Bender reply, that he was sending the letter; discussion of Hershberger thesis on the Quaker experiment [i.e., what became his Ph.D. Disseration, “Quaker pacifism and the provincial government of Pennsylvania, 1682-1756” (1935)]; faculty changes—mention of Paul Bender, Glen Miller [sic], Olive Wyse replacing Florence Bender, Sam Yoder [Samuel A. Yoder], Willard Smith, “Mr. Byers” [Noah Byers, Noah E. Byers?], Sanford Yoder [Sanford C. Yoder, S. C. Yoder], “Miss Shenk” and “Katy Yoder”; attached a letter to the Superintendent of Schools, Muscatine, Iowa,--about his “old friend and colleague” Hershberger, of whom he was “glad to say that I can unqualifiedly endorse” Hershberger’s application, emphasizing Hershberger’s public relations work as well as his teaching.
Date on letter: April 19, 1933