The Archives staff has just completed a two-year project to assess, arrange, rehouse and inventory our large collection of Professor James E. Bear Jr.'s faculty papers. Bear was born in China in 1893, the son of PCUS missionaries in Chinkiang. He served in China himself 1923-30, in educational and evangelistic ministries, with his young bride Margaret Irvine White.
After advanced study at Edinburgh, Basel and Princeton, Bear joined the UTS faculty to teach New Testament interpretation. But in 1950 he became the F.S. Royster Professor of Christian Mission, his first love. He wrote a prodigious five-volume history of PCUS mission work in China, and also researched the mission history of Portugal and Brazil. He was a strong advocate for missions and missionaries in PCUS churches; he and his wife Margaret provided support to missionaries in the field and at home on furlough for many years.
Our recent and current Archives Assistants, Elizabeth Grant and Robert Oliver, have spent many hours carefully sifting through the 62 document cases in this collection, organizing the contents, conserving delicate photographs, papers and objects, and writing a detailed inventory. Thanks to them, this substantial historical collection is now ready for the use of researchers and scholars.
Paula
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