The La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing (La Junta, Colo.) Alumnae Association was founded in 1956. The association not only helps nursing school classmates maintain a sense of community, but also supports nursing students at Mennonite colleges through scholarships. Materials in this collection include governance and adminstrative documents of the association, the alumnea newsletter (1944-2008), scholarship fund correspondence and records, reunion materials, lists of graduates, class correspondence, photographs, alumnae studies, a scrapbook created from yearbooks, and miscellaneous materials. Of particular note is a phonograph record of the class of 1946 singing its class song, "Onward and Upward."
La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing (La Junta, Colo.) Alumnae Association
Records documenting congregational life of the (Old) Mennonite Church's urban mission in Chicago, Illinois. Materials include a membership ledger, records of events and organizations associated with the mission congregation, Sunday school records, financial records, and photographs.
The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II. Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work. Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.
The collection includes diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, and scattered correspondence from friends and family, mostly from Dorothy Smith Shank's years as a Goshen College Academy and Goshen College student from 1924 to 1932.
Correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous materials associated with Blanche Sell's 35 years of missionary service in India with the Mennonite Board of Missions. While outgoing correspondence relating the daily work and spiritual life of Mennonite missionaries in Dhamtari will be of most interest to researchers, this collection also holds substantial incoming correspondence from Sell's mother, Elizabeth Sell, and sister, Doris Shenk. Most of the photographs are snapshots with fair to excellent captioning. They include images of Indian spiritual and medical leaders, including P. J. Malagar and Dr. Martin. Miscellaneous materials include a Mennonite Board of Missions India calendar (1952), texts of missionary messages Sell delivered to various Mennonite congregations in the 1980s, and autograph books.
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.
Outgoing correspondence and photographs of a Mennonite missionary and his family. Correspondence consists of "form letters" to keep friends and families informed of their mission work in Kentucky. The papers also include advertisements and other ephemera from "Wenger's Christian Supply" and "Wenger's Supply," a family business selling vitamins, nutritional supplements, and "the talking Bible." An essay by Wayne Wenger, entitled "The Wearing or Non-Wearing of the Tie" is also found in these papers.
Records of an organization dedicated to preserving the Deitsch (Dietsch, Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German) language. Materials include documents of governance and membership, newsletters, and programs, sound recordings, video recordings, and photographs of the organization's annual meeting and dinner. The annual meetings include skits, songs, and recitations in the Deitsch language.
Contains the personal papers of a denominational leader who served as pastor, evangelist, Hesston College President (1932-1951), and early advocate of Christian stewardship education in the Mennonite Church. The collection is arranged by series and includes correspondence, copies of writings and speeches, sermon notes, and materials related to two book projects on Christian stewardship.
Personal papers of a longtime advocate for stewardship education in the Mennonite Church. Of note are an unpublished memoir and a large collection of notes and outlines for speeches and sermons on the topic of Christian stewardship.
These papers primarily document the life and work of Ellis B. Croyle, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, R. Charlotte Hertzler Croyle. The papers are divided into five series:
