Historical Committee

 

Hist Mss 1-803
H. Clair Amstutz Collection
6 Boxes (Large)

Administrative Information

Collection organized and listed by Dennis Stoesz, February 22, 1996.

Series and Box Listing

Correspondence                         Box 1
Publications                               Boxes 1-2
Manuscripts of Others                Box 2
Organizational Material               Boxes 2-3
Data Files                                 Boxes 3-4
Memorabilia                              Box 5


Inventory Listing

Box 1 (Large)

Correspondence

Correspondence, with Willard Krabill, 1957-58
Correspondence, with Old Colony Mennonites, 1958-59
Correspondence, Misc., 1956-81

Publications

Partial list of speeches and publications
Correspondence about publications

Builder, articles

Family Life, correspondence 1976-1984
Family Life, correspondence undated
Family Life, articles 1976-1979 (original typed manuscripts)
Family Life, articles 1981-? (original typed manuscripts)
Family Life, articles 1983 (original typed manuscripts)
Family Life, articles 1976-80 (published - in a legal folder)
Family Life, articles 1981-83 (published)
Family Life, misc. background materials

Mennonite Life, correspondence about mental illness issue, 1953
Mennonite Weekly Review (MWR), correspondence 1953
MWR, articles 1948 (typed manuscript)
Box 1 (Large) (Continued)

MWR, articles 1967 (typed manuscript)
MWR, articles 1976-79 (typed manuscript)
MWR, articles 1980-82 (typed manuscript)
MWR, articles 1983-83 (typed manuscript)
MWR, articles 1973-79 (published, two folders)
MWR, articles 1980-81 (published)
MWR, articles 1982-84 (published)

Die Mennonitische Post, correspondence with Abe Warkentin, editor
Die Mennonitische Post, articles 1982-83

Box 2 Large)

Die Mennonitische Post, articles 1983-84
Misc. articles in Mennonite periodicals
Mennonite Weekly Review, articles

Books by Amstutz
Becoming Parents, reviews
Growing Up in Love, correspondence
Growing Up in Love, reviews
Marriage in Today's World, correspondence with Herald Press.
Marriage in Today's World, uncorrected manuscript - copy 1
Marriage in Today's World, retyped manuscript - copy 2
Marriage in Today's World, releases
Marriage in Today's World, study guide release
So You're Going to be Married, reviews

Book reviews, correspondence
Book reviews, correspondence about James Dobson review, 1983
Book reviews, 2 folders

Speech, Greencroft 1983
Speech, "Hunger"
Speech notes
Misc. article and speech notes, 3 folders

Manuscripts of others

Bender, Ross - "The Family in Transition"
Ground, Vernon - Evangelicalism and Social Responsibility"
Hershberger, G.F. - "A Mennonite Perspective of the Montgomery Bus Boycott"
Jacobs, M.E. - "Bioenergetics and the Road to Extinction"
Box 2 Large) (Continued)

Kaufman, Donald - "War Taxes and the Christian Response"
Klassen, William - "The New Morality: A Theological Critique"
Metzler, Edgar - "Let's Talk About Extremeism"
Yoder, John H. - "Christian Concern for the Improvident"
Lehman, Celia - "The Middle Man"

Organizational Material

La Cuasa (food buying club), data 1976-77
College Mennonite Church (Goshen, IN), correspondence
College Mennonite Church, church history
College Mennonite Church, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage Committee,
    data 1969-80
College Mennonite Church, Vietnam Statement
Common Cause, data
Common Cause, miscellaneous data
Elkhart Co. Soc. For Crippled Children and Adults, data 1951
Goshen College, correspondence and data 1971-78
Goshen College, Alcohol/Tobacco Committee, 1960-65
Indiana College Health Assoc.
Indiana Heart Foundation

Box 3 (Large)

MCC, workbook
MCC Canada, reports 1981-82
MCC/Canadian Mennonite Health Assembly
MCC, Food and Hunger Concerns Subcommittee, minutes 1976-81
MCC, MILLINDO correspondence 1975-76
MCC, MILLINDO correspondence 1977
MCC, MILLINDO, correspondence 1978-80
MCC, MILLINDO, miscellaneous materials, 2 folders
MCC, hunger news realeases, study guide, etc.
Mennonite Medical Association, correspondence 1972-79
Mennonite Medical Association, constitution, minutes and data 1979-81
Mennonite Medical Association, minutes and data 1982-83
Mennonite Mental Health Service, correspondence about history 1980-81

Data Files

Abortion, correspondence
Abortion, articles and speeches by Amstutz
Abortion, church statements

Box 3 (Large) (Continued)

Abortion, Mennonite position papers and study guide
Abortion, medical association
Abortion, data, clippings
Accidents, miscellaneous data
Aging, correspondence, articles by Amstutz
Aging, talks at Spruce Lake Retreat
Alcohol, data
Book lists
Book reviews
Church/state relationship, papers
Current issues, clippings
Darwinism, clippings
Divine healing, correspondence 1949-74
Divine healing, articles by Amstutz
Divine healing, clippings
Draft for doctors, correspondence 1944-58
Draft for doctors, miscellaneous data
Farm issues
Fluoridization, correspondence, 1952
Fluoridization, clippings 1952

Box 4 (Large)

Homosexuality, correspondence, notes, articles by Amstutz
Homosexuality, notes of Amstutz
Homosexuality, papers from MMA consultation 1978
Homosexuality, articles
Homosexuality, clippings
Hospitals and homes
Hunger, background materials
Hunger, clippings and bibliography
Hunger, clippings
Hunger, Food: Politics, Economics, Nutrition and Research by Philip Abelson
Hunger, Food: Where Nutrition, Politics and Culture Meet by Deborah Katz
Hunger, A Bread for the World Orientation Manual for Volunteer Resource Persons
International Affairs, data
Litigation, data
Medical, data
Mennonite Education, papers
Mennonite Hospital in Elkhart, correspondenc, data, 2 folders
Peace, correspondence with US Senators, miscellaneous data
Peace, data
Reproduction physiology, clippings

Box 4 (Large) (Continued)

Sex, clippings
Sex education, Study Conference on Home Education 1959
Sex hormones, data
Sexuality, Conference on Christianity and Sexuality 1968
Sexuality, consultation 1979
Sexuality, Amstutz's review of Kinsey's Report on Women
Sexuality, Kinsey Report on Women, reviews
Tobacco, correspondence
Tobacco, articles by Amstutz

Tobacco, articles
Vaccination among Mennonites, data 1943
Vietnam, data
World Peace Tax Fund, correspondence and data 1977-78
Wholeness, data
Youth, articles
Miscellaneous clippings
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous periodicals

Box 5 (Large)

Memorabilia

Autographs
Biography, "Who's Who in the Midwest"
Christian Living, issue with Amstutz family on cover
Letterheads
Programs
Scrapbooks with clippings, 4 books
Indiana School of Medicine: Class of 1938
Memorial Service 2/4/84 (see tape transcript)
Neues Gebet-Buchlein (New Prayer Booklet), written by Johannes Amstutz, grandfather of H. Clair Amstutz

Froh Homestead, Sturgis, Michigan (Check also IV-14-26, Health and Welfare, Closed Programs, 1948-91)
Correspondence, 1951-55
Financial reports, 1954-55 (Check also IV-14-8, 1 file of field records)
Minutes and correspondence, 1958-59
Minutes and correspondence, 1952-57

La Junta, Colorado, Mennonite Hospital and Sanitarium, Review of Mennonite Hospital Program, 1955 by W.J. Dye
Box 5 (Large) (Continued)

Adriel School Study Commission, Final Report May, 1964

Box 6 (Large)

Assorted personal papers of H. Clair Amstutz that were deposited into the Archives by Florence Amstutz in 1987.

Mennonite History
Health Service
Health Center Reports
Abortion
Task Force on Women "Persons Becoming" Project, MCC Peace Section
Lecture-Music Series Committee, Goshen College
Abortion article by H. Clair Amstutz
Goshen College
Correspondence, 1958-61
Poison

MCC Service
Church Institutions
A few miscellaneous folders

Name and Subject Tracings

Abortion                    Box 3/15-20
Food and Hunger Concerns            Box 2/17, 30; Box 3/4-10, Box 4/7-12
Homosexuality                Box 4/1-5
MCC MILLINDO                Box 3/4-10
Froh Homestead, Sturgis, Michigan        Box 5












March 16, 2004 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File:  HM1-803
Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526

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