Russell V. DeLong

DeLong was a New Hampshire native,[http://www.nnu.edu/inauguration/download_pdf.php?d=program.pdf Twelfth Presidential Inauguration at Northwest Nazarene University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322013420/http://www.nnu.edu/inauguration/download_pdf.php?d=program.pdf |date=2009-03-22 }} the son of a minister.[http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/3301-3400/HDM3389.pdf The High Cost of Low Living by Russell Victor DeLong. Kansas city: Beacon Hill Press, 1949.] He received his undergraduate education at the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts, then earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Boston University. He later received an honorary doctor of divinity from the Northwest Nazarene College.

DeLong was ordained in 1926 and came on faculty at the Northwest Nazarene College (NNC) that same year.[http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0201-0300/HDM0248.PDF There Are No Moral Accidents by Russell V. DeLong] 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. 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.[http://www.nnu.edu/offices/office-of-the-president/presidents-messages/fall-2008-presidents-dinner-message/ Fall 2008 President's Dinner at NNU] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809150945/http://www.nnu.edu/offices/office-of-the-president/presidents-messages/fall-2008-presidents-dinner-message/ |date=2009-08-09 }}

He then served as District Superintendent for the Northwest Indiana District Church of the Nazarene until 1945, when he was elected founding dean of Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) in Kansas City, Missouri.[http://www.nts.edu/about-nts About NTS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724082411/http://www.nts.edu/about-nts |date=2009-07-24 }} While at NTS in the 1950s, he operated a successful radio ministry. He also was the author, compiler, or editor of at least 33 books.[http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2301-2400/HDM2350.PDF Illnesses of the Modern Soul by Russell Victor DeLong. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press (1965).] DeLong later served as president of Pasadena College, from 1957 to 1960.

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