| Show Missionary Will Speak Here at Baptist Church Miss Elma Dma R n. Tharp retired missionary to Jap Japan tl for fol the Am American Baptist Foreign MissIon Mission Mis Mis- sion eIon Society will speak next Sunday evening Oct C 15 at pm p.m. at the Community Baptist Church Miss Tharp was missionary secretary of ot the mission office In Tokyo from 1931 Prior to that she was assistant missionary mission n- n ary bry secretary from 1918 Problems Pro of the field were handled in that of office lIce S She traveled all allover allover 11 over Japan visiting missioner missioner- missionaries ies les and Japanese friends thereby there there- thereby by getting acquainted with geographic ge aspects of Japan as well Miss Tharps Tharp's lat last two years in Japan from 41 1939 were spent teaching 1200 boys Junior and high English at Kanto Gak- Gak Boys Boys' School Schoot in Yokohama Following her r return to the United States Slates Miss Tharp taught at Minidoka Relocation Center under War Relocation Authority In Hunt Idaho doing regular Junior and lien senior lor high school work from 1942 After that she was secretary to the director of the US U.S. Navy Language School in Boulder Doulder i Colo for one year and for three years she was registrar of the Navy Intelligence School in Washington D DC D.C. C From 1949 54 she server seNer at atthe atthe atthe the New York headquarters l of the Womans Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society Miss Tharp retired from ac lIC tive se service vice In 1952 She lives JIves In Boise Bofe Idaho where she Is Isan Isan Isan an active member of the First Baptist Church She Is engaged in extensive speaking assignments assignments assign- assign ments across the United States telling American Baptists of her experiences as a foreign mis Miss Mw Tharp Is a graduate of the Baptist Missionary Training School Chicago She a also 1 1 s o 0 holds a BA DA degree from Ottawa Ottawa Otta OUa- wa University Kansas and did graduate work at the University I ty of Colorado |
