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This series consists of correspondence and itineraries for Admissions Trips (1980-1994) and CMBC Singers/Chamber Choir, Ensemble, Voices, Bible Study, Drama Group and Hockey Tours across Canada as well as Manitoba Choir Visits, Portable CMBC and the Extension Committee which planned many of these trips (mostly late 1970s or 1980-1994). This series also contains correspondence, memos, minutes, applicant lists, advertising, evaluations and registration packages for the Peace Conferences (also called Peace-It-Together, or PIT) from 1980-1994. This series also consists of the minutes and correspondence of the PR committee, the Recruitment Committee, and information on Special Courses held at CMBC. Finally this series contains a large amount of correspondence to and from prospective students as well as pastors lists' from churches across BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario listing possible CMBC students, 1977-1992.

These are the files of:
-Gerald Gerbrandt (Office of Student Recruitment) (1973-1976)
-Will Braun (1976-1981)
-John Klassen (1981-1983)
-Clayton Loewen (1983-1986)
-Werner and Marilyn Kliewer (1986-1989)
-Brenda Sawatsky Petkau (1989-1993)
-Wendy Janzen (1993-1997).

This series consists of minutes, correspondence and financial records of the CMBC Alumni Association. Also, one annotated directory from a parent of an alumnus which depicts student impressions of their peers and some staff.

This series of records consists of the main administrative documents during the two decades before the three Winnipeg Mennonite post-secondary educational institutions formed a federation of college.

The CMBC fonds consists of the administrative records from the offices of the business manager, president, registrar and admissions. A sampling of materials consists of special programs such as lectures, recitals or other musical events. The records of the Alumni Association have also been included in this fonds.

These records could be useful for a study of education among the Mennonites, for studies of the Bible school movement and for a variety of other educational themes. For people interested in the impact of educational institutions on the intellectual orientation of a "community" these files could help to illuminate the process.

This fonds consists of the following 14 series:
-1) H.H. Wall (Business Manager's) files. – 1945-1959.
-2) Office and Academic files. – 1947-1973.
-3) P.R. Harder (Business Manager) files. – 1959-1973.
-4) Rudy Regehr (Registrar) files. – 1946-1981.
-5) Henry Poettcker (President) files. – 1947-1978.
-6) CMBC Publications. – 1973-1979.
-7) CMBC Bookstore records. – 1972-1980.
-8) Henry Poettcker (President) files. --1950-1986.
-9) Rudy Regehr & Ron Loeppky (Registrar/Business Managers) files. -- 1951-1990.
-10) George K. Epp (President) files. -- 1966-1987.
-11) Admissions Office files. -- 1971-1994.
-12) Photograph Collections
-13) Alumni Association . – 1952-1986.
-14) Board and Faculty minutes and reports. – 1962-1966, 1978-2000.
-15) Sound recordings
-16) Waldemar Janzen's Near East Study Tour file. -- 1981.

The bookstore records contain mostly invoices, account sheets of CMBC students, and payment orders. A small amount of bookstore correspondence is included. Most of the material in these files was generated by the following bookstore managers:
-a) Judy Epp 1974-1976
-b) Brenda Braun (1976-1979)
-c) Shirley Tiessen (1979-1983)

The bulk of the CMBC Publications files can be divided into four categories:
-a) manuscripts submitted for publication.
-b) paste-up copies of books.
-c) correspondence related to various publications.
-d) photographs used in the book Garden in the Wilderness by Edgar Stoesz. MHC Photograph Collection 518

This series consists of mostly correspondence with churches, individuals, students, businesses, other educational institutions and correspondence, minutes, memos and reports from other committees with which George K. Epp was involved, e.g. MCC East-West Consultation and the Umsiedler program, the Task-Force on Higher Education, the Friends of Higher Learning, the Council of Church-Related Colleges of Winnipeg (CCRCW) and the China Educational Exchange. There is correspondence regarding the incorporation of CMBC and memos and minutes from the Dean's Search Committee which led to the appointment of Gerald Gerbrandt, and President Search Committee files following the resignation of George K. Epp.

This section consists of correspondence with Provincial Conferences, churches, schools, students, faculty and alumni, and files on personnel, finances, alumni, student council, academic calendar, college committees, conferences and special events from the office of Henry Poettcker who served as CMBC President for the years 1959-1978. The years covered by this series are more than the years of Henry Poettcker's presidency since some material was collected for background information and some files were continued by his successors.

Henry Poetteker served as CMBC president for the years 1959-1978. The series does not, however, contain only Poettcker materials, but also contains most of the correspondence of the earlier College presidents for the years 1947-1959.

The pre-1959 correspondence comes to 0.13 meters; for the years 1959-1965 it measures 0.52 meters.

Part of the I.I. Friesen correspondence for the years 1951-1956 can be found in the H. H. Wall files. The Henry Poetteker files contain the most complete series of various sets of records. Included are:
-a) minutes - CMBC Board 1949-1969
-b) minutes - Faculty Meetings 1948-1975 -
-c) minutes - CMBC Board Executive 1955-1969
-d) reports - CMBC 1952-1969

In addition to the CMBC materials, the Poetteker files contain considerable amounts of correspondence and records related to other educational institutions. He was also involved with many Conference boards, from which he has minutes, reports, and related correspondence. Most of these materials date from the years 1959-1971.

These records consist of correspondence (1948-1959), scattered CMBC reports (1948-1959), and minutes (1947-1948, 1953-1958, 1960), as well as a variety of financial records (three ledgers, correspondence, planning work re College budgets and financing of building projects).

The run of correspondence in these records is complete, but few reports are included and the minutes have many gaps. There are a few scattered minutes from 1947-1948, and no minutes at all for the years 1949-1952 in this series. The financial records pertain largely to building funds for the administration building. (Most of the financial ledgers of the College were passed on to subsequent business administrators.)

All the material in these files is original and is generally in good condition. The few onion-skin carbon copies have become fragile (some frayed edges). The legibility of the documents is good since most of the materials are typewritten. About 60% of the documents in these files are in the English language. The German language materials tend to be correspondence with senior CMBC board members such as J. J. Thiessen.

These files contain CMBC Board minutes (1957-1970), faculty meeting minutes (1953-1972), and reports to the annual conference sessions (1958-1962), as well as correspondence and academic records. Most of the records in this series were generated between 1952 and 1965. The only materials predating this period are the student lists from 1947-1951.

The materials in these files were generated by a number of individuals. The office secretaries, faculty members, and the librarian all had a hand in creating these records. Part of this series is organized alphabetically and part of it by subjects (e.g. correspondence with prospective students, examinations, and timetables).

This series consists of photographs arranged and described in 10 separate collections. They include the photos taken by CMBC business manager Rudy Regehr (Collection 491), candid shots taken by students for the annual yearbooks, and other photos taken for displays, publications and promotional purposes where the photographer is unknown.
-1) No. 184 (CMBC Student yearbook photos) (1977-1978)
-2) No. 191 (CMBC slide collection - 17 images)
-3) No. 211 (CMBC - choir photo, ca. 190 - 1 image)
-4) No. 297 (CMBC Student yearbook photos (1980-1986)
-5) No. 326 (CMBC - 533 images)
-6) No. 487 (CMBC - 11 images)
-7) No. 488 (CMBC - 263 images)
-8) No. 489 (CMBC - 894 images)
-9) No. 490 (CMBC - 176 images)
-10) No. 491 (CMBC- 2546 images)

These records consist primarily of correspondence and related documents generated or collected by the CMBC business manager.

Included in the series are CMBC Board minutes (1959-1962), reports to the Council of Boards (1965-1966), as well as a variety of other reports (1962-1967). The major portion of these files consists of administrative correspondence. Letters pertain personnel, donations of vehicles for choir tours, donations for the kitchen, university accreditation, and many other subjects. In addition to this there are folders of correspondence from J.J. Thiessen, Howard Snider and other prominent Mennonite churchmen. Finally this series also contains some financial records.

This series consists of correspondence, committee minutes, memos, reports from the Academic Standings committee, the Administration committee, the Alumni Association, the CMBC Board, the Faculty Committee, the Finance committee, the PR committee and the Scholarship committee all from the CMBC Business Manager's (later the Registrar/Business Manager's) Office.. It also consists of information on curriculum and timetabling at CMBC as well as course syllabi, registration packets, student lists/directories, statistics, campus maintenance, summer bookings, staff applications and correspondence and posters and programs from choir tours and concerts, music seminars, special courses, lectures, opening ceremonies, graduations and peace conferences. There is also correspondence with individual donors, businesses, churches and government grants.

This series includes Regehr's correspondence with prospective students and alumnion a wide variety of other administrative concerns. He produced many news releases over the years. Copies of them exist in these records. A significant amount of correspondence pertains to choir tours.
Included in these files are scattered minutes of CMBC Board meetings and some reports for the years 1962-1964 and 1967-1970.

The financial records are another major component of this series. They consist of two salary record books (1957-1964), records of several special funds (1962-1965), and the complete set of CMBC financial ledgers (1946-1965).

The most common type of publication produced was promotional literature for the College. The titles of several of these pamphlets are: "A Sacred Charge", "A Basic Educational Philosophy", and "Why a Bible College". This series also contains files related to the publication of College yearbooks, catalogues, and student directories and the CMBC Alumni Bulletin.