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Paul N. Kraybill Papers 1958-1990

  • US MCUSAA HM1/998
  • Sammlung
  • 1942-1992

Personal papers of a prominent administrator who held leadership positions in multiple Mennonite-related organizations over a career spanning four decades between 1953 and 1993. Kraybill also served as a board member and organizational consultant for a variety of institutions, including the American Leprosy Mission, Lancaster Mennonite School, and Lombard Mennonite Church. Materials consist of daily calendars, administrative trip reports, writings and manuscripts, photographs, scattered correspondence, committee minutes, and organizational working files. The papers are divided into the following series and subseries:

(1) Day Timers and Calendars, 1956-1992

(2) Manuscripts, Notes, and Talks, 1950-1991

(3) Organizational Working Files, 1956-1992

A. Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities

B. Mennonite Church General Board

C. Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation

D. Mennonite Housing Aid, Inc.

E. Mennonite World Conference

F. Mennonite Health Association

(4) General Subject Files, 1942-1991

(5) Photographs and Miscellaneous, 1942-1991

Kraybill, Paul N., 1925-1993

Vern Preheim Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.434
  • Sammlung
  • 1956-1997

Box 1: Mennonite World Conference committees 1991-1997
Box 2-3: Commission on Overseas Mission files 1969-1977, some older missions documents 1964-1965
Box 4: correspondence and miscellaneous files 1956-1978, Habitat for Humanity files 1978-1982
Box 5: Mennonite Central Committee correspondence 1980-1984, Habitat for Humanity files 1983, Commission on Overseas Missions files 1978-1979

Preheim, Vern

Harold Moyer Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.323
  • Sammlung
  • 1961-1989

Box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962

Mennonite World Conference 1978 - Creative Arts Council

Mennonite World Conference 1978 - Bethel and MWC

Harvey County Arts Council 1966-1978

Bethel NCA self-study 1987-1988 - committee on purpose

Kansas Male Chorus Festival 1970

Music theory III and IV classes 1984-1989

Western District Music and Worship Committee 1966-

Civilian Public Service reunions 1987-1990

Box 2: miscellaneous

Music history and analysis I, II classes 1974-1980

Mennonite Graduate Student Fellowship conference, December 1961, Iowa City

Symposium on Arts, Culture 1993 (Bethel College)

title abstract for house in North Newton

Freeman and Bethel yearbooks

boxes 3-5: hymnals

boxes 6-11: cataloged music scores

box 12: additional scores discovered after cataloging project: Trilogy for Mixed Chorus and Orchestra

Moyer, Harold, 1927-

Erland Waltner Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.383
  • Sammlung
  • 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

Ross Thomas Bender Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/353
  • Sammlung
  • 1958-1998

The personal papers of Ross Thomas Bender (1929-2011), a Mennonite pastor, educator, and Mennonite World Conference President. The papers consist of a variety of sermons and lectures given by Bender, as well as his correspondence, records from his time as leader of Mennonite World Conference, congregational records, and audio recordings.

(1) Sermons and Writings, 1959-1998

(2) Correspondence, 1960-1997

(3) Mennonite World Conference, 1978-1990

(4) Subject Files and Miscellaneous, 1958-1997

(5) Audio Recordings, 1958-1996

Bender, Ross Thomas, 1929-

A.J. Metzler Papers 1919-1996

  • US MCUSAA HM1/417
  • Sammlung
  • 1826-1996

Personal papers of A. J. (Abram Jacob)  Metzler, consisting of sermon outlines, correspondence, subject files, and audio recordings. Records of Metzler's travels and work abroad are included, as are his published articles, his files on congregations he pastored, and a biography of him along with family records.

This collection is divided into the following series:

(1) Sermon Outlines, 1927-1983

(2) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1826, 1919-1993

(3) Audio Recordings, 1956-1996

(4) Photographs and Video Recordings, 1882-1991

Metzler, Abram Jacob, 1902-1996

Rosemary Wyse Reimer Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/853
  • Sammlung
  • 1978-1984

The collection primarily includes materials and correspondence related to Rosemary Wyse Reimer's work with refugees in Northern Indiana, as well as correspondence with Mennonite World Conference.

Reimer, Rosemary (Wyse), 1933-

Ernest J. Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.185
  • Sammlung
  • 1957

Consists entirely of materials related to their trip to the 1957 Mennonite World Conference in Germany. Brochures, programs, souvenirs, scrapbook, etc. It appears that their son Carl also went to the conference.

Claassen, Ernest J., 1887-1970

Virginia Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.503
  • Sammlung
  • 1960-2010

box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962 scrapbook brought in by Esther Wenger 6 Aug 2002; Mennonite World Conference India 1997 scrapbooks brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 2: correspondence, photos, print items, brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 3: photos, correspondence, diplomas, passports, plaques, master's thesis, scrapbook

box 4: framed diploma - University of Kansas master's; photo album of Japan school work

box 5: photo albums, scrapbooks

box 6-8: correspondence

box 9-10: diaries and other notebooks

Claassen, Virginia, 1933-2011

COE Slide Presentation - "Mennonite World Conference"

  • CA MHC 705
  • Sammlung
  • Abt 1984

This slide presentation provides a survey of the highlights in the history of the Mennonite World Conference from its first session in 1925 up to its tenth session in 1978.

Mennonite Library and Archives (North Newton, Kansas)