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BENJAMIN LEE REA
(photograph 1957)
(1922-1965)
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Thesis, Sermons, Miscellaneous Information |
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Item |
Comment |
| The True Origin of the American Indian | AC paper approx early 1960s |
| Audio message (1957) | Go to the link and scroll down the page to his message Sept/Oct 1957 |
| Background information | |
| Dr. Benjamin L. Rea article | Written by Raymond McNair after he died in the Good News, March 1965, p. 3. Word version here |
| South American tour | Undertaken in 1962 |
| Spanish Work | He headed up this Work until his death |
| Photographs | |
| Gravesite (this website has his birth year as 1923 instead of 1922) | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70939907/benjamin-lee-rea |
"Still another segment of this radio work, "EI Mundo de
Manana" goes out in the Spanish language with Mr. Benjamin Rea conducting this
ministry." (The Envoy, 1959, p. 13)
Graduated from Pasadena campus in 1960
He was head of the WCG Spanish Department until he died
in 1965.
The radio program was also broadcast in Spanish in South
America and Portugal (by Benjamin Rea); Professor of Spanish, international
Relations and Geography, Spanish Club Sponsor.
No one seems to know exactly when Dr Benjamin Rea joined
AC or the church. It must have been about 1951 because he was sent to help open
the Bricket Wood campus in 1960 but the precise year is unknown. He died before
WCG computerized the employment records in the early 1970s.
Leon Walker notes: "I do not know when Dr. Rea became a member of the Church, but he was a member and on the AC fauculty when I came to college (1955)...The university in Mexico was the Universidad Interamericana, Saltillo, Mexico."
Leroy Neff notes: "I met Ben Rea over a large bowl of potatoes that needed to be peeled in the kitchen at Siegler Springs, CA during the feast in 1952. He told me that he would be going to AC to teach. The first time he appears in the College annual Envoy was in 1956. At that time he was on the faculty as Professor of Spanish, International Relations, and Geography. He later studied at a University in Mexico where he received a Ph.D. in Spanish. In 1960 he went with HWA in February to prepare for Ambassador College UK (1965 Envoy). In the 1962 Envoy he is pictured and listed as Principal. This was the title for what later was called Dean of Faculty. "He died last March" (from 1965 Envoy).'