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The collection consists of early school notebooks and miscellaneous hand-written notes of H. Frank (Henry Frank) Reist who briefly served as president of Goshen College.

The collection consists of correspondence of Goshen College alumni, Samuel Burkhard, regarding the future of Goshen College.

A small set of minutes and correspondence from a committee charged with developing ways to coordinate secondary, collegiate, and Bible college educational initiatives across the denomination.  This committee operated under the authority of the Mennonite General Conference and its records appear to have been placed with those of the Mennonite Board of Education for the convenience of researchers.

Minutes, correspondence, published standards for day school and secondary education, and miscellaneous materials created by the body tasked with the "churchwide promotion, correlation, and guidance of all educational interests as assigned to the [Mennonite] Board [of Education] by the {Mennonite Church] General Conference."  The General Educational Council was disbanded in 1959 after a reorganization of the Mennonite Board of Education.

Meeting minutes of the predecessor organization to the Mennonite Board of Education Higher Education Council, which focused on the work of colleges affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church -- Goshen College, Hesston College, and Eastern Mennonite College,

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to a administrative body of Mennonite elementary and day school administrators.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials of the Nursing Education Council and its predecessor, the Committee on Nursing Education.  The Nursing Education Council was formed in 1949 to review the problems of nursing education, to assist in coordinating the pre-nursing curricula at Mennonite colleges with the denominational nursing education program, and to coordinate the education of nurses with the (old) Mennonite Church's evangelism and service programs.  These record include information about the effort to establish a nursing school in Elkhart, Ind. that would be convenient for Goshen College students.

The collection of the Council of Mennonite and Affiliated Colleges includes minutes, foreign student program materials, college statistics, and a study of trainee and student exchange program.

The collection consists of the correspondence, minutes and research reports of the Mennonite Research Fellowship.

The collection includes the conference material, correspondence, and papers of the Conference on Mennonite Educational and Cultural Problems.

Reports, correspondence, and subject files comprise the bulk of the records of the recording secretary of the Mennonite Board of Education.  Secretaries of the Mennonite Board of Education include S. F. Coffman (1925-1939), C. F. Yake (1939-1949), J. Forrest Kanagy (1949-1969), and Harvey W. Baumann (1969-1972).  Researchers should note that there are relatively few records older than 1962.

Records of the office of the president of the education agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.  These records are divided into series by the office holder and contain primarily correspondence and subject files, but also include reports.

Researchers will note that these records are quite incomplete. There are no presidential papers for the following presidents: John Blosser (1902-1917), Sanford Calvin (S. C.) Yoder (1918-1924), H. R. Schertz (1924-1929), D. A. Yoder (1929-1948), and Paul Erb (1963-1965). In some cases, correspondence pertaining to these presidents' leadership of the Mennonite Board of Education may be found in their personal papers.

box 1: financial papers 1929-1948; birth certificate; diaries 1967; report cards 1907-1923; clippings related to H. R. Voth; correspondence 1906, 1948-50, 1987; H. R. Voth stock certificates 1907-1921; Bethel class of 1940 materials; National Education Association membership certificate 1956
box 2: slides

The collection includes the minutes and correspondence of the Goshen College Physical Education Department, as well as Mid-Central Conference materials, Women's Athletic Association correspondence, some photographs, and a few films.

These records document the college's relationship with the Mennonite Board of Education and the other schools directed by the Mennonite Board of Education:  Hesston College and Eastern Mennonite University.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes and other records documenting collaboration and conflict among Mennonite institutions of higher learning.