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
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-
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-
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
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
Box 1: correspondence, diary (hers?)
Box 2: clippings, correspondence, photo album, financial records, printed matter
Box 3: clippings
Peters, Ernst A., 1892-1959
passport 1930
diary 1930
school papers
funeral papers
Epp, Elisabeth, 1896-1979
Helena Graewe Warkentin Papers
Diaries covering roughly 1917-1940.
Autobiography
clippings
book of handwritten poems or songs
photocopy of typed account of Central Asia trek
Warkentin, Helena Graewe, 1865-1942
Consists entirely of photocopies of her diaries.
See Diary of Anna Baerg 1916-1924, trans. and ed. Gerhard Peters (Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 1985).
Baerg, Anna, 1897-1972
Joanna Sudermann Andres Papers
box 1: subject files, writings, teaching notes, as late as 1993
box 2: subject files, writings, diaries and notes from trips 1972, 1980; poetry notebooks 1912, 1934
box 3: diaries 1982-1990, correspondence, children's book in Russian, teaching notes, writings
box 4: teaching notes, scrapbooks, financial records, photos 1908-1970s
box 5: H. J. Andres travel notes - South America; biographical info; speeches; Schowalter Foundation files
box 6: H. J. Andres plaques 1952-1975
box 7: scrapbook - autobiographical
box 8: scrapbook - 1957 Europe trip
box 9: two poetry scrapbooks 1934; H. J. Andres certificate from Prairie View; Golden Agers Christmas Celebration poster
Andres, Joanna Sudermann, 1903-1998