Marion Deckert and Lois Duerksen Deckert Papers
academic writings and notes, some kind of Policies and Procedures manual, 1996 retirement tributes
boxes 2-6: Lois Deckert diaries, correspondence, writings 1968-2009
Deckert, Marion, 1934-
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
Juhnke, Anna Kreider, 1940-2005
box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962 scrapbook brought in by Esther Wenger 6 Aug 2002; Mennonite World Conference India 1997 scrapbooks brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012
box 2: correspondence, photos, print items, brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012
box 3: photos, correspondence, diplomas, passports, plaques, master's thesis, scrapbook
box 4: framed diploma - University of Kansas master's; photo album of Japan school work
box 5: photo albums, scrapbooks
box 6-8: correspondence
box 9-10: diaries and other notebooks
Claassen, Virginia, 1933-2011
A small set of personal papers created and collected by a former director of the Mennonite School of Nursing in La Junta, Colorado. Materials include a 1948 study of Elkhart County hospitals and health care facilities, a 1954 Crhistmas letter, a student paper about the leaders of the Mennonite Nurses Association (by Norma F. Martin, 1963), and a diary of Mosemann's trip to Asia and Africa in 1963-1964,
Mosemann, Orpah B., 1911-1991
Helena Duerksen Warkentin Papers
Consists of 2 diaries, 1947 and 1951.
Warkentin, Helena Duerksen, 1890-1960
Diaries, correspondence, photos, slides, scrapbook, clippings. Most or all relating to Colombia mission work.
Nussbaum, Janet Soldner, 1918-
These materials document the professional life of Lena Graber, a medical missionary who served the (old) Mennonite Church. Graber worked in India and Nepal from 1944 to 1969 under the auspices of the Mennonite Board of Missions and the United Mission to Nepal. Graber's incoming and outgoing correspondence with her sister, Esther Graber, is very rich with details about her life abroad and her work, especially the medical cases she encountered. Also included in this collection are her diary she kept from 1944 to 1948, newspaper clippings, award and honors she received, transcripts of several speeches, and miscellaneous materials.
Graber, Lena, 1910-2003
reproduction of her diary of January-May 1941 when she was living as a child on the Bethel College campus
was made for an art exhibit at Kauffman Museum May-October 2001
Goertzen, Mary Lou Rich, 1929-
Virgil J. and Helen Good Brenneman Papers
These papers of an (old) Mennonite Church writer and her pastor husband are divided into two series:
(1) Helen Good Brenneman Papers
(2) Virgil J. Brenneman Papers
Brenneman, Helen Good
The collection primarily includes diaries and scrapbooks. The scrapbooks consist largely of photos, obituaries and various news clippings. Her diaries include comments about the weather, domestic chores and her husband's outings.
Hostetler, Lizzie Eash, 1912-1975
box 1: correspondence, diaries, papers related to 1950 trip to Europe
box 2: scrapbook (all text, no pasted-in items)
box 3: mostly papers related to 1950 trip to Europe
Shaum, Hilda C. Mueller, 1913-1988
The personal papers of Ruth Marie Conrad Liechty include her journals, school work, writing projects, family correspondence, correspondence related to the Welcome Committee and the issue of homosexuality, and family papers related to her parents Louetta (Kauffmann) and Daniel Conrad.
Liechty, Ruth Conrad, 1931-2009
Harold Ratzlaff and Ruth Regier Ratzlaff Papers
box 1: slides, photo albums (disassembled)
box 2: slides, guest books, mission files, autobiography (his)
box 3: diaries (hers)
box 4: diaries (hers), photo album, slides
box 5-7: 16mm films
box 8: additional copy of Harold autobiography brought in by anonymous donor 12 May 2015
Ratzlaff, Harold, 1911-2006
Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, genealogical information, photos, in a complete jumble.
Most of the material seems to relate to Anna Peters' extended family, more so than Arthur's.
Box 1 includes a note about Arthur Peters' military service, and a cassette tape. Also a Confederate $50 bill in poor condition. And some pencil drawings. Cassette tape in box 1 digitized as elecrec/acc915, June 2018.
Box 4 contains diaries of Mrs. Peter Regier nee Wiens, some German sermons.
Boxes 5 and 6 are mostly photos.
"Box" 7 is a map folder containing genealogy charts.
"Box" 8 is a map folder containing an oversize newspaper item.
Peters, Arthur H., 1908-1980
Ferdinand J. Isaac and Anna (Penner) Isaac Papers
Box 1: her diaries 1943-44, 1946; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides
Box 2: German New Testament
Box 3: his(?) diaries 1935-42
Box 4: her diaries 1921, 1931-33, unknown year; his diaries 1927-1930, 1936, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947; Donald's(?) diary 1942; photo album; slides
"Box"5: actually a map folder, contains village statistics charts from India mission
Isaac, Ferdinand J., 1888-1946