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Faculty files, files from boards and committees on which she served, both Bethel College and broader church-related

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 3: job offer at Bethel correspondence; BELL program 1970-1972; Bible & Religion Department files 1970s-1985; ACCK religion and philosophy 1970s; Historic Peace Churches/FOR Continuation Committee 1991-1997

Box 4: Bible & Religion Department files 1985-1997 (25 year newsletter, summary of graduates 1972-1995)

Box 5: Bible & Religion Department files 1997-2005; BIFL 1980-2005

Box 6: Course syllabi - Bethel, WSU, Great Plains, Toronto

Box 7: Mennonite statements 1900-1980 on peace and social concerns

Box 8, 9: Gordon Kaufman symposium 1996

Box 10-12: general Bethel files

Box 13: Great Plains seminary; Peace Love & Justice Task Force 1979-1982; Western District Peace & Social Concerns Committee 1981-1987

The collection documents Harley J. Stucky’s academic career and involvement in numerous historical, community, and church activities. Extensive correspondence is available from throughout his life and provides unique insights into a number of programs, ranging from the early development of Camp Mennoscah and other youth programs (including the North Newton 4H club as well as Western District and General Conference institutions) to the various historical organizations and celebrations for which he played major leadership roles. His insider role occasionally highlighted issues and disagreements within the numerous organizations. Stucky read quite widely and collected many pamphlets and clippings on topics related to his teaching and interests, especially those regarding international relations and nonresistance. Most significant perhaps are the materials on conscientious objection, disarmament ,and universal military service. One unique aspect of the collection is that Stucky retained copies of most, or perhaps all, of the term papers of his students, and the set from Bethel College is especially extensive. This collection provides the most extensive documentation of the Mennonite and wheat centennial celebrations in 1974, and especially of the controversies surrounding the relationship of the Wheat Committee and the Kansas Wheat Commission regarding the Kansas Wheat Center after the centennial.

see also elecrec/acc254 for phonograph record labels

The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.

The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.

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

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

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.

academic writings and notes, some kind of Policies and Procedures manual, 1996 retirement tributes
boxes 2-6: Lois Deckert diaries, correspondence, writings 1968-2009

Deknatel Consort 1978-1995, Bach Festival 1985, Chapel organ planning 1979-1985, 1936 Reuter chapel organ, worship symposium 1996, Walls and Windows Robert Kreider symposium 1998, 1991 and 1993 arts and religion symposia

box 1: file cabinet 1, drawer 4; A-C?; reports, course notes, subject files

box 2: file drawer A; C-H

box 3: file drawer A (end), file drawer B (beginning); H-T

box 4: file drawer B (end), file cabinet 1, drawers 1 and 2; W-Z (not quite full)

box 5: cassette tapes containing word processing files of his 1981 dissertation - in Wordstar or Scripsit - looks like 2 sets of tapes (backups)

box 6: Bethel course materials

box 7-8: political campaigns and offices

box 9-13: subject files? some articles by Benjamin, some course notes, "sorted 3/95"

box 14: grad school papers

box 15: file cabinet 1, drawer 4 (end), file cabinet 2, drawer 1( beginning); course materials, subject files?

box 16: statistical demographic tables - computer printed - from State Data Center, Hugo Wall Center for Urban Studies, Wichita State University for central and southeast Kansas (date?), presumably used for congressional campaign

box 17a: file cabinet 2, drawer 1; publications and papers by Benjamin

box 17b: file cabinet 2, drawer 1 (end), file cabinet 2, drawer 2; publications and papers by Benjamin; computer manual and software (see elecrec/acc8) (discarded many 8 inch floppy discs of voter registration data)

box 18: campaign files

box 19: audio cassettes, Betamax and VHS videos; some are recordings of Benjamin, others of local events

box 20-22: conference papers, articles, etc., maybe some by Benjamin

box 24a: clippings and research notes mostly related to agricultural trade; campaign materials (discarded some 5.25 inch floppys of voter registration data, also a 1/2 inch computer tape likely also voter registration (kept as exhibit))

box 24b: audio cassettes - poorly identified; campaign materials

box 25: Betamax videos of Bethel and Newton events (need to digitize)

box 26: file cabinet 1 drawer 3; subject files, course files

box 27: file cabinet 2 drawer 4 (beginning); subject and course files

box 28: file cabinet 3 drawer 3 (beginning); subject and course files

box 29: file cabinet 3 drawer 3 (end), drawer 4 (beginning); course files

box 30: file cabinet 3 drawer 5 (end); subject files

box 31: file cabinet 3 drawer 1 (end), drawer 2; subject files?

box 32: file cabinet 3 drawer 4 (end), drawer 5 (beginning); subject and course files

box 33: file cabinet 2 drawer 4 (end), file cabinet 3 drawer 1 (beginning); subject and course files

box 1: files from Baptist-Mennonite dialogue 1989-1993

box 2: Honora Becker letters, file of clippings, etc. on Mennonite homosexuality discussion

box 3-4: Mennonite women 1971-1997 (clippings, minutes and correspondence of MCC Women's Concerns Committee, lecture notes)

box 5: Bethel teaching files

box 6-8: British Literature teaching files

box 9-10: Nonwestern Literature class

box 11: Africa and China files

box 12: Claudia Limbert file

box 13: Bethel files

box 14: notes on Mennonite literature

box 15: Milton and Arthurian files

box 16: "lit. articles to file"

box 17: folder on Bethel songs brought in by Jim Juhnke 30 Nov 2011

boxes 18-19: diaries

Comprehensive collection of Krahn's correspondence, research notes, lecture notes, etc. from his student days up to his death.

See also elecrec/acc276 for items on Krahn’s student days at the university of Heidelberg.

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

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.