Bethany Mennonite Church, 1917-76, Imlay City, Lapeer County, Michigan. Records, 1919, 1955-97, including the land deed of 1919 from Catharine and Peter Ropp, as given to the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board for the purpose of establishing a Mennonite church and cemetery. Files include financial reports, 1955-94; annual business meeting record books, 1974-97; a land transactions file, 1977-97; and a folder on the cemetery, including a map of the Bethany Mennonite Cemetery, a photograph of the monument erected in 1990 on the site, and a list of the twenty-seven persons buried there (as of 1992). 5 linear inches. Donor: Ruth (Lederach) and Phil Rittgers, Homosassa, Florida.

Hostetler, J. J., Goshen, Indiana. Papers, 1929-2000, including a binder of research on immigrant Jacob Hochstetler (1704-76) and two booklets containing a record of sermons preached, 1938-90, at Canton, Ohio and Peoria, Illinois (including funerals, marriages, guest ministers and visits to Canton jail, Moreland, Ohio addition, Canton infirmary and Peoria jail). Materials also include Bible studies files and subject files, 1929-2000, including a 1929 essay he wrote while at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and his writings on various books of the Bible during the 1990s. 3.75 feet. Donor: J. J. Hostetler, Goshen, Indiana.

Parkview Mennonite Church, 1945- , Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana. Records, 1953-80, including church bulletins for this time period and some minutes of congregational and council meetings. Also includes three phonograph records produced by Mennonite Broadcasts, Inc., Harrisonburg, Virginia, and ordered by Parkview pastor Clayton Sommers. They include This Is a Minute, 1964 (twenty-four spots narrated by David Augsburger and written by Stanley Shenk - one-minute spot announcements with a Christian message for today) and The Greatest Week in History: Newscasts of the First Easter Week, 1966, as produced by The Mennonite Hour. (This contains seven spots, each lasting 6:30 minutes.) This church was earlier known as Bon Air Mennonite Church. 2.5 linear feet. Donor: Grace Whitehead, Kokomo, Indiana.

PAX Archives, 1945-2001. Papers, diaries, reports, photographs, slides, videos, displays and artifacts, 1945-2001, from twenty-five PAX men and women who served under this program in various parts of the world from 1951 to 1976; administered by Mennonite Central Committee. Shows work in Germany (Enkenbach, Espelkamp, Gronau, Kaiserslautern, Neumuhle, and Zeilsheim), Austria (Annaberg, Karlsschule in Vienna, and Windischgarten), Congo (Bakwanga and Leo), Greece (Airdea, Panayitsa, and Tsakonea), and Pakistan. Materials began to be collected at PAX 50 Reunion held at Syracuse, Indiana, September 13-16, 2001. 4.5 linear feet. Donor: Albert N. Keim, Harrisonburg, Virginia and PAX 50 Committee with Calvin Redekop, chair, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Orville Schmidt, secretary, Wakarusa, Indiana; and Walter Schmucker, treasurer, Goshen, Indiana.

Shank, Dorothy C. (Smith), 1911-,Goshen, Indiana. Diaries, scrapbooks and photographs, 1924-51, dating to when she attended the Goshen College Academy (graduating in 1928) and Goshen College (graduating in 1932). Diaries are from 1926 and 1930-32. Also includes some correspondence, 1929-51 and two 1931 photograph albums of when she spent a summer with friends Verna Smith, Agnes Weaver and Eleanor Schertz as chambermaids (cleaning ladies) at Albemarle Hotel in New Jersey. Also includes photographs from the 1938 trip to Colorado with Pearl Smith, and a photograph album of her 1939 western trip with the Colfax party: Willard, Verna and Dorothy Smith, and Esther, Lena and Ann Graber. Collection also includes two wedding scrapbooks, 1940, when she married Lauren Shank. 1.25 linear feet. Donor: John J. Smith, Goshen, Indiana.

Smith, Tilman R., 1902-2000, Goshen, Indiana. Film and original phonograph recordings, 1948-50, of which the 16mm film Schools March On features Smith as a superintendent of schools in Woodford County, Illinois, in 1950. Phonograph records are of the June 1948 meeting of Mennonite Board of Missions in Mackinaw Dells, Wisconsin (6 sides) which featured the Metamora Mennonite Church chorus "God Is Waiting in the Silence" and "Launch Out into the Deep" and also featuring Eastern Mennonite College "A Rose" and "Ninety and Nine." Original recordings probably done by Ray Ulrich, Metamora, Illinois. Also included is a recording of the C. Henry Smith memorial, 1948 (2 sides). 1.25 linear feet. Donor: John J. Smith, Goshen, Indiana.

Waterford Mennonite Church, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana. Records, 1963-99, as collected by Wilmer Hollinger who served on various committees in the church through the years. Includes minutes and reports from board of elders, church council, gifts discernment, church coordinator, constitution revision, covenant committee, and congregational meetings. 2.5 linear feet. Donor: Wilmer Hollinger, Goshen, Indiana

Whitaker, Glenn, 1909-79, and Ferne (Zimmerman) Whitaker, Pueblo, Colorado.
Papers, photographs, phonograph recordings, and artifacts, 1936-72, of their mission work in the cities of Portland, Oregon, 1936-39, Los Angeles, California, 1939-45, and Wichita, Kansas, 1948-51. Materials show their work with boys' and girls' clubs, and with the summer camping programs in Oregon, and at Arroyo Seco and Hidden Valley in California. Includes constitution of Calvary Mennonite Church (1943) and photographs of the two churches, one on 73rd Street and the other on Normandie Avenue in Los Angeles. Original phonograph recordings include a spring 1943 conference at Harrisonburg, Virginia, made by Whitaker when he was director of Civilian Public Service camp #45, at Luray, Virginia. Persons featured on the recordings include E. M. Yost, A. C. Good, Maurice O' Connell, Ivan Moon, etc. Later recordings are dated from 1948 to 1951, when Whitaker began a radio ministry in Wichita, Kansas. These also include the Crusader Male Quartet (1950) and the Hesston College choir (about 1950). 7 linear feet. Donor: Warren Whitaker, Pueblo, Colorado.

Dennis Stoesz has been archivist since 1989 and is a member of East Goshen Mennonite Church.