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PERSONALIA

M ISS FANNY LLITTON and Miss Cornelia Dalenherg leave
New York, March 31, en route to Aniarah, Iraq, Miss Button
as Fmeritus Missionary and Miss Dalenberg quite recovered i
from the illness that brought her to the homeland.

Dr. and Mrs. Wells Thoms, the latest recruits for Arabia, sailed from
New York March 5, to pursue their language study in Palestine until after
the hot season.

Rev. Ci. I). Van Peursem and family after spending the first mouths
of their furlough in Switzerland arrived in America, March \lK

Miss M. C. Van Pelt is also due to arrive home this Spring.

Rev. James E. Moerdyk has been elected as the Arabia-1 raq member
of the Near East Christian Council, and Rev. F. J. Barny has been ap­
pointed a delegate to the April meeting of this organization to be held in
Cairo.

Rev. and Mrs. F. J. Barny of Baghdad will take their furlough this
year, stopping in Switzerland for a few weeks where they hope to lx: joined
by both their children.

Mrs. May Del*. Thoms will also be coming home from Baghdad; a
proposed stop over at Jerusalem to visit her son, Wells, may delay her
arrival until late summer.

Our entire Mission circle has been much saddened by the death of
Raymond De Young on Dec. 31st, after a very brief illness. A tribute
to Mr. De Young by one of his colleagues will appear in our next number.
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