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box 1-2: Drama department files, photos, drama programs
box 3: various  theater posters (Bethel and community)
box 4: VHS videos of Bethel operas, etc. 1991-2002
box 5: opera recordings 1955 and 1982
box 6: (map folder) more posters, overflow from box 3

reproduction of her diary of January-May 1941 when she was living as a child on the Bethel College campus
was made for an art exhibit at Kauffman Museum May-October 2001

Consists of industrial arts syllabi and papers, mostly by Voth, mostly from elsewhere than Bethel College, dated mostly ca. 1940.

The collection has two distinct groups of materials. The larger group is the papers of Cornelius Frey. These papers contain a wide variety of materials, but the most significant is the extensive correspondence. There are letters from many of the leading Mennonites of his time, such as missionaries H. R. Voth and J. B. Frey (Cornelius’ brother), Oklahoma leader Michael Klaassen, and even a few European Mennonites such as Christian Neff. Among the other important materials are Bethanian Church records, a large group of pamphlets and printed matter, and some political materials. These political items are election records and census materials for West Branch Township, Marion County, for the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. These records provide a bit of first-hand evidence for the extent of Mennonite interest and involvement in politics at this time. The collection also contains quite a bit of personal materials such as diaries, financial records, and school materials. An interesting item in the school materials is the minutes of the Grünfeld Literary and Song Society for 1890. The papers of A. J. Frey, the other group of materials in this collection, consist almost entirely of genealogical materials. Frey collected all kinds of records and reminiscences in his genealogical research. These materials would be extremely important to the family histories of persons connected with the Alexanderwohl and Tabor churches. Also in A. J. Frey’s materials is a volume of Mennonite Aid Plan minutes, 1897-1960. Appendix: The materials in this addition to the collection are generally similar to the first part of the collection, consisting most importantly of correspondence, genealogy records, and Coy, Oklahoma, historical records. In addition, the appendix contains a small amount of correspondence and other material of family members other than Arthur J. or Cornelius Frey. They are: John Becker (1870-1968) and Eva Frey Becker (1880-1960), Eva sister of Cornelius Benjamin C. Frey (1895-1960), son of Cornelius Eva Balzer (Henry) Frey (1873-1936), sister-in-law of Cornelius Helena Schmidt (Cornelius) Frey (1870-1934), wife of Cornelius John B. Frey (1882-1942) and Sarah Unruh Frey (1885-1967), John brother of Cornelius Maria Wedel (Benjamin) Frey (1843-1934), mother of Cornelius Sara Elizabeth Frey (Paul G.) Schmidt (1898-1974), daughter of Cornelius Maria Ann Frey (McLoren) Temple (1906-), daughter of Cornelius

Includes a wide variety of correspondence, financial, legal, and family history materials. The focus is more on personal and family life rather than professional, except for some documentation related to his work as pastor of various churches.

Mennonite furniture slides (transferred 11 August 1994)

student research papers on Newton buildings and sites from Art History I class at Bethel fall 1994 (transferred 13 May 1996)

childhood Sunday School books

box 2: papers related to German "Friends of Bethel College" organization and its fund-raising for remodeling of Memorial Hall

box 3: papers related to Save Outdoor Sculpture campaign to refurbish the Mennonite Settler status in Newton, Kansas

box 4: Rwandan children’s drawings 1994-1995 (brought in by her Mar. 12, 2015)

box 5: miscellaneous later accruals

box 1: correspondence, subject files, project files

box 2: CPS and peace files, subject files, educational files

box 3: subject and educational files

box 4: books, card file

box 5: card files, Bethel-related correspondence

box 6: CitizensUtility Ratepayer Board (CURB) (from Blanche Spaulding 7 Nov 1994)

box 7: CURB, prison sentence, CPS (from Blanch Spaulding 7 Nov 1994)

box 8: Blanche's files: talks, book fairs, children's literature class (from Blanche Spaulding 14 Nov 1994)

box 9: Blanche's files: book fairs, Northridge PTA (from Blanche Spaulding 14 Nov 1994

box 10: books, pamphlets (from Blanche Spaulding 14 Nov 1994)

box 11: books, pamphlets (from Blanche Spaulding 14 Nov 1994)

box 12: incorporated into box 13

box 13: "Your Neighbor" pamphlet series, "Peace Maker, Peace Markers" scrapbook, Northridge PTA Reading and Library Service 1962, BELL - children's literature (from Blanche Spaulding 2 Feb 1995); prison sentence (from Blanche Spaulding 10 July 1996), family history (from Irving Spaulding 1995)

box 14: Conference on Education and Political Responsibility 1960, conscription, National Science Foundation visiting lectureships 1960-1967, Race relations conference April 1964, Spelman College student exchange 1959-1965. Tape of autobiographical interview, 1973?

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

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.

Includes Bethel photo album, correspondence, print ephemera related mostly to the Mennonite deaconess movement and especially to the deaconess hospital at American Falls, Idaho. Also an extensive list of books owned by Franzen. 2012 accrual includes music and poetry for school programs, print ephemera for Marion County schools, other school papers, photos.

Bethel College memorabilia,  including Bethel College Mennonite Church, Women's Association, Reading Club
small amount of correspondence
some slides (mostly Bethel and North Newton subjects)

Box 1: slides, photos, correspondence, minutes

Box 2: correspondence, reports, minutes

Box 3: mostly CPS and MCC correspondence, reports

Box 4: correspondence, reports, minutes, clippings, CPS reunions, MCC Europe, Herald Pub. Co.

Box 5: clippings, printed matter, correspondence, reports, Albert Schweitzer meeting, speeches and talks, student tours, India tour

Box 6: a real jumble of all kinds of the above materials

Box 7: also a jumble; lots of printed matter

Box 8: books, photos, photo album

Box 9: MCC Europe, Western District, photos, misc.

Box 10: books, pamphlets, photos, miscellaneous

box 1: Umatic videos of linear algebra lectures 1974?, early Cooperative Mathematics Department (Bethel, Tabor, McPherson) project, ca. 1985??, 11 tapes
box 2: 11 Umatic tapes
box 3-4: files from his work with Kansas Section of Mathematical Association of America 1980-2006
box 5: overflow from box 2, 4 Umatic tapes

box 1: Bethel-related reel tapes, not all well identified; BC Goals Study 1969-70; Bethel general education discussion-undated
box 2: examples of his design works in 1950s and 60s in various Mennonite periodicals
box 3: large printing plate for a place mat - designed by him while a Bethel student for Willis Rich - "Magic Circle" theme
box 4-5: art masters and press sheets for "The Sun and the Wind" (box 5 is a map folder)
box 6: grad school notes (box 7 was incorporated into box 6)
box 8-9: teaching notes

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