402 / Chronology of Events

Holmes County Amish interviewed Senator Atlee Pamerene in Wash

ington in behalf of nonresistant people.

1917-1918-Draftees from church communities go to military camps 1918-Resolution passed by Ohio Mennonite Conference favoring a conference

mission board

1919-Seventeen Ohio Mennonite and Amish young men of draft age begin reconstruction work in France

General Conference of Mennonites in France in reconstruction work meets at Clermont-en-Argonne

Crisis and Reunion

1920-First meeting of Ohio Mennonite Mission Board at Oak Grove Church in Wayne County, Ohio

1923-1924-Goshen College closed for academic year

1924-First issue of The Christian Exponent published at Wooster, Ohio (January)

Fundamentals conference at Archbold, Ohio (February)

1927-Merger of Ohio Mennonite Conference and Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference to form Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference

1932-Ohio churches formed statewide literary society organization at Dalton, Ohio

1934-First Young People's Institute sponsored by Ohio Mennonite Sunday School Conference, held at Beech Church in Stark County, Ohio 1941-West Fallowfield Mennonite School founded at Atglen, Pennsylvania

World War II Events

1937-Mennonite representatives present peace position to President Roosevelt Churches support relief in towns devastated by Spanish Civil War

1940-Society of Friends, Church of the Brethren, and Mennonites present memorandum to President Roosevelt with proposals for alternative service for conscientious objectors in case of military conscription (January 10)

Selective Training and Service Act in Section 5 (G) provides for alternative service (September 16)

1941-Conscientious objectors begin alternative service in Civilian Public Service camps.under Selective Training and Service Act (October) Seven Mennonite-operated CPS camps opened by end of year (May to December)

Pearl Harbor bombed and United States entered World War ĪI (December)

1941-1946-Seven hundred and thirty-two draftees conscripted from Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference congregations; four hundred and eighty-three render alternative service in camps, mental hospitals, and on farms

Churches engage in relief activities