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Silver Lake Mennonite Camp staff in their office at the Pandora Press building (formerly The Gun Room store) at the corner of Kent Avenue and Charles Street, Kitchener. Left to right: Reynold Friesen (director), Paul Janzen (computer consultant and former assistant director), Henry Pauls (administrator), Janelle Weber (assistant director), Mike Shantz (assistant director).

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Mary Snyder, [sic] active in church and community." She was the matron of the Berlin Orphanage (beginning in 1896) and the first president of the Stirling Women's Missionary Society.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Rev. J. E. and Mamie Hartzler" Rev. Hartzler, a former president of Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana), was a popular speaker in the Waterloo area.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Generations of hard work: the Gordon & Verna Weber Farm (circa, 1950). Formerly U.K. & Maggie Weber Farm, Old Chicopee Road."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church decked out with gates and flowers for Sunday School Promotion Sunday. Note the open Bible and motto as U.K. Weber requested. The presence of the piano indicates the photo was taken after 1932."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Berlin (First) Mennonite Church, 1913. Stirling would be built "up the hill" behind this church."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "'Members met each other much as they always have.' Stirling's Catherine Shantz visits with Ontario Conference members Fannie and David B. Betzner." Fannie (Hess) Betzner was from Pennsylvania, which accounts for her more traditional form of Mennonite dress.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Young men on an outing to Jackson Point [on Lake Simcoe], 1934. [Left to right]: Wilfred Meyer, Russel Shantz, Edward Shantz, Edward Weber, Gordon Snyder."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Norman and Clara Critchison." Norman was choir director at Stirling Avenue beginning in the 1930s, and had had been the organist at Benton Street Baptist Church. Clara (Killer) Critchison was the first person to sing a solo at Stirling during a church service.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Christmas pageant, 1938."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Alice Bachert examines Idali in a Columbia marketplace. The girl had recently lost a brother and sister to illness."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "COs arriving at Montreal River." A group of conscientious objectors gathered in an open space at the camp.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "These young friends made different decisions in the face of war. l to r: Donald Millar, Gordon Eby, Bob Rahn, Doug Millar. The Millars served as COs. Gordon Eby, a United Church member, and Bob Rahn, a Lutheran, joined the Air Force. Rahn was killed overseas." Donald and Doug Millar are in civilian clothes while Gordon and Bob are in military uniform.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: " 'Doing what we can': Crusaders with the calf are the Millar twins, Roderick and Frederick." Crusaders projects raised funds for mission and relief work.The boys pose with a calf outside the home of their parents, Ida and Frederick Millar.