, Tennessee. She went to Hawaii in 1951-1954 to continue her work with rural churches and communities and became the superintendent of students at the Scarritt College in Hawaii. In 1954 Ezell was appointed the coordinator of a Georgia Rural Work program, and in 1955 she worked in Johnson City, Tennessee, with the Holston Valley Rural Work program. She served on the faculty of National College (Missouri) from 1959-1964 and was an assistant professor of rural work at Central College beginning in 1964.

Darrell L. Reeck (1939- ), American ethics scholar, university administrator and ordained United Methodist minister, was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1939. In 1962, the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, Methodist Church, accepted him as candidate for ordination. He was later ordained an elder by the same annual conference in 1965. After completing his doctoral studies in Religious Studies with a focus on Ethics from Boston University he joined the faculty at University of Puget Sound and would become an assistant dean during his tenure. Reeck also worked as a money manager for the United Methodist Development Fund as well as other financial institutions. He finished his career in United Methodist ministry and retired in 2006.