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Henry W. Dueck fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1995

This fonds consists of 10 audio cassette tapes containing 38 episodes of "Mennonitengeschichte", Mennonite history stories in Low German by Henry Dueck and aired on Casa Siemens (Bram Siemens) radio in Manitoba Colony, Cuauhtemoc, Mexico. Henry produced these while he was teaching at the Steinreich Bible School in Manitoba colony, Mexico. See AC# 5261-5270.

Dueck, Henry W., 1927-2007

Justus Holsinger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.178
  • Collection
  • 1960-1969

Box 1: classes from 1960s: El Salvador Seminar, International Organizations, Political Science, American History

Box 2: articles, correspondence

Box 3: NCATE files 1960s, Bethel Teacher Ed Committee 1960s, syllabi

Box 4: syllabi and other course materials, "Puerto Rico: Island of Promise," book Serving Rural Puerto Rico

Box 5: ca. 50 audio cassettes, poorly identified, maybe some of his class lectures, maybe some student recordings related to teacher education

Holsinger, Justus

Arthur and Anna Peters Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.239
  • Collection
  • 1930-1980

Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, genealogical information, photos, in a complete jumble.

Most of the material seems to relate to Anna Peters' extended family, more so than Arthur's.

Box 1 includes a note about Arthur Peters' military service, and a cassette tape. Also a Confederate $50 bill in poor condition. And some pencil drawings. Cassette tape in box 1 digitized as elecrec/acc915, June 2018.

Box 4 contains diaries of Mrs. Peter Regier nee Wiens, some German sermons.

Boxes 5 and 6 are mostly photos.

"Box" 7 is a map folder containing genealogy charts.

"Box" 8 is a map folder containing an oversize newspaper item.

Peters, Arthur H., 1908-1980

Ben Boese Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.246
  • Collection
  • 1930-1990

Box 1: books, pamphlets (farm machinery), slides, cassette tape

Box 2: books. clippings, Boese family letters, Boese family information

Box 3: agriculture and machinery periodicals and brochures

Box 4: family history information

Boese, Ben, 1910-1996

C. H. Suckau Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.260
  • Collection
  • 1920-1945

Papers collected by Jeff A. Steely, for a Bethel College history seminary paper in spring 1988. Includes sermons, correspondence, diary (photocopy), and a cassette tape of an interview with Loris Habegger.

Suckau, Cornelius Herman, 1881-1951

James Liu and Stephen Wang Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.262
  • Collection
  • 1930-1990

Box 1: correspondence, speeches, autobiographies

Box 2: audio cassettes and CD copies, book in Chinese, video tape and DVD copy

Liu, James, 1904-1991

Adalbert Goertz Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.289
  • Collection
  • 1950-2010

Articles/publications, research notes, physics notebooks, Goede family VHS tape, correspondence, photos, physics PhD and masters dissertations, audio cassette of lecture

Goertz, Adalbert, 1928-2011

John Paul Lederach Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.304
  • Collection
  • 1978-1980

Box 1: cassette tapes of interview with Spanish conscientious objectors, which were the basis for his Bethel Social Science Seminary paper "The So Called Pacifists: A Study of Nonviolence in Spain" (March 1980)

Box 2: summaries and documentation related to the interviews

Boxes 3-5 are actually map folders, containing Spanish political posters from the late 1970s and early 1980s

Box 6: RESTRICTED, student journal from his time in Spain in 1978

Lederach, John Paul, 1955-

Leonhard B. Rempel Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.314
  • Collection
  • 1954-1977

Consists entirely of audio tape recordings. Rempel must have been a tape enthusiast.

Box 1: family recordings

Box 2-4: Mennonite speakers

Box 5-6: Miscellaneous recordings

Box 7-9: Music

Box 10: church services

Box 11: church conferences

Box 12: wire recordings

Rempel, Leonhard B., 1905-1971

Harold H. Gross Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.319
  • Collection
  • 1958-1979

Consists entirely of materials related to his teaching in religion and philosophy.

Box 1: lecture notes

Box 2: lecture notes, clippings, slide sets, books

Box 3: slide sets

Box 4-6: audio cassette tapes

Box 7: LP records

Gross, Harold H., 1914-1980

Elmer M. Ediger Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.334
  • Collection
  • 1940-1978

box 1: college or grad school files

box 2: talks, correspondence, miscellaneous files

box 3: study conferences, miscellaneous

box 4: study conferences, miscellaneous, pamphlets

box 5: tapes and CDs of 1978 interviews (Roger Juhnke, interviewer)

box 6: slides and photo album, much of it CPS-related

box 7: 1940s notebooks/diaries, photos, CPS material

Ediger, Elmer M., 1917-1983

Levi H. Koehn Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.336
  • Collection
  • 1950-1960

Includes:

  • Report of the MCC Peace Section Study Conference, Winona Lake, Indiana, Nov. 9-12, 1950

  • Missions, Home and Foreign of the General Conference Mennonite Church: A summary survey consisting of reports by members of the Class in Mennonite Missions, Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Autumn Quarter, 1953

  • The Church, the Gospel and War: A Report of the General Conference Peace Study Conference, Apr. 10-11, 1953

  • filmstrip "A Journey through the Holy Land: The Holy Land from Jericho to Nazareth" (pub. by SVE)

  • filmstrip "Making Home a Happier Place" (pub. by Church Screen Productions)

  • filmstrip "Money: For Better or Worse" (pub. by Mennonite Mutual Aid) with tape

Koehn, Levi H., 1920-1983

Rachel Waltner Goossen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.338
  • Collection
  • 1990-1993

almost entirely materials related to her dissertation--survey forms and taped interviews

a few other miscellaneous items

Goossen, Rachel Waltner, 1960-

Erland Waltner Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.383
  • Collection
  • 1920-2000

Waltner’s papers are extensive and cover his career and service in great detail. Waltner discarded very little, and this is immediately evidenced by the detailed notes and student papers surviving for the classes he took at Bethel, the University of South Dakota, and all three seminaries where he studied. A handful of Winifred’s student papers are included. Both Erland and Winifred kept journals, and Erland actually retained his pocket calendars listing appointments for virtually his entire career. The most significant documentation of the Waltner family is their correspondence, especially some thirty years of nearly weekly letters from Erland’s father, Ben J Waltner. Also revealing the story of the Waltner family are the frequent letters between Erland and Winifred; corresponding whenever they were apart early in the marriage and whenever he traveled to his numerous speaking engagements. The demand for him to speak is documented by many hundreds of letters inviting him to speak, and far more invitations were received than he could accept. Perhaps of most interest to the historian will be Waltner’s extensive correspondence regarding the Mennonite Biblical Seminary and as a General Conference leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Included are details regarding the revival of the seminary and its early years in Chicago. Most significant are likely the negotiations with the Mennonite Church (Old Mennonites) regarding the move of the seminary to Elkhart and the early cooperative efforts, which includes a number of original letters with Harold S. Bender. Also of interest are a decade of letters from E. G. Kaufman trying to recruit Waltner to Bethel College, and letters from those trying to recruit him to the seminary at the same time. Waltner’s involvement with the Board of Education and Publication and numerous subcommittees will have overlapping documentation in the archives of the General Conference, but some materials are not duplicates. This is perhaps most true of the six years of correspondence as conference president. The Board of Missions papers are mostly duplicates of the conference archives, including many numbered and circular letters, but interspersed are some likely original letters not in the church archives. (The collection contains several folders of letters from other, mostly older, General Conference leaders which Waltner somehow acquired and retained). The correspondence and reports Waltner saved from his work with MCC and MWC are also significant although not extensive. He even has papers documenting the beginning of the Mennonite Medical Association (and for many years seemed to be the only non-doctor on the membership list). He was often the person called upon to represent the General Conference in inter-Mennonite activities in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Waltner was a founder of the first General Conference Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Hively Avenue, and the collection contains materials related to the beginning of the church and its ongoing activities. One surprise might be that this collection does not contain significant documentation from Waltner’s two decades as seminary president - these official files from his administrative duties are at the seminary as they should be. Following his retirement, Waltner did continue to receive and retained a thorough set of faculty minutes and memos. Some of these communications with other faculty may be unique copies. What is definitely unique among Waltner’s seminary papers are the thousands of pages of lecture notes, course syllabi, student papers, exams, and other evaluations. These cover a period of nearly forty years (late fifties through early nineties) and provide insight into what was being taught at a very detailed level. Although perhaps less significant historically than the MBS and General Conference materials, this collection also documents the thinking and preaching of one of the most significant General Conference preachers of the twentieth century. As many as fifteen hundred to two thousand of his sermons have survived - most are in outline form on half sheets of paper and almost all have the place/occasion and date included. They are generally sorted by the scripture passage, i.e. all of the sermons on Mark, Psalms, Job, etc. Some are sorted by topic. However, they maybe found everywhere - so a folder for a seminary course on Peter may contain a handful of sermon outlines on Peter from the 1940s or 1950s. In one respect these sermons are important because only a decade of the over four decades of sermons were as a pastor of a congregation. The demand for Waltner to preach was overwhelming and it seems like he was preaching somewhere every Sunday, including not only at local congregations but also district conferences and a host of special events, such as ordinations, building dedications, commencements, and so forth.

A handful of Waltner’s early sermons in Mountain Lake were in German, and be preached in German during some of his earlier MCC and MWC travels in Canada, Europe and South America. Otherwise the collection is in English.

Waltner, Erland, 1914-2009

Elizabeth D. Goertz Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.414
  • Collection
  • 1921-1986

analog audio recording and cassette copy (digitized version in elecrec/acc340)

correspondence 1930-1986

biographical information

will 1953

scrapbook 1921 of trip to China

Goertz, Elizabeth D., 1892-1986

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