Introduction

Biography

Steinel gra­du­at­ed from Wash­ing­ton Mis­sion­ary Col­lege (now Wash­ing­ton Ad­vent­ist Uni­ver­si­ty, Ta­ko­ma Park, Ma­ry­land) in 1915. While there, he mar­ried sing­er Hel­en Morse in 1913.

After gra­du­a­tion, he was prin­ci­pal at South Lan­cas­ter Aca­de­my for a year, then he and He­len moved to the Phil­ip­pines, where he helped found the Phil­ip­pine Se­venth-day Ad­vent­ist Aca­de­my (now Ad­vent­ist Uni­ver­si­ty of the Phil­ip­pines), in 1917.

The Stein­els re­turned to Am­er­ica in 1922, and Irv­ing gra­du­at­ed from Em­ma­nu­el Mis­sion­ary Col­lege, pre­cur­sor to An­drews Uni­ver­si­ty, Ber­rien Springs, Mi­chi­gan, in 1923. He is re­mem­bered as the au­thor of the school song there.

For a while, he played the or­gan for H. M. S. Ri­chards’ Voice of Pro­phe­cy ra­dio pro­gram, and he taught pi­ano and voice in Glen­dale, Ca­li­for­nia.