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This collection includes but is not limited to:

• Reunion: Class of 1950
• Reunion: Alumni Days Schedule for Classes of 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949, 1959 and 50 Year Reunion: Class of 1954.
• Staffing Schedule
• Alumni Days 2004, May 27 - 28, 2004.
• Banquets
• List of award recipients from 1960 - 2004.  See Alumni Days Banquet promotional June 2005.

Church of the Brethren Annual Conference Material from the A. Blair Helman Papers:

• "A Statement on the Church and Its Colleges" dated June 1960.
• "Statement on Position and Practices of The Church of the Brethren in Relation to War" dated June 1948.
• Correspondence regarding 1959 annual conference.
• What Is Man?" dated June 1966.

Civilian Public Service (CPS) clippings collection.

"Proposed Section for Alternative Service," "Brethren Service Committee Meeting Agenda," "General Statement on Civilian Public Service by Brethren Service Committee," News of Brethren Service v.1:1 (September 1945), "Some Facts and Figures on Brethren Service Relief Goods," "Some Facts and Figures on Brethren Service," "Comparative Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of Brethren Service Committee [April 23 1945]," "Minutes of Brethren Service Committee [June 6 1944]," 

Correspondence regarding dance instruction controversy, "Concerns to Be Presented to BSC," correspondence between Earl Garver and Eldon Burke regarding monograph on Puerto Rico, collection of letters to the editor of The Bedford Bulletin and The Bedford Democrat regarding Camp Bedford, "Organization of Camp Bedford Government," "Qualifications for the Assistant Directorship," "Campers at Lyndhurst July 17, 1943"

CPS camp publications. Starvation experiment.

For updates about the starvation experiment review the 1945 issues of the Gospel Messenger.

Garver papers, correspondence. Some material might be confidential.

Wabash Plain Dealer article, 21 May 1973, "Success Slump, Tells Graduates."  Dr. J. Irwin Miller was the commencement speaker for the 1973 Commencement.  This article recaps Miller's address and also reports on a silent student protest. 

Another article on the same page states four recipients of the "Outstanding Alumni Award." 

See also:

• Civilian Public Service Bibliography; Committees-Postwar Planning; Conscientious Objection; Manchester College Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute v.27 (1997); Memorabilia; Relief and Rehabilitation; Wartime
• Karl Kime, Supreme Court transcripts BC2007/7 located in the Brethren People file and videotaped interview MC2008/06.

Conscientious objector poster. Poster entitled "The Conscientious Objector in America."  Shows 6003 CO's and their locations as of March 4, 1943, plus other statistics.  Back side shows locations of CPS camps across the United States.

"Men Starve in Minnesota, Conscientious Objectors Volunteer For Strict Hunger Tests To Study Europe's Food Problem," article in unknown publication with large photographs.  Shown are Samuel Legg, Edward Cowles, James Plaugher and Dr. Ancel Keys [MC2003/333].

For updates about the starvation experiment review the 1945 issues of the Gospel Messenger.

This collection contains all the paper documents and audio tape of interviews with Manchester Graduates and former Manchester students who served in Civilian Public Service in the late 1940s.

Dr. Gareth Porter speaks in convocation on 18 September 1978 on the topic of "U.S. Encounter with Viet Nam."

A recording of the speech Barry Goldwater made when on campus in 1968, a week following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to campus.

During the Vietnam War era, Manchester College faced criticism from its own students as well as from outside entities. Correspondence and other material regarding the College's handling of the issues surrounding the Vietnam War.

Ken Brown's Sermon Regarding Participation in 1977 Peace Walk and A-Bomb Conference, Japan.

1.  One cassette tape, 1977, wrongly labeled "Vietnam."

2.  One CD-R copied by Stan Pittman, Manchester College, in 2010.

Extensive collection of photographs, publications and memorabilia from the collection of Leona Row Eller from her participation in the World Friendship Center,  Hiroshima, Japan.

Writings of S. Bruce Kauffman, and Kauffman Award Recipients 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000.

1. Documents from one three ringed notebook that include Bruce's writings.

2.  Materials include a list of those receiving Kauffman Awards from; 1997 - 1998, 1998 - 1999, 1999 - 2000.

3.  Application form and description of the Bruce Kauffman Award.

For Kauffman Award Memorandum and description, See: Alumni Large Box 187, then Kauffman.

See Also:  MC 811.52 Au23zk.

The first recording is probably a recording of a radio program in which part of a speech by United States Army psychiatrist, Major W. E. Mayer, is played.  The title of the speech is Communist Management of Korean War Prisoners.  Mayer discusses the process of brainwashing. In this war, the Chinese took 7000 American prisoners.  3000 did not return to the U.S. and 4000 returned to the U.S. at the close of the war.

The second recording is very similar to MC2011/37 and probably are recording of students done for a class in oral interpretation.

A faculty study regarding the return to campus of men who served their country through Civilian Public Service and of those who served as veterans of military service.

• Neher, O.W., O.S. Hamer, W.J. Abell, C.S. Morris.  "Meeting the Needs and Desires of Returning Veterans and CPS Men."  30 January 1945. 

See Also: Manchester College Bulletin, June 1952 p.4; Wartime.

Letters from A. Blair Helman to Reverend Wayne Zunkel, editor of the Brethren Peace Fellowship Newsletter and to Ron Keener of the General Offices of the CoB.  Dated 30 June 1979 and 17 February 1971, respectively.

Materials from 1980, when President Carter reinstated the registration for the draft.

John Aaron Rawlins, Adjustant and Chief of Staff to General Ulysses S. Grant, attended Rock River Seminary.   

Selective Service System Records.

A. Blair Helman Papers (MC2002/2)

Correspondence, certificate for registration of a claim to copyright (for seventy-fifth anniversary book), minutes of historical committee meetings, copy of Manchester's wartime policy (shared by President Schwalm in early days of WWII), schedule of events for anniversary celebration

Conscientious Objection:  World War II statement.

Listing of Social Science Materials:

Readings: Appalachia As A Sub-Culture," Social Science Core.

Department Meetings 1996, 1997 - agendas, enrollments, learning goals for the sociology major, the learning portfolio.

Press Releases, News Clippings, Papers.

For Clubs, societies and organizations: Southern Belles Home Demonstration Club, see MC2009/162d.

Special Events Photograph Collection.

Ted Studebaker, MC Class of 1967, pacifist and conscientious objector - served as an agricultural worker during the Vietnam War.  He was  executed by North Vietnamese in 1971.  This is a recording of the ABC News storoy by Jim Kincaid and an excerpt from the Church of the Brethren documentary on Ted Studebaker.

Video - News feature on the death of pacifist,Ted Studebaker, in Vietnam during the Vietnam War in1971. Ted was a member of the Church of the Brethren and a Manchester College alumnus.

See Also: http://www.cob-net.org/ted/index.htm

http://co.mcc.org/us/co/profiles/studebaker.html

http://www.cob-net.org/ted/abcnews.htm

Manchester College and Church of the Brethren related letters, pamphlets, photographs, Sunday school records, newspaper articles, interesting pieces of local and national history, diaries, wedding invitations, datebooks, publication agreements, resumes of applicants from the Albert Teaching Agency and more.

Statements, tracts, leaflets, brochures, booklets, Sunday School materials, published by the General Brotherhood Board, Elgin, IL and by other Church of the Brethren related committees, organizations, churches and individuals that explain beliefs and principles of the Church of the Brethren.

BCPS Bulletin.  Bulletin published bi-weekly for the men of Civilian Public Service by the Church of the Brethren, Brethren Service Committee, Elgin, Illinois.

Compulsory Military Service Article Collection, including:

"Atom Bomb May Kill Draft Issue" Chicago Daily News 16 October 1945

"Atom Boosts G.I.'s Value" Chicago Daily News 17 October 1945

Supreme Court transcripts, Carl Kime materials.

MC graduate and Church of the Brethren Minister, Carl Kime was conscientious objector. See his videotaped interview MC2008/06.