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A small set of governing documents, correspondence, and guest registers associated with this seemingly tongue-in-cheek social organization founded by male Mennonite college students seeking marriagable mates.  Founding officers include John A. Hostetler, Ray E. Horst, Willard D. Hunsberger, Calvin Wall Redekop, and Harvey Toews.

The Festival of the People was an event sponsored by Goshen College in cooperation with the Brethren in Christ Church, the Northern Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren, the Central District General Conference Mennonites and the Board of Congregational Ministries of the Mennonite Church, to renew congregations. The collection includes a program, brochure, workshop locations, and workshop leaders.

The collection contains the organizational records of the Goshen College Hispanic Ministries program. The material includes correspondence, reports, program, minutes and prospective students records.

The records consist primarily of minutes from the organization's regular monthly meetings.  Interspersed in the minutes, researchers will find membership rolls, financial information, and annual reports.  The records also include a newsletter, pubished intermittently in the 1980s, for Goshen College home economics students.

These records consist of the meeting minutes and supplementary documents created by and distributed to members of the Board of Overseers and its predecessor institution, the Local Board.  Budget and finance records, staff reports, policy documents, and other key information in the adminstration of Goshen College may be found in these records.

Note that these records do not cover the period from 1942-1959, as the Mennonite Board of Education did not appoint a separate governing board for Goshen College during those years.  Consult the Mennonite Board of Education Records, Series V-01-01, to find information regarding Goshen College when no local governing board existed.

Personal papers of Lores E. Steury, consisting largely of gathered information on the Amish Christian Church (including information highlighted in the book The Amish Christian Church: Its History and Legacy by Fredrick J. Schrock). Holdings also include personal information about Steury, including diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, and drafts of an autobiography.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Amish Christan Church Materials

(2) Geneological Records

(3) Diaries and Recollections

(4) Recorded Interviews

(5) Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials

Personal papers of Christian L. Graber and Mina Roth Graber, consisting of correspondence, diaries, sermons, scrapbooks, geneological records, and information about Christian L. Graber's time as a conscientious objector during World War I, his stint as a relief worker, and his service to Mennonite Central Committee.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence

(2) Sermons and Writings

(3) Personal and Family Records

(4) War, Peace, and Relief Work

(5) Business, Legal, and Estate Files

(6) Subject Files and Miscellaneous

(7) Mina Roth Graber Diaries

(8) Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous

Personal papers of a Mennonite preacher, college administrator, and theology professor whose career helped to reframe the Mennonite faith for the next generation. These papers are divided into five series:

1) Correspondence and Subject Files

2) Biographical Materials

3) Lecture, Sermon, and Tour Notes

4) Manuscripts

5) Clippings and Miscellaneous