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Hist. Mss. 1-884
Clara
(Hooley) Hershberger, 1896-1997
Papers, 1915-90
3 Boxes (Gray)
Scope and Content
Teacher, lay leader in Mennonite Church,
and homemaker.
The papers focus on Hershberger’s six
years as a school teacher in Iowa and Indiana, ca. 1919-48; her
forty-year involvement in Christian education at College Mennonite
Church, circa 1920s-60s; her work with the national Women’s Missionary
and Service Commission, 1950s-60s; and her reconciliation role between
two congregations in Europe, 1949-50.
Biographical
Sketch
1896 Born July
22, 1896 in Shipshewana, Indiana.
1917 Clara
attended Goshen College for one year, 1917-18, and Hesston College for
three years.
1920 Married
Guy F. Hershberger on August 1
1923 Graduated
from Hesston College with a degree in History and Religion
1920s Taught
school in Iowa and Goshen, Indiana, for six years
1920s Active at
College Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana, with Christian Education for
forty years
1949 Spent a
year with her husband in voluntary service in Basel, Switzerland,
working as a hostess at the Mennonite Central Committee Center. Also
started a knitting circle, "Strickkranzli", bringing together for the
first time women from the Holee and Schenzli Mennonite congregations
1957 Secretary
of Home Interests of the Women’s Missionary and Service Commission
(WMSC), 1958-59. Also served as president of the WMSC of the
Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference
1960s Served on
the "Covering Committee" of the College Mennonite Church
1985 Moved to
retirement center, Greencroft, Goshen, Indiana
1997 Died,
Goshen, Indiana
Source: Obituary, Gospel
Herald (August 26, 1997), and from the collection itself.
Administrative
Information
The papers found
in Box 1 were transferred from the Guy F. Hershberger Collection in
1994. Clara Hershberger, Goshen, Indiana, deposited two more boxes of
papers in 1995.
Collection
organized and listed by Angela Showalter, Goshen College student August
3, 1994, in Indiana Women’s Inventory Project, under supervision of
Leonard Gross, Consulting Archivist. Posted on web by Reuben Miller
July 1998
Location:
Archives
Series and Box Listing
Correspondence and Papers, 1919-90 Box 1
(Gray)
Papers, 1915-79 (Not yet organized) Boxes 2-3 (Gray)
Inventory Listing
Box 1 (Gray)
Correspondence and Papers, 1919-90
1/1 Correspondence, 1943-75
1/2 Teaching license and contracts, 1919-48
1/3 Phalo literary club essays
1/4 Essays – CPS and prayer veiling,
1940s, 1968. Includes two handwritten articles on CPS: "The Camp Life
of our Boys" (11 pages) and "Projects and Avenues of Service" (12
pages) (no dates, circa 1940s). And a two page article on the prayer
veil: "History tells us .... Clara Hershberger, June 5, 1968".
1/5 Presentation notes – Childrearing,
homemaking, etc.
1/6 Presentation notes, 1989-90
1/7 Passport, 1957
1/8 Strikkranzli reunion tribute to Clara Hershberger
1/9 Christian Education Committee, College
Mennonite Church
1/10 College Mennonite Church "Covering Committee" WMSC
1/11 Clippings, Miscellaneous
1/12 Publications
Box 2 (Gray)
Papers,
1915-79
Includes
Clara's involvement in the 50th anniversary of Women's Missionary and
Service Commission, 1915-1965.
Box 3 (Gray)
Papers,
1915-79 (Continued)
Name and Subject Tracings
Christian Education committee, College
Mennonite Church Box 1, Folder 9
Chronology, 1919-90
Covering committee, College Mennonite Church Box 1, Folder 10
Hershberger, Clara (Hooley), 1896-1997
Women's Missionary Service Commission Box 1, Folder 10
March 8, 2004 / Posted on Web by Kathryn Yoder
August 29, 2003 / Several additions made by Dennis Stoesz
File: "HM1-884.doc"
Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700
S. Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526
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