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System of arrangement: The materials are divided into ten categories: 1) personal and family history; 2) Northern Cheyenne; 3) Southern Cheyenne; 4) Hopi; 5) Native Ministries Canada); 6) MILC; 7) Subject Files; 8) Research, Writing, and Translating; 9) Audio Tapes; and 10) Books. Many of the materials in these series were intact when transferred to the MLA and left in the original order, but some papers were separated into numerous sections and donated to the MLA at different times. These later were reorganized alphabetically.

The collection contains a very small amount of personal material related to the Wenger’s family life, including only a few letters and a little genealogical material. A few family photographs survive and include some vacation pictures and a few photos related to their time at Bethel College, where they met. Otherwise the collection documents their mission and translating work in some detail. Perhaps most unique are the audio tapes, many of Cheyenne speakers or music, some of which have been digitized onto CDs. While the collection has some copies of official correspondence and reports, more extensive documentation of the Wenger’s mission work can be found in the GCMC mission board files in the MLA.

The collection contains extensive correspondence between Mabel Kauffman and her children, especially to her son Daniel in the 1960s and 1970s. A handful of journals and photos also document her personal life and family history. A few family letters, a family bible, clippings, and obituaries contain information on her father, Tillman Erb, pastor, bishop, and Hesston College business manager. Genealogical materials relate to the Erb’s and also the Hess family of Mabel’s mother. A lengthy autobiography of Mabel’s brother, Allen H. Erb, provides more details on the family history as well as his career as a minister and hospital administrator. Mabel lived for a number of years with her daughter Melva before moving to Schowalter Villa; this included two years when Mabel worked in Kabul, Afghanistan, developing curriculum for US AID, 1969-70. (In a few cases it is unclear to whom some of the materials, especially memorabilia, belonged; perhaps half of the materials in the overall collection are Mabel’s, and the other half are from her father, Tillman; brother, Allen; and daughter, Melva)

The collection includes college course syllabi, lecture notes, correspondence, committee minutes, and documentation on El Salvador seminars (1964, 1965, 1969). While some of the files in this collection overlap with the department files, some unique departmental correspondence and committee minutes may be found here. Topics relate to education, teacher education, philosophy, sociology, political science. Includes files related to National Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; 45 cassette tapes of Holsinger lectures; one book, Serving Rural Puerto Rico, and one dissertation, Puerto Rico: Island of Progress.

The collection contains almost no personal and family materials. Subject files include a very large set of clippings on political topics from the early 1960s. It is unclear why these articles were collected. Minimal files relate to Holsinger’s undergraduate and graduate studies. Likewise there are very few files from his teaching at Bluffton or Hesston Colleges (some lecture notes appear to have been used first at Hesston and later at Bethel).