Waterman, Gertrude Papers

File

Identifier: MP-027

Staff Only

Content Description

Collected papers, books and photographs

Dates

Creation: 1946-1982

Language of Materials

Materials in the collection are in English and Chinese

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Biographical / Historical

Gertrude Martha Waterman was born in Crafton, Pennsylvania and received her BS degree in Home Economics from the Connecticut State College and an MA degree from the California College in China in Berkeley, California. She was appointed a missionary to China in 1939. Because war had already begun between China and Japan, she proceeded to Peking for language study. In 1941, she was evacuated to Shanghai and eventually began to teach at the Christian Cooperative Middle School in Shanghai. After World War II, Gertrude returned to West China where she served until 1948 at the Union Girls School in Hangchow. The political situation again forced her departure, and she accepted appointment to serve at the Mead Christian Center in Osaka, Japan. She taught at the Shokei Girls School in Sendai, Japan from 1959 until her retirement in 1976.

Extent

1.4 Linear Feet (3 boxes, two letter manuscript and one scrapbook box)

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Gertrude Waterman, 1987

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Missionary Correspondence

File Plan

Box 1 American Baptist Missionaries in Japan 1957-1960; Asia Baptist Youth Fellowship; Autograph book 1971; book, primarily in Japanese on Mary D. Jesse; Certificate; Correspondence; guest book 1963-1976; Home education and child development and translation; Japan Calling; Japan Fellowship of American Baptist Missionaries

Box 2 Kanto Gakuin; missionary photographs 1950s Japan; Newsletters; Okinawa Baptist Association 1960; Out of the Ashes-Post War Japan; Parent education and translation; Periodicals and pamphlets; Postcards and photographs; Ruth Kalling; Shokei Girls; School

Box 3 Three cloth dedication banners and one placemat for 90th anniversary Shokei Girls’ School, 1982; photographs, well identified, including World Wide Guild participants 1930s