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