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Norton, Hugo Wilbert (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Norton, Hugo Wilbert
Used for/see from:
  • Norton, H. Wilbert (Hugo Wilbert)
  • Norton, Will (Wilbert)

What's gone wrong with the harvest?, 1978: t.p. (H. Wilbert Norton)

OCLC (hdg.: Norton, Hugo Wilbert; usages: Hugo Wilbert Norton, H. Wilbert Norton, Will Norton)

LC in OCLC, (hdg.: Norton, Hugo Wilbert; usage: H. Wilbert Norton)

Chicago tribune WWW site, viewed Mar. 27, 2017 (in obituary dated Mar. 21, 2017: H. Wilbert Norton was president of Trinity College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Bannockburn in the 1950s and 1960s; later was a professor and graduate school dean at Wheaton College; was an influential leader not just in theological education but also in the training of Christian missionaries; Norton, 102, died Feb. 20 at his home in Tahlequah, Okla.; from 1940 until 1949, Norton and his wife were missionaries in the Belgian Congo; in 1949, the couple returned to the U.S., and Norton taught for a semester at Columbia Bible College; the next year, Norton was hired as a professor at what was then Trinity Seminary and Bible College; soon became the school's dean of education and then its president; in 1955, Norton completed his doctoral degree in church history at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary; Under Norton's leadership, what is now Trinity International University moved its campus in 1961 from the North Side to a 79-acre parcel in Bannockburn; left Trinity in 1964; joined the faculty of Wheaton College's graduate school in 1965; six years later, Norton was named dean of Wheaton's graduate school; retired from Wheaton in 1980 and moved to Nigeria, where he spent three years serving as the founding principal of a seminary; after returning to the U.S., Norton worked from 1983 until 1989 as the executive director of the Committee to Assist Ministry Education Overseas; in 1989, Norton joined the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss., as a professor of missions; remained at the seminary and transferred to a newly opened campus in Charlotte, N.C., in 1994; retired in 2003 at age 88)

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