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Records of a private Christian school associated with the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church, and later the Mennonite Church USA. Materials are divided into eight series:

(1) Early Correspondence

(2) Governing Documents and Board Records

(3) Faculty Meeting Minutes

(4) Committee Records

(5) Financial Records

(6) Publications

(7) Enrollment Records

(8) Miscellaneous Materials

The collection includes the conference material, correspondence, and papers of the Conference on Mennonite Educational and Cultural Problems.

These records document the college's relationship with the Mennonite Board of Education and the other schools directed by the Mennonite Board of Education:  Hesston College and Eastern Mennonite University.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes and other records documenting collaboration and conflict among Mennonite institutions of higher learning.

The collection includes the minutes and correspondence of the Goshen College Physical Education Department, as well as Mid-Central Conference materials, Women's Athletic Association correspondence, some photographs, and a few films.

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.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to a administrative body of Mennonite elementary and day school administrators.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials of the Nursing Education Council and its predecessor, the Committee on Nursing Education.  The Nursing Education Council was formed in 1949 to review the problems of nursing education, to assist in coordinating the pre-nursing curricula at Mennonite colleges with the denominational nursing education program, and to coordinate the education of nurses with the (old) Mennonite Church's evangelism and service programs.  These record include information about the effort to establish a nursing school in Elkhart, Ind. that would be convenient for Goshen College students.

Records of the office of the president of the education agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.  These records are divided into series by the office holder and contain primarily correspondence and subject files, but also include reports.

Researchers will note that these records are quite incomplete. There are no presidential papers for the following presidents: John Blosser (1902-1917), Sanford Calvin (S. C.) Yoder (1918-1924), H. R. Schertz (1924-1929), D. A. Yoder (1929-1948), and Paul Erb (1963-1965). In some cases, correspondence pertaining to these presidents' leadership of the Mennonite Board of Education may be found in their personal papers.

Reports, correspondence, and subject files comprise the bulk of the records of the recording secretary of the Mennonite Board of Education.  Secretaries of the Mennonite Board of Education include S. F. Coffman (1925-1939), C. F. Yake (1939-1949), J. Forrest Kanagy (1949-1969), and Harvey W. Baumann (1969-1972).  Researchers should note that there are relatively few records older than 1962.

The collection consists of correspondence of Goshen College alumni, Samuel Burkhard, regarding the future of Goshen College.