22 Treffer anzeigen

Records documenting the meetings of a group of Mennonite graduate students that gathered to present papers and exchange ideas.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and copies of papers presented at the conferences.  From 1958 to 1967, the Mennonite Graduate Fellowship met every year.  The last two meetings were held in 1972 and 1978.

Records of an Mennonite Board of Missions ministry formed in the late 1950s with the goals of creating awareness of the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, encouraging Mennonite students to form Mennonite fellowships at secular universities, helping Mennonite students maintain ties to other Mennonite students, and providing spiritual support to Mennonite undergraduate and graduate students.  Created as the Student Services Committee, the ministry's name was changed in 1978 to the Student and Young Adult Services Committee.

Records include meeting minutes, reports of visits made to Mennonite student fellowships, reports on the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, policies, newsletters, speakers' bureau information, and miscellaneous materials.  Researchs will find information about the Mennonite student housing cooperative in Philadelphia in these records.

Applications received from individuals wishing to serve as missionaries for the Mennonite Church.  Records may include completed application forms, with biographical information, paragraph-long answers to questions posed to candidates for missionary work, correspondence between the mission committee and the applicant, and letters of recommendation.

Records of a bicycle touring ministry sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Records are divided into two series:

(1) General Records, 1967-1983

(2) Bike Hike Records, 1970-1982

These records are divided into six series:

(1) Council Meeting Minutes, 1984-2004

(2) Newsletters, 1989-2003

(3) Financial Records, 1992-2005

(4) Executive Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files, 1971-2005

(5) Administrative Correspondence and Subject Files, 1986-2005

(6) Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, 1984-2002.

A collection of photocopied correspondence gathered by Mary Elizabeth Yoder documenting letters received by her grandfather, Manasses Beachy, her grandparents, Samuel and Magdalene Miller, and other members of the Beachy and Yoder families.  The letters indicate geographical dispersion of the family in Maryland, West Virginia, Iowa and Pennsylvania.  Many of the letters are in German script, and most have been transcribed, but not translated.

The collection consists of a scrapbook dated 1866, and two letters dated 1843 and 1876.