[Dialogue] Fwd: Joseph Wesley Mathews Collection announcement

[Carolyn Antenen]

> Subject: Joseph Wesley Mathews Collection announcement
>
> INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS/ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE AND THE MATHEWS  
> FAMILY DONATE THE JOSEPH WESLEY MATHEWS COLLECTION TO THE WESLEY  
> THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
>
> CHICAGO, IL—March 27, 2008— By Board resolution and family consent  
> the Joseph Wesley Mathews Collection will be moving from the  
> Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA (ICA USA) in Chicago, IL  
> to the Wesley Theological Seminary at 4500 Massachusetts Ave. NW,  
> Washington D.C. in April of 2008.  The Joseph Wesley Mathews  
> Collection consists of correspondence, research and dissertation  
> materials, books, manuscripts and other writings compiled by  
> Mathews during his lifetime.
>
> Nino Tillman, Executive Director of ICA USA, is excited about the  
> move and “can think of no better home than our nation’s capitol for  
> ICA USA’s founding father’s archival Collection.  He was a true  
> pioneer of understanding human development.”  The Collection is a  
> joint gift from ICA USA and the Mathews Family to the Wesley  
> Theological Seminary, who is providing full financial support for  
> transport of the Collection.  The Collection will be open to the  
> public after its arrival in D.C.
>
> The Joseph Wesley Mathews Collection is an archive of Mathews’ life  
> experiences.  Born in 1911, he served as a military chaplain in  
> WWII, was an ordained minister and was a faculty member at the  
> Perkins School of Theology.  His mission to gain a deeper  
> understanding of human advancement and his vocation in the  
> Christian clergy culminated with his position as Dean of the  
> Ecumenical Institute and Director of ICA USA in Chicago, IL until  
> his death on October 16, 1977.
>
>
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