Word: lehner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduates, all of whom received their degrees in March, are: Adolph S. Cavallo '48, Norman Friedman '48, Robert A. Isaacs '47, Stephen B. Ives, Jr. '46. Lionel F. Jaffe '48, William D. Labov '48, Philip Lehner '46, Edward D. MacDougal III '46, John W. McNulty...
Eliot: Stroke, Scholle; 7, Fisk; 6, Wulsin; 5, Dutton; 4, Fish; 3, Parsons; 2, Coulter; bow, Weston; cox, Taylor. Winthrop: Stroke, D. McAllister; 7, Saltonstall; 6, Lewan; 5, Rackerman; 4, Whitney; 3, Hale; 2, Lehner; bow, Bowden; cox, Schless...
...year-old G. Pilhofer, learned in many of New Guinea's 300 native dialects, who had written many schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...
When World War II broke out, Australian authorities interned G. Pilhofer, the few known Nazis at Finschhafen, and some others-29 in all-who were suspect. A few German Lutherans, including Dr. Lehner, were allowed to remain, and the U.S.-Australian Lutherans at Madang on the same coast sent seven of their people to save Finschhafen for the church. Among the seven was Dr. Agnes Hoeger, a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Medical School and the daughter of a Lutheran pastor at Fargo...
Lutherans in the U.S. refused to believe that Drs. Lehner, Hoeger and their like were aiding the Japs. Perhaps some of the mission employes had been persuaded or compelled to guide the invaders. Perhaps Garns and Rabbe had sneaked back to the station, or had never gone to Germany at all. As for tales of Nazi trinkets in the mission, good Lutherans were puzzled or incredulous. It was not God's way, and it was not the Lutheran...