Historical Committee

Biographical Sketch

Melvin C. Gingerich served as archivist of the Mennonite Church Archives, 1947-70, and editor of the Mennonite Historical Bulletin, 1945-70. He was professor of history, first at Washington (Iowa) Junior College, 1930-41, then at Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, 1941-47. Later he taught at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana 1949-55, 1959-61.

Gingerich was research director of the Mennonite Research Foundation, 1947-55, 1957-59, was managing editor of The Mennonite Encyclopedia, 1948-55, and managing editor of the Mennonite Quarterly Review, associate editor of Mennonite Life, and editor of Mennonite Historical Bulletin. He also was author of Mennonites in Iowa, Service for Peace, Mennonite Attire Through Four Centuries and other books and articles.

Gingerich's lifetime of service to the church was manifest in many ways over the years. In 1969 he traveled to Mennonite communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Melvin served with Mennonite Central Committee from 1947-49 and 1955-58. He wrote Service For Peace which was published by MCC in 1949.

Nelson P. Springer, a colleague on the Goshen College campus wrote of Gingerich, "Theologically he was conservative but not Fundamentalist, politically he was liberal but not leftist."

Melvin Gingerich graduated from Goshen College in 1926 and received a Ph.D. from State University of Iowa, 1938. He married Verna Roth in 1925. He was originally from Kalona, Iowa.

Administrative Information

Collection processed by Sharon Klinglesmith, September 19, 1977. Update by Monica Zimmerman, July 26, 2001. Biographical Sketch, Series Headings, and Box Listing previously typed into computer and posted on web. Inventory Listing typed by Helen Hostetler, September, 2005.

Series Headings

Box Listing (*Restricted)

Inventory Listing

Diaries, Calendars Boxes 1-6

Box 1 (Green)

• Diaries, Nov. 11, 1924-April 14, 1925
• Diaries, 1930-1949

Box 2 (Green)

• Diaries, 1950-59
• Appointment Books, 1958-1959

Box 3 (Green)

• Diaries, 1960-65
• Appointment Books, 1960, 1965

Box 4 (Green)

• Diaries, 1966-69
• Appointment Books, 1-66-69

Box 5 (Green)

• Diaries, 1970-75
• Appointment Books, 1970-73, 1975

Box 6 (Green)

• Office Calendars, 1955-1959
• Office Calendars, 1958-1963

Correspondence Boxes 7-29

Box 7 (Green)

• Correspondence, Mother Gingerich 1921-1949

Box 8 (Green)

• Correspondence, family Christmas letters and family correspondence 1942-1974

(*Restricted) Owen Gingerich 1950-1972 Boxes 9-13

Box 9 (Green) (*Restricted)

• Correspondence, Owen Gingerich, 1950-55

Box 10 (Green) (*Restricted)

• Correspondence, Owen Gingerich, 1956-60

Box 11 (Green) (*Restricted)

• Correspondence, Owen Gingerich, 1961-64

Box 12 (Green) (*Restricted)

• Correspondence, Owen Gingerich. 1965-68

Box 13 (Green) (*Restricted)

• Correspondence, Owen Gingerich, 1969-72

Box 14 (Green)

• Correspondence, Circle letters 1950-1962

Box 15 (Green)

• Correspondence, Christmas letters 1964-1974

Boxes 16 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1912-1939

Box 17 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1940-69

Correspondence, Topical, 1931-1968 Boxes 18-20

Correspondence, topical, 1931-49

Box 18 (Green)

• S. F. Gingerich, 1931-1941
• S. F. Gingerich, 1942
• S. F. Gingerich, 1943-1948
• S. F. Gingerich, miscellaneous
• Henry County Institute of Science, 1941
• Peace Committees: General Conference Mennonite 1935-1948
• Mennonite Central Committee, 1944-1948
• "Der Waffen-lose Waechter", 1945
• C.P.S. History, 1945-1946
• C.P.S. History, 1947
• C.P.S. History, 1938-1949
• C.P.S. History - Evaluation Questionnaire
• C.P.S. History - undated corr., miscellaneous
• Linscheid, Anna 1946-1947
• Little Eden Recreation Workshop, 1946-1947
• Little Eden Recreation Workshop, 1947 miscellaneous
• Little Eden Recreation Workshop, 1947-1948
• Little Eden Recreation Workshop, 1948 miscellaneous
• Little Eden Recreation Workshop, 1949, and miscellaneous

Correspondence, topical, 1946-60

Box 19 (Green)

• "Mennonite Community", 1946-1951
• "Mennonite Life", 1947-1953
• Freeman, Howard, 1952-1960, and miscellaneous
• Herald Publishing Company, 1952
• Inquiries, 1950
• Laros, Charles F., "A Trip to the West," 1950
• Lee, Mrs. T. B., re: Mennonites in Tennessee, 1953
• Topping, Helen 1947-48, 1951-52
• "Who's Who Among the Mennonites", 1947-1948

Correspondence, topical, 1955-68

Box 20 (Green)

• Kurtztown, miscellaneous, 1955
• Springer, Nelson 1955-57
• Tuttle, Charles (Company), 1955-58
• King, S. M., 1955-58
• Regarding periodicals, 1957-58
• Camp Mack Peace Conference, July 27-August 3, 1958
• Peace Deputation Trip to the Western States, A - L, Sept. 1958 - Feb. 1959
• Peace Deputation Trip to the Western States, M - Z, Sept. 1958 - Feb. 1959
• Pennsylvania Trip, 1959
• "Amish Book", University of Chicago Press, 1959
• Christianity Today, Carl F. H. Henry, 1959-60
• Books for the Orient, 1960-62
• Masontown Mennonite Church, Sunday School Centennial, 1961, 1963
• Bender, H. S., biography, 1968

Japan Trip

Box 21 (Green)

• Japan, and miscellaneous 1954-55
• Japan, 1956
• Japan, 1957
• Japan,, 1958
• Japan, 1959-62
• Japan & Europe Travel Arrangements, 1955-1958
• Toews, J. B., and related, 1957-58

Korea, Omi Brotherhood, Formosa

Box 22 (Green)

• Formosa, 1954-1961
• Korea Trip Report, 1957
• Korea & miscellaneous, 1955-57
• Korea, 1958
• Korea, Omi Brotherhood, August 1957 - May 1964
• Korea, Omi Brotherhood, miscellaneous

Correspondence filed alphabetically within each year, 1971-75 Boxes 23-29

Box 23 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1971 A-L

Box 24 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1971 M-Z

Box 25 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1972 A-O

Box 26 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1972 P-Z
• Correspondence, 1973 A-L

Box 27 (Green)

• Correspondence,1973 M-Z
• Correspondence, 1974 A-L

Box 28 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1974 M-Z
• Correspondence, 1975 A-F

Box 29 (Green)

• Correspondence, 1975 G-Z

Family History Boxes 30-32

Family History

Box 30 (Green)

• Clippings
• Coat of Arms
• Correspondence: A-Q
• Correspondence: R-Z
• "Der Psalter" notations
• "Descendants of Johannes Gingerich and Catherine Scholabaugh"
• European References to the Name Gingerich, by Don Yoder
• Fairfield County, Ohio
• Gerig, Sebastian
• "Gingerich Family History"
• Gingerich, John (1877-1948) Family
• Gingerich, Mr. John C. (materials from)

Box 31 (Green)

• Gingerich, Joseph
• Gingerich, Melvin
• Gingerich, Peter Family Bible
• Guengerich, Marjorie (materials from)
• Gungerich, Daniel P. Family
• Miscellaneous
• Mengeringhausen
• Miscellaneous
• Mt. Herman Amish Mennonite Church, Shelbyville, IN
• Obituary cards
• Palatinate Mennonite Family Names
• Swartzendruber, D. B. (includes correspondence)
• Schwartzendruber, Frederick
• Schwartzendruber, Jacob
• Schwartzendruber, Joseph
• Testimonial Letter
• Wedding Tablecloth

Box 32 (Green)

• Detwiler, Barbara
• Reber, Ewald - Correspondence
• Reber Family (2 folders)
• Reunions
• Roth, Joseph
• Wertz Cemetery
• Wyse, Peter - Catherine Brandt Family

Germantown Boxes 33-36

Box 33 (Green)

• Board of Directors, Agenda & Minutes, June 1968-May 1975
• Board Meeting, May 13, 1972
• Germantown Meeting 1973
• Board Meeting October 13, 1973
• May 1974
• Project Committee Reports, 1973-1975 and Minutes 1971-72
• Local Operating (Project) Comm. 1972-74
• Financial Reports
• Reports on Germantown Project
• Monthy Reports, (Information Center), 1971-72, 1974
• List of Board Members, May 1974, Nov. 1974, May 1975

Box 34 (Green)

• Correspondence 1959, 1969-1972 A-Z
• Correspondence 1973-1975 A-Z
• Correspondence Stanley Fretz, 1972, 1975
• Correspondence Elkhart Mission Board, 1972
• Correspondence Beulah and John Hostetler, 1971
• Correspondence regarding replacement when Gingerich's leave, 1972
• News Release and Installation Service for Stutzman's
• Correspondence Roman Stutzman, 1972-1973
• Correspondence and reports, Roman Stutzman, 1974-1975
• Correspondence Andrew Shelly, 1969-1973
• Correspondence regarding Grant from Ford Foundation, 1972
• Correspondence Eleanor Temple, 1971-1972
• News Announcement: Gingerich's Appointment to Germantown
• "Founding of Germantown M. C." by H. S. Bender
• Germantown M. C. Corporation
• Germantown Mennonite Church
• Germantown Mennonite Congregation
• Germantown Mennonite Church, Bylaw, October 11, 1970; Anniversary Service

Box 35 (Green)

• Friends of Germantown Newsletter
• Germantown Historical Society
• Brief of Titles for the Church Grounds
• My Donation to Germantown
• Germantown Crier
• Text for Germantown Booklet
• Philadelphia Inter-Mennonite Fellowship
• Free Church Origin - Report 1968
• H. S. Bender article on William Rittenhouse
• Mennonite Historical Committee
• Mennonite Historical Bulletin
• Christopher Dock Bicentennial Commemoration
• Wyck House
• Farmers Market
• National Register of Historic Places
• 1775 Declaration to PA Assembly Clippings
• Articles, Handwritten Notes and Miscellaneous
• First Methodist Church, Germantown, Sermons, Sept.-Oct. 1971

Box 36 (Green)

• Holdings on the History of Germantown and Philadelphia, PA
• Significant Dates
• Corrections: Significant Dates
• Pamphlets, printed matter re. Germantown
• Germantown Documents
• Obituary, John Wesley Bayley
• Concord School
• Germantown Documents, 1867-1869
• Germantown Documents (3 folders)
• Germantown, George Miller, member of Frankfort Company
• Membership Directory of Mennonite Churches in Philadelphia and Early Financial Reports, 1848-1914

Miscellaneous Account Books Boxes 37-38

Box 37 (Green)

• Account Books: 1944-1959

Box 38 (Green)

• Account Books: 1960-1970

Miscellaneous Topical Files Filed A-Z Boxes 39-53

Miscellaneous, A-E

Box 39 (Green)

• Addresses
• Attire - Mennonite, clippings
• Burlington Railroad Records
• Church Building Study
• Clippings
• Common Cause
• Cooperative: Mutual Buying Club at Goshen College
• Draft - Committee on Armed Services Hearings, 1959
• Eicher Mennonite Church (Iowa)
• Elkhart County Churches
• Elkhart-LaGrance Counties Historical Tours 1965
• Elkhart Urban League

Miscellaneous, Bicentennial Religious Liberty Conference

Box 40 (Green)

• Minutes and Agenda for 1972 Bicentennial Meetings
• 1972 Becentennial Correspondence
• 1973-74 Bicentennial Correspondence
• Budget, Religious Freedom
• Bicentennial - miscellaneous
• 1973-75 Bi-Centennial Clippings
• 1971-72 Bi-Centennial Clippings
• Brown, Francis G. correspondence
• Garvan, Anthony, correspondence
• Nolde, Nancy, correspondence
• Bicentennial Conference on Religious Liberty
• Mennonites and Religious Freedom
• Great Lakes College Association

Miscellaneous, Melvin Gingerich

Box 41 (Green)

• Autobiographical - Melvin Gingerich
• Bainton: Cartoon of M. G.
• Baptism/Church Records, Iowa
• Bible Reading Record
• Biographical, Melvin Gingerich
• Biographical Data/Cards
• Clinton Community School
• Clippings regarding Melvin Gingerich
• Contracts/Certificates
• Miscellaneous Contributions
• Deutschen Gemeinde Schule 1909
• Family Almanac 1902
• Financial: miscellaneous
• Funeral Service
• Grades
• Graduate School
• Health Records
• Hesston Academy
• Hy-Y Advisor, Washington, IA
• High School Class, 1928
• Condolences to Verna, 1975

Box 42 (Green)

• Mementos
• Projects, Projected
• Retirement, 1970
• Selective Service Classification
• World War II Ration Books
• Wedding Announcement, 1925
• Will & Testament, Last
• Three Books

Miscellaneous, G

Box 43 (Green)

• Gingerich, Loren
• Gingerich, Loren
• Gingerich, Mary A. and correspondence
• Gingerich, Mary A.
• Gingerich, Mary A.
• Gingerich, Mark
• Gingerich, Owen, clippings
• Gingerich, Owen/Goshen College
• Gingerich, Owen/Harvard

Miscellaneous, Gi - H

Box 44 (Green)

• Gingerich, Owen/miscellaneous
• Gingerich, Owen/National Honor Society
• Gingerich, Owen/Rev. Paul Stopenhagen Letter
• Gingerich, Owen/Writings and Speeches
• Goshen College
• Goshen College Alumni Fund
• Goshen College Class of 1926, (Reunion 1966)
• Goshen College - Faculty Discussion Comm. 1950-55
• Goshen College - Library Study Committee
• Goshen College Seminary Seminars, 1959-1960
• Gospel Evangel
• Graduate Students Study
• "Grain of Dust"
• Historical & Research Committee

Miscellaneous, Iowa

Box 45 (Green)

• Sugar Creek Church, Iowa (2 folders)
• Sugar Creek Church, clippings
• Sugar Creek Church in 1871
• Iowa Counthy, Iowa, Census, 1880
• Census Records, Henry County, IA
• Sebastian Gerig
• Washington County Histories
• Township Maps, Henry, Washington, Counties

Miscellaneous, I - L

Box 46 (Green)

• International Council on Archives
• Iowa Educational Directory
• Johnson County Settlement
• Joint Stewardship Council (includes correspondence)
• Krehbiel, Christian. Notes from From the Steppes to the Prairies
• Lee County Mennonites, Dedication of Marker, June 21, 1960
• Little Eden

Miscellaneous, Lambert, Rose M.

Box 47 (Green)

• "Hadjin & The Armenian Massacres" by Rose Lambert (2 books)
• Lambert, George
• Correspondence regarding Rose Lambert (Musselman)
• Correspondence, with and writings of Rose

Miscellaneous, M

Box 48 (Green)

• Memoranda/Notes
• Miller, Lester
• Miscellaneous
• Miscellaneous Notes
• Missouri: Mennonites (including correspondence) 2 folders

Miscellaneous, M - Marriage, Remarriage Comm. Of College Mennonite Church

Box 49 (Green)

• Congregational Meetings
• Agenda/Minutes 1969-71
• Correspondence
• Graber, Chris L.
• Hartzler, Harold
• Input Materials (2 folders)
• Morning Worship, June 6, 13, 1971 - March 14, 1971
• Resource Materials
• Resources - Family Counseling
• Workshops/Discussion Groups

Miscellaneous N - P

Box 50 (Green)

• Notes - MCC
• Obituary Cards
• Pacific School, Johnson County, Iowa
• Petitions
• Poland
• Programs

Peace Boxes 51-52

Miscellaneous P - Peace (A - M)

Box 51 (Green)

• Civil Defense
• Communism
• Congressional Record (Debate on Universal Military Training), Feb. 5, 1959
• Conscientious Objectors
• Japan Anti A & H Bomb Conference
• Japan and Peace
• Japanese Fellowship of Reconciliation
• Literature
• Literature Conference, Laurelville, May 1958
• MCC Missions Study
• MDS & Civil Defense, Feb. 10, 1961
• Miscellaneous Reports

Miscellaneous P - Peace (N - Z)

Box 52 (Green)

• Peace Clippings
• Peace Clippings/A & H Bomb
• Peace Conferences & Statements
• Peace Pamphlets
• Peace Problems Comm. 1957-59, Biennium Reports
• Peace Problems Comm. 1959-61, Biennium Reports
• Peace Problems Comm. - Correspondence/Reports 1959-61
• Peace Problems Comm. - Correspondence/Reports 1961
• Peace Problems Comm. - Correspondence/Reports 1959-62
• Peace Problems Comm. - 1961 Report of C. E. S. R.
• Peace Problems Comm. - Capital Punishment
• "The Christian Basis for the Witness of the Historic Peace Churches"
• Peace Problems Comm. "Christian Youth Leader's Conference on Communism and the American Heritage," report by H. G.
• Peace Problems Comm. - Finances
• Peace Teaching in Two Mennonite Paper, 1961
• Puidoux Theological Conference
• Vietnam
• World Peace Broadcasting Foundation

Miscellaneous Q - Z

Box 53 (Green)

• Peace and Mennonites
• Quakers & Mennonites, Relations Between
• Railroad Research'Religious Survey 1964
• Research Notes - Miscellaneous
• Roth, Bertha Wyse
• Roth, Bertha Wyse - Estate
• Sakakibara, Gan
• Senate Armed Services Committee, 1959 (2 folders)
• Sioux Falls College
• Shannon, Robert
• "The Social Studies for Teachers and Administrators"
• Sprunger, Arthur
• "A Study Guide for Students in Industry"
• Wherry Monograph
• Wilson, Miriam Davidson

Professional Groups/Meetings Boxes 54-59

Professional Groups/Meetings, A - P

Box 54 (Green)

• American Society of Church History
• East-West Conferences
• Faulty Book Club, Goshen College
• Iowa Authors Club (and Mississippi River Cruise)
• Iowa Council for the Social Studies
• Mennonite Historical Association
• Mennonite Teachers Association
• Miscellaneous
• Natural Science Division (Goshen College)
• PA Folklife Conference, March 1951

Professional Groups/Meetings, R - Z

Box 55 (Green)

• Religious News Service (Corr., News Releases, Press Card)
• Miscellaneous: Rural Life Association (2 folders)
• State Historical Society of Iowa
• Washington Coffee Club
• "Who's Who…", and miscellaneous organizations
• World Council of Churches, August 1954

Professional Groups/Meetings, Religious Research Foundation

Box 56 (Green)

• Religious Research Fellowship, 1956
• MA Council of Churches, 1951-1955
• Religious Research Fellowship, 1957
• Religious Research Fellowship, 1958
• Religious Research Association, 1959
• Religious Research Association, 1960
• Religious Research Association, 1961
• Religious Research Association, 1962
• Religious Research Association, 1963
• Religious Research Association, 1964-66

Professional Groups/Meetings, Society of American Archivists

Box 57 (Green)

• Springer, Nelson, correspondence 1949-53
• General Correspondence 1958-1962
• General Correspondence 1963
• General Correspondence 1964
• General Correspondence 1965
• General Correspondence 1966-67
• General Correspondence 1968-69
• General Correspondence 1970-73
• Correspondence - Bellamy, Nelle, 1963-71
• Correspondence - Preparing a Manual for Church Archivists, 1960
• Correspondence - Renze, Delores, 1961-63
• Correspondence - Suelflow, August, 1959-74

Professional Groups/Meetings, Society of American Archivists

Box 58 (Green)

• Annual Meeting, 1950-52
• Annual Meeting, 1959-60
• Annual Meeting, 1961-62
• Annual Meeting, 1963
• Annual Meeting, 1964
• Annual Meeting, 1965
• Annual Meeting, 1966
• Annual Meeting, 1967
• Annual Meeting, 1968-69
• Annual Meeting, 1970-72
• Annual Meeting, 1973
• Church Records Committee, 1959-63
• Church Records Committee, 1964-66
• Church Records Committee, 1967-69
• Church Records Committee, 1970-71
• Church Records Committee, 1972-74

Professional Groups/Meetings, Society of American Archivists

Box 59 (Green)

• Archives School, 1959
• "An Effective Acquisition Program for the Religious Archives"
• Church Archives News
• Church Archives Directory, 1961
• Committee on Uniform Archival Statistics, 1967
• "Finding Aids Employed by Church Archives"
• Miscellaneous 1971-72
• "Preparing a Manual for Church Archivists"
• "Records Management in Church Archives"
• Reg. Arch. Advisory Council, 1969-70

Speeches Boxes 60-66

Speeches (early)

Box 60 (Green)

• Debating
• Education
• Goshen College
• Leisure/Fellowship
• Mennonite History
• Mennonites (Amish) in Iowa
• Miscellaneous (2 folders)
• Sugar Creek Missionary Day, 1933
• Timothy
• War/Peace

Speeches, A - B and miscellaneous

Box 61 (Green)

• Lecture List
• 1954-55 Engagements/Correspondence
• 1958 Engagements/Correspondence
• Bulletins/Programs, 1930-1959
• Bulletins/Programs listing, 1960-69
• Bulletins/Programs, 1970-74
• America/Democracy
• Amish Mennonites to Iowa,"The Coming of the"
• "The Ancient Landmarks", 1967
• Archival Trip, 1969
• Ender, H. S.
• Bethel College
• Book Reviews

Speeches, C - E

Box 62 (Green)

• "A Century of Mennonite Journalism"
• Chapel Talks, miscellaneous
• "The Christian & Revolution"
• Church
• Church School Day
• Church/State
• Citizenship
• Colorado Lecture Trip, 1959, (correspondence)
• Community (2 folders)
• Communism
• Devotional-Theology
• Dunlap Insitute, 10/24/59, (includes correspondence)
• Education
• Extremism in America

Speeches, F - M and slides

Box 63 (Green)

• Funk, John F.
• General Conference, Growth of
• Germantown
• Gingerich, Simon, 60th Ordination Anniversary (1968)
• Glimpses into my Memory
• Goshen College
• Graduation Address
• Historical & Research Committee, the Work of (a slide lecture), plus two boxes of slides
• History, Mennonite
• History
• Industry
• Iowa-Johnson, Washington Centennial
• "The Iowa-Nebraska Conference"
• Journalism
• Laurelville Writer's Conference, 1952
• Laurelville Young People's Insitute, 1951
• Leisure
• "The Making of a Mennonite Historian," 1970
• Meadville (PA) Nonresistance Conference, 1953
• Mennonite Attire," "Change and Uniformity in (1966)
• Mennonite Weekly Review
• Mennonite Family Census, 1963
• "The Mennonites in Southeastern Iowa"
• Miscellaneous, 1970-73
• Miscellaneous
• Mission
• Movies and the Mennonites

Speeches, N - P

Box 64 (Green)

• Nonconformity," "A New Look at
• "Nonresistance and Social Justice", Faculty discussion leader, March, 12, 1951
• Orient
• Other Persons, Speeches by
• Peace Institutes, (including correspondence)
• Peace/War (2 folders)
• "The People of God"
• Power of Christ
• Prayer
• Propaganda

Speeches, R - Z

Box 65 (Green)

• Race
• Race Relations Conf. Goshen College, April 22-24, 1944 (plus correspondence)
• Record Keeping
• Reflection Upon Approaching 65, (1966)
• Relief/Refugees
• Religions of the World
• Religious Freedom
• Resume of Melvin Gingerich
• Russia
• Shanty, Jacob Y.
• Sixth Mennonite Sunday School Convention, Goshen College, August 1960
• Stewardship
• Sunday School
• Sunday School Class, 1963-67
• Sunday School Class, 1968-75
• Swartzendruber Family Reunion, 1965
• Swartzendruber, John Y., 50th Anniversary Ordination Service, 1968
• "This I Believe", 1965
• West Union Church Addresses, 1962
• "What Mean Ye By These Stones"
• World/National Issues

Speeches, Radio series, "This Is Your Church" and tapes

Box 66 (Green)

• Announcement, Agenda
• August-December, 1958, WKAM
• January-May, 1959, WKAM
• S. A. Yoder Series
• Correspondence and plans, Jan. 1-May 28, 1961

Tape Recordings Box 67

Box 67 (Green)

• Christmas Message to Owens, 1973 & Message received from Owens
• Christmas Message from Japan
• "Citizens of the Kingdom of God", and Dedication of Iowa Mennonite Museum & Archives, Kalona, Iowa, June 10, 1973
• Interviews: Noah D. Miller and Daniel S. Deter, March 12, 1974
• Iowa Historical Society Meeting, Oct. 1, 1974
• Miller, Lester & Bessie, interview, 1975
• Russia Trip, Chapel Speech, Jan. 10, 1968

Teaching Records Boxes 68-72

Teaching records

Box 68 (Green)

• American History-American Literature
• Washington Junior College, 1934, American History
• History of Civilization - E. L. Harshbarger

Teaching records, grades, 1940-61

Box 69 (Green)

• Class Records, 1940
• Class Records, 1943-1955
• Class Records, 1959-1961
• Index Cards,1940
• Index Cards, 1941

Teaching records, Ancient History, History of Civilization

Box 70 (Green)

• Ancient History (2 folders)
• History of Civilization (3 folders)
• History of Civilization II (1944) (2 folders)

Teaching records, Introduction to Civilization

Box 71 (Green)

• Introduction to Civilization, Agreement
• Grades and Attendance
• Semester I handouts
• Semester II handouts
• Lecture Notes (2 folders)

Teaching records, History, Mennonite and Political; Reformation

Box 72 (Green)

• History Lecture Notes
• History of Political Thought
• History - Mennonite and general
• Life of Christ
• Miscellaneous
• Reformation and Reaction
• Arnold Toynbee

Travel Boxes Boxes 73-81

Travel, 1955-75

Box 73 (Green)

• Itineraries and Miscellaneous
• Passports
• Travel Articles
• Travel 1956
• Korea 1957
• Beirut, Lebanon
• 1957 (Japan to U. S., enroute home)
• Mexico correspondence
• Mexico, May 10-31, 1962
• Caribbean Cruise, correspondence, 1963-64
• Caribbean Cruise, April 21-May 13, 1963
• West Indies, 1963
• Europe, 1964

Travel, 1963-65

Box 74 (Green)

• Caribbean Cruise, 1966
• Puerto Rico, March, 1968
• Southwest o Mexico
• Mexico, 1971
• 1970's
• Goodwill Ambassadors correspondence 1963-1965
• Goodwill Ambassadors correspondence 1966-1968
• Goodwill Ambassadors, Miscellaneous

Poland Sea-Going Cowboys Boxes 75-76

Poland Sea-Going Cowboys

Box 75 (Green)

• Checklists
• Correspondence, Sept. 1945-Jan. 1946
• Correspondence, June 1946
• Correspondence, A-G, 1946
• Correspondence, H-Z, 1946
• Correspondence,. 1947
• Correspondence, 1973-1975
• Crew Instructions
• List of Mennonite Sea-Going Cowboys, 1946
• Marine Bullpens & News circulars
• 1946 miscellaneous
• Official Forms
• Speeches & Manuscripts
• Pamphlets (2 folders)

Poland Sea-Going Cowboys, 1958-59, research

Box 76 (Green)

• Blosser, Don, paper, 1959
• 1958-1959 Research
• New Names, 1959
• Sea-Going Cowboys - completed Questionnaires (2 folders)
• Two stacks of cards

Travel, Japan

Box 77 (Green)

• Articles on Japan
• International Christian University, correspondence
• International Christian Univeristy
• Japan Immigration Bureau
• Magazine Articles
• Miscellaneous
• Peace Ambassadors
• Reports

Travel, Archival World Trip, 1969

Box 78 (Green)

• Bulletins and Speech Notes
• Itineraries & Mailing Addresses
• Proposal and Report
• Travel Reports - general
• Africa - reports
• Asia - reports
• South America - reports
• West Indies - reports

Box 79 (Green)

• Passports
• Miscellaneous
• Africa - miscellaneous
• Asia - miscellaneous
• Europe - miscellaneous
• Hawaii - miscellaneous
• South America - miscellaneous

Travel, Russia

Box 80 (Green)

• Europe - correspondence, 1967
• Russia 1967 Trip report
• Europe - miscellaneous 1967
• Correspondence & miscellaneous, 1968

Travel, Mennonite World Conference, 1967

Box 81 (Green)

• World Conference Charter Flight, 1967
• Correspondence
• Mennonite Historical Association, blank forms
• Charter Flight regulations, etc.
• New Releases

Writings Boxes 82-92

Writings, A - E

Box 82 (Green)

• America from Abroad," "Looking at
• Amish
• "The Amish Mennonites of Iowa," MA Thesis, 1930
• "Anabaptist Vision as Expressed in Alternative Service"
• Archives," "An Effective Acquisition Program for the Religious
• Archives," "Finding Aids Employed by
• Archives," "Records Management in Church
• Archivists." "A Manual for Church
• Attire," "Change and uniformity in Mennonite
• Augspurger Story (with correspondence)
• "The Basis of Christian Beliefs. An Annotated Bibliography."
• Book Reviews
• Book Reviews by Verna G.
• Change & Uniformity in Mennonite Attire
• Choosing Our Work
• The Christian's Relation to the State
• I Corinthians 11 Study
• Church Records," "The Creation and Preservation of
• C - D
• The Doctrine of the Church as Taught by the Mennonites
• Early Writing
• Elkhart County Extension Study
• Writings of Melvin Gingerich, [incomplete bibliography]

Writings, Judge Edward Eicher

Box 83 (Green)

• Biography of Judge Edward C. Eicher, chapters 1-5, first copy
• Eicher, chapter 1
• Eicher, chapter 2
• Eicher, chapter 3
• Eicher, chapter 4 (2 folders)
• Eicher, chapter 5
• E. C. Eicher material
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
• Pamphlets

Box 84 (Large)

• Biography, Eicher family
• Columbus Junction, Iowa, re: dedication of new post office
• Correspondence
• Correspondence, re. Paul V. Shearer
• Correspondence on Ms., 1975-79 (Owen G.)
• Eicher, Benjamin
• Eicher, Hazel - correspondence also related letters
• Eicher, The Story
• Hoke, Henry "It's A Secret"
• Judge, his appointment of, articles, letters (2 folders)
• McAdoo, Senator William
• Meredith Publications, re: libel suit
• Miller, Alex
• Notes
• Papers, Eicher - correspondence
• Record, Congressional: re: miscellaneous matters (3 folders)
• Schrag, James "Gerald Burton Winrod: The Defender"
• Securities & Exchange Commission (3 folders)
• SUI Library - Eicher papers in, (special collection)
• Winrod, Gerald
• Winrod, Gerald B. & the Washington, D.C. Mass Sedition Trial of 1944 paper by John D. Waltner
• Xerox copies of letters to President Roosevelt and others
• Scrapbook of Clippings
• 3 books

Writings, Scrapbooks

Box 85 (Large)

• Scrapbook of clippings - mainly of Eicher
• Scrapbook of clippings - of Mrs. John Gingerich
• Three mounted photographs - re: Oriental themes, taken by M. G. 1956

Writings, F - L

Box 86 (Green)

• Family Census of 1963, The Mennonite
• Fifty Years of Church Growth in the Indiana-Michigan Conference
• Finding Aids Employed by Church Archives
• Fray Juan Crespi
• F - H
• Goshen College Students in Graduate School
• Heral of Truth
• Historical Records of the Younger Churches
• A History of Mennonite Costume
• The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on the Historical Studies
• Impressions from the Kidron Conference
• Iowa Council for the Social Studies
• Iowa," "The First Mennonite Settlement in
• Iowa Mennonites - for Palimpsest
• Iowa Mennonites - for Palimpsest, with correspondence regarding
• Iowa Sixty Years Ago," "Growing up in Rural
• "It seems to me" - correspondence
• "It Seems to Me" (2 folders)
• "Japan and Peace"
• Japan," "Mennonites in
• "Lay Activity in Early Church History"
• Junior College American History Courses," "Local History in
• Leisure Time," "A Christian Program for

Writings, M - O

Box 87 (Green)

• M
• "The Making of a Mennonite Historian"
• "Mennonite Bibliography," 1948-52, (with correspondence)
• Mennonite Encyclopedia, Harold S. Bender & the (misc.)
• Mennonite Indentured Servants
• "The Mennonites: A Brief Guide to Information."
• "Mint Farming in Northern IN" (with correspondence)
• Movies
• N - Q
• "October" by Verna Roth G.
• Our Revolutionary Age
• Our Upside Down World

Writings, "The Mennonites in Iowa"

Box 88 (Green)

• "The Mennonites in Iowa" (Ph.D.), misc.
• Mennonites in Iowa, (reviews)
• "The Mennonites in Iowa" (thesis)

Writings, "On My Desk"

Box 89 (Green)

• Reviews - 1965-66
• On My Desk - reviews 1971
• On My Desk - reviews 1972
• On My Desk - reviews 1973
• On My Desk - list of books to be reviewed, 1973
• On My Desk - reviews 1974
• On My Desk - reviews 1975
• On My Desk - his last review, July 24, 1975

Writings, P - S

Box 90 (Green)

• Peace Ambassadors in Japan
• Peace Witness in the Orient
• The Prince of Peace
• The Prison Problem
• Records Management in Church Archives
• Reflections Upon Approaching 65
• Religion on the Frontier
• Research Notes
• Rural Life in Iowa Sixty Years? My Boyhood in Iowa
• Rural Life Problems
• Russia Mennonite to the," "The Reactions of the
• "The Reaction of the Russian Mennonites" (working material)
• "The Reaction of the Russian Mennonites" (corr. 1943-47
• Sarasota Reports
• Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia articles, "Conscientious Objectors" (with correspondence)
• Schnurbuch (with correspondence)
• Secondary Education in the United States
• Senate Testimony, 1959
• Social and Recreational Life in Mennonite Communites, A Study (with correspondence)
• The Sugar Creek Church by 1971
• Sunday School Lesson," "The Teacher's Preparation of the

"Service for Peace"

Box 91 (Green)

• Albrech, Paul - "The CPS Evaluation Questionnaire"
• Approximate Dates of Recent Camp Closing
• Book Review of "A History of Mennonite Civilian Public Service"
• Correspondence: recent letters on CPS history
• Director's letter material
• Gospel Herald Article, 1966
• Materials for Washington, D.C.
• News Releases - NSBRO (copies march, 1948
• Outline & Criticism
• Prison, C.O.'s in
• Public Opinion (local)
• Publicity
• Staff Personnle (camp)
• Reports and miscellaneous

Writings, T - Z, and a copy of "The Amish Mennonites in Iowa"

Box 92 (Green)

• Those Old German Letters
• Training Youth for the World Mission
• Travel Reports
• Travel Reports - clippings
• A Tribute to Sanford Yoder
• "23 Mile Furrow" (with correspondence)
• Washington's Early Chautauquas (with correspondence)
• Wealth - Past and Present," "The Mennonite View of (with correspondence)
• "The World War as Reflected in British Poetry"
• Wghat About Non-Combatant Position
• U - Z
• Bound volume of "The Amish Mennonites in Iowa"

Clippings and Pamphlets Boxes 93-95

Clippings and Pamphlets, A - Fulbright

Box 93 (Large)

• Clippings
• A.D.A.
• Adair, E. Ross
• Ad Hoc Committee
• Affluent Society
• Africa
• Agnew, Spiro
• Alcohol and Drugs
• "All Things Common", by Victor Peters
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Security Council
• Americanism
• Amnesty
• Anderson, Jack
• Anti-Americanism
• Anti-Communism
• Anti-Defamation League
• Anti-Draft
• Anti-Foreignism
• Anti-Semitism (2 folders)
• Ash - Tobacco - Smoking
• Anti-War Statements
• Atlas
• Australia
• Authoritarianism
• Bay, Birch
• Between the Lines
• Birth Rate
• Black Power (2 folders)
• Bob Jones University
• Bombing
• Books
• Brademas, John
• Bridge to the East
• Calley Case, 1971
• Combodia
• Campaign
• Capital Punishment
• Capitalism
• Cassels, Louis
• Catholic
• Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
• Chavez, Cesar
• China, (2 folder)
• Church
• Church in Communist Countries
• Church, Senator Frank
• Church and State
• Church Peace Mission
• Church Renewal
• Church Union-Ecumenical Movement (World Council & Federal Council of Church)
• CROP & ChurchWorld Service
• Civil Liberties
• C.I.A.
• Civil Rights
• Clark, Joseph S.
• Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam
• Cold War
• College Church
• Common Cause (2 folders)
• Communism in America
• Communism
• Communist Extremism
• Congress
• Congress of Racial Equality - CORE
• Conscientious Objectors
• Conservative Groups
• Conservatism
• Conservative Literature
• Council for a Livable World
• Coughlm
• Cox, Harvey
• Crime
• Crime, Gangs, Drugs
• Cuba
• Czechoslovakia
• Death Penalty
• Defender Magazine
• DSG - Democratic Study Group
• Demonstrations
• Deserters
• Dialogue
• Discontent
• Divine Healing
• Dominican Republic
• Draft
• Drugs (2 folders)
• DuBois Clubs
• Earl Warren
• Eastern Europe
• East Germany
• Elections
• Elkhart County History
• End Times
• England
• Erwin, Will
• Espionage
• Europe
• Evolution
• Extremism (3 folders)
• Far Right
• F.B.I.
• F.C.C.
• F.D.I.
• Food Problems
• Food andAgriculture Organization
• F.O.R. (Fellowhip of Recon.)
• Foreigh Aid
• Foundation for Economic Ed.
• Freedom of Speech
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Fulbright

Clippings and Pamphlets, Fu - Svetland

Box 94 (Large)

• Fund for Education in World Order
• Fundamentalism
• Gavin
• Generation Gap
• Germany
• Goldwater
• Goshen News
• Graham, Billy
• Great Society
• Greece
• Gruening, Ernest
• Hargis, Billy James
• Hartke, Vance
• Hatfield, Senator Mark O.
• Health
• History, Defense of
• House Un-American Committees
• HUAC
• Hughes, Harold
• Humphrey, Hubert
• Hengary
• Hunger
• Income Tax
• Independent American
• India
• Indonesia
• Inside Black World
• Intellectuals
• Integration
• International Education
• International Voluntary Service
• Iron Curtain
• Israel
• Japan
• Jews
• John Birch Society
• Johnson
• Kaleidoscope
• Kennedy, John F.
• Kennedy, Robert
• Kennedy, Edward
• Kent State
• Key 1973
• Martin Luther King
• Kitt, Eartha
• Knowledge Explosion
• Koinonia
• Korea
• Ku Klux Klan
• Labor
• Labor Problems
• Labor Union
• Laos
• Latin America
• Lawlessness
• League for Industrial Democracy
• Leftists
• Liberal Extremism
• Liberal Literature
• Lippman, Walter
• Littell, Franklin
• Loyalty Oath
• Magazine (Life philosophy)
• Manion Forum
• Marches
• Marxism
• McCarthy, Senator Eugene J.
• McGovern, George
• McIntire
• McNamara
• Mead, Dr. Margaret
• Memorial Day Vigil
• Menace Magazine
• Mennonite Central Committee
• Messiah College
• Militarism
• Militarism, USA
• Military Propaganda
• Minority Rights
• Minutemen
• Moratorium
• Mobile Homes
• Morse
• Muste, A. J.
• Mutual Real Estate Investment Trust
• NAACP
• Nader, Ralph
• National Committee for an Effective Congress
• NAE National Association of Evangelicals
• NCEC - National Committee for an Effective Congress
• National Security Council - John Fisher
• National Council of Churches
• National Rifle Association
• Nationalism
• Nazi
• Negroes
• Negro Conservatives
• Nigeria
• New Republic
• Newman, Don
• Nixon, Richard (2 folders)
• Nonrestance
• Non-violence
• North Korea
• Nuclear War
• Over-Population
• Pacifism
• Peace
• Peace Corps and Relief
• Peace Information Center
• Percy, Charles
• Pew, J. Howard
• Philbrick, Herbert A.
• Pioneer Memorial Tower, Doon, Ontario
• Poland
• Police
• Poling David
• Political Action
• Politics in America
• Poverty
• Power
• Prejudice
• President Johnson
• Propaganda
• Protest
• Racial Movements & Unrest
• Racism
• Rand, Ayn
• Reason, A review of Politics
• Refugees
• Relief Work
• Religion
• Religion in Socialist Countries
• Religion in Schools
• Religious Liberty
• Renewal magazine
• Republican Party
• Residential Picketing
• Reston, James (Editorials)
• Reuther, Walter
• Revolution
• Rightism
• Rightest Movement
• Right Wing
• Riots
• Rockefeller, Governor
• Romney, George
• Rural Advancement Fund
• Rural Life Association
• Russia, Mennonites in
• Russia
• Russian Baptists
• Sandburg, Carl
• Sane
• Santo Domingo
• School Prayers
• SCLC
• Segregation
• Selective Service
• Senators
• Share-Croppers
• Smoot, Dan - report
• Social Action
• Social Change
• Social Concern
• Social Conscience
• Social Reform
• Socialism
• Sorokin, Dr. Pitirim A.
• South America
• Space Research
• Spock, Benjamin Dr.
• Students
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Student Demonstrations
• Student Protests
• Student Revolts
• Superstition
• Supreme Court
• Svetlana

Clippings and Pamphlets, T - Yoguslavia and "Between the Lines"

Box 95 (Large)

• Taiwan
• Taxes
• Thailand
• Theology
• Thomas, Norman
• Thurmond, Senator Strom
• Tobacco
• Totalitarianism
• Toynbee, Arnold
• Travel
• Tydings, Senator (from Maryland)
• Urban League
• Underground Evangelism
• U. N.
• UNICEF
• U.N. Foreign Aid, etc.
• U.S. and Comunism
• Viet Cong - Flag
• Viet Nam (6 folders)
• Vietnam War
• Vietnam War Protestor
• Violence
• Wallace, George
• War
• War Taes
• Watergate
• Wells, Charles A.
• Wells, Charles (Between the Lines)
• White Backlash
• White Man's Burden
• William Buckley
• Women's Liberation
• World Conference on A & H Bomb
• World Council
• World Food Problems
• World Population
• Youth
• Yugoslavia
• Between the Lines, 1963
• Between the Lines, 1964
• Between the Lines, 1965
• Between the Lines, 1966
• Between the Lines, 1967
• Fellowship - the magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1964
• Fellowship - 1965
• Fellowship - 1966
• Fredsmissionaren, 1964, 1965
• Human Events - Weekly Washington Report, 1966
• Korean Report
• American Observer, 1964
• Negotiation Now! Bulletin
• Life, February 5, 1956
• Life, December 23, 1957

Current Projects Boxes 96-99

Current Projects, A - General Council

Box 96 (Large)

• AARP
• American Society of Church History, St. Louis, April 1965
• Amish Religious Freedom, National Committee
• Amnesty
• Amnesty Committee
• Amoco Motor club
• Anabaptist Heritage Studies
• Anabaptist Mennonite Heritage, Bulletins
• Armstrong, Herbert W.
• A.S.H.
• Australia, reports by E. Waltner, Melvin Gingerich
• Bainton, Dr. Roland H., 363 St. Ronan, New Haven, CT 96511
• Beards and Hair Styles
• Believer's Church Conf., Chicago, June 29-July 2, 1970
• Belk, The Treat Trek
• Bender, H.S. - Biography, 1963, Yearbook
• Bible
• Biblography, An Annotated, The Basis of Christian Beliefs
• Biographies of Mennonite Pioneers
• Bluffton College Archives
• Boer, Hans de
• Book Editors, Menn. Hist. Society
• Brazil, Mennonite World Conference, April, 1972
• Brethren, Church of the
• Burkholder, J. R., Chairman, History Project
• Center for Christian Discipleship
• Chapel Addresses
• China Panel
• Christian Education Convention, Aug. 14-17, 1968
• Christian Witness in a World of Conflict, Newton Consultation, May 20-21, 1971
• Church Architecture
• Church Divisions
• Church-State Study
• "Citizenship in the Kingdom of God," Sermon, College Church, July 1, 1973
• Clagett, Fred
• Commission on 1975-76 Celebrations
• Common Cause
• Christians and Campus Ferment, Goshen College Chapel Lectures
• Clarence Center Anniversary
• College Mennonite Church, Constitution
• College Mennonite Church, Yearbook, 1955-1956
• Community
• Conrad Grebel Lectures, Revised Outline of "The Christian and Revolution," Aug. 12, 1966
• Conrad Grebel Lectures, Copies of the Christian & Revolution
• Conrad Grebel Lectures, Franconia, Nov. 12-14, 1967
• Conrad Grebel Lectures, Review of the Christian & Revolution
• Conrad Grebel Lectures Presented
• Conrad Grebel Lectures - Sales
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Copyright
• Costume
• Council for a Liveable World
• Cowboy Addresses
• Curriculum Study Meeting, Feb. 1966
• Death
• DeBoer, Hans A.
• Des Moines, Sept. 11, 1973
• Des Moines Speech, Sept. 11, 1973
• Des Moines Speech, Mennonite Family Names in Iowa, Sept. 11, 1973
• Dock, Christopher
• East Europe
• East Goshen Mennonite Church, October 29, 1967
• Einstein
• Ellkhart County Court House Records
• Elkhart County Historical Society
• Elkhart Far Right Panel
• Elkhart Seminar, 1964, (Student Services Summer Seminar)
• Elkhart Urban League
• Erb, Paul - South Central Conference
• Erb, Paul - South Central Frontiers
• Evangelicals, Young (PostAmerican)
• Fast, H. A., (Golden Wedding)
• Federal Population Census Schedules
• Festival of the Holy Spirit
• Festscrift, (Guy F. Hershberger)
• Fisher Pens
• Fisher, Wayne L., Amish Manuscript
• Florida Affairs
• Ford, Leighton
• Free Church Studies
• Friendship Retirement Corp.
• Genealogical Society of PA
• Genealogy
• General Conference, 1965
• General Conference, Chicago, Meeting, Feb. 3, 1966
• General Conference - Promotion
• General Conference - Publicity, A. J. Metzler (2 folders)
• General Council, February 1967 (2 folders)

Current Projects, Ge - Iowa State Historical Society

Box 97 (Large)

• General Conference - Staff Meetings, June 20, 1968
• General Board, 1972
• General Services Administration National Archives Region 5, Chicago
• Gingerich, Melvin (assighment 1960)
• Gingerich, Melvin (assignments, 1966-67)
• Gingerich, Melvin, services 1941-1967
• Gingerich, Owen, "Determinism and Creativity"
• Gingerich, Owen, "The Encounter Between Christianity & Science"
• Gingerich, Owen, "Life on Other Worlds and the Leap of Faith," Oct. 1967
• Gish, Arthur, "The Simple Life"
• Glencroft - Phoenix
• Goertz, Adalbert, research on genealogy
• Goshen Biblical Seminary
• Goshen College Archives Committee
• Goshen College Alumni Fund, 1972-73
• Goshen College Alumni Letter, 1973
• Goshen College Annuity
• Goshen College, Class of 1926
• Goshen College Class Reunion, 1966
• Goshen College Contracts
• Goshen College - correspondence, from 1955-57
• Goshen College - gifts and Heritage Letters
• Goshen News, The
• Goshen Hospital
• GOUT
• Grebel, Conrad - letters
• Greencroft
• Gross, Leonard (2 folders)
• Guengerich, Marjorie, papers (see also correspondence file)
• Guide for Keeping Records
• Harder, Leland (study)
• Heifer Project
• Heimatstelle Pfalz
• Herald Press - Acottdale
• Herald Publishing Co.
• Heritage Newsletter
• Hesston College Alumni Fund
• Hesston College Archives
• Hesston Reunion - May 1971
• Highland Association - Penn Alps (2 folder)
• Historical Committee of the General Conference Mennonite Church, 1965
• Historical Committee of the General Conference Church, St. Louis, Oct. 21-22, 1966
• Historical Committee and Leonard Gross
• Historical Library Report, June 1973
• Historical Tours - 1965
• History, Uses of, Meaning of
• Home Ownership of Mennonites, by Norwood Schmucker
• Hoover, Herbert and Dwight Eisenhower
• Hostetler, John A. - Work (see also A. J. Metzler)
• Human Rights, Declaration
• Illinois Historical (Mennonite) Society (2 folders)
• Indentured Servants, Mennonite
• Indians, American
• Indonesia
• Inklings
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1964-66
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1966-67
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, Annual Report 1966-67
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1967-68
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1971-
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1973-
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, Winnipeg, June 26-27, 1974
• Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1975
• Institute of Pennsylvania Rural Life and Culture, 1973
• International Cbhristian University, correspondence
• Investments Seminar, May 2, 1971
• Iowa Census of 1870
• Iowa City - Oskaloosa
• Iowa Mennonite Historical Society
• Iowa Mennonite School Graduates
• Iowa State Historical Society

Current Projects, Je - Seminary, Goshen and Elkhart

Box 98 (Large)

• "Jesus People"
• Joetown
• Juhnke, Jim
• Kuaffman, Howard - "Tradition and Change in Mennonite Family Life"
• Keys
• Kodera, Shunzo
• Krahn, Cornelius - dinner, Oct. 9, 1972
• Krahn, Cornelius
• Kraus, C. Norman
• Lancaster Historical Committee, August 3-6, 1973
• Lancaster Mennonite Historical Library
• Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
• Lapp, John
• Laurelville
• Local History, The Role of American Association for State and Local History
• Luthy, David
• Mailing
• McGrath, William
• Memorial Gift to Historical Library
• Mennonite Board of Missions, Annuity rates
• Mennonite Central Committee, Reports - personnel
• Mennonite Community Association (2 folders)
• Mennonite Historical Association
• Mennonite Historical Bulletin, possible subjects for articles
• Mennonite Historical Committee, October 1971
• Mennonite Historical Committee, Waterloo, October 1972
• Mennonite Historical Committee, 1973-
• Mennonite Historical Committee, 1974 meeting
• Mennonite Historical Committee, The Organization and Work of the, by M. G., September 25, 1974
• Mennonite Historical Committee, Newton, October 11-12, 1974
• Mennonite Historical Library
• Mennonite Historical Society, 1974-
• Mennonite Historical Society Meeting, May 21, 1975
• Mennonite Historical Committee, (Equip. Inv.)
• Mennonite Life, 1971-
• Mennonite Ministerial Information Center
• Mennonite Ministry Study
• Mennonite Peace & Service Witness, 1920-70
• Mennonite Publishing House, Royalties, etc., Paul Schrock
• MQR Report, 1973
• Metzler, A. J., Carl Kreider, John A. Hostetler (see folder for John A. Hostetler)
• Mission History
• Museums", "Plans for Historical
• Nappanee, Jan. 12-Feb. 9, 1970, Elkhart County Council of Churches
• National Archives
• National Geographic
• National Travel Club
• Newton Con., May 21-22, 1971, "Witness in a World in Conflict"
• Nationalism
• New International Version
• Newspapers Rated
• Oaklawn Psychiatric Center
• Occupations of Mennonite Men
• Ohio Conference History
• Old Mennonites
• Omi Brotherhood
• Palimpsest, The
• Palimpsest Reprints
• Passenger Lists, Russia to America, 1878
• Peace Literature, Study of
• PA Folklife Society
• PA German Society
• PA Historical Society of
• PA History
• PA Life & Culture Institute
• Pension
• Politics, 1972
• Prophesy
• Quiring, Walter, manuscript
• Quakers and Mennonites - Robson
• Random Memos
• Ramseyer, Robert L.
• Redekop, Calvin
• Redekop, John H., "How Christians Should Make Political Decisions"
• Regional Archives Advisory Council
• Religion in America
• Religious Research Assn., 1966-
• Research Coordination
• Reviews
• Reviews of Mennonites in Iowa
• Roosevelt, F. D., library
• Royalties, Sales, Scottdale
• Russian Baptists
• Russian Mennonite Centennial, 1974
• Ruth, Albert (Family records)
• SAMH
• Sarasota
• Sauder Museaum
• Sawatsky, Rodney, MA Thesis
• Schantz, Christian
• Schisms, Mennonite
• Schmidt, Richard, "Grasshopper Plague in Central Kansas"
• Sekiya, Paul
• Seminars & Term Papers in G. C. Historical Library
• Seminary, Goshen and Elkhart

Current Projects, Se - Zeman, J. K.

Box 99 (Large)

• Seminary
• Seminar Papers, Seminary
• Service for Peace - reviews, (2 folders)
• Sesquicentennial, Ontario, Orland Gingerich's material
• Sleeping Preachers
• Smith, Tilman - on The Aging
• Springer, Nelson - reports
• Stucky, Dean, "Oxen-Horse-Power for the Pioneer"
• Student Services Committee, 1966-67
• Student Services, 1970-
• Student Services, 1974-
• Student Survey Census, 1965-66
• Suelflow, August
• Sugar Creek Centennial, June 1971
• Swartzendruber Church letter
• Taeuferaktenkommission
• Tax Exemption
• Technology
• Theology
• Trailers
• University of Iowa, History News Letter, etc.
• University of Iowa Libraries
• Utopian Societies
• War Taxes
• Warner Portraits, "The Gentle People"
• Watergate
• Washington County, Iowa
• Wealth, Mennonite Attitudes Toward
• Wellman High School
• West Point Mennonite Church
• West Union Church, Iowa
• Who's Who in the Midwest
• Wiebe, Peter B., "The Symbol of Our Country"
• World War I C.O. Project
• Writings, 1973-74
• Wycliffe, Translators
• Wyse, Peter, family
• Yaguchi Poetry
• Yoder, Don
• Yoder, John Howard
• Zehr, Howard J., 1968
• Zeman, J. K. - sales

Diaries, Verna, 1930-74; "A Summer Vacation," 1924

Box 100 (Large)

• Verna Gingerich's Diaries, 1930-1974
• "A Summer Vacation," 1924

Account books, 1924-43

Box 101 (Green)

• Account Books, 1924-1943

Interviews with Guy F. Hershberger

Box 102 (Green)

• 1. Interview with Guy F. Hershberger, 1974
• 2. Interview with Guy F. Hershberger, March 27, 1975
• 3. Interview with Guy F. Hershberger, April 3, 1975

Formerly unprocessed files of notes contained in Boxes 103-106. Processed during September-October, 1981

Box 103 (Large)

• Curriculum Vitae
  • Resumes, etc.
  • Applications for teaching positions
  • Sioux Falls Summer Session, 1939
  • Miscellaneous speaking engagements
  • Hesston Class of 1921, reunion correspondence
  • Letters in appreciation of Melvin Gingerich
• RESTRICTED Owen Gingerich Draft Correspondence
• Rural Life Materials
  • General Correspondence
  • J. Winfield Fretz correspondence
  • Rural Life Conference correspondence
  • Rural Life Institute Materials
  • National Catholic Rural Life Conference
  • Farmer's Week - Little Eden
  • MSS: "Rural Life Problems and the Mennonites"
  • Miscellaneous Rural Life Manuscripts
  • Agricultural History
  • Proposed Mennonite Life
  • Miscellaneous Rural Life Materials
• Social and Recreational Life
  • Social and Recreational Life Questionaire
  • Little Eden Summer Camp
• Civilian Public Service
  • General Correspondence, A - K
  • General Correspondence, L - Z
  • Ediger, Elmer, Correspondence
  • Hostetler, John A., Correspondence
  • Miller, Ernest E., Correspondence
  • Neufeld, Don, Correspondence
  • Smucker, Bert, Correspondence
  • Stoltzfus, Grant, Correspondence
  • Umble, Roy, Correspondence
  • General Educational Materials
  • Introduction to Mennonite Relief
  • Races and Classes
  • Farm and Community School
• Goshen College
  • Faculty Contracts
  • Faculty Bulletin
  • Social Science Division, Minutes and reports
  • Bender, H. S., Correspondence
  • Umble, John, Correspondence
  • GC Alumni Association
  • Correspondence re: Russian Editors of student publications
  • Chicago Field Trips
  • GC 50th Anniversary Program, correspondence and minutes of committee
  • GC 50th Anniversary History, correspondence and minutes of committee
  • Goshen College Archives
  • Chapel Questionaire and rults
  • Extra-curricular Activities Study
  • NCA Studies - Outside Reading Report
  • GC Miscellaneous materials
• Bethel College
  • Faculty Minutes and other reports
  • Department reports
  • Weekly "Bulletins from the Dean"
  • Goertz, P. S., Correspondence
  • Kaufman, Ed. G., Correspondence
  • Miscellaneous Correspondence
  • Correspondence re: the visit of the Dr.s Mack and Mack to Bethel College
  • Melvin Gingerich as a student advisor correspondence, and other materials
  • Trips to Kansas City
  • Bethel College Debate materials
  • Faculty Recreational Study
• Teaching Materials
  • Mennonite History Notes
  • Religion in Iowa
  • International Council for Religious Education
• Peace Groups - Peace Issues
  • Mennonite Peace Issues
  • Mennonite Peace Conference
  • East Iowa Peace Conference
  • FOR - Fellowship of Reconcilliation
  • Kansas FOR
  • KIIR - Kansas Institute of International Relations (Friends Univ.)
  • AFSC - American Friends Service Committee
  • National Conference of Christians and Jews
  • Miscellaneous Peace materials
• Historical Societies
  • Kansas State Historical Society
  • American Association of State and Local History
  • Hayes Foundation
  • Miscellaneous materials

Box 104 (Large)

• Mennonites in Iowa
• Correspondence:
  • Mennonite History Research
  • The Mennonites in Iowa
  • State Historical Society of Iowa
  • State University of Iowa
  • SUI Service Bulletin
• Manuscripts
  • History of Iowa, Part I
  • History of Iowa, Part II
  • Abstract of The Mennonites in Iowa
  • Reviews of The Mennonites in Iowa
  • Mennonite Family Names in Iowa
• Mennonite Attire
  • Mennonite Attire Through Four Centuries
  • Source materials - 1 folder and 8 books
• Manuscripts
  • "Southern Anti-Slavery Sentiment and its influence prior to 1932"
  • "Sugar Creek Mennonite Church, Wayland, Iowa"
  • "Vachel Lindsay and the Mennonites"
  • Miscellaneous manuscripts
  • Papers written as a student
• Reviews/Publishing Correspondence
  • Yake, C. F. correspondence
  • "On My Desk" reviews and correspondence
  • Correspondence re: an article on Propaganda by Melvin Gingerich
• Miscellaneous Note Cards (1 folder)

Family Correspondence

Box 105 (Large)

Contains family correspondence from 1940-1982, organized chronologically within each folder, retaining the contents of each folder as they were brought in by Verna Gingerich

World War I, Conscientious Objection

Box 106 (Large)

Contains lists, addresses, of World War I Conscientious Objectors. (On File Cards)

Verna (Roth) Gingerich, 1902- Boxes 107-108 Papers, 1909-94

Autobiography, 1982; Family materials; Correspondence, 1980-94; Account Books, 1976-88, Wedding license, 1925

Box 107 (Large)

• Autobiography, 1982
• Verna's Western Trip, 1909 (includes photographs)
  • Includes map, photographs and article by Brenneman entitled "They Camped in 1909," which was published in 1971-72 in several papers. Trip included Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado.
• Gingerich Family History
• Roth's Family History (includes photographs)
• Wyse's Family History, 1958 (includes photographs)
• Map of Trip Around the World, 1957
• Trip Diary to Europe, 1964
  • "Our 1964 Goodwill Ambassadors' Trip to Europe"
• Map of Trip Around the World, 1969
• Owen Gingerich's Writings


• Correspondence
  • Letters from Mother, Mina, Mary and Verna, 1942-55
  • Louie Louie, 1980-88
  • Grandsons, 1981-86
  • Grandsons, 1987-93
  • Relatives and Friends, 1982-85
  • Letters to Owen, 1989
  • Letters to Mother, 1989
  • Letters to Owen, 1990
  • Letters to Mother, 1990
  • Letters to Owen, 1991
  • Letters to Mother, 1991
  • Letters to Owen, 1992-93
  • Letters to Mother, 1992
  • Letters to Mother, 1993-94


• Diary, 1982
• Diary, 1983
• Diary, 1984
• Diary, 1985
• Diary, 1986
• Diary, 1987
• Diary, 1988
• Diary, 1989
• Diary, 1990
• Diary, 1991
• Diary, 1992
• Diary, 1993


• Account Book, 1976-77
• Account Book, 1978-79
• Account Book, 1980-81
• Account Book, 1982-83
• Account Book, 1984-85
• Account Book, 1985-87
• Account Book, 1988


• Wedding License, August 29, 1925, Henry County, Iowa, bo Melvin Gingerich and Verna Roth

Miscellaneous files from Verna Gingerich

Box 108 (Large)

• Miscellaneous Files from Verna Gingerich, etc.
• Letters to Owen, 1983-88
• Letters to Mother, 1983-88
• Official documents, 1918-1966
• The Eclipse (Wayland, Iowa, High School Yearbook, 1922)

Oversize Items (Metal Cabinet)

Hist Mss 1-129 Melvin Gingerich Collection

• book of name cards
• John Gingerich Bible
• David Brenneman Bible

Hist Mss 1-129 Melvin Gingerich (personal property)

• notebook of Loren Gingerich
• safe box of Verna Gingerich

Name and Subject Tracings

March 28, 2006 / Web update by Israel Ditzler
September 13, 2005 / Updated by Helen Hostetler

File “HM1-129 Melvin Gingerich.doc”
Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526

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