- US BCMLA 00/MS.279
- Collection
- 1908-1923
Correspondence among Dester family members in Canada, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Most are originally in German, with English translations. Covering approximately 1908-1923.
Dester, Anna, 1861-1940
Correspondence among Dester family members in Canada, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Most are originally in German, with English translations. Covering approximately 1908-1923.
Dester, Anna, 1861-1940
The collection contains biographical and personal materials related to Anna Gertrude Penner’s extended career as a deaconess nurse, including a set of diaries spanning over fifty years. Perhaps most unique are papers related to her training as a public health worker and two years of work as a public school nurse in Newton (the first school nurse in Newton?), 1916-21.
Penner, Anna Gertrude, 1886-1967
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
Juhnke, Anna Kreider, 1940-2005
Clippings, poetry (mostly German), Bible (English)
Goertz, Anna Marie, 1900-1989
"Dirks Family Record" (microfilmed on MF CHR 23; transcription in SA.II.1870)
"Liede Buch" of Jacob Thomas" (microfilmed on MF CHR 23; transcription in SA.II.1872)
sermon, Schulz genealogy (on microfilm MF CHR 23)
Johann Schartner sermon or essay on grace 1872; also some financial notes 1879-1887
several German books
3 books by Jane Leade in German were removed for cataloging in the MLA library collection
Unruh, Anna, 1897-1994
Johann Lehmann diaries 1864-1879. Anna Lehman diaries 1945-1949. Anna Lehman correspondence, a few financial papers, "Familien-Chronik" (probably removed from a Bible)
Lehman, Anna V., 1874-1968
Arlo Kasper and Kathryn Dick Kasper Papers
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
Kasper, Arlo D., 1935-
The papers consist entirely of Epp’s general subject files. Scattered through it is much material related to the various churches he served, especially First Mennonite in Newton. A folder labeled “Universalism” has much material related to the controversy over that subject in Meno during the time Epp was there. Also prominent in the papers are materials relating to the various committees and boards on which he served (usually filed under the name of the committee). Included are Commission on Overseas Missions, Western District Home Missions Committee, Mennonite Biblical Seminary Board of Trustees, General Conference Committee on Church Unity, and Newton Ministerial Alliance, among others.
Epp, Arnold A., 1917-1980
The Arnold Schultz papers are in a rather jumbled condition, but have been kept in their original order and with the original folder labels. Some folders were unlabelled. Others had only partially legible labels; these are marked with a (?). A few folders contain material other than what is mentioned on the label. The papers consist primarily of material on the history of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren and on the family history of Arnold Schultz's ancestors. The most significant part of the EMB material relates to the settlement and early church disputes of Henderson, Nebraska, and Mountain Lake, Minnesota. There are a good number of original documents, including papers relating to the H. C. Bartel mission in China, the memoirs of Gerhard Klassen (born in Prussia and died in the United States), papers relating to Isaac Peters (an early leader at Henderson, Nebraska), and a set of "German documents from Culm" (probably relating to Schultz genealogy).
Schultz, Arnold C., 1904-1988
Box 1, 2: books
Box 3: pamphlets, correspondence
Box 4, 5: sermons
Box 6: correspondence, Bruderthal yearbooks and constitutions, sermons, Marion Reservoir files
Box 7: framed photos
Box 8<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>correspondence, Edna Funk funeral book Box 9<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>book, date books, audio cassettes Box 10<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>(map folder) diplomas and certificates; Loganbill, Moser genealogy chart; Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church 50th anniversary poster
Funk, Arnold E., 1900-1987
research materials and drafts for some kind of writing project on Prussian Mennonite history; includes many photos, also a tape of "Flemish choral music"; 2 boxes of reel-to-reel audio tapes
Regier, Arnold J., 1912-2000
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.
Wedel, Arnold M., 1928-
The papers are all hand-written German in the old script. There are a few items of correspondence, several sermons, poetry, and other documents.
Wiebe, Aron J., 1845-1922
Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, genealogical information, photos, in a complete jumble.
Most of the material seems to relate to Anna Peters' extended family, more so than Arthur's.
Box 1 includes a note about Arthur Peters' military service, and a cassette tape. Also a Confederate $50 bill in poor condition. And some pencil drawings. Cassette tape in box 1 digitized as elecrec/acc915, June 2018.
Box 4 contains diaries of Mrs. Peter Regier nee Wiens, some German sermons.
Boxes 5 and 6 are mostly photos.
"Box" 7 is a map folder containing genealogy charts.
"Box" 8 is a map folder containing an oversize newspaper item.
Peters, Arthur H., 1908-1980
Arthur D. Unruh Papers 1920-1929
papers related to an effort by the Christian Endeavor Society of First Mennonite Church, Newton, Kansas, to raise money for building a new mission station in India in the 1920s
Unruh, Arthur D., 1890-1988