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D. H. Bender to Bender, October 2, 1920 [stationery of Hesston Academy and Bible School, D. H. Bender the Principal]: writing as uncle to “Dear Nephew”; sorry about fall that Bender’s father [George L. Bender] had suffered; G. L. in “serious and extraordinary condition” [see appropriate pages in Albert N. Keim, Harold S. Bender]; letter is a lengthy discussion about whether to take G. L. south as doctors were recommending; question apparently whether Bender’s mother [Elsie Kolb Bender], would go with G. L. as caregiver; mention Florida, Louisiana, and the Rio Grande Valley; consideration of family issues and “the Board’s” responses if Elsie went south [leaving her role as matron of Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities house at 17ll Prairie Street in Elkhart]....

18 hand-written pages on the Young People's Conference movement evidently in response to a questionnaire YPC executives (Bender being executive committee chair) had sent out. Bender wrote: YPC leaders were trying to upbuild the church; appreciating Burkholder's tone; YPC did not want to compete with other church organizations for youths' participation; evidence of marginal young people becoming more loyal to the church; etc etc. At one point Bender turned the tables and asked what young people in Ontario were doing by way of mission, etc. Bender admitted that the YPC was too dominated by Goshen people. Mention of N. O. Blosser and J. B. Shank and Jesse Smucker as speakers (Smucker's "address ... certainly was a clear, sound testimony with theemphasis on inspiration, atonement, the cross etc." [cf. fundamentalism or at least orthodoxy]. Remarks about attire, and too-easy "familiarity of the sexes" and a "sprit of entertainment." The question of authority. (Note: the letter has some lines marked through with pencil, as if it were not the final draft; moreover, there is one page here of what appears to be carbon of a typed copy; and yes, there is a 6 pp, typed, single-spaced carbon version of the letter here.)

D. H. Bender to Bender, November 25, 1920 [stationery of Hesston Academy and Bible School, D. H. Bender now the President]: your special delivery letter came this morning [not extant here]; about whether D. H. would be coming to Elkhart--difficult, discussed his schedule; reference to H. S. Bender letter to Oscar Burkholder [not extant here]; then much about a meeting [somehow related to] “your questionaire” [sic]; wrote as if the meeting dealt with controversy [annotator’s guess is that it may have been a meeting of the Young People’s Conference--Bender had been made chairman of its Executive Committee the previous July (see Albert N. Keim’s biography, Harold S. Bender, 1897-1962, page 98 and elsewhere--see “Young People’s Conference” in index); also a reference to the matter being related to “the movement started in France” [see on-line in GAMEO, “Reconstruction Work (France)”, and “Young People's Conference”; in June 1919 workers in France had held a controversial conference at Clermont-en-Argonne that had helped spawn the Young People’s Conference in the U.S.A.]; rest of letter seems to be advice on how Bender should respond to these developments laden with generational conflict...; P.S., wanted Minnie Swartzendruber Geometry grade [later Minnie Graber, spouse of J. D. Graber (Joseph D.)].

D. H. Bender to Bender, December 10, 1920 [stationery of Hesston Academy and Bible School, D. H. Bender now the President]: got your letter yesterday [not extant here]; had decided to send Ernest Miller couple, in January, if they got papers [to India? Ernest E. Miller, Ruth Blosser Miller; D. H. writing as if he were member of Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities? Daniel H. Bender; Argentina “needs help”--mention the Litwillers [likely Nelson Litwiller, Ada Ramseyer Litwiller], about their possibly going; sorry to hear of gradual decline of George L. Bender.

D. H. Bender to Bender, December 15, 1920 [stationery of Hesston Academy and Bible School, D. H. Bender now the President]: had Bender letter of December 12 [not extant here]; sorry to hear that George L. Bender was running a temperature...; rest of letter is D. H.’s comments and advice about Bender’s leadership of the Young People’s Conference; spelled out the dilemma from the church leadership point of view, and how the dispute might be healed [the YPC side admitting error, and then...]; how the matter might look after some time; advice to go slowly; etc.

July 14, 1921, Irvin R. Detweiler on the deteriorating situation at Goshen College, of which he was president.

A recommendation for Henry Schroeder from American Mennonite Relief, Constantinople, to Mennonite Relief Unit operating in South Russia.

[in German].

D. H. Bender to Bender, May 11, 1922 [stationery of Hesston Academy and Bible School, D. H. Bender now the President: reference to Bender letter of May 4 [not extant here]; D. H.’s attitude toward Young People’s Conference had not changed; some extended discussion of the church’s relation to its young people and vice versa; pressed for time, but would give some thought to attending “the conference”....

[in German].

[in German].

Maynard [L. Cassady, 1897-1948] wrote long letters from Sweden and then from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (Juniata College?); Maynard wrote 4 letters.

C. F. Derstine letter, October 17, 1924, soliciting travel article on Europe from one of the Benders, for Christian Monitor.