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Mennonite Church USA Archives Oral history
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Mennonite Nurses Association Records

  • US MCUSAA VII/020
  • Sammlung
  • 1943-2011

These records are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Governing Documents, circa 1945-2005

Series 2: Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1945-2010

Series 3: Publications, 1945-2010

Series 4: Financial Records, 1949-2009

Series 5: Correspondence, 1949-2001

Series 6: Membership Records, 1943-2004

Series 7: Local Chapter Records, 1950-1989

Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials, 1945-2011

Mennonite Nurses Association

Mennonite Publishing House (Scottdale, Pa.)  Historical Files

  • US MCUSAA VI/12/001
  • Sammlung
  • 1948-2003

This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991

Zook, Ellrose D.

Mennonite Board of Missions Alumni Program Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/037
  • Sammlung
  • 1981-2003

Organizational records documenting a Mennonite mission agency's efforts to gather information from and organize reunions for former mission and voluntary service workers.  These records contain not only administrative information regarding the mission board's strategy to engage former missionaries and service workers, but also include summaries of oral history interviews with and somewritten reminiscences of former missionaries and service workers about their experiences.

Mennonite Board of Missions

Zion Mennonite Church (Archbold, Ohio) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/35-40
  • Sammlung
  • 1956-2007

While these records include a handful of typical congregational records (primarily bulletins), the bulk of the collection consists of sound recordings and transcripts associated with the "Peace Stories Oral History Project" of 1990-1994.  The oral history project sought to document the experiences of conscientious objectors in the congregation and resulted in over 20 interviews. Other materials include administrative documents and publications associated with the oral history project.

Zion Mennonite Church (Archbold, Ohio)

Histories of the Future Oral History Project

  • US MCUSAA HM6/308
  • Sammlung
  • 2019

Audio recordings of 41 oral history interviews conducted with Mennonite young people (under age 40) at the Mennonite Church USA Convention at Kansas City in July 2019. The collection also includes administrative documentation for the project, including biographical information sheets and informed consent forms for all participants. Transcriptions are available for some, but not all, of the interviews.

Narrators include the following people: Charles Baraka, Sarah Bixler, Victoria Bonners, Corben Weaver Boshart, Ben Woodward Breckbill, Theresa Peachey Crissman, Claire DeBerg, Jordan Farrell, Alisha Garber, Joshua Garber, Clayton Gladish, Anna Groff, Todd Grotenhuis, Emily Hedrick, Moriah Hurst, Danae King, Beny Krisbianto, Erica Lea-Simka, Scott Litwiller, Courtney Malcolm, Jon Mark, Lily Mast, Luke Lehman Miller, Rachel Ringenberg Miller, David Nickel, Dona Park, Mariann Reardon, Elizabeth Marie Regier, Kyle Rodgers, Shawn Rodriguez, Lauren Satchwell, Renae Schmidt Peters, Alysa Marie Short, Meg Short, Anna Showalter, Peter Shungu, Alyssa Bennett Smith, Ben Parker Sutter, Chelsea Tatum, Isaac Villegas, and Maegan Freese Wu.

Mennonite Church USA -- Administration

Daily Demonstrators Oral History Interviews

  • US MCUSAA HM6/307
  • Sammlung
  • 2005-2008

This collection contains 27 taped interviews conducted by Tobin Miller Shearer as he was completing his book, Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries (2010).

Tobin Miller Shearer

Reflections of Elderly Mennonites Tape Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM6/306
  • Sammlung
  • 1981-1982

24 cassette tapes containing interviews with 24 elderly Mennonites, most of whom lived in northern Indiana or were prominent in the broader Mennonite community: Abram Hallman, Ruth (Mast) Roth, Irene Witmer, Noah Good, Martha (Eby) Yake, Tilman Smith, Paul Mininger, Mary (Erb) Mininger, Ollie (Shank) Grabill, A.J. Metzler, Lester Hostetler, John Mosemann, Ruth (Histand) Mosemann, Sanford Eash, Orpha (Kauffman) Eash, Elizabeth (Horsch) Bender, Minnie (Swartzendruber) Graber, J.C. Wenger, Howard Yoder, Laura (Weaver) Troyer, Nora (Miller) Kauffman, Nelson Litwiller, Milo Kauffman, and Irene (Lehman) Weaver. Dwight E. Roth, a professor of sociology at Hesston College, interviewed all of the subjects. Transcripts of the interviews are not available. Roth analyzed and reflected upon these interviews in his self-published book, Reflections of Elderly Mennonites [Hesston, Kan.] : [Roth], 1982. Also contains two floppy disks with chapter drafts from this book.

Roth, Dwight E.

Mennonite Women of Color Oral History Interviews

  • US MCUSAA HM6/304
  • Sammlung
  • 2001-2003

Begun in January 2001, the Mennonite Women of Color Oral History Project aims to gather and publish faith and life stories of older women of color across the Mennonite Church in North America and worldwide. This collection consists of oral history interviews conducted with Mennonite women from North America, Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America.

Transcripts of the interviews are not available.

Christophel, Linda

Mennonite Life Stories Oral History Project

  • US MCUSAA HM6/296B
  • Sammlung
  • 1996-1999

32 cassette tapes containing oral history interviews with 31 individuals or couples: Royal and Evelyn Bauer, Ruth Bauman, Esther Bigler and Leroy Hostetler, Albert and Lois Buckwalter, Joe and Nellie Buzzard, Frank and Anna Byler, John and Bonnie Driver, Minnie Graber, Erma Grove, Ralph and Elizabeth Hernley, Ezra and and Orpha Hershberger, Eunice Histand, Orvin Hooley, Jonathan Hostetler, Ann Kauffman, J. Howard Kauffman, Howard Kaufman, Carl Kreider, Lloyd R. Miller, Mildred Mullet, Glenn Mussleman, Evangeline Neuschwander, Florence Nofziger, Nancy Nussbaum, Clara Raber, Paul Schank, Tilman Smith, Silas J. Smucker, Nelson and Betty Springer, and Alice Yoder. One cassette holds an interview with four Mennonite women - Pauline Yoder Kaufman, Edith Reimer, Gladys Mast, and Hazel Hostetler - about bonnets and prayer coverings, dress codes, women preachers, and MennoHof. Transcripts are not available, but there are brief abstracts of each interview. All interviews were conducted by Floyd L. Rheinheimer.

Researchers should note that the interview with Eunice Histand was recorded on an 8mm video cassette.

Rheinheimer, Floyd L.

Mennonites in the Military Oral History Project

  • US MCUSAA HM6/296A
  • Sammlung
  • 1996-1999

25 cassette tapes containing interviews with 19 Mennonites who served in the military from World War II to the Vietnam War:  Brian Arbuckle, Dan Bontrager, James Christophel, Chris Culp, Chuck Hoover, Alvin Hostetler, Stan Liechty, Glenn Mast, Kenneth Miller, Paul Pletcher, Don Reber, Allen Schrock, Levi Slabaugh, Wayne Stopher, Larry Vardaman, Floyd J. Yoder, Gordon Yoder, Herb L. Yoder, and Rick Yoder.  Floyd L. Rheinheimer interviewed all of the subjects.  Brief abstracts of the interviews are available, but no transcriptions have been made.  Also included in this collection is a set of articles and pamphlets from the Mennonoite press regarding military service.

Rheinheimer, Floyd L.

Harold Stauffer Bender Era Oral History Interviews 1989-1991

  • US MCUSAA HM1/983
  • Sammlung
  • 1989-1994

Cassette tapes of oral history interviews conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the "H. S. Bender Era," roughly defined as 1920 to 1960.  The project was sponsored by the Mennonite HIstorical Society, with Al Keim as director.  Accompany the cassette tapes on which the interviews were recorded are indexes to the interviews, background information about interviewees, and some consent forms. No full transcripts of the interviews are available.

Keim, Albert N.

Dorothy Ann Overstreet Pratt Oral History Interviews

  • US MCUSAA HM1/982SC
  • Sammlung
  • 1994

Written narratives summarized from oral history interviews Pratt conducted with 13 Amish and Mennonite men regarding their experiences as conscientious objectors in World War II. These interviews were used in Pratt's dissertation, "A Study in Cultural Persistence: The Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841 - 1945" (Notre Dame, 1997).

Pratt, Dorothy Anne Overstreet

Henry C. Penner Papers 1944, 1974

  • US MCUSAA HM1/815
  • Sammlung
  • 1918, 1940, 1944, 1974

Information regarding the World War II experiences of Henry C. Penner, a Mennonite from Wrickler, Manitoba who was arrested for resisting the draft in 1944. Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by Leonard Gross with Henry and his son Leonard Penner are included, as is correspondence between the army and Henry’s uncle George Penner concerning the arrest and subsequent court martial. The records of the court martial, some miscellaneous notes and pamphlets, and slides of documents are also included.

Penner, Henry C.

Le Roy Bechler African-American Mennonite Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/723
  • Sammlung
  • 1947-2007

This collection is divided into two series:  (1) Research Files, 1950-1982, and (2) James and Rowena Lark Materials, 1949-2007.

Bechler, Le Roy, 1925-2023

Timothy R. Falb Collection 1979-1984

  • US MCUSAA HM1/603
  • Sammlung
  • 1945-1984

A small set of research materials collected by Timothy Falb in the course of conducting three research projects -- one on the post World War II volunteers who shipped livestock overseas, one on Mennonite scholar and educator Edward Yoder, and one on the history of two sister congregations in Ohio, Martins Mennonite Church and Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Also included is an interview with Aldis Gerber, a conscientious objector during WWI. The richest sources of material in this collection are the oral histories. Researchers should note that no transcriptions are available for these oral histories.

The materials are divided into series by subject.

Falb, Timothy R., 1956-

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