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Abraham R. Miller Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/398SC
  • Collection
  • 1897-1968

The collection includes Elkhart Institute stock, correspondence with M. B. Fast, and memorial service material.

Miller, Abraham R.

Fannie Elizabeth Coffman Landis Papers

  • US MCUSAA 199SC
  • Collection
  • 1890-1936

The richest documentation in this small collection consists of a handwritten history of the Alumni Association of Goshen College and Elkhart Institute (1908), in which she provides statistics about the alumni and profiles a number of graduates.  Also included in the collection are a number of programs and ephemera from Goshen College commencement ceremonies and local Mennonite church events.

Landis, Fannie Elizabeth Coffman, 1877-1959

Goshen College Mennonite Board of Education Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US GCA V/04/028
  • Collection
  • 1948-2002

These records document the college's relationship with the Mennonite Board of Education and the other schools directed by the Mennonite Board of Education:  Hesston College and Eastern Mennonite University.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes and other records documenting collaboration and conflict among Mennonite institutions of higher learning.

Goshen College

Jacob Brubaker Smith Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/034SC
  • Collection
  • 1870-1951

This collection includes an article written by Jacob Brubaker Smith as an appeal to the Mennonite Board of Education regarding Goshen College, dated February 19, 1931, along with some early Goshen College theater photographs. In addition, the collection a couple of later letters by Jacob Brubaker Smith.

Smith, J. B. (Jacob Brubaker), 1870-1951

LaVerne Hostetler Scrapbooks

  • US MCUSAA HM1/978
  • Collection
  • 1926-1934

Two scrapbooks documenting Hostetler's experiences as a student at Goshen College Academy (1926-1930) and Goshen College (1930-1934).  The scrapbooks contain photographs, invitations, notes and letters from friends, and ephemera.

Hostetler, LaVerne, 1914-1990

Lucille Krabill Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/317SC
  • Collection
  • 1900-1918

A small set of correspondence on postcards of Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, and Elkhart, Indiana, and scattered Goshen College / Elkhart Institute commencement programs.

Krabill, Lucille

Verna Zimmerman Scrapbook

  • US GCA V/04/018-002
  • Collection
  • 1974

A scrapbook of correspondence from former students presented to Verna Zimmerman, associate professor of nursing at Goshen College, on the occasion of her retirement.  Zimmerman served the college from 1952 to 1975.

Zimmerman, Verna