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administrative files from various Bethel College roles, not much specifically on the biology department

audio tapes (reel and cassette) of speeches for the Intercollegiate Peace Speech Association; most or all are speeches by Bethel College students

The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.

The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.

box 1: files from Baptist-Mennonite dialogue 1989-1993

box 2: Honora Becker letters, file of clippings, etc. on Mennonite homosexuality discussion

box 3-4: Mennonite women 1971-1997 (clippings, minutes and correspondence of MCC Women's Concerns Committee, lecture notes)

box 5: Bethel teaching files

box 6-8: British Literature teaching files

box 9-10: Nonwestern Literature class

box 11: Africa and China files

box 12: Claudia Limbert file

box 13: Bethel files

box 14: notes on Mennonite literature

box 15: Milton and Arthurian files

box 16: "lit. articles to file"

box 17: folder on Bethel songs brought in by Jim Juhnke 30 Nov 2011

boxes 18-19: diaries

box 1-2: Drama department files, photos, drama programs
box 3: various  theater posters (Bethel and community)
box 4: VHS videos of Bethel operas, etc. 1991-2002
box 5: opera recordings 1955 and 1982
box 6: (map folder) more posters, overflow from box 3

box 1-3: math books (many annotated) removed from David H. Richert office in old Science Hall July 2001
box 4 (map folder): materials related to campaign for a math postage stamp 1992
box 5-6: math department files ca. 1960-ca. 1990
box 7: David H. Richert correspondence
box 8: Waldo Wedel biographical info, Peter J. Wedel biographical info, info on P. J. Wedel house for local register of historic places, CD of photos copied to elecrec/acc501, family history info, photos
box 9: 1960 floor plan for remodeling of P. J. Wedel house
box 10: Koinonia Farms booklet and tape; tapes of 1979 Bethel College peace lectures
box 11: scrapbook from a Bethel travel class, “Introduction to the North Country,” spring 1994, studying environmental and social issues in upstate New York, taught by AMW, Robert Hull, and Robert Kreider; donated Sept. 2014. This ought to be disassembled because it’s in one of those sticky “magnetic” photo albums.

box 1: file cabinet 1, drawer 4; A-C?; reports, course notes, subject files

box 2: file drawer A; C-H

box 3: file drawer A (end), file drawer B (beginning); H-T

box 4: file drawer B (end), file cabinet 1, drawers 1 and 2; W-Z (not quite full)

box 5: cassette tapes containing word processing files of his 1981 dissertation - in Wordstar or Scripsit - looks like 2 sets of tapes (backups)

box 6: Bethel course materials

box 7-8: political campaigns and offices

box 9-13: subject files? some articles by Benjamin, some course notes, "sorted 3/95"

box 14: grad school papers

box 15: file cabinet 1, drawer 4 (end), file cabinet 2, drawer 1( beginning); course materials, subject files?

box 16: statistical demographic tables - computer printed - from State Data Center, Hugo Wall Center for Urban Studies, Wichita State University for central and southeast Kansas (date?), presumably used for congressional campaign

box 17a: file cabinet 2, drawer 1; publications and papers by Benjamin

box 17b: file cabinet 2, drawer 1 (end), file cabinet 2, drawer 2; publications and papers by Benjamin; computer manual and software (see elecrec/acc8) (discarded many 8 inch floppy discs of voter registration data)

box 18: campaign files

box 19: audio cassettes, Betamax and VHS videos; some are recordings of Benjamin, others of local events

box 20-22: conference papers, articles, etc., maybe some by Benjamin

box 24a: clippings and research notes mostly related to agricultural trade; campaign materials (discarded some 5.25 inch floppys of voter registration data, also a 1/2 inch computer tape likely also voter registration (kept as exhibit))

box 24b: audio cassettes - poorly identified; campaign materials

box 25: Betamax videos of Bethel and Newton events (need to digitize)

box 26: file cabinet 1 drawer 3; subject files, course files

box 27: file cabinet 2 drawer 4 (beginning); subject and course files

box 28: file cabinet 3 drawer 3 (beginning); subject and course files

box 29: file cabinet 3 drawer 3 (end), drawer 4 (beginning); course files

box 30: file cabinet 3 drawer 5 (end); subject files

box 31: file cabinet 3 drawer 1 (end), drawer 2; subject files?

box 32: file cabinet 3 drawer 4 (end), drawer 5 (beginning); subject and course files

box 33: file cabinet 2 drawer 4 (end), file cabinet 3 drawer 1 (beginning); subject and course files

Comprehensive collection of Krahn's correspondence, research notes, lecture notes, etc. from his student days up to his death.

See also elecrec/acc276 for items on Krahn’s student days at the university of Heidelberg.

boxes 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11: book collection from his office in the old Science Hall (an inventory of the books is available; almost all of them have annotations and inclusions by Richert)

box 4, 6, 8: course files, subject files, correspondence, photos

"box" 10: map folder--diplomas and Tree of Knowledge poster

"box" 12: map folder - 2 oversize photos

Box 1: "file 1, box 1" A-G files

Box 2: "file 1, box 2" K-M and correspondence

box 3: "file 1, box 3" correspondence and miscellaneous files

box 4: "file 1, box 4" O-Z, speeches, travel

box 5: "file 1, box 5" mostly correspondence, some other files

box 6: "file 2, box 1" correspondence, subject files (not organized)

box 7: "file 2, box 2" grade books, scores

box 8: "file 2, box 3" scores, correspondence, subject files

box 9: "file 2, box 4" Colombia subject files, scores

box 10: "file 2, box 5" Commission on Education files

box 11: "file 2, box 6" subject files, correspondence

box 12: "file 2, box 7" subject files, correspondence

box 13: "file 3, box 1" subject file jumble

box 14: "file 3, box 2" subject file jumble, mostly Fs

box 15: "file 3, box 4 " [where's 3?] subject file jumble

box 16: "file 3, box 5" subject files, tours and trips

box 17: "file 3, box 6" scores, subject file jumble (includes 2 1937 phonograph records, which are apparently recordings of Suderman)

box 18: "file 3, box 7" scores, card files (lots of duplicates)

box 19: books, albums, periodicals

box 20: books, albums, periodicals

Box 3: job offer at Bethel correspondence; BELL program 1970-1972; Bible & Religion Department files 1970s-1985; ACCK religion and philosophy 1970s; Historic Peace Churches/FOR Continuation Committee 1991-1997

Box 4: Bible & Religion Department files 1985-1997 (25 year newsletter, summary of graduates 1972-1995)

Box 5: Bible & Religion Department files 1997-2005; BIFL 1980-2005

Box 6: Course syllabi - Bethel, WSU, Great Plains, Toronto

Box 7: Mennonite statements 1900-1980 on peace and social concerns

Box 8, 9: Gordon Kaufman symposium 1996

Box 10-12: general Bethel files

Box 13: Great Plains seminary; Peace Love & Justice Task Force 1979-1982; Western District Peace & Social Concerns Committee 1981-1987

Box 1: scrapbook containing school compositions, articles by him, peace pamphlets and clippings, transcript of court case, letters re the case, other letters and poems by him, photos, clippings re India and marriage

Box 2: Kansas Academy of Science Conservation Committee, Save the Tallgrass Prairie Inc

Box 3-5: course notes and files

Box 6: grade books and sheets; a few photocopies from Kauffman Museum civil rights exhibit Aug. 2010

Box 7: tapes of a summer 1964 biology class (digitized at elecrec/acc914), donated by Janet Klaassen Voth who was a student in the class, 22 May 2018

Contains memorabilia, letters diaries, vitae, photos, negatives, clippings, scrapbooks, and legal papers (passports, deeds, mortgages, bonds, oil and gas leases) of E. G. and Edna Kaufman, photos and clippings on Bluffton College and its Home Economics programs and Women's Association, ca. 1920s and 1930s, AFSC work in France with Spanish refugee children ca. 1940-1942, AFSC work in Mexico ca. 1941-1942, MCC/CPS correspondence ca. 1940-1948, letters and photos on service in India ca. 1965-1968, travel journals of European trips in 1948 and 1957, and an African trip in 1975. Family letters, correspondence, and handwritten newsletters are included. Photographs, color photographs and negatives are found in most parts of the collection. Also included are papers on Anna M. Kaufman.

Box 1: France and India notebooks

Box 2: letters, 1980, Homemakers Notebook column in Mennonite Weekly Review 1981-1990

Box 3: Bluffton College clippings, etc. 1980s mostly

Box 4: clippings, photos, postcard album, wedding items, diaries; E. G. Kaufman hospitalization; mementos of Cuba, clippings, scrapbooks

Box 5: jumble of photos, correspondence, diplomas, teaching notes, travel notes, clippings, autographed book by Albert Schweitzer, diplomas, school materials, dissertation, 1942 AFSC work in France, photo album 1940 with captions in French, passports, travel journals 1948, 1957, 1962 (Gabon), 1975

Box 6: photos, correspondence, travel notes, pamphlets, letters related to India 1965-68, map, calendars

Box 7: photos, clippings, pamphlets, Bluffton College items, correspondence, financial, Bluffton College materials, photos, rolled photos, 50th anniversary class of 1932

Box 8: financial, correspondence, book of menus for guests, pamphlets, clippings, books, history of home economics at Bethel, Bluffton College Women's Association notebooks and cookbooks, Bluffton home economics; James Liu file; book The Schrock-Ramseyer Story

Box 9: items re 1940-42 AFSCrefugee work in Europe, photos, correspondence, clippings

Box 10: financial, Edmund G. Kaufman funeral guestbook, passports, photos, correspondence, Edmund G. Kaufman clippings

Box 11: financial, legal; Anna M. Kaufman papers

Box 12: vitae, clippings, correspondence (some 1940), family letters and newsletters

Box 13: correspondence, MCC work camps 1941-47 scrapbook, miscellaneous notebook, photos, AFSC Mexico journal 1941-1942

Box 14: AFSC Mexico 1942 and CPS - correspondence, photos, clippings

Box 15: framed clippings and photos of her various foreign projects

Box 16: correspondence, photo albums, financial, clippings, 1962 Africa diary, E. G. Kaufman letters, Home Management House at Bluffton, 1940 diary France, book Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery

Box 17: scrapbooks - India, Bluffton, 1939 work camp, France

Box 18: clippings, photos, scrapbook

Box 19: books, scrapbooks, diaries, guestbooks

Box 20: "sticky" photo album - needs to be disassembled

Box 21: oral history interview, Apr. 29, 1997

"box" 22: map folder of diplomas

several math books (annotated), one Bible
grade books
Bethel College scrapbook/photo album

Waltner’s papers are extensive and cover his career and service in great detail. Waltner discarded very little, and this is immediately evidenced by the detailed notes and student papers surviving for the classes he took at Bethel, the University of South Dakota, and all three seminaries where he studied. A handful of Winifred’s student papers are included. Both Erland and Winifred kept journals, and Erland actually retained his pocket calendars listing appointments for virtually his entire career. The most significant documentation of the Waltner family is their correspondence, especially some thirty years of nearly weekly letters from Erland’s father, Ben J Waltner. Also revealing the story of the Waltner family are the frequent letters between Erland and Winifred; corresponding whenever they were apart early in the marriage and whenever he traveled to his numerous speaking engagements. The demand for him to speak is documented by many hundreds of letters inviting him to speak, and far more invitations were received than he could accept. Perhaps of most interest to the historian will be Waltner’s extensive correspondence regarding the Mennonite Biblical Seminary and as a General Conference leader in the 1940s and 1950s. Included are details regarding the revival of the seminary and its early years in Chicago. Most significant are likely the negotiations with the Mennonite Church (Old Mennonites) regarding the move of the seminary to Elkhart and the early cooperative efforts, which includes a number of original letters with Harold S. Bender. Also of interest are a decade of letters from E. G. Kaufman trying to recruit Waltner to Bethel College, and letters from those trying to recruit him to the seminary at the same time. Waltner’s involvement with the Board of Education and Publication and numerous subcommittees will have overlapping documentation in the archives of the General Conference, but some materials are not duplicates. This is perhaps most true of the six years of correspondence as conference president. The Board of Missions papers are mostly duplicates of the conference archives, including many numbered and circular letters, but interspersed are some likely original letters not in the church archives. (The collection contains several folders of letters from other, mostly older, General Conference leaders which Waltner somehow acquired and retained). The correspondence and reports Waltner saved from his work with MCC and MWC are also significant although not extensive. He even has papers documenting the beginning of the Mennonite Medical Association (and for many years seemed to be the only non-doctor on the membership list). He was often the person called upon to represent the General Conference in inter-Mennonite activities in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Waltner was a founder of the first General Conference Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Hively Avenue, and the collection contains materials related to the beginning of the church and its ongoing activities. One surprise might be that this collection does not contain significant documentation from Waltner’s two decades as seminary president - these official files from his administrative duties are at the seminary as they should be. Following his retirement, Waltner did continue to receive and retained a thorough set of faculty minutes and memos. Some of these communications with other faculty may be unique copies. What is definitely unique among Waltner’s seminary papers are the thousands of pages of lecture notes, course syllabi, student papers, exams, and other evaluations. These cover a period of nearly forty years (late fifties through early nineties) and provide insight into what was being taught at a very detailed level. Although perhaps less significant historically than the MBS and General Conference materials, this collection also documents the thinking and preaching of one of the most significant General Conference preachers of the twentieth century. As many as fifteen hundred to two thousand of his sermons have survived - most are in outline form on half sheets of paper and almost all have the place/occasion and date included. They are generally sorted by the scripture passage, i.e. all of the sermons on Mark, Psalms, Job, etc. Some are sorted by topic. However, they maybe found everywhere - so a folder for a seminary course on Peter may contain a handful of sermon outlines on Peter from the 1940s or 1950s. In one respect these sermons are important because only a decade of the over four decades of sermons were as a pastor of a congregation. The demand for Waltner to preach was overwhelming and it seems like he was preaching somewhere every Sunday, including not only at local congregations but also district conferences and a host of special events, such as ordinations, building dedications, commencements, and so forth.

A handful of Waltner’s early sermons in Mountain Lake were in German, and be preached in German during some of his earlier MCC and MWC travels in Canada, Europe and South America. Otherwise the collection is in English.