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This is a photo of an old house on a littered yard. There is laundry hanging on rope clotheslines. There is a stove and a wringer-washer on the porch. This house was replaced by a new one built by MDS volunteers after flooding in Harlan, KY.

This is a photo of longer-term MDS volunteers who participated in an orientation. Front row (left to right): Ruth Ann Franz, Henderson, Neb., one year; Gordon Heinrichs and Gertrude Heinrichs, Rosthern, SK., six months; Vera Weber, Guernsey, SK., one year; Ruth Ann Stoll and Richard Stoll, Odon, Ind., six months and Doug Gehman, Bethel, Pa., eight months. Second row (left to right): Helga Marthol, St. Catharines, ON, eight months; Ruth Wiebe, Altona, MB, eight months; Lawrence Selzer, Protection, Kan., two winter terms; James Yoder, Stone Lake, Wis., six months; Ann Schmidt, Altona, MB, eight months and John Waidelich, Archbold, Ohio, six months. Third row (left to right): Eric Warehan, Rifton, N. Y., one year; Lawson Mosier, Crogham, N. Y., eight months and Glen Frey, Archbold, Ohio, six months.

This is a photo of Art Penner, MDS volunteer, repairing gas and water lines in an earthquake damaged home.

This is a photo of (left to right): George Lengacher, MDS Region ll assistant director and area director of MDS for the Fort Wayne Mennonite churches and Amish districts, talking with a Salvation Army leader. They are by the Salvation Army temporary warehouse where MDS volunteers were assisting.

This is a photo Mennonite Disaster Service workers (left to right): Gerrard Robershaw and Dennis Greer renovating the second floor of a four-story building owned by Diamond Street Mennonite Church in Philadelphia.

This is a photo of participants visiting outside, with coffees in hand, during a break at the annual MDS All-Unit meeting held in Upland Calif. February 10 and 11. In the background are cars, buses, buildings and hills.

This is a photo of (left to right): Richard S. Weaver, MDS, national communications coordinator, and Nels Hostetter, MDS Executive Coordinator, watching two workmen raise one of two antenna poles for a new emergency band radio at MDS national headquarters.

This is a photo of (left to right): Howard Heddings, Abe Petkau and Les Gustafson-Zook, MCC U. S. Atlanta unit co-director, discussing renovation plans in the attic of the MCC U. S. voluntary service unit house in Atlanta, Georgia.

This is a photo of Henry Schellenberg and Paul Geib of the MDS Summer Youth Squad working on a construction site in Forkland, Ala.

This is a photo of (left to right): Joan Barkman, administrative assistant in MDS and George Myvett.

This is a photo of Richard Weaver.

This is a photo of (left to right): Norman Wingert and Eunice Wingert chatting with Mrs. David Mann and Rev. David Mann during an all-unit meeting break.

This is a photo of John Jantzi, director of MDS Region IV, welcoming participants to an all-unit meeting.

This is a photo of Vester Thiesen of Exeter, Calif., field director of Mennonite Disaster Services (MDS) operations in Northern California, inspecting damage to Felton Grove home while other MDS volunteers work at cleanup and restoration.

This is a photo of (left to right): Virgil Gingerich, director of MDS Region II; Carl Nussbaum, vice chairperson of MDS and Myron Schultz, director of MDS Region III, visiting during a break in the agenda of the September 7 MDS Section Meeting.