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Hist. Mss. 1-927
PAX
Archives, 1951-1976
Papers,
1945-2005 (includes reminiscences, 1989, 2001-05)
Includes 38 Separate
Collections under Names of Persons / Committees
12 Boxes (4 Gray, 1 Long Gray, 6 Large, 1 Oversize)
Series Listing
1. PAX Reunion Committee,
2001, Syracuse,
Indiana
2. PAX
Reunion, 1989,
Normal, Illinois
3. Allen
M. Horst, who
served in Germany and Congo, 1960-62
4.
Isabel
(Gingrich) Glanzer, (1918-1988), who served as Matron at Enkenbach,
Germany, 1956-59
5. Richard
Rush, who
served in Germany and Austria, 1951-52, and earlier on a Cattle Boat,
1945-46
6. Simon
Miller
(1931-1954), served in Germany & Greece, 1953-54
7.
R. Jan
Thompson, served 1954-56 at Karls Schule, Vienna, Austria
8. Vernice
Bixler,
served at Enkenbach, Germany, & Greece, 1954-58
9. Nelson
Driver
10. Ted
Bergey, who
served at Enkenbach, Germany, 1956-58
11. Albert
Hostetler
who served in Germany, 1957-59
12.
Ray Dyck,
who served in Greece, 1962-65
13. Howard
Landis, who
served in Greece, 1951-54
14. Marlin
Gerber, who
served in Germany, 1955-57
15. Mast
Stoltzfus,
served in Peru & Germany & Morocco, 1955-59
16. Gerald
Jantzi, who
served in Tsakonea & Panayitsa, Greece, 1957-58
17.
Bill
Ediger, who served in Greece
18. Dick
Boshart, who
served at Weierhof, Karlschule, MCC Basel, Enkenbach and Salzburg,
1959-61
19. Cal
Redekop, first
PAX Director, January 1950-December 20, 1952
20.
Charles Yoder, who
served in Germany, 1953-55
21.
Richard
Landes, who served in Pakistan, 1962-65
22. Mark
Conrad, who
served in Germany
23.
Margaret Martin,
who served as Matron at Neumuhle, and Kaiserslautern, Germany
24. Urie
Bender,
author of PAX history, Soldiers of Compassion, 1969
25. Otis
Hochstetler,
who served in Germany, 1958-60
26.
Allen D.
Brooks, who served at Aridea, Greece, 1960-62
27. Orpha Zimmerly, who served in Greece, 1961-64
28. Philip A. Roth, who
served in Peru
and Paraguay, 1954-56
29. Bill Ediger, Inman, Kansas, who served in Greece,
1960-62
30. A. Lloyd and Mary Swartzendruber, who led the PAX
Project in Neuwied, Germany, 1951-52
31. Ray Kauffman, Oregon, director of European PAX
program, 1957-59
32. Artifact - Car license plates, Germany
33. Slides from Karlschule, Vienna, Austria (labelled)
(#1-119)
[25]. Additional materials from Otis
Hochstetler, Orrville, Ohio, who served in Germany, 1958-60
34. Jim Short, who served in Backnang, Germany, and
Greece, 1955-58
35. Dean Hartman, who served at Bechterdissen,
Germany; PAX Austria; PAX Office; and Berlin, Germany, 1955-58
36. Interviews (51 VHS tapes) of PAX men, 2001,
including footage of PAX Reunion, Sept. 2001, plus additional videos of
slides, reunions, and events
37. Harry Harder, Paraguay PAX Film Collection, 1952-1963
Scope and Content
PAX was a program of Mennonite Central Committee,
Akron, Pennsylvania, which lasted from 1951-1976. It provided an
opportunity for men and women to serve in alternative voluntary service
instead of serving in the USA military during the Korean war, 1950-53,
and Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975, and during the years in-between
when the draft was on, 1954-60.
Book Sources: Three good general history books on
PAX include Ray Kauffman and Al Keim, editors, Reflections on PAX after
Fifty Years: Oakwood Park, September 14-16, 2001 (PAX Publication
Committee, 2004); Calvin W. Redekop, The Pax Story: Service in the Name
of Christ, 1951-1976 (Telford, Pa.: Pandora Press, 2001), Urie A.
Bender, Soldiers of Compassion (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press,
1969). Books on specific units and project include Horst
Klaassen, Die Backnanger Mennoniten, Germany (1976), Merlin Graber,
Karlsschule, Austria (1983) and Gerhard Ratzlaff, The Trans-Chaco
Highway, Paraguay (1998).
Periodicals: PAX stories were also covered in the periodical Der
Mennonit, published monthly by Mennonite Central Committee at Basel,
Switzerland, 1948-1956, and then by a publication commission,
1957- . Another publication was Euro PAX News,
1954-60, published quarterly at Frankfurt / Main, Germany.
Administrative Information
For the most part, these materials were collected at the 50th PAX
Reunion, held September 13-16, 2001, at Syracuse, Indiana. They
were collected as part of the Albert N. Keim PAX Oral History and
Archives Project, with the support of the PAX 50 Reunion
Committee. The materials were then deposited into the
Archives. Each set of materials has been given its own unique
catalog number since each set comes from a particular person. To
date there are 36 individual collections, filed under each person’s
name.
Eight more sets of PAX materials were added to the collection in
October 2005. (Accession #7188, ) (Collections #17, #28, #30-36)
(Boxes 8-12, 4 linear feet)
Inventory, Dennis Stoesz, October 15, 2001. Update of #927.28,
Dennis Stoesz, January 8, 2002. Editions made into two
collections, Dennis Stoesz, September 11, 2002. Update of eight
more collections, October 24, 2005.
Inventory
Box 1 (Gray)
1. PAX Reunion
Committee, 2001, Syracuse, Indiana
Collected Materials:
1/1
Program, September
14-16, 2001
1/2 PAX Newsletter, 2001 (#2, 3, 4)
1/3 Keim’s Video Interview Project
1/4 Keim’s Archives Project
1/5
Archives Reports, 2001
(Dennis Stoesz)
1/6 Archives Correspondence, 2000-01 (Dennis Stoesz)
1/7 Archives’ Contacts (Dennis Stoesz)
2. PAX Reunion, 1989,
Normal, Illinois
1/8
Program, and Letters
from PAX boys, who were unable to attend the reunion, 1989 (deposited
by David Bertsche)
1/9 Program, and Letters from PAX boys, who were unable to attend the
reunion, 1989 (deposited by Herbert Fretz)
1/10 Video of 1989 Reunion, 8mm video cassette, by David Bertsche
3. Allen M. Horst,
South English, Iowa, served in
PAX in Germany and Congo, 1960-62
This
diary was deposited
into the Archives by Allen M. Horst, Bristol, Indiana, in 2001 via Owen
Hess
1/11
Diary, 1960-62. 64
typed pages, with a brief introduction by Allen M. Horst on page 1, and
dated 1985. Horst served in the PAX program under Mennonite Central
Committee for two years as alternative service to military service. He
spent a short time in Enkenbach, Germany, and then spent most of his
time of service in Bakwanga and Leo, in Zaire (then called the Congo).
1/12
Display, Zaire (2
boards), Africa, circa 1960. Not entirely clear who put display
together, but it shows persons Allen Horst, Dr. John Zook, Abe
Suderman, Don Hedricks, Larry Landis, and Leroy Harder. (Found with
Oversize materials, Map-case Drawer 6, File #6/1)
4. Isabel
(Gingrich) Glanzer,
(1918-1988),
Wellesley, Ontario, served as Matron at Enkenbach, Germany, 1956-59
These
PAX documents,
photographs and slides, 1956-66, were deposited into the Archives by
Albert N. Keim, Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1989, on behalf of the PAX
Boys and the 1989 Reunion held at Normal, Illinois. The Gingrich
materials came from her husband, Paul J. Glanzer, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, and was given to the PAX boys at that reunion.
Collection shows
Gingrich’s work as Matron of PAX unit
at Enkenbach, Germany, 1956-59, and of larger PAX work of relief and
reconstruction in Europe in 1959.
Brief Biographical
Sketch of Isabel (Gingrich) Glanzer
1918
Isabel Gingrich born to Abram and Lauretta (Snyder) Gingrich, Elmira,
Ontario,
September 16, 1918.
1956 Served for three years at Enkenbach, Germany, from July 15, 1956 –
August 9, 1959, as Matron for PAX
boys. This program was administered by Mennonite Central Committee,
Akron, Pennsylvania. The project at Enkenbach was to build 25 houses
with 88 apartments, and a church, to serve as a home for the Mennonite
refugees from World War II. The project was begun in May 1953.
1959
Completed voluntary
service assignment
1972
Married Paul J.
Glanzer, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Member of Zion Mennonite Church
1988
Died at her home in
Harrisonburg, Virginia, September 14, 1988
Box 2 (Long Gray)
2/1 PAX Documents, 1957-58, Enkenbach,
Germany
Includes list of PAX
persons who were serving at Enkenbach, Germany, 1957; a poem about "The
Paxboy-Story"; thank-you documents for Isabel; and booklet on PAX
European Services, 1951…1957.
2/2 Gingrich’s Photographs, 1957, Enkenbach, Germany
Photographs of Enkenbach,
Germany,
where Isabel served as PAX Matron. Shows place where Gingrich
boarded,
at "Gugging used as Refugee Home." And also shows some Pax
residents
John DeCamp, Ohio; Irene Bishop, Isabel Gingrich, Ontario; Bob Good and
Meredith Hostetler, both from Indiana.
2/3 Gingrich’s Photo Album, 1956-66, Enkenbach, Germany
Photographs of Gingrich
serving as PAX Matron at
Enkenbach, Germany, 1956-58. Also includes photographs of Gingrich’s
ongoing contact with alumni through to 1966. Photographs have not been
identified, for the most part, but they do show a wide range of
activities and persons.
2/4 European PAX Photograph
Album, 1959
Album edited by Gerald
Bender, with assistance of Allen Schmidt, and dedicated to Director of
European PAX, Ray Kauffman. Several albums were put together and given
as gifts to various Matrons and PAX boys. Album in the following order:
Ray Kauffman, Director, European PAX program, 1959
Austria, PAX men and matrons at Austrian Peace Conference, March 11-16,
1959, with speakers Erwin Goering, Peter Dyck, Andre Trocme and
Clarence Bauman.
Germany, in Enkenbach, including Bob Beyler and Isabel Gingrich;
Germany, in Bad Duerkheim, including Bill Yoder and Cal Hershberger;
Germany, in Kaiserslauten, including Howard Birky and Albert Hostetler;
Germany, in Karlschule, including Pete Derksen and Keith Hochstetler;
Switzerland, in Bienenberg, including George Fast and the Bienenberg
Mennonite Bible School, and Mennonite Broadcasting Inc.; and
Agape-Verlag:
Greece, in Tsakones and Panayitsa, Greece, including Ernie Jantzen and
Paul Wengert.
Germany, in Berlin, including Roy Hess;
Holland, Amsterdam, at MTS (Menno Travel Service)
Belgium, Ohain, Dave Burkholder & Belgium Mennonite Church Center;
France, in Valdoie, at the French Mennonite Children’s Home;
Austria, in Vienna, and the Vienna Methodist Church;
2/5 Euro-PAX Slide Set, 1959
(by PAX Service)
Slide set of 72 slides
entitled
"Euro-PAX Slide Album", July 1959, and produced by European Pax
Service, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. It covers PAX work in Greece,
Morocco, Algeria, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, and
Germany. Script included. (See full set of 82 slides in MCC
Audiovisual Collection, IX-26-4)
Box 3 (Large)
5. Richard Rush,
Franconia Conference,
Pennsylvania, who served in Germany and Austria, 1951-52, and earlier
on a Cattle Boat, 1945-46
3/1
"My Cattle-boat
Experience, December 29, 1945 – March 3, 1946", 5 pages diary, and 10
pages of photographs and additional text, compiled circa 1999)
3/2
"PAX Service,
1951-1952", 9 pages, diary, and 11 pages of photographs and additional
text, compiled circa 1999. Includes Rush’s time at Espelkamp, Zeilsheim
and Gronau, Germany, and at Windischgarten, Austria.
3/3 Display: "In the
Beginning: Espelkamp / Neuwied, 1951-52" Includes two photographs of
PAX I members (29 persons) (including Howard Landis) and Espelkamp PAX
I Service (16 persons) (including Richard Rush). Also includes postcard
picture of Mennonite church at Neuwied. (Not entirely clear if Rush put
up this display, or if it was someone else.)
6. Simon
Miller (1931-1954), Kalona,
Iowa, who
served in Germany and Greece, 1953-54
3/4
Letters, 1952-54
(photocopies). Born at Kalona, Iowa, on January 1, 1931. He accepted
Christ and united with the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church at the age
of 16. In early October 1952, Miller sailed for Germany to help with
refugee housing construction projects. In March 153 he was transferred
to Panayitsa, Greece, and served with the Agricultural Improvement
Unit. He drowned July 23, 1954, in a nearby lake, and PAX man Eli
Miller also lost his life, attempting to save him.
7. R. Jan
Thompson, Brethren Service Commission, served 1954-56 at Karls Schule
[Evangelische Schule am Karlsplatz], Vienna, Austria
3/5
Video, "Karls Schule,
Then and Now", 20 minutes. Produced for Church of the Brethren and the
PAX workers, 1954-61
3/6
Karlsschule, by
Merlin E. Garber, 1983 (reprint, 2001, by R. Jan Thompson, Church of
the Brethren), 66 pages
3/7
Die Evangelische
Schule am Karlsplatz – Der Wiederaufbau, by Janet Schager, circa
2001, 20 pages.
3/8
Postcards of Karls
Schule, past and present, 1861-2001
3/9
"Project Reports,
1953-59, by Don Durnbaugh, Brethren Service Commission, Austrian
Program Reports", compiled probably by R. Jan Thompson, 2001
3/10 Display,
Karlsschule, showing 1954-61 activities, with duplicated black and
white photographs – photos have been identified. (Found with Oversize
Materials, Map-case Drawer 6, File #6/2)
8. Vernice
Bixler, Apple Creek, Ohio,
at
Enkenbach, Germany, and in Greece, 1954-58
3/11 Letters, reports,
MCC Akron Orientation Schedule, list of personnel serving,
architectural drawings of "Nachbarschaftsheim des MCC in
Kaiserslautern", Euro-PAX News, 1954-59, etc. from when Bixler
was drafted in 1954 to his various assignments. Includes list of
participants at reunion in 1998.
9. Nelson
Driver
3/12
White PAX T-shirt,
purchased at MCC, Akron, Pennsylvania. Includes words "PAX SERVICE",
and "Mennonite Central Committee" written around the logo with dove
descending to cross, with two hands in handshake, and two olive
branches on either side.
10. Ted Bergey,
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, served
at Enkenbach, Germany, 1956-58
3/13
Documents, 1956-58,
including a) thank-you document for Ted Bergey, "Pruefungszeugnis",
1958; b) copy of Muenchner Illustrierte (11 August 1956) which
contains photographs of project, page 17; and c) architectural plans
for "Mennoniten –Nebenerwerbs-Gruppensiedlung in Enkenbach". Leonhard
Kraft, Architekt, August 1957.
3/14 Letters, 1956-58,
both personal and official, including some postcards, reports and
newspaper clippings, from Ted Bergey
11. Albert
Hostetler, Clarence
Center, New York,
who served under PAX in Germany,
1957-59
3/15
"This I Learned in
Germany", March 7, 1960
12. Ray Dyck, Salinas,
California, who served in
PAX in Greece, 1962-65
3/16 Scanned photographs
of Aridea, Greece, 1962-65, with description, including a map showing
the different units. Also includes photos of a reunion of the Greece
unit (Pa. 1968?) and of the 1978 reunion (Camp Fellowship, Goddard,
Kansas, July 21-23, 1978) and three color photographs. A description of
Dyck’s work in Greece is found in Urie Bender’s Soldier of
Compassion (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1969), pages 89-108.
13. Howard
Landis, Souderton,
Pennsylvania,
served in Greece, 1951-54
3/18 Display: "Panayitsa:
Then, 1952-54 / Now, 1993-2000". Includes color photographs, including
one of Howard Landis with children holding corn. Also some views of
countryside, as well as one of the 1998 PAX Greece reunion. Display
also pays tribute to Pax men Eli Miller and Simon Miller who lost their
lives in Greece, including mention of memorial plaque honoring Greek
soldiers, which stands on property leased to MCC. And display mentions
Frank Heidebrecht, a German Mennonite family, who keeps PAX alive by
working with village rehabilitation programs in Bosnia and Kosovo since
1993. (Display has been dismantled but description placed in a folder)
14. Marlin
Gerber, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, who
served in Germany, 1955-57
3/19
Diary, July 19, 1955 -
November 1, 1956 (Photocopy)
3/20 Reel-to-Reel tape,
on "Evening with the children at the PAX Unit", Annaberg, Austria,
March 1957, including Don Hartzler was cook, Harold Miller, Paul
Stucky, Al Keim, and Marlin Gerber. "Combination of a result of
boredom, and outreach to the neighborhood children".
Contents of tape: eating, playing
games, singing,
taking them home, and then commentary by Paul Stucky, Miller, Keim and
Hartzler. Side 2 contains some yodeling by Moser family, and also
Marlin talking about the project.
15. Mast Stoltzfus, Atglen,
Pennsylvania, who served in Peru and
Germany, and Morocco, 1955-59
3/21 Photographs (6), ca.
1955-59, Germany (Black and white) (not identified)
16. Gerald Jantzi, Cairo, Nebraska,
who served in
Tsakonea & Panayitsa, Greece, 1957-58
3/22 Color photographs
(12) of the work in Greece, including descriptions.
17. Bill Ediger, Inman, Kansas, who
served in Greece, 1960-62
3/23 PAX T-shirt,
1960-62, heavy brown, includes words "PAX SERVICE", and "Mennonite
Central Committee" written around the logo with dove descending to
cross, with two hands in handshake, and two olive branches on either
side.
18. Dick
Boshart, Lebanon,
Pennsylvania, who
served at Weierhof, Karlschule, MCC
Basel, Enkenbach and
Salzburg, 1959-61, 1960-62
3/24 PAX T-shirt, white:
includes words "PAX SERVICE", and "Mennonite Central Committee" written
around the logo with dove descending to cross, with two hands in
handshake, and two olive branches on either side.
19. Cal
Redekop, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, first
PAX Director, January 1950-December 20,
1952
3/25 "PAX tour, 45 Years
later", submitted to Mennonite Weekly Review, October 8, 1995.
Includes Tour-imagination Diary, "European PAX Tour: The Soldiers of
Compassion Return", July 10-26, 1995, with leaders Calvin Redekop and
Henry Landes. Also includes six original black and white photographs
from an album, showing Espelkamp, etc., ca. 1950’s
20. Charles
Yoder, Elkhart, Indiana,
served in
Germany, 1953-55
3/26 Booklet entitled
"PAX Pilgrimage to Palestine", 1955. Also display of "PAX Pilgrimage to
Palestine, 1955," including photographs (12) and documentation (3
pages) including list of participants (Display dismantled, but pictures
and documentation kept)
21. Richard
Landes, Fountainville,
Pennsylvania,
served in Pakistan, 1962-65
3/27 Display of "Pakistan
Land Leveling". Color photographs (15) with description, and maps (3).
Shows work of the project, including photographs of "Arnold" and "J.
D." (Display dismantled but pictures, maps and title of display kept)
22. Mark
Conrad, who served in PAX in
Germany
3/28 Nazi short sword, in
sheath, dated October 25, 1944. It belonged to a Nazi soldier. Words
inscribed on knife itself are "25. 10. 1944" and "Dein Vater" (Your
Father), and "Frei bleibt nur, wer sich selbst bezwingt". (Conrad will
be sending a story that goes with this knife)
Box 4 (Large)
23. Margaret Martin, New Holland,
Pennsylvania, who served as Matron at Enkenbach, Germany,
probably in 1950’s (as deposited by Omar Lapp, who had
received
the materials from her nephew, Eugene Martin)
4/1
Sample scanned images
from Photograph Album, 1946-1990’s, showing her work in Germany, as
well as more recent photographs of Margaret Martin and her work as a
missionary in Germany, with Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and
Charities, Salunga, Pennsylvania. Original album returned to family.
4/2
Box of a few letters
4/3
Box of many negatives
4/4
Box of negatives
4/5
Box of photographs
4/6 Box of cassette
tapes, including singing of choir at Kaiserslautern, and Enkenbach
Box 5 (Large)
24. Urie
Bender, Baden, Ontario,
author of PAX
history, Soldiers of Compassion, 1969
Note
cards for writing his
1969 book Soldiers of Compassion.
Box 6 (Oversize) (Materials found in Map-case Drawer 6)
(3.) Allen
M. Horst, South English,
Iowa, served
in PAX in Germany and Congo, 1960-62
6/1 Display, Zaire (2
boards), Africa, circa 1960. Not entirely clear who put display
together, but it shows persons Allen Horst, Dr. John Zook, Abe
Suderman, Don Hedricks, Larry Landis, and Leroy Harder. (Found with
Oversize materials, Map-case Drawer 6, File #6/1)
(7.) R.
Jan Thompson, Brethren
Service
Commission, served 1954-56 at Karls Schule [Evangelische Schule
am Karlsplatz], Vienna, Austria
6/2
Display, Karlsschule,
showing 1954-61 activities, with duplicated black and white photographs
– photos have been identified. (Found with Oversize Materials, Map-case
Drawer 6, File #6/2)
Box 7 (Gray)
25. Otis Hochstetler, Orrville, Ohio,
who served in Germany, 1958-60
7/1 through to 7/6
Reports from Frankfurt, Germany, 1958-60; "Palestine Pilgrimage IV" Youth
Christian Companion (February 19, 1961); Letters written home;
Correspondence received; various Newsletters; and various reports,
1958-60, including Euro-PAX / World-PAX Newsletter.
26. Allen
D. Brooks, Elkhart,
Indiana, served at
Aridea, Greece, 1960-62
7/7
Report of Service in
Greece, September 2001, by Allen Brooks. Also includes "The Story of
Pax Greece" as told by Ivan Holdeman, Alex Mavrides, Alvin Rempel and
Allen Brooks.
Box 8 (Large)
27. Orpha Zimmerly,
Hesston, Kansas, who served in
Germany and Greece, 1957-64
Zimmerly
spent time at
Karlschule, Frankfurt and Bad Durkheim, Germany, from 1957-64, and also
spent time in Aridea, Greece, 1961, and Crete, 1961-62, at a school for
boys. Earlier she had been dean of women at Hesston College, 1946-55,
and at the bookstore in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, 1955-57. She returned
to Hesston College, 1964-71, and then retired to Showalter Villa in
Hesston, 1971-80.
8/1
Correspondence from
Peter Dyck to Alex and Eleftheria Mavrides, 1976; Greece PAX reunion
mailing list, 1976; and photograph album
8/2
Greek New Testament,
1976; Photographs, mostly unidentified
8/3
Photographs, mostly
unidentified. Also correspondence, about 1964-71, between Greek friends
and herself, in the Greek language
8/4
Photographs, mostly
unidentified
8/5 Documents, 1960-70,
including correspondence written by Zimmerly during her time of
service, 1961-64, and also information on a Greece Pax Reunion, 1970
28. Philip A. Roth,
Fairfield,
Pennsylvania, Peru and Paraguay, 1954-56
8/6 8mm original color films, found on two 5 3/4"
reels, in canisters
8/7
Video, VHS, "PAX – Peru / Paraguay, July 1954 to July 1956, Phil Roth",
Version #4. 26 minutes, color film, narrated by Philip Roth using a
mixture of slides and film footage to tell the story on the video.
Brief introduction to some scenes contained on video in
viewing order, as listed by Phil Roth. Road building in Peru,
July - December, 1954 and Paraguay, 1955 to July 1956, including
description and explanation of the variety of big equipment used.
1. R. G. LeTourneau sponsored Mennonite
Central Committee PAX crews in Peru beginning in 1954. MCC
sponsored building intercolony roads in the Paraguayan Chaco before the
Trans Chaco Highway work began in 1957. Roth was in the first PAX
unit organized for these two projects.
2. LeTourneau tree roller in Peru
3. Film hereafter shifts to
Paraguay: Use of surveying equipment, two types of road graders,
caterpillar bulldozers, etc., with many photographs of camp set up,
barrels of petrol, transportation of water, moving camp, etc.
4. Names of persons seen on film included
in narration, including PAX men who are using various pieces of
equipment
5. Machine shop, Filadelfia, Fernheim colony, where
Roth worked for latter part of his assignment in Paraguay
6. Carpentry shop, reciprocating sawmill,
Fernheim colony
7. Indian woman and children on horseback and on foot gathering
firewood near Filadelfia
8. Clever “horse” powered water pump
9. Tractor plowing, at MCC experimental farm, Fernheim colony, PAX boy
Jake Funk from Manitoba
10. Washing clothes, Mrs. Teichgraf, Wife of Hans Teichgraf who worked
with PAX men
11. Milking, early Sunday morning before church services, Neta
(Klassen) Loewen
12. Baking bread in outside oven, Filadelfia, Fernheim colony, Anne
(Froese) Janzen at the home of Kornelius Neufeld
13. Unveiling of 25th anniversary monument, in Filadelfia, Fernheim
Colony, Chaco, Paraguay, July, 1955, including Heinrich Duerksen,
Oberschulze (head of Fernheim colony) and school choir
14. MCC personnel, Orie O. Miller, C. L. and Mrs. Graber, Walter Dyck,
Robert Unruh, departing after Fernheim’s 25th anniversary celebration,
July,1955 (Note: Video narrative is in error saying Cornelius
Dyck)
15. Five man PAX unit with Mr. & Mrs. Kornelius Neufeld, their meal
providers for 1 ½ years
16. Annual Thanksgiving meal open to entire Fernheim Colony,
alternating each year between GC and MB churches in Filadelfia
17. Persons leaving Sunday morning church
service in Filadelfia, some walking and others in open horse drawn
buggies.
29. Bill
Ediger, Inman, Kansas, who served in Greece, 1960-62
8/8 PAX T-shirt, 1960-62, heavy brown,
includes words “PAX
SERVICE”, and “Mennonite Central Committee” written around the logo
with dove descending to cross, with two hands in handshake, and two
olive branches on either side.
Box 9 (Large)
30. A. Lloyd and Mary
Swartzendruber, who led the PAX Project in
Neuwied, Germany, 1951-52 A. Lloyd Swartzendruber
served
as PAX Pastor
of the Neuwied and Espelkamp units, with Mary serving as matron of the
Neuwied unit.
9/1 Photograph Album, black and white
photographs, from Neuwied, Germany, 1951-52. Many identified.
Box 9 (Large) (Continued)
30. A. Lloyd and Mary Swartzendruber, who led the PAX Project in
Neuwied, Germany, 1951-52 (Continued)
9/2 Black and white photographs, 1951-52,
including photo of first
PAX Unit, 1951, to Neuwied, Germany with A. Lloyd and Mary
Swartzendruber, with son J. Paul Swartzendruber. Also photo of
first
PAX unit to Greece, and 1951 PAX unit at Espelkamp.
9/3 Documents, 1952, 1981. Booklet on 30th
anniversary of building
of Neuwied houses, held 17-18 Oktober 1981, "Fest-Zeitung
Mennonitensiedlung Torney, 30 Jahre Haeuser, 17-18. Oktober 1981", 33
pages. Also A. Lloyd Swartzendruber, 1952 document showing customs
declaration of items upon return to USA.
9/4 Mennonite Refugee documents, spring 1952,
written by refugees
who moved into Neuwied, Germany in 1951, when the PAX program of
building houses began. Documents tell the history and story
of the
various refugee families, as well as their own family information of
names, and births. Includes cover note by A. Lloyd
Swartzendruber,
indicating originals were loaned to Eastern Mennonite University Menno
Simons Historical Library
9/5 Booklet on Espelkamp, by Emily Brunk
(photocopy)
31. Ray
Kauffman,
director of European PAX program, 1957-59, after Dwight Wiebe
9/6 Black and white photographs, including
Enkenbach, 1957-59
(1-32), PAX Europe program, and Jordan, and miscellaneous, 1957-59
(#1-26), and PAX Peace Conference, March 11-16, 1959 (#1-21), and PAX
Greece, 1957-59 (#1-25)
9/7 Slides, 1957-59 (#1-100), including PAX
Europe, Enkenbach, Karlsschule.
32. Artifact - Car
license plates, Germany
9/8 Author unknown, Two oval Black border and
letters with white
background license plates (two identical), #912 Z-5716, with symbol of
"Hauptzollamt Braunschweig-Mitte"
33. Slides
from
Karlschule, Vienna, Austria (labelled) (#1-119)
9/9 Slides from Karlschule, Vienna, Austria
(labelled) (#1-119)
[25]. Additional
materials from Otis Hochstetler, Orrville, Ohio, who served in Germany,
1958-60
9/10 European Black and White Album, 1959
(Dedicated to Ray Kauffman)
9/11 European Slide Set, 1958-60 (82 slides)
Box 10 (Gray)
34. Jim
Short, who
served in Backnang, Germany, and Greece, 1955-58
10/1 Slides, Backnang, Germany, 1955-56.
Labelled and numbered.
35. Dean Hartman, who
served at Bechterdissen, Germany; PAX Austria; PAX Office; and Berlin,
Germany, 1955-58
10/2 CD
containing .jpgs of Hartman's service, including a full
description of the slides and each place he served. Includes
thumbnail
sketches of the photographs. Also includes article on the 1977
dedication of the Bechterdissen church, Neuwied, Germany; and a cover
letter, August 24, 2005. Digital images saved into Photo
Archives,
under PAX Archives - Hartman, Dean.
Box 11
(Large)
36. Interviews
(51 VHS
tapes) of PAX men, 2001, including footage of
PAX Reunion, Sept. 2001, plus additional videos of slides, reunions,
and events
11/1 Acts of Paxmen - Main session on 9-15-2001
11/2 Arno Thim / Ted and Lee, on 9-14-2001
11/3 Scenes from Yugoslavia - Frank
Heidebrecht on 9-15-2001
11/4 Greece Group Meeting - Arlin Hunsberger,
Greece Then and Now, on 9-15-2001
11/5 Congo Group Meeting, Freemont Regier on
9-15-2001
11/6 Interviews with Harley Showalter and
Ervie Glick taped at
Eastern Mennonite University library on 8-02-2001, with Al Keim
interviewing
11/7 A. Lloyd Swartzendruber interviewed by
Cal Redekop on 9-06-2001, in Harrisonburg, Virginia
11/8 Al Keim, Wilson Myers, and John Kauffman
interviewed in Virginia on 8-25-2001 by Kathy Fisher
11/9 Wayne Keim (Viet Nam), Alan Hochstetler
(Viet Nam), Harry
Goertz (Congo), Larry Trissel (Brazil), and Wilmer Sprunger (Congo),
interviewed by Kathy Fisher, at PAX 50
11/10 Carl Jantzen (Iraq), 1953-55,
interviewed
by Kathy Fisher on 9-15-2001.
11/11 Rudi Mueller (Enkenbach Mayor), Paul
Harnish (Greece), Paul
Wengert (Greece), Freemont Regier (Congo), and Robby Ackerman (Congo),
interviewed by Al Keim on 9-13-01.
11/12 Floyd Bauman (Paraguay 1956), Lynn
Troyer (Paraguay,
1956-58), Ben Yoder (Germany and Algeria, 1954-56), and Owen Hess
(Germany and Algeria, 1956-58), interviewed by Dennis Stoesz on
9-14-2001.
11/13 Acts of the PAX men, September 15, 2001,
at PAX 50
11/14 Nepal, Otho (?) Hurst, PAX 50, also
visit to Dwight (?) by Al Keim
11/15 Interviews with Valentine Yutzy, Howard
Burkholder (Korea), September 14, 2001, PAX 50
11/16 Sunday Service, September
16, 2001, PAX 50
11/17 Scenes at the Conference,
narrated by Al Keim, PAX 50
11/18 Interviews with John Meyer
and Harley Good, September 2001, PAX 50
11/19 Jan Mathies and Arlo Kasper
(PAX show), September 15, 2001, PAX 50
11/20 Plenary Session #1,
September 14, 2001, PAX 50
11/21 PAX Project, July 2001, by
Cal Redekop
11/22 Interview with Cal Redekop,
July 25, 2001, PAX program
11/23 Interviews, Henry and
Elfrieda Gehman, Beulah Heisey, Arlen Hunsberger, and Omar Lapp.
11/24 Delagrange
11/25 Gaeddert, Menno
11/26 Heidebrecht, Frank
11/27 Heidebrecht, Hannelore
11/28 Kolb, Homer and Roger
Hochstetler
11/29 Kliewer, Uli
11/30 Kolb
11/31 Landis, Howard
11/32 Neuenschwander
11/33 Oberholzer, Richard
11/34 Roth, Arnold
11/35 Rush, Richard, and John Mann
11/36 Schmidt, Reiner
11/37 Shearer
11/38 Thimm, Arno
11/39 Weaver
11/40 Wiebe, Liselotte
11/41 Wyse
Box 12 (Gray)
12/42 Yoder, Bill, and Willard Rush
12/43 Willard Rush PAX Pics,
1951-54
12/44 Arlo PAX Celebration
12/45 PAX: Luebeck and Wedel
12/46 Tribute to Bob Histand
12/47 R. Detweiler's PAX slides
12/48 MCC Northeast Brazil Reunion, Part
1 of 2, June 2002, Camp Menno Haven, Tishilwa, Illinois
12/49 MCC Northeast Brazil
Reunion, Part 2 of 2, June 2002, Camp Menno Haven, Tishilwa, Illinois
12/50 OMHGS PAX, September 28 and
29, 2002, Oregon (Tape 1)
12/51 OMHGS PAX, September 28 and
29, 2002, Oregon (Tape 2)
[VHS of Richard Rush, Espelkamp and Neuwied,
1951-52, 2003 (PAX
Service, Mennonite Central Committee) (Placed in Box 3 with other
Richard Rush materials]
Box 13
(Oversize) (Row 16, Column 2, Top Shelf)
37. Harry
Harder, Paraguay PAX Film Collection, 1952-1963
Three 16mm films. Includes three DVD CAM videocassettes, as
transferred onto DVD Cam by Mennonite Media, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
July 19, 2006. Also includes a DVD of each film. Original
16mm films deposited into the archives by Margaret Janzen and Martin
Harder. DVD CAM
and DVD deposited by Burton Buller, Mennonite Media, August 23, 2006.
Film Reel #1: Paraguay, 1952. Footage is of Mennonite
Colony Road building (not the Trans Chaco road) (1 Hour) (No sound)
(1300 feet)
Film Reel #2: Paraguay PAX, September 1, 1956 - September
7,1958. Shows PAX building of Trans Chaco road. (No sound)
(50 minutes)
Film Reel #3: Paraguay PAX, 1961-63. Shows PAX building of Trans
Chaco Road (No sound)
Brief Historical Sketch of
Harry Harder
including Service in Paraguay
Harry Harder was born in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, to Jacob and Anna
Harder on August 24, 1916. He had one older sister, one younger sister,
and five younger brothers. He grew up on a farm near Mountain Lake and
attended a one-room country school until 8th grade. He was a member of
First Mennonite Church and married Anna Harder in 1940. For a number of
years Harry worked for a local road contractor operating and
maintaining construction equipment.
They had three children, Martin, a son, and two daughters, Margaret and
Elaine. Elaine died in infancy.
The family farmed near Mountain Lake until spring of 1952. Harry then
traveled to the Mennonite Colonies in East Paraguay to train several
men from the Colonies to operate and maintain a Caterpillar D7 dozer
which had been donated by the men of The Northern District Conference,
General Conference Mennonite Church. The D7 dozer was moved to the
Chaco Colonies after several months to construct roads and clear land.
Harry returned to Mountain Lake before Christmas in 1952.
He continued farming until the summer of 1956 when the family
accompanied him back to Paraguay where he served with MCC to provide
direction for the Trans Chaco Highway Project. The assignment was very
challenging and difficult; however, he enjoyed working with, and
learning to know, many Pax men who were involved with the Ruta Trans
Chaco Project. Many of these Pax men and their families have remained
friends of the Harder family.
After the road was completed, he continued working on other road
projects in Paraguay for Point IV (USAID). Later, he worked for Point
IV (USAID) in Brazil where he directed the construction and maintenance
of roads in the 13 northeastern states.
In his retirement years in Minnesota he designed and constructed their
house, helped several of his brothers farm and enjoyed designing and
building several innovative articulated hydrostatic sprayers for
agricultural use.
Harry died from pancreatic cancer on April 26, 1997.
Sketch submitted by Martin Harder, 2006.
Slight edition submitted by Lawrence Harder, 2008.
Name and Subject Tracing
(For Collections 927.1 through to 927.16;
and 927.18 through to 927.25)
(Cross Reference Cards placed
in Archives Card Catalog)
Agape-Verlag (Germany)
Algeria
Artifacts – PAX T-Shirt
Austria
Belgium
Bender, Gerald
Bender, Urie
Bergey, Ted
Bertsche, David
Bishop, Irene
Bixler, Vernice
Boshart, Dick
Brethren Service Commission See Church of the Brethren. Brethren
Service Commission
Brooks, Allen D.
Church of the Brethren. Brethren Service Commission
Congo. See Zaire
Conrad, Mark
Conscientious Objectors
Driver, Nelson
Durnbaugh, Donald
Dyck, Ray
Ediger, Bill
Enkenbach (Germany)
Espelkamp (Germany)
Euro-PAX Slide Set
Europe
France
Fretz, Herbert
Gerber, Marlin
Germany
Germany - International Relief
Gingrich, Isabel, 1918-1988
Glanzer, Isabel (Gingrich), 1918-1988
Greece
Gronau (Germany)
Hochstetler, Otis
Horst, Allen M.
Hostetler, Albert
International Relief
Jantzi, Gerald
Kaiserslauten
Karlsschule (Austria)
Name and Subject Tracing (Continued)
Kauffman, Ray
Keim, Albert N.
Landes, Richard
Landis, Howard
Martin, Margaret
Menno Travel Service (Netherlands)
Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee. PAX
Mennonite Refugees
Miller, Simon (1931-1954)
Morocco
National Service
NAZI Short Sword
Netherlands
Neuwied (Germany)
Pakistan
Palestine
PAX Archives
PAX Program (1951-1976)
PAX Reunion Committee, 2001, Syracuse, Indiana
PAX Reunion, 1989, Normal, Illinois
PAX. See Mennonite Central Committee. PAX
Peace Conferences (Austria, 1959)
Peru
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Redekop, Calvin
Refugees
Relief. See International Relief
Rush, Richard
Schmidt, Allen
Seagoing Cowboys
Service, Alternative military. See National Service
Stoltzfus, Mast
Switzerland
Thompson, R. Jan
T-Shirt (PAX Artifact)
Yoder, Charles
Zaire
Zimmerly, Orpha
March 4, 2008 / October 24, 2005 / June 16, 2005 / November 3,
2004 / Some editions by Dennis Stoesz
August 23, 2006 /
December 14, 2005 / Posted by Dennis Stoesz
January 27, 2004 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File: "HM1-927 PAX Archives 1951-2005.doc"
Mennonite
Church USA Archives-Goshen
1700 S Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526
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