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Full Listing > Search results for "Heifer Project" as a "keywords" value:
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TopicAccession #Description Summary
Dan West:Obituary from HPIHeifer Proj News pg.1 and Heifer Project News pg.2 A biographical tribute to Dan West by Heifer Project
HPI Living Gift Market: PosterMC2010/20h MC2010/20h; Poster for the HPI Living Gift Market sponsored by North Manchester Area Churches. This poster is part of the larger collection MC2010/20. 
Jones, DorothyBC2012/2 A travelogue probably written by Dorothy Jones, Administrative Assistant to M. R. Zigler, Director ot the European Program of the Berthren Service Commission.  This trip was taken by 5 women and Dorothy describes their excursion through various European cities and countries directly following WWII.  This is an interesting documentary of culture, food, place and custom. 
Manchester College: Contributions to a Better WorldMC2010/194 

Letter to Timothy K. Jones of Manchester College by Robert S. Zigler, Washington, DC.  The letter starts:

"Here's the stuff re MC and the contribution to a better world."

A list cites Manchester College graduates that have been involved in Relief, Rehabilitation and/or Development.

 
Manchester College: Promotional Audio and Conferring of 1972 Honorary Degrees and GraduationMC2011/10 wave sound and CD 

This recording is in two parts:

"What is Manchester College?" promotional audio portion of a filmstrip or slide show ("a chairbound tour").  Audio of choir singing "By the Kenapocomoco."

1972 Conferring of Honorary Degrees and Graduation:

James Farmer, Civil Rights Activist,  with Dean Howard Book presentating. James Farmer was Race relations secretary with Fellowship of Reconciliation.  He was also involved in the labor movement. Author, "Freedom When," Random House, 1966. Recommendation for the Honorary Degree, "Doctor of Humanities."  Conferring of degree by President Helman.

Thurl Donald Metzger: Doctor of Humanities. Conferring of degree by President Helman.

Robert Miller Stauffer: Conferring of degree, Doctor of Laws. Manager of North Manchester Foundry.

 
Metzger, Thurl Donald: Brethren PeopleMC2003/51: Metzger 

Thurl Donald Metzger is a Manchester College alumnus and member of Manchester College Class of 1938.   He was a recipient of the Laymen's Citation Award, an award given by Manchester College to honor outstanding members of the Church of the Brethren.

 
Miller, R. H.: Travel LettersMC2009/92 "Travel Letters," by R. H. Miller, 1954.  Good condition.  
Rural Life Association CollectionMC2002/240 

Material related to The Rural Life Association that as founded in 1942 with the support of the Quakers, the Mennonites, and the Church of the Brethren.

 
Seagoing Cowboy: Geiger, ElwoodMC General File: Seagoing Cowboy Seagoing Cowboy:  Elwood Geiger letter to President Jo Young Switzer.  
Seagoing Cowboys: Shultz, Kosciuszko MedalMC2009/33 The Kosciuszko medal was given to L. W. Shultz by the mayor of Warsaw, Poland for L. W.'s service in 1945 and 1946 in providing post-war relief to the Polish people.   
Stafford, William: JournalMC2005/13 Fellowship, the journal of the fellowship of reconciliation: Journal published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.  See William Stafford (faculty) and Dale Aukerman. 
West, Dan: Family and Heifer Project Photographs and MemorabiliaMC2011/208: Janet Schrock 

An assortment of photographs and memorabilia about Dan West, his family and Heifer Project. These items were given to Janet Schrock, Dan West's daughter, by different individuals, including videographer, David Sollenberger.

 

These items in the Church of the Brethren collection may also be helpful:
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TopicRecord #Description Summary
Audio Tape: "A Look at the Brethren" BC2011/3 

This reel-to-reel tape entitled, "A Look at the Brethren," was produced by Dean Frantz.  It answers questions about the Church of the Brethren:

What is it,

Who are the Brethren,

What do they look like,

What do they do? 

This appears to be  the audio portion of a slide show or filmstrip that describes the Church of the Brethren.

 
Church of the Brethren: Materials AssortmentBC2018/2 

This assortment of Church of the Brethren Materials includes but is not limited to: Southern Indiana legal drafts and documents - Brethren Service Commission statement regarding police action in Korea - Minutes of the Brethren Service Commission - Report of NY Relocation Hostel to the Committee for Resettlement of Japanese-Americans,1944 - Guiding principles and objectives of Brethren Service - Boni (ponee) family history - Mount Morris Church of the Brethren accomplishments and goals - Junior High Church School - "Account of the Society of Dunkards in Pennsylvania," 1786, from Lancaster to Ephrata - History of the Olympia, Virginia Church of the Brethren, Virginia - May 1930, Bulletin of La Verne College - "Echo," January 1960 - "Hier is des echo auf das Echo der Hamburger Gruppe." ICYE Exchange 1958/1959 - John David Bowman - Global Women's Project, "Globalink," Issue No. 21 1994 and No. 25 - Report to Heifer Committee January 1946, Brethren Shipment to Poland - 1944 report on Heifers for Relief Shipment Number 1 to Puerto Rico - Bethany Seminary 1941 graduates - Death of Mary Leedy - Appraisal of the Indiana Home Mission Extension Committee,1964 - Program, 129th District Conference of the Northern Indiana District - "Dedication Memorial and Membership Directory" for the Wenatchee Valley Church of the Brethren, 1929  - Winona's Greatest Convention, Church of the Brethren Conference - George Brubaker's handwritten notes on church practice -  Women in the church - unique and powerful - March 1999 and 1978 News Release citing female participation in a nationwide Gathering of Church of the Brethren Women - Universal Military Training vs the American Way, Kermit Eby's testimony before the House Armed Services Committee,1947 -"The Third Day," 1998, quarterly newsletter by the Office of Brethren Witness Environmental Working Group - "Sourvenir of McPherson College, 1904," photo album.- Information about "Liberty Cemetery," Orange County, Indiana - Listing and dates of Church of the Brethren congregations within Indiana along with districts and mother churches- Old German Baptist Brethren congregations in Canada, and in the United State - script, "The Missionary Awakening of Elm Grove," written by a Class in mission at Bethany Bible School - General Brotherhood Board and Commissions Agenda," 1952,Warren Bowman.

 
Heifer Project: Seagoing CowboysBC2006/5 

Seagoing Cowboys:

1.  Issue #6 of "Catoctin History,"  Fall/Winter 2005.

2.  January 10, 2006 issue of "The Mennonite."

3.  "The Impossible Dream, How the Heifer Project Came to Be," Reiff Miller.

"Ride 'Em Seagoing Cowboy!," "A 1940s Brethren/UNRRA Partnership Touched Countless Lives," by Reiff Miller.

 
Middlebury Church of the Brethren: Northern Indiana DistrictBC2011/1 

Middlebury Church of the Brethren is located in the Northern Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren.  This collection includes church history, records of business meetings, pictorial directories, the booklet,  "Peace Education in Churches," by Dan West and Others, and other materials.

 
Seagoing CowboysBC2009/04 "Brethren Voice on Brethren Community TV, 'The Seagoing Cowboys,'" DVD featuring Peggy Reiff Miller, hosted by Brent Carlson, January 2009.  
Seagoing CowboysBC2009/06 

The Seagoing Cowboys: The Manchester Story.  A presentation made by Peggy Reiff Miller for the North Manchester Historical Society Dinner, 9 March 2009.

Photographs of the Seagoing Cowboys in attendance.

 

For more Sea-Going Cowboy material See Also: The Dan West exhibit, 1st Floor, Funderburg Library.  

 
Seagoing Cowboys: Dietzel CollectionBC2010/4 Harlan Dietzel Seagoing Cowboy Collection.  
Wine, Jacob C., Jr.: Collection BC2008/12  

1.  One diary of Jacob Wine's post WWII seagoing cowboy experience transporting horses to Europe.  the war ravaged city of Bremen.

2.  Photographs of  life on board ship and of the the war raveged city of Bremen.

3.  The Jett family history.

4.  Three DVDs containing interviews with Jacob C. Wine detailing family history, family stories, personal history, the history of Hempfield Church of the Brethren (East Petersburg, PA), and J. C. and Jean's missionary experience in Nigeria, Africa (1949-1956).

 
Yoder, Milo: Brethren People Brethren People File: Yoder, Milo  

Related materials to Milo and Muriel Yoder in the Brethren People File:

  • Photocopy of the couple's portrait.
  • Information about Milo and Muriel from Daid Boothby 1976 - 2008 Regional Director of Heifer Project International.
  • Article by Jeanine Wine, Archivist, Manchester College, in preparation for the Dan West exhibit.
  • Obituary for Muriel Yoder received from Manchester College President, JoYoung Switzer.
  • Also see Milo and Muriel Yoder in Dan West exhibit display case and in the former Heifer Project International, Goshen office, materials.
 
Yoder, Muriel: Brethren PeopleBrethren People File: Yoder, Muriel  

Related materials to Milo and Muriel Yoder in the Brethren People File:

  • Photocopy of the couple's portrait.
  • Information about Milo and Muriel from Daid Boothby 1976 - 2008 Regional Director of Heifer Project International.
  • Article by Jeanine Wine, Archivist, Manchester College, in preparation for the Dan West exhibit.
  • Obituary for Muriel Yoder received from Manchester College President, JoYoung Switzer.
  • Also see Milo and Muriel Yoder in Dan West exhibit display case and in the former Heifer Project International, Goshen office, materials.

 

See Also:  Awards received by Milo and Muriel Yoder in the Heifer International, Goshen Office, materials, as well as in the Dan West exhibit in the Funderburg Library.

 
 


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