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Toshio Ioki

b. 1926 Hymnal Number: 56 Author of "Oh, the Eyes of Christ the Lord" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Masao Tomioka

Hymnal Number: 103 Harmonizer of "NAKADA" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Saichirō Yuya

1864 - 1941 Hymnal Number: 38 Author of "In This World Abound Scrolls of Wisdom" in Hymns from the Four Winds

1896 - 1974 Hymnal Number: 103 Author of "Para Para Pitter Pat" in Hymns from the Four Winds Ugo Nakada was a Japanese pastor and hymnwriter out of the holiness movement. Son of the Rev. Juji Nakada of the Japanese Holiness Church. Email to Hymnary

Hatsue Tsuchiya

b. 1909 Hymnal Number: 68 Composer of "ŌMIYA" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Elise Shoemaker Eslinger

b. 1942 Person Name: Elise Shoemaker Hymnal Number: 9 Alterer of "Your Spirit in All Majesty" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Wesley Tactay Tabayoyong

b. 1925 Hymnal Number: 28 Composer of "ALLELUIA " in Hymns from the Four Winds

Mildred A. Wiant

1898 - 1998 Hymnal Number: 42 Translator of "Midnight Stars Make Bright the Sky" in Hymns from the Four Winds Mildred Kathryn Artz was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1898 and attended Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. 1920). She married Bliss Wiant (2933) and went to Boston. In 1923 the Wiants moved to Peking, China, where Mildred became associate professor of voice at Yenching University. She was instructor of vocal music at Scarritt College (1942-1946; 1951-1962) and at Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1963-1965). Many of her translations appeared in the National Council of Churches booklet of 1969. ----The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993 ============================ Letter from Mildred Bliss to Mary Louise VanDyke (8 January 1987) outlining activity in the 1960s and 1970s is available in the DNAH Archives.

William L. Wallace

1933 - 2024 Person Name: Bill Wallace Hymnal Number: 53 Author of "Why Has God Forsaken Me?" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Esther Hibbard

b. 1903 Hymnal Number: 38 Translator of "In This World Abound Scrolls of Wisdom" in Hymns from the Four Winds Hibbard, Esther. (Tokyo, Japan, September 23, 1903). Her father was student secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Tokyo until they returned to the U.S.A. in 1913 by train through Siberia. She did her undergraduate work at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, and earned her Master's degree in English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1929, she served under the Congregational Mission Board in Japan for three years at the Doshaissha Christian High School for Girls. After this term of service, she decided to become a career missionary and taught at the Doshaissha College for Girls until 1941, when Americans were evacuated for the duration of World War II. She returned to the U.S., attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to do doctoral work in Asian civilizations. She also taught conversational Japanese there in the Army Specialized Trainee's Program. In 1946, she returned to Japan where missionaries were warmly welcomed at the Doshaissha Junior College for Women, and in 1948 she became the first dean when that institution became a four-year Women's College of Liberal Arts. Upon her furlough in 1949, she resigned the position of dean, but returned as a professor until her retirement in 1968. She stayed in Japan to teach at the co-educational college, Tohoku Gakuin (Northeast College), affiliated with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. She retired from this position in 1973 and came to Claremont, California at Pilgrim Place, a retirement home associated with the United Church of Christ. She was a member of the U.C.C. since 1929. Besides her translations of Japanese hymns, she did research in Ulysses motifs in Japanese literature. --Phone conversation between Esther Hibbard and Mary Louise VanDyke, 19 September, 1992, DNAH Archives