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Fourteen female students are in front of the First Mennonite Brethren Bible School in the first South Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Church. The picture is taken in winter time. There is a large accumulation of snow on the ground. They appear to be making snowballs and snowmen.

Staff and students standing in front of the Bible School building. Back row men (left to right): Petrus Friesen, John Willms, John Reimer. Middle row women (left to right): Lily Derksen, Betty Esau, Mary Knelsen, unknown, Helen Derksen. Front row teachers (left to right): Abram Wieler, Dietrich P. Esau, Jacob F. Redekop.

Bethel Bible School students posing outside the school building. Most women appear to be wearing a school uniform.

Eleven young men and women on steps of Bible School.

Six young men standing (on the shoulders of each other) beside a ladder which is leaning on a building. There is an early model car in foreground.

Students and instructor standing outdoors beside the Bible School building. Back row: (left to right): Annie (Rempel) Peters , Agnes Jantz, Irma (Dick) Buehler , Instructor, Cornelius C. Peters, Dave Falk, Leslie Schmidt, Jack Defehr, Bill Stobbe, George Stobbe, David Neufeld. Front row: (left to right): Katie Martens, Christina (Quiring) Wedel, Anne (Defehr) Nickel, Irma Willms, Martha (Kornelson) Krahn, Kathleen (Willms) Toews, Susanne (Willms) Thielman, Ben Falk, Milton Schmidt, Cornie Klassen, Jake Falk, Bill Neufeld, Isaak Sawatzky.

Six girls at a Christmas social (left to right): Dorothy Landie, Pat (Vogt) Wood , Geraldine Friesen, Darlene Martens, Mrs. Franz, Adina Franz

Unidentified cook at work in school kitchen.

Graduating class of 14 students. Back row (left to right): Leo Siemens, Walter Loewen, Arthur Willms, Albert Voth. Middle row (left to right): Frank Martens, John Konrad, Betty Funk, Amanda Born, Irwin Klassen, Peter Rahn. Front row (left to right): Kay Neufeld, Helen Fehr, Betty Doerksen, Ruth Martens.

A large group of people gathered outdoors for the dedication of ladies' dorm and addition to the administration building on MBBI campus..

Photo of the Jantz family appears to be taken in the family home. Back row (left to right): Carol, Janet, Judith; Front row (left to right): Katherine, Angelika, Marianne, Hugo

Five young women dressed in identical school sweaters. Left to right: Irene (Reimer) Funk , Eleanor Suderman, Linda (Suderman) Stobbe , Shirley (Jantzen) Fast , Trudy Wedel, pianist.

Oratorio choir and orchestra in concert dress with director Helmut Janzen. Orchestra members (left to right): Frank Dyck, Virginia Fast, Hedy (Sawatsky) Hein, Jake Toews, Rudy Dyck, Unknown, Rudy Reimer

A group of students singing, accompanied on the piano. The pianist likely is Esther Wiebe music instructor at CMBC at the time. Could this be when CMBC toured BC in the early 1960's and visited MBBI?

Student council consisting of fifteen persons most are sitting around the table and three standing at the back. Standing (left to right): Victor Martens, Walter Esau, Ron Niessen. Sitting (left to right): Esther Enns, Lorena Funk, Ruth Suderman, Ron Falk, John B Epp (staff representative), Walter Goertzen, Rob Wedel, Nita Neufeld, Betty (Wiens) Dahl, Ethel Schroeder, Ed Bergen, Ruth Enns.