10530 Treffer anzeigen

A small set of personal papers including correspondence to a cousin describing relief work in the Middle East, correspondence to and from Vesta Zook, articles written by Slagel (including the publication of portions of his diary kept during his relief service), obituaries and other clippings, photographs of Arthur Slagel, Don Slagel, and relief work abroad, genealogical information, and a Hesston College choral program.

These records are divided into six series:

(1) Council Meeting Minutes, 1984-2004

(2) Newsletters, 1989-2003

(3) Financial Records, 1992-2005

(4) Executive Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files, 1971-2005

(5) Administrative Correspondence and Subject Files, 1986-2005

(6) Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, 1984-2002.

The central files of COM for the years 1990-1999.

Includes sermons, articles, speeches, correspondence, subject files, etc.

A small set of research materials collected by Timothy Falb in the course of conducting three research projects -- one on the post World War II volunteers who shipped livestock overseas, one on Mennonite scholar and educator Edward Yoder, and one on the history of two sister congregations in Ohio, Martins Mennonite Church and Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Also included is an interview with Aldis Gerber, a conscientious objector during WWI. The richest sources of material in this collection are the oral histories. Researchers should note that no transcriptions are available for these oral histories.

The materials are divided into series by subject.

Form letter providing updates on work performed by Warren and Erma Metzler, Mennonite missionaries to Jamaica.

Box 1: diaries, correspondence, photos, sermons, books, clippings

Box 2: books, autobiography

Box 3: scrapbook, pamphlets

This small set of personal papers consists of photocopies of two letters and two transcribed descriptions of Mensch's travels.  One letter (in German, untranslated, and dated April 12, 1874) from Mensch addresses unknown recipients.  A second letter (in English, transcribed, dated May 16, 1885) from Abraham Blosser to Jacob Mensch condeming John F. Funk's publication of a Mennonite paper without express appointment from the Mennonite Church to do so.  The travel narratives discribe an 1885 trip to Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, with Henry Wismer and an 1897 trip to Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Canada.

Box 1: notebook (record of weddings performed, etc.), diplomas, photos, printed matter, books, birthday book (Vergissmeinnicht), correspondence, C. E. Krehbiel diaries, other C. E. Krehbiel items

Box 2: subject files, correspondence

Box 3: index book (to files or articles?), subject files, sermon index, diaries (brought in March 1984 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 4: subject files

Box 5: sermons (brought in 31 Dec 1986 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 6: reel-to-reel tapes, C. E. Witness periodical (from Grace church in Pennsylvania?) (brought in 31 Oct 1994 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 7: slides, 16mm film

box 8: audio cassette, biographical interview by Jim Juhnke

Program from the celebration of the Clemens' 65th wedding anniversary in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.  The program provides brief biographical sketches of both Jacob and Hanna Clemens.

These papers, documenting the life and work of a Mennonite missionary couple who served in India for 43 years, are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1945-1991

(2) Bihar Mission Records, 1955-1993

Records of sales made when Catherine Shaum Mumaw sold off half of the 80 acre Amos and Catherine Shaum Mumaw family farm located 4 miles northeast of Wooster, Ohio.  Records indicate items sold, name of buyers, and prices paid.  Materials sold include furniture, farm animals, kitchen utensils and appliances, and farming equipment.  Also includes a photograph of the farmstead.

These papers pertain to the work and career of a Goshen College professor of education and administrator of the college's laboratory kindergarten.  Materials include annual reports of Aschliman's scholarly and community activities; annual reports of the laboratory kindergarten; correspondence and subject files dealing with the laboratory kindergarten, financial records of the kindergarten and its endowment, articles, poems, and stories published by Aschliman; papers and presentations; and miscellaneous material.

Small set of personal papers created by a Goshen College alumnus and former Goshen College and Cleveland State University professor of speech and communication.  Materials include biographical information, Yoder's tenure dossier, article manuscripts, and materials pertaining to his sabbatical in Ireland in the late 1970s.

The collection largely chronicles the case of the arrest of Amish bishop Samuel D. Hochstetler for chaining his mentally ill adult daughter, Lucy. The material includes family accounts of the incident, court records, correspondence, news clippings and some materials gathered by Julia Kasdorf for a book project on this topic.