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includes correspondence, photos, family history materials, Civilian Public Service correspondence from her brother Herman

Consists of industrial arts syllabi and papers, mostly by Voth, mostly from elsewhere than Bethel College, dated mostly ca. 1940.

Included in this collection are the minutes, reports and correspondence of the Mennonite Board of Missions Ad Hoc Committee Mission Problems Committee. This committee examined issues related to the mission work of the Mennonite Board of Missions.

Records of the executive staff member responsible to the Mennonite General Conference, the delegate body of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Mennonite General Conference Executive Secretary position was created in 1954 (replacing a voluntary Secretary position) and was held by Paul Erb (1954-1961), A. J. Metzler (1961-1966), and Howard J. Zehr (1966-1971). These files are arranged into the following series:

(1) Paul Erb's Records, 1954-1961

(2) A. J. Metzler's Records, 1961-1966

(3) Howard J. Zehr's Records, 1966-1971

Box 1: sermons

Box 2: sermons, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings

Box 3: 50th anniversary, teaching certificates, church material (Bethany, Butterfield, Neu Hutterthal), civilian bonds, CPS, correspondence, family papers, minister's manual, ordination, clippings, sales (estate, land), school papers

Box 4: school papers, sermons, teaching materials, book

Box 5: Emma and Hilda Linscheid items

Box 6: Theodora Rodekuhr paintings

Correspondence and data pertaining to the division of Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for voluntary service and other relief and development ministries.

The Calvary Hour Records are divided into six series:

(1) Sermons, 1940-2002

(2) Publications and Publicity, 1935-2007

(3) Administrative Files, 1937-2007

(4) Photographs, Circa 1935-2002

(5) Sound Recordings, 1953-2007

(6) Radio Show "Formats," Circa 1965-2000

These papers consist primarily of Elizabeth "Betty" Erb's outgoing correspondence, describing her life and work as a missionary nurse in India.  Also included among the papers are Erb's journals, a small number of photographs, and miscellaneous materials, including poems, compositions, and essays by Erb.

This collection includes passports, diaries, maps, photos, travel notebooks and letters home from Fannie's extensive travels around the world; an outline of her life by her nephew Perry Schrock and excerpts from private letters by her nephew Paul Schrock; some of her legal documents and a collections of birthday and Christmas cards, wedding, baby, shower and graduation announcements, and funeral cards and obituaries.

Personal papers of Lores E. Steury, consisting largely of gathered information on the Amish Christian Church (including information highlighted in the book The Amish Christian Church: Its History and Legacy by Fredrick J. Schrock). Holdings also include personal information about Steury, including diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, and drafts of an autobiography.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Amish Christan Church Materials

(2) Geneological Records

(3) Diaries and Recollections

(4) Recorded Interviews

(5) Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials

Box 1: "file 1, box 1" A-G files

Box 2: "file 1, box 2" K-M and correspondence

box 3: "file 1, box 3" correspondence and miscellaneous files

box 4: "file 1, box 4" O-Z, speeches, travel

box 5: "file 1, box 5" mostly correspondence, some other files

box 6: "file 2, box 1" correspondence, subject files (not organized)

box 7: "file 2, box 2" grade books, scores

box 8: "file 2, box 3" scores, correspondence, subject files

box 9: "file 2, box 4" Colombia subject files, scores

box 10: "file 2, box 5" Commission on Education files

box 11: "file 2, box 6" subject files, correspondence

box 12: "file 2, box 7" subject files, correspondence

box 13: "file 3, box 1" subject file jumble

box 14: "file 3, box 2" subject file jumble, mostly Fs

box 15: "file 3, box 4 " [where's 3?] subject file jumble

box 16: "file 3, box 5" subject files, tours and trips

box 17: "file 3, box 6" scores, subject file jumble (includes 2 1937 phonograph records, which are apparently recordings of Suderman)

box 18: "file 3, box 7" scores, card files (lots of duplicates)

box 19: books, albums, periodicals

box 20: books, albums, periodicals

These papers document the ministry of Glenn W. Whitaker and are divided into four series:

Series 1: Early Ministry and Service, 1936-1981 Series 2: Photographs, 1936-1951 Series 3: Sermon Ministry, 1950-1972 Series 4: Phonograph Records, 1943-1950

This small collections includes photographs of the Fairview Church, Mennonite Home and tent revival; program for General Conference in 1969; a Story Friends story about Bertha: a book about the Mennonite Home; newspaper clippings and scrapbook.

A small set of professional papers associated with Viola Good, the Dean of Women at Goshen College.  Materials document changing attitudes towards the education of women at the college and include annual reports from the Dean of Women from 1942 to 1962.  Because Good was a strong supporter of international students, her papers also contain international student directories and tributes to Good written by international student alumni on the occasion of her retirement in 1977.