Used in CM 8-33-1. 12 young people (6 men, 6 women) attended the B. of Christian Service orientation in Newton, Ka. The men are in alternative service. See CM for their names & where they served.

Two photos, neg. for each. Negative # 9 was used in CM 4-32-9 in which Bill Gering, full-time youth missionary of the conference, sits at his desk in the GCMC offices in Newton, Kan. facing the camera. A Youth Office had been established by the Young People's Union of the church. The unused photo shows Gering from the side, typing.

Negs also. Entitled: "Canadian reunion at Newton." Canadian students (13) attending Bethel College in Newton, Kan.? Photos were together with 2010-14.137. Group of 15, an older man and a young child pose in one photo. Two photos show 7 young people playing a game. See related photo in 2010-14.137. The dress of the young women, typical of the 1950s, is of note.

Used in the CM 2-47-7. Entitled: "Canadian Reunion at Newton." Some of the Canadian students, workers and conference delegates share a meal in Newton, Kan. Frank Epp, 2nd from left? C.J. Dyck next to him? See CM for those attending the meetings. Related photo in 2010-14.138.

2 negs. & 6x6 photo for one of them.Discussion at meetings held in Newton in connection with the GCMC Council of Boards? See 1998-14.66-67 & the following entries. The photo shows August Epp? standing, leading a discussion. Bill Gering, young people's leader is are among those seated in the group. Other neg. show men & 2 women seated in a cirlce in discussion.

District representatives at the Young People's Union Council Meeting in Newton in December 1954. Used in "Jugendseite." See related photo in 2010-14.86.

Group of 28 men & women attending the VS Orientation, 1968, stand on the different levels of a stairway at the back of a building.

Used in the CM 4-48-3. Members of the GCMC Young People's Union Cabinet at the annual council meeting held in Nov. L to r: Robert Schrag, Bill Gering, Leola Schultz, Harris Waltner, Gordon Dyck, Jacob T. Friesen, John Bertsche, Helen Neufeld Coon, Bill Block. See CM for the role of each member. Enlargement (11x15.5) and neg. as well.

Negs only, 3. A group of men and young men (5 in all), at the annual meeting of the GCMC Young People's Union council meeting. See article in the CM 4-48-3 and related photo in 2010-14.155.

Negatives only, 2 similar ones. Bill Gering (far left) stands on the steps of a church (Bethel College Mennonite Church?) with a group of 7 young people, 5 men & 2 women. The exec. of the Young People's Union meeting in Newton, Kan. at the same time as the GCMC Council of Boards? They may be on the larger group photo in 1998-14.81 as well.Fotovix copies of negs. enclosed.

Two photos of the young people studying at Bethel College. See photo of students from 1954 in 2010-14.138.

Young People's Union publications shown at the council meeting in Dec. 1954: examples of the Prayer Calendar, the covers of Program Helps, Youth Manual and Mennonite Youth as well as their brochure. Coming soon would be "Faith and Life." Used in "Jugendseite."