Completed questionnaires collected by Begly in the course of his research on the adequacy of Mennonite camping facilities available to the congregations of the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church. Begly completed the research for a course at Goshen Biblical Seminary. His paper, entitled "An Investigation into the Camping Needs of the Indiana-Michigan Conference to See How Well They Are Being Met by Mennonite Youth Village, Camp Amigo, and Little Eden," is included in these files.
The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II. Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work. Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.
