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Personal papers of a prominent administrator who held leadership positions in multiple Mennonite-related organizations over a career spanning four decades between 1953 and 1993. Kraybill also served as a board member and organizational consultant for a variety of institutions, including the American Leprosy Mission, Lancaster Mennonite School, and Lombard Mennonite Church. Materials consist of daily calendars, administrative trip reports, writings and manuscripts, photographs, scattered correspondence, committee minutes, and organizational working files. The papers are divided into the following series and subseries:

(1) Day Timers and Calendars, 1956-1992

(2) Manuscripts, Notes, and Talks, 1950-1991

(3) Organizational Working Files, 1956-1992

A. Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities

B. Mennonite Church General Board

C. Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation

D. Mennonite Housing Aid, Inc.

E. Mennonite World Conference

F. Mennonite Health Association

(4) General Subject Files, 1942-1991

(5) Photographs and Miscellaneous, 1942-1991

"Experiences of My Youth and Later Life." Translation of above German copy.

Diary #15 May 6, 1941 - May 23, 1943

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

Box 1: diaries, correspondence, photos, sermons, books, clippings

Box 2: books, autobiography

Box 3: scrapbook, pamphlets

Diary #14 Aug 7, 1939 - May 25, 1941

Diary #13 Oct 1, 1937 - Aug 6, 1939

Personal papers of Lores E. Steury, consisting largely of gathered information on the Amish Christian Church (including information highlighted in the book The Amish Christian Church: Its History and Legacy by Fredrick J. Schrock). Holdings also include personal information about Steury, including diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, and drafts of an autobiography.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Amish Christan Church Materials

(2) Geneological Records

(3) Diaries and Recollections

(4) Recorded Interviews

(5) Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials

Diary #12 Jan 1, 1936 - Sept 30, 1937

Abraham L. Plett diary, written by Mrs. Abraham L. Plett. Photocopy of German original (62 pages) and transcribed German copy (27 pages) by Peter A. Plett.

Diary #11 Nov 6, 1933 - Dec 31, 1935

Diary #10 April 1, 1932 - Nov 5, 1933

Volume 4636
1 Original David G. Epp diary. - Feb 8 1931 - Apr. 6 1932 .
2 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. - Feb. 8 1931 - Apr. 6 1932 .
3 Original David G. Epp diary. - Apr. 7 1932 - Jan. 20 1933 .
4 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. - Apr. 7 1932 - Jan. 20 1933 .
5 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 21 1933 - Feb. 6 1934 .
6 Original David G. Epp diary. Feb. 8 1934 - Dec. 31 1934 ; Jan. 1 1940 - Nov. 4 1941 . (The Feb. 8 1934 - Dec. 31 1934 diary is followed by the five year diary, Jan. 1 1935 - Dec. 31 1939 diary in Volume 4636: 8).
7 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 21 1933 - Feb. 6 1934 ; Feb. 8 1934 - Dec. 31 1934 .
8 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1935 - Dec. 31 1939 .
9 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. Jan. 1 1935 - Dec. 31 1939 . NOTE: The David G. Epp diary from Jan. 1 1940 - Nov. 4 1941 is found in Volume: 4636: 6.
10 Original David G. Epp diary. - Nov. 6 1941 - July 13 1947 .
11 Original David G. Epp diaries. - Dec. 31 1952 - Dec. 31 1964 . (These diaries are in 12 envelopes).
12 Original David G. Epp diary. -- 1948-1952.
Volume 4637
1 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1965 - Dec. 31 1969 .
2 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1970 - Dec. 31 1974 .
3 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1975 - Dec. 31 1979 .
4 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1975 - Dec. 31 1985 , Jan. 22, 1986 .