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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.

Assorted records of a mutual aid society founded in 1897 that offered a form of life insurance to its members, paying out funds to survivors when members died.  Materials include annual reports, rules and regulations, annual correspondence with members that contain lists of deceased members, and receipts for payments to the mutual aid society.

Meeting minutes of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting, urban ministries, and evangelizing in the United States.  Some reports are interfiled with the minutes.

Includes questionnaires returned by (old) Mennonite Church pastors regarding college, university, and graduate students in their congregations during the 1962-1963 academic year.  Also includes the student survey reports from the (old) Mennonite Church, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite Brethren for the 1964-1965 academic year.

Miscellaneous correspondence to and from various leaders of the Student and Young Adult Services Committee, including Virgil J. Brenneman, Al (Albert) Meyer, Mervin Gingerich, and Paul Erb.  Of special note are Paul Erb's handwritten notes regarding the opinions of various Indiana-Michigan Conference congregations about Goshen College, circa 1965.

Scrapbooks containing snapshots, unit histories, descriptions of work and unit life, and other information about various Voluntary Service (V.S.) units sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  The scrapbooks appear to have been used in orienting new unit volunteers and in introducing unit work to visitors.

These records consist of unit reports and diaries, volunteer evaluations of their experiences, and miscellaneous materials associated with the (old) Mennonite Church's voluntary service program.  These records complement those in series IV-19-007, Closed Voluntary Service Unit records.  Documents pertaining to the earliest years of various closed units will be found in this series.

Internal communications among service ministry staff members.  These memos include reports about visits to various voluntary service units, proposals for new units in places of need, and general updates to staff members.  Authors of the memos include Edna Beiler, John Eby, Dan Hess, Ray Horst, John Lehman, Don McCammon, Jerry Miller, Dorsa Mishler, Millard Osborn, Kenneth Seitz, Ken Smith, Gene E. Yoder, John Howard Yoder, and Roy Yoder.

Assorted brochures, publications, handbooks, and correspondence pertaining to the (old) Mennonite Church's voluntary service program.

Files associated with various Mennonite voluntary service sites no longer in operation.  Materials vary according to unit, but researchers may find in this series activity reports, financial reports, correspondence, personnel lists, and other official records.  This series also includes some photographs of Voluntary Service units and work.

Records pertaining to Project 24, a survey of World War I Mennonite conscientious objectors. Records include correspondence, lists of conscientious objectors, and questionnaires.

Correspondence, questionnaires, and final summary of data for Project 19, a census of Mennonite and Amish men who accepted military service during World War II. The questionnaires record the church status of men who accepted military duty rather than the experiences of these men in the military.

Also inlcuded in these records are the results of a study of midweek prayer, Bible study, Young People's Fellowship, and other meetings at (old) Mennonite congregations.

These records were generated by listener response to Mennonite radio programming, particularly the Mennonite Hour (1951-1979) and Heart to Heart (1950-1975). Mennonite Media (then called called Mennonite Broadcasts, Inc.) employed staff to handle listener correspondence.  The Mennonite Hour also had an extensive home Bible study program that generated further correspondence.

In the mid-1990s these files were sampled; only 5% (every twentieth set of correspondence) of the original correspondence was retained.  The other 95% was destroyed. From this sampling, however, researchers can get a sense of the questions asked and responses offered.

Incoming correspondence is filed by listener's last name.  Topic files are are response letters to individual letter writers from the counseling staff.

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.