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includes correspondence, diaries, academic papers, sermons, financial papers, biographical material

Contains memorabilia, letters diaries, vitae, photos, negatives, clippings, scrapbooks, and legal papers (passports, deeds, mortgages, bonds, oil and gas leases) of E. G. and Edna Kaufman, photos and clippings on Bluffton College and its Home Economics programs and Women's Association, ca. 1920s and 1930s, AFSC work in France with Spanish refugee children ca. 1940-1942, AFSC work in Mexico ca. 1941-1942, MCC/CPS correspondence ca. 1940-1948, letters and photos on service in India ca. 1965-1968, travel journals of European trips in 1948 and 1957, and an African trip in 1975. Family letters, correspondence, and handwritten newsletters are included. Photographs, color photographs and negatives are found in most parts of the collection. Also included are papers on Anna M. Kaufman.

Box 1: France and India notebooks

Box 2: letters, 1980, Homemakers Notebook column in Mennonite Weekly Review 1981-1990

Box 3: Bluffton College clippings, etc. 1980s mostly

Box 4: clippings, photos, postcard album, wedding items, diaries; E. G. Kaufman hospitalization; mementos of Cuba, clippings, scrapbooks

Box 5: jumble of photos, correspondence, diplomas, teaching notes, travel notes, clippings, autographed book by Albert Schweitzer, diplomas, school materials, dissertation, 1942 AFSC work in France, photo album 1940 with captions in French, passports, travel journals 1948, 1957, 1962 (Gabon), 1975

Box 6: photos, correspondence, travel notes, pamphlets, letters related to India 1965-68, map, calendars

Box 7: photos, clippings, pamphlets, Bluffton College items, correspondence, financial, Bluffton College materials, photos, rolled photos, 50th anniversary class of 1932

Box 8: financial, correspondence, book of menus for guests, pamphlets, clippings, books, history of home economics at Bethel, Bluffton College Women's Association notebooks and cookbooks, Bluffton home economics; James Liu file; book The Schrock-Ramseyer Story

Box 9: items re 1940-42 AFSCrefugee work in Europe, photos, correspondence, clippings

Box 10: financial, Edmund G. Kaufman funeral guestbook, passports, photos, correspondence, Edmund G. Kaufman clippings

Box 11: financial, legal; Anna M. Kaufman papers

Box 12: vitae, clippings, correspondence (some 1940), family letters and newsletters

Box 13: correspondence, MCC work camps 1941-47 scrapbook, miscellaneous notebook, photos, AFSC Mexico journal 1941-1942

Box 14: AFSC Mexico 1942 and CPS - correspondence, photos, clippings

Box 15: framed clippings and photos of her various foreign projects

Box 16: correspondence, photo albums, financial, clippings, 1962 Africa diary, E. G. Kaufman letters, Home Management House at Bluffton, 1940 diary France, book Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery

Box 17: scrapbooks - India, Bluffton, 1939 work camp, France

Box 18: clippings, photos, scrapbook

Box 19: books, scrapbooks, diaries, guestbooks

Box 20: "sticky" photo album - needs to be disassembled

Box 21: oral history interview, Apr. 29, 1997

"box" 22: map folder of diplomas

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.

A rich collection of correspondence for Mennonites in Russia and Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Box 1 - correspondence, passport, file on Bluffton controversy, diploma from Berlin, manuscripts related to ancient languages and texts (not by Quiring), Protestant Weekly Letter, class notes - Old Testament, Assyrian, etc.

Box 2 - Evangelische Wochenbriefe

Box 3- consolidated into box 1

Box 4-7 - books

box 8 - map folder of diplomas found in MS.76, S. S. Haury papers, Aug. 2014

Includes sermons, articles, speeches, correspondence, subject files, etc.

Box 1: Sterling years

Box 2: Goshen years 1921-1926

Box 3: Bluffton elementary 1926-1931

Box 4: Bluffton High School 1931-1935

Box 5: Bethel College I 1935-1939

Box 6: Bethel College II 1935-1939

Box 7: Summer program: AFSC work camp, Europe 1938, Ford plant 1937-1940

Box 8: Miscellaneous early years, AFSC, University of Chicago I, 1937-1942, 1955-1994

Box 9: Civilian Public Service 1940-1993

Box 10: Civilian Public Service, one "war-time" folder 1945-1992

Box 11: Africa-China year, post-war Europe 1943-1950

Box 12: post-war Europe 1945-1950

Box 13: post-war Europe 1945-1950

box 13a/925: see below

Box 14: University of Chicago II 1948-1992

Box 14a/916 see below

Box 15: Bluffton College 1952-1989

Box 16: Bluffton College 1953-1974

Box 17: Bluffton College and Bluffton community 1960-1971

Box 18: Bethel College - faculty/staff, students, special projects 1967-1993

Box 19: Bethel College - special projects, courses, peace studies 1973-1994

Box 20: Bethel College - Mennonite Library and Archives 1967-1994

Box 21: Bethel College - Kauffman Museum, Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Peace Lecture Series 1976-1994

Box 22: Development 1975-1987, Africa 1964-1968

Box 23: National Council of Churches 1968-1971, Teachers Abroad Program 1960-1981

Box 24: Teachers Abroad Program 1960-1988, MCC Self-Study 1971-1975

Box 25: MCC Self-Study 1971-1975

Box 26: MCC Self-Study 1971-1975, MCC 1960-1994

Box 27: MCC 1964-1994

Box 28: Congregational Peace Education Program; Bicentennial; Tricentennial; Conscription; 1940-1980

Box 29: Conscription; Historic Peace Churches 1935-1988

Box 30: Historic Peace Churches; Mennonite World Conference 1975-1993

Box 31: China Educational Exchange 1976-1994

Box 32: China Education Exchange 1975-1994

Box 33: China 1946-1950, 1981-1993

Box 34: China 1972-1994

Box 34a (box 912): China addenda

box 35: trips

box 35a/929: trips

box 36: speeches and articles

box 37: speeches and articles

box 38: speeches and articles

box 39: family letters

box 40: family letters

box 41: family letters

box 41a (936): family letters - parents

box 42: family letters - siblings

box 43: family letters - siblings

box 43a (933): family letters

box 43b (934): family letters

Box 45: Research N. C. Hirschy 1891-1924, 1970-1978

Box 46: Research MCC - A. J. Miller 1917-1982

Box 47: Research - Case studies - When Good People Quarrel 1952-1994

Box 48: Research - Case studies - MCC Hungry Thirsty Stranger 1942-1994

Box 49: Research - Case studies - MCC Hungry Thirsty; MCC history; Butler County, Ohio; Friedenstadt-Illinois 1812-1994

Box 50: Research - leadership 1974-1986; Higher education 1965-1992

Box 51-55: Data-topical

Box 56: Data - geographical

box 58: Mirror of the Martyrs project

box 58b (932): Mirror of the Martyrs project

box 59: Mirror of the Martyrs project

box 60; Mirror of the Martyrs project

box 60a (930): Mirror of the Martyrs project

box 60b (931): Mirror of the Martyrs project

Box 61: Chaco/Paraguay book 1992-1995

box 62: Wichita 95 Tour Committee

box 64: family finances 1949-

box 65: Kreider family history

box 66: Sommer family history

box 67: Ebersole family history

box 69: Shoemaker family history

box 69a (935): Shoemaker family history

Box 73: MCC story exhibit "The Gift of Hope" 1993-1997

Box 74-75: David Kliewer

Box 76-87: General correspondence

box 82a (939): general correspondence

box 88: Bluffton Sages 2004-2010

Box 901: "history files" Kauffman Museum, Bethlehem conference, Fall Fest, Mennonite World Conference, Cornelius Krahn, miscellaneous

Box 902: "history files" General Conference Heritage Committee, Institute of Mennonite Studies, Western District Historical Committee, Library, Bethel College centennial

Box 903: MLA files

Box 904-905: Paraguay book project

Box 906-909: MCC files 1970s-1980s

Box 910: Miscellaneous clippings and printed matter

Box 911: "Documents gathered for my Ph. D. dissertation but not used because I limited scope to Switzerland"

Box 912: continuation of box 34

Box 913:1985 Mennonite history class Great Plains seminary, interview transcript RSK by Fred Fransen 1987, DVD of North Newton walking tour 2005, audio cassettes of interviews and of class

Box 914: Mennonite retirement facilities research 2001

Box 915: pamphlets

Box 916/14a: University of Chicago

Box 917: Mennonite games, miscellaneous correspondence, Sanborn map research

Box 918: map folder of Colorado maps

Box 919: labeled box 74, Menno Duerksen correspondence

Box 920: labeled box 75, Menno Duerksen correspondence, J. Winfield Fretz memorial, miscellaneous

Box 921: Amos Hoover material

Box 922: National Farmers Organization tapes

Box 923: more Amos Hoover material

Box 924: books with marginal notations

box 925: oversize items from box 13, postwar Europe 1945-1950

box 926: (box 38a) speeches and articles, folders 70-84 and 1-17

box 927: Bluffton College Dean's Newsletter

box 928: maps

box 937: datebooks

box 938: Stephen Wang, James Liu, Guo Xu photos; Martyrs Mirror essay 2014; MCC Central States file 1970s-1980s

box 940: (map folder) Amos Hoover material

box 941: David Kliewer correspondence