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Valentine, Gilbert M.

 Person

Biographical

Gilbert M. Valentine served as a teacher and senior administrator in Adventist higher education in Pakistan, England, Thailand, and Australia, as well as in his home country, New Zealand. He moved to the United States where he served as professor and chair of the Department of Administration and Leadership at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

Valentine earned his PhD from Andrews University in 1982 with a dissertation entitled, William Warren Prescott, Seventh-day Adventist Educator. He wrote extensively in the area of Adventist history and authored books on Prescott, such as The Shaping of Adventism: The Case of W. W. Prescott (1992)–based on his PhD dissertation–and W. W. Prescott: Forgotten Giant of Adventism’s Second Generation (2005).

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

W. W. Prescott Papers: Gilbert Valentine Collection

 Collection
Identifier:  Collection 127
Content Description This collection consists wholly of sources Valentine copied from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Archives in the course of his dissertation research in the early 1980s. The papers were deposited in the Andrews University Adventist Heritage Center by arrangement between the Archives and Valentine’s dissertation committee chair, George Knight. Under the agreement, Valentine got the photocopies for no cost for his research, but was required to place the copies in the Adventist...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1889 - 1937

W. W. Prescott Papers: Gilbert Valentine Collection

 Accession
Identifier: Collection 127
Dates: Majority of material found within 1889 - 1937