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Box 1: cassette tapes of interview with Spanish conscientious objectors, which were the basis for his Bethel Social Science Seminary paper "The So Called Pacifists: A Study of Nonviolence in Spain" (March 1980)

Box 2: summaries and documentation related to the interviews

Boxes 3-5 are actually map folders, containing Spanish political posters from the late 1970s and early 1980s

Box 6: RESTRICTED, student journal from his time in Spain in 1978

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

32 cassette tapes containing oral history interviews with 31 individuals or couples: Royal and Evelyn Bauer, Ruth Bauman, Esther Bigler and Leroy Hostetler, Albert and Lois Buckwalter, Joe and Nellie Buzzard, Frank and Anna Byler, John and Bonnie Driver, Minnie Graber, Erma Grove, Ralph and Elizabeth Hernley, Ezra and and Orpha Hershberger, Eunice Histand, Orvin Hooley, Jonathan Hostetler, Ann Kauffman, J. Howard Kauffman, Howard Kaufman, Carl Kreider, Lloyd R. Miller, Mildred Mullet, Glenn Mussleman, Evangeline Neuschwander, Florence Nofziger, Nancy Nussbaum, Clara Raber, Paul Schank, Tilman Smith, Silas J. Smucker, Nelson and Betty Springer, and Alice Yoder. One cassette holds an interview with four Mennonite women - Pauline Yoder Kaufman, Edith Reimer, Gladys Mast, and Hazel Hostetler - about bonnets and prayer coverings, dress codes, women preachers, and MennoHof. Transcripts are not available, but there are brief abstracts of each interview. All interviews were conducted by Floyd L. Rheinheimer.

Researchers should note that the interview with Eunice Histand was recorded on an 8mm video cassette.

Records of the African American constituency group of the (old) Mennonite Church. Emerging from the Minority Ministries Council, the African American Mennonite Association began its orginizational life as the Black Council or Black Caucus.  In the early 1980s the name was changed to the African American Mennonite Association (AAMA).  The AAMA strove to support black and racially integrated congregations in the (old) Mennonite Church through annual assemblies and programming, leadership training, educational opportunites, and congregational economic development.

Records are divided into the following series:

(1) Founding and Governing Documents

(2) Assemblies and Events

(3) Dockets and Minutes

(4) Photographs

(5) Educational Program Records

(6) Correspondence and Subject Files

(7) Sound Recordings

Records of a department of the Mennonite Board of Missions that worked to strengthen and support racial and ethnic minority congregations, to assist the church in relating to minority communities, to serve as liaison between militant groups and the church, and to help the church understand and practice the radical discipleship of Jesus Christ. Materials include council minutes and publications, photographs, and correspondence and subject files of minority council leaders.

Correspondence and subject files maintained by Marian Hostetler, executive secretary of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission from 1987 to 1996.  Materials include information on the business and professional women's interest group, scholarship information, memos sent to executive committee members, scripts of skits, correspondence with conference WMSC leaders, and slide shows produced for Mennonite Church General Assemblies,

The collection of the Mennonite Medical Association includes minutes and reports, convention materials, membership lists and news releases, correspondence, photographs and albums, and audio recordings from 1944 to 2003.

box 1: college or grad school files

box 2: talks, correspondence, miscellaneous files

box 3: study conferences, miscellaneous

box 4: study conferences, miscellaneous, pamphlets

box 5: tapes and CDs of 1978 interviews (Roger Juhnke, interviewer)

box 6: slides and photo album, much of it CPS-related

box 7: 1940s notebooks/diaries, photos, CPS material

Consists entirely of audio tape recordings. Rempel must have been a tape enthusiast.

Box 1: family recordings

Box 2-4: Mennonite speakers

Box 5-6: Miscellaneous recordings

Box 7-9: Music

Box 10: church services

Box 11: church conferences

Box 12: wire recordings

Records of an organization dedicated to preserving the Deitsch (Dietsch, Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German) language.  Materials include documents of governance and membership, newsletters, and programs, sound recordings, video recordings, and photographs of the organization's annual meeting and dinner.  The annual meetings include skits, songs, and recitations in the Deitsch language.

Chapel and Convocation programs gather the Goshen College campus community together for shared learning experiences and for worship.   Chapel and convocation convene weekly at Goshen College during the academic year.  Speakers may be faculty, students, of campus guests.

This series primarily contains sound recordings of the lectures and cultural programs presented at the Goshen College Chapel and Convocation.  Most of the recordings are cassette tapes; since 2008, recordings are CDs.  There are very few recordings prior to 1990.  The series also includes five transcripts of lectures presented in the 1960s.

These papers primarily document the life and work of Ellis B. Croyle, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, R. Charlotte Hertzler Croyle. The papers are divided into five series:

1). Personal and Biographical Materials

2). Pastoral Files

3). Seminary and Continuing Education

4). Data Files

5.) Photographs and Sound Recordings

This collection is divided into two series:  (1) Research Files, 1950-1982, and (2) James and Rowena Lark Materials, 1949-2007.

These records are divided into the following series:

Series 1: Core Congregational Records, 1872-1998 Series 2: Membership Records, Lists and Church Directories, 1892-2021 Series 3: Church Bulletins and Newsletters, 1928-2011 Series 4: Sunday School Records, 1882-1946 Series 5: Women's Activities, Sewing Circles, etc., 1908-1981 Series 6: Societies, Groups, 1913-1995 Series 7: Prairie Street Church History, 1872-1981 Series 8: Miscellaneous Documents and Records, 1902-1974 Series 9: Audio Visual Materials: Photographs and Sound Recordings (reel to reel and cassette), 1901-2000

These records are divided into the following series:

(1) Executive Council Meeting Minutes

(2) Director's Correspondence and Subject Files

(3) Conference Records

(4) Photographs

(5) Publications

(6) Audiovisual materials