Alumni of the Year 1996
The Barnetts, a prominent missionary family of Kenya, served the Lord with distinction in Kenya and other parts of Africa since 1908. Erik Barnett (’31) served as AIM’s education secretary and as AIM’s field director in Kenya. He also helped establish Scott Theological Seminary. Erik’s wife, Emily Barnett (’32, not pictured), served faithfully beside her husband for many years until she went to be with her Lord in February 1996. Ruth Barnett Collins (’35) and her husband, Tom, worked among the nomadic Pokot people in Kenya. After Tom’s death in 1964, Ruth served as a nurse at AIC Missionary Training College in Eldoret, Kenya. William Barnett (’37) and his wife, Laura, worked as a surgeon/nurse team in several hospitals located in Tanzania, in Kijabe, Kenya, and in the Muslim controlled Comoro Islands. Erik passed away in 2006, Emily in 1996, Ruth in 1999 and William in 2023.
