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A small set of personal papers created by a Mennonite composer, arranger, and professor of music at Goshen College.  Materials include a number of original musical compositions and arrangements, an autobiographical sketch, correspondence, conference programs and notes, various writings, and miscellaneous materials.

Scattered family records including family histories, a passport, a birth- and baptism certificate, and assorted correspondence.

The Indiana-Michigan Conference Mission Board not only operated a number of domestic mission stations in Indiana, Michigan, and Kentucky, but also supported the work of missionaries abroad.  In 1970, the mission board was dissolved and replaced by a mission committee.  These records are divided into several series.

The American Mennonite Association was formed in 1939 to support the financial, educational, travel, and housing needs of missionaries appointed by the Menonite Board of Missions to serve in India.    The association continued to coordinate and oversee the work of  (old) Mennonite Church missionaries who remained in India after the dissolution of the American Mennonite Mission in 1952.  This series contains the association's constitution, meeting minutes, and administrative correspondence, as well as less formal correspondence and telegrams.

A small set of papers, ephemera, and photographs pertaining to Byers's work at Goshen College, where he served as president from 1903 to 1913.

The La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing (La Junta, Colo.) Alumnae Association was founded in 1956.  The association not only helps nursing school classmates maintain a sense of community, but also supports nursing students at Mennonite colleges through scholarships.  Materials in this collection include governance and adminstrative documents of the association, the alumnea newsletter (1944-2008), scholarship fund correspondence and records, reunion materials, lists of graduates, class correspondence, photographs, alumnae studies, a scrapbook created from yearbooks, and miscellaneous materials.  Of particular note is a phonograph record of the class of 1946 singing its class song, "Onward and Upward."

A small set of miscellaneous correspondence from various leaders of the mission agencies of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Papers of a Mennonite missionary couple stationed in India and Ghana, with interest in the mission field in Nigeria.  Divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence, Subject Files, and Miscellaneous, 1944-1977

(2) Sermon Outlines, 1927-1956

(3) Photographs, 1954-1963

(4) Audio Tapes, circa 1957-1972

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

These papers document the struggle of a Baptist military chaplain against the US Air Force to remain a military chaplain while speaking out against the morailty of the First Gulf War. Materials include Robertson's unpublished autobiography, US Air Force documents and exhibits submitted in an inquiry concerning his actions in 1993, letters from congressional representatives and supporters, transcriptions of interviews for a 1994 Dateline NBC television special and viewer reactions, and court documents. This collection also includes Garland's Ph.D. thesis.

Robertson was discharged from the US Air Force in 1993. He became a Mennonite pastor and served Austin Mennonite Church in Austin, Tex. and Christian Peacemaker Teams.

The collection of the Mennonite Medical Association includes minutes and reports, convention materials, membership lists and news releases, correspondence, photographs and albums, and audio recordings from 1944 to 2003.

Records of the office of the president of the education agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.  These records are divided into series by the office holder and contain primarily correspondence and subject files, but also include reports.

Researchers will note that these records are quite incomplete. There are no presidential papers for the following presidents: John Blosser (1902-1917), Sanford Calvin (S. C.) Yoder (1918-1924), H. R. Schertz (1924-1929), D. A. Yoder (1929-1948), and Paul Erb (1963-1965). In some cases, correspondence pertaining to these presidents' leadership of the Mennonite Board of Education may be found in their personal papers.

Included in this collection are the correspondence, and minutes of the Mennonite Council on Mass Communications, an organization made up of members from Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches interested in the use of mass communication for the proclamation of the Gospel.

A small set of correspondence, reports, committee minutes, and other materials pertaining to the relationship between the Mennonite Board of Mission's service and relief work and the work of Mennonite Central Committee.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to a administrative body of Mennonite elementary and day school administrators.