Box 1: papers related to Hopefield-Eden? Box 2: Western District Tidings issues, telephone line record (Moundridge area?) 1921-1963, more Hopefield-Eden material, Kaufman and Dirks family history, Western District Mennonite Men records Box 3: Western District Historical Committee, Executive Committee, Council of Representatives 1977-1979 Box 4-6: subject files, writings, correspondence, family history Box 7: Western District Mennonite Men 1957-1961 Box 8: Western District youth activities 1938-1942 Box 9: same as boxes 4-6, plus master's thesis 1942, and diaries (whose?) box 10: miscellaneous files, family history materials, education files box 11: (map folder) family history materials, diplomas
Records include church council minutes, board of directors' minutes, annual reports, a photo directory, the dedication program, and other miscellaneous documents. Also included are several sound recordings of services in the late 1960s, sermons delivered at the North Leo Mennonite Church by George Brunk II in December 1968, and a performance by the Gospel Messengers quartet in October 1968.
These papers consist primarily of a memoir and photographs of Springer's service with the Friends Unit of the Red Cross from 1919 to 1920. Also included are photographs and documentation of a car he built while serving in post World War I France, official documents pertaining to his service, family photographs depicting his parents (Valentine and Marie Esch Springer) and brothers, and miscellaneous material.
This memoir, entitled "Like Jacob, I Waited Seven Years, or Faint Heart Did Win Fair Lady," recounts Hostetler's courtship of Ida (Yoder) Nussbaum. Hostetler's daughter, Dora Miller, recorded Hostetler's memoir in writing, as Hostetler himself frequently recited it as a story.
Transcript of Liechty's court martial proceedings. Liechty was charged with refusing to wear a military uniform and perform fatigue duty at Camp Greenleaf in May 1918. Correspondence regarding the publication of the proceedings accompanies the transcript.
Letter from a Mennonite missionary serving the Pikangikum Indian community north of Red Lake, Ontario. Describes the missionary showing lantern slides of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ and playing records of testimonies, singing, and preaching "in the Indian language" to 40 Native Americans.
This collection includes the correspondence and working files of Mary Bender, the first coordinator of Books Abroad (1961-1974); the correspondence files of Elizabeth Showalter, its next coordinator, (1977-1988); records from the Goshen office (1960-1995); minutes, reports and newsletters; and general correspondence.
A 9 page typed manuscript of a book entitled An Explanation of Incidents That Took Place among the So-Called Mennonites (1854). The manuscript concerns Grater's dispute with the Skippack, Pennsylvania Mennonite congregation.
A small set of personal papers from a Mennonite missionary couple who served in Japan. Materials include correspondence, photographs, and information on the first regional congress on evangelism in Asia and the South Pacific.
