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Accession #BC2018/2
TopicChurch of the Brethren: Materials Assortment
KeywordsWorld War II, Conscientious Objector, Heifer Project, Japanese Internment, Japanese relocation, Boni Family history, Feminism, Diversity, ,
TitleChurch of the Brethren Materials, an Assortment
Size1 Large Box
LocationSanctum - Wire Filing Cabinet - by accession number (top shelf)
CitationChurch of the Brethren Materials, an Assortment, BC2018/2, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceProbably an assorted collection accmulated in the Manchester College Archives from various sources.
Scope and Content

Folder #1 - Southern Indiana District - Legal Drafts and Documents - Including but not limited to:

1963 - Lease Agreement -Camp Living Waters - Lessor Gene Hawkins.

1961 - E. Hartley and A. Hartley - Sales Agreement - Southern District.

1962 - Purchase Agreement.

1962 - Wayne Gerdes and Viola Gerdes - Note Agreement 1962 with Southern District of Indiana.

1962 - Hartley land title report.

1961 - Option Agreement, Hartley.

1981 - Transfer of Camp Living Waters area to Camp Mack.

1962 - South Central Indiana Warranty Deed and Affidavit Resolution regarding Real Estate in Tippecanoe County, IN.

-Related correspondence.

- Sale of COB property in Lafayette to Purdue Student Housing Corp.

- Carroll Petry - Executive Secretary of the Corporation (COB SCIN) - Church of the Brethren South Central Indiana.

Constitution of the COB South Central District of Indiana, Inc. - Draft.

Amendment to Anderson Church Constitution.

Note/Mortgage: New Haven Church of the Brethren, Jeffersonville, Indiana Mortgage and Warrant to The Southern District of Indiana, church of the Brethren, Madison County, Indiana.

Anderson Church of the Brethren, Incorporated - loan agreement resolution.

Folder # 2 - Program for Church of the Brethren Mass Meeting taking place at Camp Mack - Milford, Indiana, 7 June 1970. Participants: Preston Gregory, Dean Ramer, Harold Umbaugh, Donald Holsopple, Masters Quartet from Yellow Creek, Nevin Zuck, Raymond Hoover, Dean Ramer, Medford Pugh, Paul Brumbaugh, Jim Gratz, North Manchester COB Quartet, Myron Betzger, Edward Orpurt.

Folder #3 - Correspondence, including but not limited to:

Dan West letter written on Church of the Brethren Ministry and Education stationery, 16 November 1939 to Pastor or Eldor.  The Board of Christian Education united with the General Mission Board in a Commission on Peace and Relief with the belief tyht our immediate job as citizens is to help keep America from going to war. "We are trying to get to every young man in the church the help he needs in meeting the peace and war question."

Postcard - quotation from Hitler in Mein Kampf - "Therefore we stand for compulsory military service for every man.  If a state I not worth that, then away with it!"

The Brethren Service Commission proposes to the General Brotherhood Board the following statement on: POLICE ACTION IN KOREA - some quotes follow: The military action by the United Nations in Korea has been called the first instance of police action by an international organization against aggression.  It deserves study, as it raises new problems and new responsibilities for those who on religious grounds hold to the conscientious objector's position against war. ... In contract to a sincere co-operation on world problems, we must recognize the Korean Difficulty as a result of the power struggle between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. ... However laudable the purposes of the Korean action by UN, the conflicgt has taken on the essential features of war ... Convinced that God is love and every person of measureless worth, an also determined to follow our Lord who taught not to kill, not to resist him that is evil, and not even to hate, the Brethren find it impossible to sanction the use of military action under any banner. We would not do evil in order that good may result.  We must not inflict suffering or hardship on any people in the hope of doing greater good to a larger number...

Correspondence signed by Dan West regard world problems.

"Minutes of the Brethren Service Committee of The Church of the Brethren, Wenatchee, Washington, 8 June 1946. Topics include: Bridgewater loan on Blue Ridge property - Civilian Public Service - Committee on Brethren Civilian Public Service (Paul Bowman, M. R. Zigler, W. Harold Row) - Report on Relief - Rufus King for Puerto Rico to direct Castaner projects - Report on Relief Goods (status of Heifer Project Committee) - Report on Work Camps - miscellaneous, including the District of Texas in the Falfurrias project - Directives of the Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren on Civilian Public Service and many other topics including Recommendations for European Work - Peace Action - Race Relations (including sending delegates to the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University) - Ministry to Servicemen.

Brethren Service Committee Policy on Emergency Farm Labor.

Report of New York Relocation Hostel to the Committee for Resettlement of Japanese-Americans of the Brooklyn Council for Social Planning, by Ralph Smeltzer, director, 29 June 1944. Financial summary.

Folder #4 - The Guiding Principles of Brethren Service and Program Objectives.

Folder #5 - Boni (ponni) family history.

Folder #6 - Mount Morris Church of the Brethren, Mount Morris, Illinois, brochure listing "This We Have Done" and "This We Shall Do."

Folder #7 - Promotional for Brethren Junior High Church School Curriculum - A Prospectus.

Folder #8a - "Account of the Society of Dunkards in Pennsylvania.  Communicated by a British Officer to the Editor of the Edinburg Magazine, 27 April 1786 - From Lancaster to Ephrat and perhaps describing the history of Ephrata Cloister?

Folder #8b - History of the Olympia Church of the Brethren, Virginia with 1897 - 1906 marking the settling of the Virginia Brethren in Olympia.  Names involved: Lovella Shumate, Samuel Boone, and Bettie Boone Shumate.

Folder #9 - May 1930, Bulletin of La Verne College.

Folder #10 - "Echo," January 1960 - "Hier is des echo auf das Echo der Hamburger Gruppe." ICYE Exchange 1958/1959.  German American exchange group?

Folder #11 - Confidential File - Evaluation of John David Bowman, Pastor at the Manchester Church of the Brethren.

Folder #12 - Two issues of Global Women's Project, "Globalink," No. 21 Spring 1994 and No. 25 Spring/Summer 1996.

Folder #13 - Report to Heifer Committee 19 January 1946, Brethren Shipment of heifers and bulls to Poland - 12 June 1944 report on Heifers for Relief Shipment Number 1 to Puerto Rico, including expense report - brochures explaining "Heifers for Relief."

Folder #14 - Bethany Seminary Class of 1941: Jacob Baldwin, James Behm, Samuel Dickey Ivan Fetterman, James Ford, Merlin Garber, John Long, Olden Mitchell, Galen Ogden, Newton Poling, Clarence Rosenberger, Walter Young, Harry Zeller, Olive Brightbill, Anna Beahm Mow, Mary Parker, Mary Elizabeth Wieand (wife of David Wieand).  Bible Training School graduates: Annie Clopper, A Austin Cooper, Iva Haynes, Emily Patrick, Ward Pratt, Helen Wolfe. Tw-year BIble Training School course: Mry Belle Jones, Velma Lam Ritchie, Mildred Shideler and Mabel Shrider. Three-year music course: Geiman Young.

Death of Mary Leedy, daughter of Albert and Edna Leslie Leedy, in North Manchester, Indiana.

Folder #15 - An Appraisal of the Indiana Home Mission Extension Committee by Galen Lehman, March 1964.

Folder #16 -  Program, "The Promise of Shalom, the 129th District Conference of the Northern Indiana District Church of the Brethren, August 1988 at Camp Alexander Mack.

Folder #17 - "Dedication memorial and Membership Directory" for the Wenatchee Valley Church of the Brethren, Wenatchee, Washington, 1 December 1929. Dedication speaker, Rev. Bonsack of Elgin, Illinois.

Folder #18 - "News Daily Times" of Warsaw Indiana, article, "Winona's Greatest Convention, Church of Brethern (Brethren) Conference Opens at the Park on Monday.  The conference moderated by Otho Winger, President of Manchester College, include speakers such as  Dr. C. C. Ellis of Juniata College, D. W. Kurtz of McPherson College, and  Dr. M. R. Brumbaugh of Juniata College and former governor of Pennsylvania.

Folder #19 - George Brubaker's handwritten notes on church practice - including Baptism, Feetwashing, Bread and Wine taken in commemoration of the Lord's death, the salutation of the Holy Kiss as it is done by the Brethren commonly called Dunkards.  Also on this sheed are the names R. H. Miller (aff) and B. M. Blaunt (den).

Folder #20 - Women in the church - unique and powerful - how to unwarp, assemble, and begin to use your gifts - ministry tips, March 1999 - 1978 News Release from the Church of the Brethren General Offices - nearly 300 women participated in a nationwide Gathering of Church of the Brethren Women to articulate hopes, dreams, and goals of women in the Church.

Folder #21 - UMT (Universal Military Training) versus the American Way, testimony of Kermit Eby, director of education and research in the CIO, before the House Armed Services Committee, 10 July 1947.

Folder #22 - "The Third Day," Summer 1998, Vol. 1, No. 2, a quarterly newsletter published by the Office of Brethren Witness Environmental Working Group with members including Tim Kreps, Dar miller, Sarah Stafford, Dianna Ullery, Karin Davidson and David Radcliff.

Folder #23 - "Sourvenir of McPherson College, Faculty and Instructors, 1904,"  photo album.

Folder #24 - Information collected about "Liberty Cemetery," Orange County, Indiana reflecting the history of the Sears, Hostetler, and other families.

Folder #25 - Listing and dates of Church of the Brethren congregations within Indiana. 1868 Division into three districts and district congregations. Main Mother Churches 1809 -1867.

Folder #26 - Old German Baptist Brethren congregations in Canada, and in the United States (by state) - Information from the Brethren Encyclopedia.

Folder #27 - Copies of  the play, "The Missionary Awakening of Elm Grove," written by a Class in mission at Bethany Bible School; Elgin Moyer, Teacher, Lutie Sargent, Maude stump, Clarence Shockley, Marie Woody Brubaker and published by the General mission Board of the Church of the Brethren.

Folder #28 - "General Brotherhood Board and Commissions Agenda," June 1952, Dr. Warren Bowman.

Date of Accession16 March 2018
Archivist Note

These materials probably accumulated in the archives throughout years prior to 2006.  They were formerly with ROBCSeptember2012/19.

The description was  prepared 16 March 2018 by Jeanine Wine.

 


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