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Mennonite
Board of Missions
Health and Welfare, Kenneth Schmidt,
Director
Data
Files, 1908-36, 1948-91
12 Boxes (1
Green, 11 Large)
2 Oversize
Files (Map Case)
INTRODUCTION
These
records focus on various hospitals, nursing homes, children's homes,
etc. for
the years 1979-89, when Kenneth H. Schmidt was the director. In 1989, the Health and Welfare department of
the Mennonite Board of Missions (MBM) officially closed, and
transferred their
ongoing administrative responsibilities to Mennonite Health Services, Akron, Pennsylvania. Since the department was closed, these files
also contain earlier materials, as well as some field records. Schmidt continued as interim director of the
MBM-related Health and Welfare programs until 1991.
It was during this period, 1989-91,
that
Schmidt worked through the files, and transferred them to the archives.
The
Health and Welfare Committee goes back to 1958, and was probably the
successor
of the Child Welfare Committee (1950s) and the Hospital Planning
Committee
(1948-49). E.C. Bender served as
Secretary Staff person from 1961-66, and Allen H. Erb served as an
assistant
the first two years, 1961-62. Luke Birky
served from 1967-79, and then Kenneth H. Schmidt from 1979-89.
GENERAL
FILES, 1951-88
(Arranged
in chronological order)
Box
1A (Green)
1950.
Photographs, 1950s-80s
1951. Proceedings of the first Child Welfare
Conference (MBM), West Liberty,
Ohio.
1954. Newsletter, 1954-62 (incomplete)
Titles
vary:
Mennonite Hospital
News
Mennonite Hospitals
and Homes
Mennonite
Health and Welfare Horizons, 1960-
1961. Conference on Aging
Report
on "The Church and Its Older People: Implementing the Church
Program for
the Aging and Aged." October
31-November 2, 1961, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.
(Published by Mennonite
Board of Missions, Elkhart, Indiana, circa 1961)
Essays
included by Leonard Z. Breen, Warren Andrews, Samuel Janzen, Allen H.
Erb,
James E. Doty, William Swaim, Bruce Savage, Paul B. Maves, Lester
Glick, and
Roy S. Koch.
Persons
on the planning and program committee included E. C. Bender and Edward
Mininger
of Health and Welfare, MBM; Roy S. Kock and J. J. Hostetler of the
Commission
for Christian Education, GC; O. O. Miller or Eastern Mennonite Board of
Missions and Charities; and John Moseman, Olive Wyse, Ernest Miller
(chair) of
Goshen College, MBE. Program was also
sponsored by Northern Indiana Regional section of Mennonite Medical
Association.
Box
1B (Large)
1967. Mental
Retardation, 1967-71
1967. Abortion, 1967-75 (3 files)
Correspondence,
1967-74
Minutes
of Abortion Study Committee, 1967-73
Reports,
1967-75
1969. Steering Committee, 1969, 1977.
It consisted
of
hospital administrators of Colorado
and Kansas
getting together
for meetings.
1970. Focus on Person, filmstrip, no date [circa
1970s]
Filmstrip
shows MBM's
involvement in health and welfare services. Luke Birky was Secretary. Includes a pamphlet, 77 slides and a 5"
1972.reel-to-reel tape.
1972. Schowalter Foundation, Inc., 1972-79.
Includes
material on Puerto Rico
Hospital
and Inter-Mennonite Program for
Aging.
1975. Erb, Allen H., PRIVILEGED TO SERVE.
Autobiography
of Allen
H. Erb (1888-1975), who served many hospitals and nursing homes in Colorado, Kansas
and Oregon. Book published by Mennonite Board of
Missions, Elkhart,
Indiana,
1975.
1977. Chaplaincy, 1977-79
1977. Steering Committee, 1977-80.
This
committee, also
called the Reference Committee, was made up of hospital administrators
of Colorado and Kansas
reviewed MBM's guidelines for involvement in the Health and Welfare. A Report by John D. Oswald came out in
February 1979, entitled "An Examination of the Role and Relationship of
the Mennonite
Church
in Health Care Delivery in the
Colorado-Kansas Area."
1978. Administrators Seminar, 1978
1978. Special Fund Summary, 1978-88
1979. Administrators Seminar, 1979
1979. Task Force Committee, 1979-81.
Includes
In-Depth Review Report, May 1979, of Health and Welfare.
1985.
Organizational Planning Committee,
1985-87.
Includes
meetings between the Mennonite Health
Association and the Brethren Health and Welfare Association in a
Management/
Affiliation Task Force.
Archival
materials for specific health and welfare programs are organized by
state.
ARIZONA
Glenhaven,
Inc., Glendale, Arizona. Records,
1972-80. Beginnings in 1971 with Trinity
Mennonite Church.
Annual
Reports, 1975-76
Bylaws
and Program, 1972-76
Correspondence,
1972-80
Financial
Reports, 1971-76
Minutes,
1971-76
COLORADO
Arkansas
Valley
Regional
Medical
Center,
La Junta, Colorado. Records
1913-36,
1967-89.
Includes Arkansas Valley
Regional
Medical
Center
(1987- ), Arkansas
Valley Health
System
Study of Rocky Ford, La Junta, Las Animas, Fowler and Ordway Hospitals
(1986-87), La Junta Mennonite Hospital (1919), La Junta Mennonite
Sanitarium
(1907), and La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing (1914-58).
La Junta
Mennonite
Sanitarium History, 1913-36. Includes
History by Mary
Frey, R.N., 1936, 14 pages.
La
Junta
Mennonite
School
of Nursing, Alumnae News, 1957-86
La Junta Mennonite School
of Nursing,
History Project Correspondence, 1973-75.
Between Luke
Birky and
author Maude Swartzendruber, who wrote the book, The Lamp in the West,
1975.
La
Junta
Medical
Center,
Minutes, 1967-78
La
Junta
Medical
Center,
Minutes, 1979-84
La
Junta
Medical
Center,
Minutes, 1985-86
La
Junta
Medical
Center,
Legal Forms, 1968-86
La
Junta
Medical
Center,
Correspondence, 1972-74
La
Junta
Medical
Center,
Miller Hall, 1972-80
Arkansas Valley Health System, 1985-87
Arkansas Valley Regional
Medical
Center,
Minutes, 1987-88
Arkansas Valley Regional
Medical
Center,
Financial / Statistical Reports,
1974-89
Box
2 (Large)
Arkansas
Valley
Regional
Medical
Center,
La Junta, Colorado.
(Continued)
Arkansas Valley
Regional
Medical
Center,
Program, 1955-89
Conejos
County
Hospital,
La Jara, Colorado. Records
1960-88. Had its beginning in
1963.
Annual
Reports, 1975-82
Board
Meeting Minutes, 1970-81
Correspondence,
1974-83
Financial
Reports, 1974-83
Legal
Documents, 1960-80
Program,
1970-86
Huerfano
Memorial
Hospital,
Walsenburg,
Colorado.
Records, 1964-87.
Ties with
Mennonite
Board of Missions ended in 1986.
Annual
Reports, 1964-86
Board
Minutes, 1966-81
Correspondence,
1969-87
Financial
Reports, 1967-86
Legal
Forms, 1970-86
Pioneers
Memorial
Hospital,
Rocky Ford, Colorado. Records 1950-91. Had
its
beginning in
1954. Includes Community
Hospital
Building
and Pioneers
Nursing
Center.
Annual
Reports, 1955-85
Chaplaincy,
1950-71
Closeout,
Community
Hospital
Building,
1986
Closeout,
Equipment Disposal, 1986-87
Community Hospital
Building,
Bylaws and Agreements, 1950-80
Community Hospital
Building,
Board of Directors, 1974-85
Community Hospital
Building
Correspondence,
1958-91
Financial
Reports, 1959-84
Box
3 (Large)
Pioneers
Memorial
Hospital,
Rocky Ford, Colorado. (Continued)
Governing
Board Minutes (located at end)
Legal
Forms, 1969-77 (Includes Pioneers Nursing Center)
Newspaper
Clippings, 1984-86
Newspaper
Clippings, 1983
Newspaper
Clippings, 1981-82
Newspaper
Clippings, 1977-80
Newspaper
Clippings,
1976
Newspaper
Clippings, 1975
Newspaper
Clippings, 1974
Newspaper
Clippings, 1954-73
Program,
1957-85 (Includes photographs)
1984 Fund Drive
Resolution
Governing
Board Minutes, 1980-86
Governing
Board Minutes, 1973-79
Governing
Board Minutes, 1957-72
Box
4 (Large)
FLORIDA
Sunnyside
Nursing Home, Sarasota,
Florida. Records, 1975-85.
Correspondence,
1976-83
Financial
Reports, 1975-82
Legal
Forms, 1975-80
Minutes,
1976-82
Program,
1978-85
ILLINOIS
Brementowne
Manor, Tinley Park,
Illinois. Records, 1977-87. Formerly
Mennonite
Housing
Aid, Inc., Chicago,
Illinois.
Administrator
/ Board, 1979-84
Correspondence,
1978-87
Financial
Reports, 1980-88
Legal
Documents, 1978-88
Minutes,
1977-87
Program,
1980-87
Maple Lawn
Homes, Eureka,
Illinois. Records, 1966-88. Formerly
Eureka Home for the
Aged.
Correspondence,
1976-82
Financial
Reports, 1982-89
Financial
Reports, 1971-81
Minutes,
1983-89
Minutes,
1966-83
Program,
1975-89
INDIANA
Friendship
Haven, Kokomo, Indiana. Records,
1978-89
Correspondence,
1978-82
Financial
/ Statistical Reports, 1980-89
Legal
Documents, 1981
Minutes,
1983-89
Minutes,
1978-82
Pine Manor, Goshen, Indiana. Records 1971-74. Issue
of migrant housing at the Manor
House
units at the Pine Manor turkey
processing plant.
Correspondence,
1971-72
Minutes,
1971-74 (Includes 1974 S.A.C. meeting,
La Casa)
News
Articles, 1971-72
Reports,
1971-72
Legal
and Financial Reports, 1970-71
Youth
Village,
White Pigeon, Michigan, and Elkhart, Indiana. Records, 1950-80.
Youth
Village,
White Pigeon, Michigan
Administrative
Office, 1711 Prairie St.,
Elkhart, Indiana
Boys
Group Home, 1701 Prairie
St., Elkhart, Indiana
Girls
Group Home, 115 E. Indiana, Elkhart, Indiana
Materials
filed under Michigan.
Box
5 (Large)
KANSAS
Associated
Youth Services, Kansas City,
Kansas. Records, 1908-16, 1972-89.
Formerly
Argentine
Youth
Services, 1972-88, and Mennonite Children's Home, 1917-72.
Administrator
/ Board, 1972-85
Annual
Reports, 1974-87
Correspondence,
1979-88
Correspondence,
1977-87
Correspoondence,
1908-16, 1972-78
Financial
Reports, 1980-86
Financial
Reports, 1979-81
Financial
/ Statistical Reports, 1973-79
Legal
Forms, 1972-83
Legal
Documents, 1974-81
Minutes,
1980-88
Minutes,
1980-87
Minutes,
1973-79
Program,
1973-89 (includes one photograph)
Bob
Wilson
Memorial
Hospital,
Ulysses, Kansas.
Records, 1950-86.
Had its
beginning
in
1951.
Annual
Reports, 1982-84
Annual
Reports, Miscellaneous, 1982-85
Correspondence,
1967-86
Bylaws,
1973-84
Financial
Reports, 1974-86
Legal
Forms, 1950, 1967-85
Minutes,
1981-85
Minutes,
1976-80
Minutes,
1971-75
Minutes,
1967-70
News
Articles, 1966-85 (includes photographs)
Box
6 (Large)
Bob
Wilson
Memorial
Hospital,
Ulysses, Kansas.
(Continued)
Personnel
Policies, 1979-81
Kiowa
County
Memorial
Hospital,
Greensburg,
Kansas. Records, 1959-87.
Annual
Reports, 1959-83
Correspondence,
1973-85
Financial
Reports, 1970-87
Financial
Reports (Ambulance Service), 1974-80
Legal
Documents, 1960-85
Minutes,
1971-85
News
Articles, 1959-85
Program,
and Miscellaneous Reports, 1971-81
Schowalter
Villa, Hesston, Kansas. Records
1966-89. Had its beginning in 1978.
Includes
Hickory Homes, Hesston,
Kansas.
Annual
Reports, 1979-88
Board
and Administrator, 1977-88
Correspondence,
1973-89
Financial
Reports, 1986-88
Financial
Reports, 1979-85
Financial
Reports, 1971-88
Legal
Forms, 1979-86
Legal
Forms, Hickory Homes, 1978-86
Minutes,
1986-88
Minutes,
1983-85
Minutes,
1979-82
Minutes,
1966-78
Box 7
(Large)
Schowalter
Villa, Hesston, Kansas.
(Continued)
News
Articles, 1976-83
News
Letters, 1985-89
News
Letters, 1982-84
News
Letters, 1977-81
Program,
1977-88
MICHIGAN
AuSable
Valley Home, Fairview,
Michigan. Records, 1973-89. Includes
Ausable
Valley
Nursing
Home, and Apartments.
Correspondence,
1973-82
Financial
/ Statistics, 1985-89
Financial
/ Statistics, 1980-84
Financial
/ Statistics, 1976-79
Legal
Forms, 1976-88
Minutes,
1981-89
Minutes,
1978-80
Minutes,
1974-77
News
Letters and Articles, 1979-84 (includes photographs)
Froh
Community Home, Sturgis,
Michigan.
Records, 1953-89. Most recently named
Thurston Woods Village,
1985- ; formerly called Froh Community Home, 1966-85, and Froh Brothers
Homestead, 1953-66.
Correspondence,
1964-89
Financial
Reports, 1966-89
Legal,
1983-88
Minutes,
1981-89
Minutes,
1966-80
Minutes,
1953-62
Program
/ News Articles, 1966-88 (includes photographs)
Box
8 (Large)
Youth
Village,
White Pigeon, Michigan, and Elkhart, Indiana. Records, 1948-85. Youth
Village,
1975-80,
formerly known as Mennonite Youth Village, 1959-75.
In 1975 included a Boys Group Home,
1701
Prairie St., a Girls Group Home, 115 E. Indiana, and an Administrative
Office,
1711 Prairie St, all in Elkhart, Indiana.
Correspondence,
1949-81
Correspondence,
1973-78
Financial
Reports, 1966-81
Legal
Papers, 1979-85
Minutes,
1948-80
Program,
1973-80 (Includes photograph.
Two oversize photographs are located
in
Map Case)
Reports,
1959-80
OHIO
Adriel
School,
West
Liberty, Ohio. Records, 1964-89. Known
as Adriel
School,
1957- ,
and formerly
as the West Liberty's Children's
Home, 1900-57, serving as an
orphanage.
Correspondence,
1967-89
Financial
Reports, 1974-82
Legal
Forms, 1968-80
Programs
and Reports, 1972-84
Minutes,
1974-82
News
Articles and Releases, 1964-88
Harmony
Village,
Columbiana,
Ohio. Records, 1978-88. Beginnings
in 1983.
Correspondence,
1978-83
Financial
/ Statistical Reports, 1985-88
Legal
Forms, 1982-83
Program,
1978-83 (includes photographs)
Hattie
Larlham Foundation, Mantua,
Ohio. Records, 1971-90. Beginnings
in 1961.
Annual
Reports, 1973-76
Correspondence,
1977-88
Correspondence,
1972-76
Financial
/ Statistical Reports, 1987-89
Box
9 (Large)
Hattie
Larlham Foundation, Mantua,
Ohio. (Continued)
Financial
Reports, 1971-89
Legal
Documents, 1972-86
Minutes,
1989-90
Minutes,
1987-89
Minutes,
1981-86
Minutes,
1979-80
Minutes,
1970, 1975-78
News
Items, 1977-90
Program,
1973-90
Ministers
Alliance
Retirement
Center,
Cleveland,
Ohio. Records, 1979-89.
Administrator
/ Board, 1979-86
Correspondence,
1979-89
Financial
/ Statistics, 1985-89
Legal,
1979-86
Minutes,
1981-82
Program,
1979-86
Orr Villa, Orrville, Ohio. Records,
1976-89. Beginnings in 1976.
Correspondence,
1977-89
Financial
Reports, 1980-89
Legal
Forms, 1976-78
Minutes,
1976-85
Program
and News Articles, 1979-83
Sunshine
Children's Home, Maumee,
Ohio. Records, 1960-88. Had
its beginning in
1949,
and MBM became involved in 1960.
Administrator
/ Board, 1979-89
Correspondence,
1972-88
Financial
Reports, 1977-88
Financial
Reports, 1966-76
Box
10 (Large)
Sunshine
Children's Home, Maumee,
Ohio. (Continued)
History,
1949-60
"The
Sunshine Children's Home: The Engler Years, 1949-60," M.A.
Thesis
by Byron L. Stickles, Siena
Heights
College,
1983.
Legal
Forms, 1973-81
Mennonite
Sponsoring Group, 1983-89
Minutes,
1983-88
Minutes,
1971-82
News
Reports, 1983-88
News
Reports, 1971-82
Program,
1976-81
Reports,
1974-88
OREGON
Lebanon Community Hospital, Lebanon,
Oregon. Records, 1965-89. Began
in 1952.
Administrator's
Reports, 1968-86
Chaplaincy
Reports, 1965-84
Correspondence,
1968-79
Financial
Reports, 1968-89
Legal
Forms, 1968-89
Box
11 (Large)
Lebanon
Community Hospital, Lebanon,
Oregon. (Continued)
Long Range
Planning Reports, 1971-80
Medical
Staff News Letters, "Messenger," 1987-89
Minutes,
(Board) 1980-89
Minutes,
(Board) 1966-79
"Pulse,
The", 1968-73 & 1982 (Newsletter; program materials too)
Reports,
1976-83
Lebanon
Villa, Lebanon,
Oregon.
Records,
1962-67
PUERTO RICO
JELAM,
Aibonito, Puerto Rico.
One File, 1952-78.
File
concerns transfer of property to JELAM.
Full name of JELAM –
Junta Ejectiva
Latinoamericana de Audiciones Menonita, and supported by churches in
Argentina,
Colombia, Costa Rica, United States of America, Honduras, Mexico,
Puerto Rico,
Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
Mennonite
General
Hospital,
Aibonita, Puerto Rico.
Records,
1955-86. Began in 1944.
[Hospital General Menonita, Inc.]
Bylaws,
1973-74
Correspondence,
1975-87
Correspondence,
1975
Correspondence,
1974
Correspondence,
1969-73
Correspondence,
1963-64
Financial
Reports, 1970-85
Legal
Forms, 1962-77
Minutes,
1965-78
News
Items and Publicity, 1955-86
Poster,
1984 (commemoration of 40 years, 1944-84) (Oversize, found in Map
Cabinet)
Reports,
1962-78
March 25,
2008 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
February 23,
1993/ Individual Files typed into
computer by Dennis Stoesz
January 26,
2009 / Posted by Isaac Smith
Mennonite
Church USA
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Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526
Name and
Subject Tracing:
Abortion
Adriel
School,
West
Liberty, Ohio
Argentine
Youth Services, Kansas City,
Kansas
Arizona
Arkansas
Valley
Regional
Medical
Center,
La Junta, Colorado
Associated
Youth Services, Kansas City,
Kansas
AuSable
Valley Home, Fairview,
Michigan
Bender, E. C.
Birky, Luke
Bob
Wilson
Memorial
Hospital,
Ulysses, Kansas
Brementowne
Manor, Tinley Park,
Illinois
Child Welfare
Committee
Children's
Homes
Church of the
Brethren
Colorado
Conejos
County
Hospital,
La Jara, Colorado
Erb, Allen H.
Eureka Home
for the Aged
Florida
Friednship
Haven, Kokomo, Indiana
Froh
Community Home, Sturgis,
Michigan
Group Homes, Elkhart, Indiana
Harmony
Village,
Columbiana,
Ohio
Hattie
Larlham Foundation, Mantua,
Ohio
Hospital
Planning Committee
Hospitals
Huerfano
Memorial
Hospital,
Walsenburg,
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
JELAM,
Albonita, Puerto Rico
Kansas
Kiowa
County
Memorial
Hospital,
Greensburg,
Kansas
La Junta
Medical
Center,
La Junta, Colorado
La Junta
Mennonite Sanitarium
La Junta
Mennonite
School
of Nursing, La Junta, Colorado
Lebanon
Community Hospital, Lebanon,
Oregon
Lebanon
Villa, Lebanon,
Oregon
Maple Lawn
Homes, Eureka,
Illinois
Mennonite
Children's Home, Kansas City,
Kansas
Mennonite
General
Hospital,
Aibonita, Puerto Rico
Mennonite
Health Association
Mennonite
Health Services, Akron,
Pennsylvania
Mennonite
Youth
Village,
White Pigeon, Michigan
Mental
Retardation
Michigan
Michigan
- Thurston
Woods
Village,
Sturgis
Migrant
Housing
Ministers
Alliance
Retirement
Center,
Cleveland,
Ohio
Nursing Homes
Ohio
Oregon
Orr Villa, Orrville, Ohio
Pine Manor, Goshen, Indiana
Pioneers
Memorial
Hospital,
Rocky Ford, Colorado
Puerto Rico
Schmidt,
Kenneth H.
Schowalter
Villa, Hesston, Kansas
Sunnyside
Nursing Home, Sarasota,
Florida
Sunshine
Children's Home, Maumee,
Ohio
Thurston
Woods
Village,
Sturgis,
Michigan
West
Liberty's Children's Home, West
Liberty, Ohio
Youth
Village,
Elkhart,
Indiana
Youth
Village,
White Pigeon, Michigan
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