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Title
Date(s)
- 1944-2000 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
4.00 Linear Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Williard Krabill was born in 1926 in Louisville, Ohio. During World War II, he volunteered for Civilian Public Service, working as a smoke jumper in the Pacific Northwest and at the Ypsilanti State Mental Hospital. He graduated from Goshen College in 1949 and from Jefferson Medical College in 1953. He later earned a master's degree in public health from the University of California - Berkeley.
he practiced medicine in Goshen, Ind., worked as a concultant for Mennonite Mutual Aid, and served on the Mennonite Board of Missions' Health and Welfare Committee and Student Services Committee. At Goshen College, Krabill pioneered a human sexuality class that became the most popular class on campus.
The Mennonite Medical Association named Krabill Doctor of the Year in 1990. He died in 2009.
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Scope and content
The collection consists of subject files on medicine, public health, and peace, as well as working files documenting Krabill's service on the Mennonite Board of Missions Health and Welfare Committee. The subject files contain a number of papers and articles pertaining to AIDS, homosexuality, and alcohol and drug abuse in the context of the Mennonite Church. Other less well documented subjects in the collecrtion include Krabill's Civilian Public Service work, mission work in Asia, career as a physician and professor at Goshen College, and his spiritual life. The collection includes more than 30 audiocassette sound recordings of speeches by Krabill and others on medicine, spirituality, Christianity, and other topics.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
2011-26: 0.5 linear feet of CPS materials, audiocassettes, miscellaneous correspondence and speech notes from Merrill Krabill.
System of arrangement
Flat
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
This collection is open to the public.
Conditions governing reproduction
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright not owned by the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Name access points
- Goshen College -- Faculty (Subject)
- Mennonite Board of Missions. Health and Welfare Committee (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2010-07-13
Language(s)
- English