Hampden Dubose Academy - Esse Yearbook (Zellwood, FL)

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With jim Elliot's picture as a fitting background, Quichua believers join Betty in reverent worship. Below: Betty greets young mothers as they come to school. A setting for the continuance of Operation Auca is the Quichua hut where Betty Elliot moved to live near the two Auca women, Mankamu and Mintaka, in order to leam the elusive Auca language and put it clown in writing. On October 8, 1958, after a miraculous invitation from the savage Aucas, Betty and Valerie entered with these women into Aucaland, where they are now living. Pictures and layout generously made available by Cornell Capa of Magnum Photos, Inc., whose article and pictures in Life maga- zine focused the attention of the world on the Eve missionary martyrs and their courageous wives, and whose pictures illu- strate Elisabeth Elliot's books, Through Gates of Splendor and Shadow of the Almighty, Iirn Elliot's biography.

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