Waldo E. Harder

Waldo E. Harder was the sixth president of Grace University (then Grace College of the Bible) in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He held an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and M.A. and Th.M. degrees from Columbia Bible College and Seminary. He also studied at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago. His career followed his commitments to christian missions and christian education. He worked as a missionary among the Hopi people of Arizona from 1943-1946. He was the first superintendent of Berean Academy, a private christian secondary school in Elbing, Kansas. From 1951 through 1961 he directed the Institut Biblique, a pastoral training institute of the Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission (then Congo Inland Mission) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Belgian Congo). The Institute Biblique is at Kalonda Station, just north of Tschikapa on the east bank of the Kasai River.

From 1961 to 1971, Waldo Harder served as president of Grace University. His administration was marked by record enrollments,

In 1971, he resigned from Grace and returned to mission work in Africa.