PITTS THEOLOGY LIBRARY
ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS DEPT.

MEGILL, ESTHER L.
Papers, ca. 1950-1955.

MANUSCRIPT NUMBER 083

EXTENT: .5 cubic ft. (1 legal size archive box)

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CITATION:  Esther L.Megill Papers, MSS 083, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.

Biographical Note

Esther L. Megill was born on February 27, 1924. She received her doctorate in religious education from the Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1960. In 1973 she became a lecturer in Christian Education at Trinity College in Legon, Ghana, where she also directed a program of lay-training and continuing education for pastors.  Megill was also Africa secretary to the United Methodist General Board of Missions from 1968 to 1972.  She wrote Joining the journey (1983), Come, let us sing!:  hymns and songs for children in the church (1982), and The Nursery church school in Sierra Leone (1956), and is working on revisions to a book used in some theological schools in Africa.  She resides in North Carolina.

Scope and Content Note
Mimeographed teaching aids for use in the nursery school in Sierre Leone. Prepared under the auspices of the Board of Christian Education, of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, Sierra Leone Conference, these materials appear to have been written by Dr. Megill during the early 1950s. These materials also include mounted photographs. 
CONTAINER LISTING
Box/Folder

1/1       The nursery school in Sierra Leone, part one: 
          Helps for the teacher.
1/2       The nursery school in Sierra Leone, part two: 
          Session plans and materials.
1/3       The nursery school in Sierra Leone, part
          three:  Plans for parents' meetings.
1/4       Fattu and S)ba at home and church.  [20] p.,
          illus., 23 cm.
1/5       Fattu and S)ba learn about God's world. [19]
          p., illus., 34 cm.
1/6       Fattu and S)ba learn and grow. [28] p.,
          illus., 34 cm.
1/7       Forward with Christ, a pageant by S.B.
          Caulker.

Last Modified: 11/22/2002