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Leaving for work

  • CA MAO 2015-1-73
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Alternative Service workers on a truck leaving camp for work

Sauder, Stanley

(left to right): Bob Neufeld, Laurenda Margaret

  • CA MAO 2000-1 162
  • Item
  • 1969

(left to right): Bob Neufeld, Laurenda Margaret Scott and Jon B. Messer in Neufeld's office at the Ottawa Mennonite Church. Messer was a draft dodger from Pennsylvania. Photo from Frank H. Epp Collection "103-B-00 Draft Dodger".

Unknown

Len Bechtel photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.22.1_1
  • File
  • 1942-1944

Consists of photographs taken or collected by Bechtel during his time in Alternative Service.

Bechtel, Len

Mabel V. Brunk Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/227SC
  • Collection
  • 1945-1967

Contains a letter written by Brunk, describing her work as a nurse with Mennonite Central Committee in Pusan, Korea. The scroll, presented to Brunk by the Korean Nursing Association of Pusan, features the Nightingale Pledge written in Korean. Also includes a journal from her experiences working as a "C.O. Girl" in the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane in Poughkeepsie, NY, during the summer of 1945.

Brunk, Mabel V. (Mabel Virginia), 1926-

Mark Arden Schmucker Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/350
  • Collection
  • 1981-1987

These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings, court records, and incoming correspondence pertaining to the 1982 conviction of Mennonite conscientious objector and Goshen college student Mark Arden Schmucker on charges of failing to register for the draft.

Researchers should note that this collection does not contain copies of all of the court records for Schmucker's case.  Rather, the court records in this collection are primarily briefs submitted to the court on Schmucker's behalf.

Schmucker, Mark Arden, 1960-

Men around Christmas tree at conscientious

  • CA MAO 1987-6 20
  • Item
  • 1943

Men around Christmas tree at conscientious objector work camp at Lake Cowichan, British Columbia. L-R: Irvin Weber, Andy Bowman, Mike Bohonoski, Elias Brubacher, Tobias Bowman, Raymond Good

Fretz, John L.

Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Office Correspondence, Part 2

  • US MCUSAA IV/07/002
  • Collection
  • 1938-1968

Incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding both primarily home and voluntary service work and the placement of Mennonite conscientious objectors into service programs of partner agencies. These files also contain some information on overseas voluntary service work.  Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author or subject.

Researchers should note the restrictions on files marked "confidential."  These files generally do not contain confidential information about the individual whose name is on the folder.  Rather, the files contain confidential information about voluntary service and mission workers supervised by the individual whose name is on the folder.

Mennonite Board of Missions

Mennonite Church Peace Problems Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA I/03/005
  • Collection
  • 1917-1966

Records of a Mennonite Church organization that addressed issues concerning conscription and perceived patriotism, divided into the following series:

Series 1: World War I Correspondence and Subject Files:  Aaron Loucks and Jonas S. Hartzler, 1918-1919

Series 2: World War I Correspondence and Subject Files: Elias L. Frey, 1917-1922

Series 3: Orie O. Miller Correspondence and Subject Files, 1925-1965

Series 4: Christian L. Graber Correspondence and Subject Files, 1927-1953

Series 5: Harold Stauffer Bender Correspondence and Subject Files, 1935-1962

Series 6: Summer Peace Team Records, 1948-1949

Series 7: Minutes and Reports, 1917-1964

Series 8: World War II Draft Census and Research Files, circa 1940-1948

Series 9: Guy F. Hershberger Correspondence and Subject Files, 1950-1964

Mennonite Church. Peace Problems Committee

Mennonite Media Television Spots, and Scripts, Documentaries, and Videos

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/007
  • Collection
  • 1969-1996

This series consists of television spots and scripts created by Mennonite Media to promote ethical behavior and the Mennonite faith, a documentary about James and Rowena Lark (James Lark was the first ordained African American Mennonite pastor), and three videos about American Mennonites and the 1991 Gulf War.

Mennonite Media

Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.) Noncombatant Service Study Records

  • US MCUSAA V/07/015
  • Collection
  • 1944-1950

A small set of records documenting Mennonite Research Foundation Project #5 on Noncombatant Service (i.e. military service in positions not requiring combat participation).  Materials include a collection of tracts on noncombatant service by the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, correspondence and surveys completed by Mennonite men who served in noncombatant positions during World War II, and draft manuscripts of "What of Noncombatant Service" and "What Is War" by Melvin Gingerich.

Mennonite Research Foundation (Goshen, Ind.)

Moses Gerber with camp dog

  • CA MAO 2015-1-58
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Moses L. Gerber with the camp dog at Montreal River

Unknown

Otto Dick conscientious objector photo collection

  • CA CMBS NP212-01
  • Collection
  • [1942]

Photographs from Otto Dick's photo album depicting his service with conscientious objectors at Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park during the Second World War.

Dick, Otto, 1919-2009

Outside the blacksmith shop at Montreal River

  • CA MAO 2015-1-66
  • Item
  • [1942 or 1943]

Stanley Sauder, Wayne Gingrich (Preston, Ontario), Elmon Lichti (Tavistock, Ontario) outside the blacksmith shop at Montreal River. Date on back of photograph is 1941, but these men are on the camp list for 1942-1943.

Unknown

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