Russell V. DeLong

Russell Victor DeLong (1901–1981) was a Nazarene minister, evangelist, and college president.

Early life and education

DeLong was a New Hampshire native,^[1] the son of a minister.^[2] He received his undergraduate education at the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts,^[1] then earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Boston University.^[2] He later received an honorary doctor of divinity from the Northwest Nazarene College.^[2]

Academic career and ministry

DeLong was ordained in 1926 and came on faculty at the Northwest Nazarene College (NNC) that same year.^[3] He was elected president of NNC in 1927 and served until 1932, when he left to complete his doctoral work at Boston University, but was elected to the presidency at NNC a second time in 1935 and served there again until 1942.^[1] It was under his first administration that NNC gained educational accreditation as a two-year school, and under his second that the college gained accreditation as a four-year school.^[4]

He then served as District Superintendent for the Northwest Indiana District Church of the Nazarene until 1945,^[3] when he was elected founding dean of Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) in Kansas City, Missouri.^[5] While at NTS in the 1950s, he operated a successful radio ministry.^[3] He also was the author, compiler, or editor of at least 33 books.^[6] DeLong later served as president of Pasadena College, from 1957 to 1960.

Notes and references

^ ^a ^b ^c Twelfth Presidential Inauguration at Northwest Nazarene University Archived 2009-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c The High Cost of Low Living by Russell Victor DeLong. Kansas city: Beacon Hill Press, 1949.
^ ^a ^b ^c There Are No Moral Accidents by Russell V. DeLong
^ Fall 2008 President's Dinner at NNU Archived 2009-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
^ About NTS Archived 2009-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Illnesses of the Modern Soul by Russell Victor DeLong. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press (1965).