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Accession #MU2020/84 a,b, c
TopicBrethren Colleges Abroad: Elizabethtown Collection
TitleBrethren Colleges Abroad Administrative Materials
LocationTwo boxes contain MU2020/84
CitationBrethren Colleges Abroad Administrative Materials, MU2020/84 a,b, c, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessConfidential due to personal student information -Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceBCA Office Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania
Scope and Content
1966-1967: Housing contracts and housing arrangements - CST travel - financial reports and correspondence - business and bank related materials - insurance - invoices and receipts - various conference related materials, including the Conference on American Academic Programs in Europe.

Student files,1967-1968-1969: Correspondence - passports - living arrangements - travel plans.

1967-1968 Miscellaneous materials,  primarily the correspondence of Miriam Schlegel and Jan van Asselt surrounding the following topics: Gottingen correspondence Padgogische Hochschule - student information - Marburg, Professor Dick Beam, Millersville Year in Marburg (Millersville State College, PA) - Summerton, 5 year office chair guarantee, with guide for proper posture - addresses of schools and students - Auslandsamt Millersville, DAAD - 1967-1968 student list - BSC Elgin, Loren Bowman, Secretary of the General Brotherhood Board - Dean Garver died of coronary occlusion on Wednesday March 13, 1968 - Robert Minnich is the Brethren Service Commission Representative in Germany - Dale Aukerman, BSC European Program in Geneva - Bridgewater and Elizabethtown correspondence including reminder for student applications, correspondence with Jan van Asselt, costs, student concerns, correspondence to presidents of participating colleges - CIEE materials, Council on International Educational Exchange - student lists and payments - travel plans -booking on the ship, Aurelia, 1968 - U.S. Consulate regarding Fulbright (Fullbright) stipends - educational requirements for Library Science Degree - meeting of American Study Program in Munich - scholarships to German students wishing to study in the U.S. - letters to Juniata College  and University of LaVerne, Calvin Ellis is President of Juniata College - possible drug use abroad - exchange students - correspondence with Keip, Herb Hogan, Manchester College, McPherson College, and other schools -  exchange students - information about insurance and life insurance - correspondence in relation to the program at Marburg.

Miscellaneous materials,1967-1968: Brethren Service Commission Workcamps - Auf Bauwerk der Jugend in Deutschland - Brethren Service Commission location list of BVS and I-W personnel for 1967 - 1968 addresses of BSC workers in Europe - 1968 newsletters with the purpose of sharing BSC, the April/May 1968 newsletter was written after the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1968 April, academic programs in Europe that are sponsored by American universities and colleges - Jan van Asselt, Dpt. of Foreign Languages, McPherson College, 1967 - April 1968 announcement of the sudden death of Dr. Garver at Manchester College, and the creation of a memorial fund for BCA scholarships - administrative visit abroad to be make by Bowman of Elgin, IL and Dr. Hogan, Dean at LaVerne - Communication rules, a directive regarding how to use the Post Office, how to send letters and packages, how to manage customs and make phone calls - train and rail pass information  - student restaurants and meal tickets and how to service the bread battles and water fights "survival of the fittest" - how to travel in France, banking procedures, insurance, doctors - important places to know in Marburg - Miriam Schlegel, Director, Brethren Colleges Abroad - travel arrangements - June 11, 1968 through July 23, 1969, Final Financial Report - Earl Garver was Administrative Coordinator for BCA (Manchester College), Ralph Naragon, Business Manager, Manchester College during July 1968 - application for admission - Jan van Asselt, Director of BCA 1967/1968, correspondence - hints on being a director from Schlegel to Asselt - floor plan - history, origin and purpose of BCA - 1967 June 30 - 1966 Report to Administrative Committee by Miriam Schlegel, Director of BCA in Europe

1968 - 1970, primarily Keip correspondence to and from the following individuals that include the following topics (note: much is written in German): July 3, 1970 letter to the Selective Service System regarding D. Lubbs - list of intercultural American BCA studentsw and German addresses - student applicant lists - European student letters - letter to library fo Congress asking for copies of articles from educational magazines to assist Keip in his empirical analysis of team teaching methods in the U.S. - European and U.S. BCA studentletters - permission from parents for students to purchase vehicles - correspondence with Mravintz, Educational Exchange attache, Embassy of the U.S.A. - correspondence with Dr. Breidenstine, Wayne Miller (Dean of Elizabethtown College), Morley Mays (President of Elizabethtown College - did he also serve as Chairman of BCA?) - July 7 1969 letter introduces Breidenstine and his qualifications as the new Coordinator of BCA  - 1969 July 7, same letter, resignation of Professor Falck - part-time replacement M. Muthelet - August 24, 1968 Keip letter regarding Bollinger as Administrative Coordinator - Juli 22, 1968, Jan van Asselt,bdcomes BCA Director in Europe - correspondence wtih Merlin Frantz (Dean, McPherson College), Robert Porter (Chairman and BCA Coordinator for Elizabethtown College, 29 may 1970), Charles Prugh, Director Junior year in Heidelberg - travel plans on the boat, Aurelia - Rotary International undergraduate scholar, S. Iudicello - July 17, 1968 corresondence regarding Keip, Hogan Falck, Asselt, Rehfeldt concerns - BCA December 1967 student address list - correspondence with Harry Zeller, COB LaVerne, California, February, 1969 - payments to BCA employees? - mailing addresses of BCA students by College for 1968-1969.

1967-1968-1969-1970: Tentative budget for 1967- 68 through 1968-69 - BCA student roster - 1967-1968 student confirmed return reservations - 1969-1970 academic year with student correspondence - 1969 December German Christmas Program, Akademischen Auslandsamtes der Philipps University - much German correspondence - Jan. 1970, Sept .1969, Feb. 1970 addresses of BVS workers in European related programs - February 1970, handwritten letter from Cairo, Egypt regarding travel plans back to Germany by C. Beery - William Keip serving as Director for BCA in Europe - sharing BVS newsletters January 1970, Vol. 9, No. 15  (Bohn, Hartsough, Phillips, Stutzman, Morse, Fedderson, Muller, Hoke, Soo, Low) - James Berkebile, working in the Teachers for West African Program, Elizabethtown College - every student concern imaginable - between semester work arrangements - student "reports," what they are doing, did, what they like to do, can you make their wishes possible? - addresses of Brethren Service Commission (BSC) workers in European related programs, April 1969 - 1968-1969 BCA students abroad address list - BSC exchanges and other personnel - 1968 November program information in Berlin - travel arrangements - project questionnaire - newsletter - Internationaler Club, Marburg, January, 1970 - correspondence with presidents of Brethren Colleges, including Hogan at LaVerne - 1968 students assigned to dorms in Marburg. 

1966-1969 Correspondence, including but not limited to: Dr. Russell Bollinger, Administrative Coordinator, BCA, Manchester College - William Keip, Director for BCA Europe - travel arrangements, changes in travel arrangements, payments and refunds - Jacques Le Bescond, manager TSD (Council on International Educational Exchange, Paris, France - applications for passage on the ship, Aurelia, and on airlines - handwritten notes - December 1969 travel itinerary for Bollinger and Geisert - Jan can Asselt, Director, BCA, West Germany - hazards of housing in France and in university towns - tips to 1967-1968 BCAers from 1966-1967 BCAers - miscellaneous, The Foreign Service of U.S.A., sharing Brethren Service Committee European Related programs, Allen Deeter, Robert Minnich of the Brethren Service Commission, Dale Aukerman working at Internationales Freundschaftsheim with information on work camps in Czecheslovakia, list of Junior Year Abroad Colleges - 28 April 1965 Miriam Schlegel Director of BCA Program for 1966-1967 academic year - letter prior to Schlegel departure to Marburg for a year of service - Administrative materials of Garver and the BCA Committee - July 1967 final plans and arrangements for the new BCA director - Schlegel was an instructor at Juniata College and would return to that position - President Harold Fasnacht, July 1967, President of LaVerne - letters to Schlegel - educational requirements for BCAers - 1967 letter to University of Strasbourg and Marburg - Millersville State College's Junior Year Abroad Program - Dale Ott, Brethren Service Commission in Geneva - Allen Deeter and Donald Durnbaugh highlight differences between European and U.S. grades - November 1966 report to the Administrative Committee of BCA - Financial reports - trip arrangements through Menno Travel - letters regarding students.

1968-July 1970 correspondence related to William Keip, BCA Director in Europe, and Dr. A. G. Breidenstine, BCA Administrative Coordinator in Lancaster, PA,  including but not limited to correspondence with and related to the following individuals and subjects: - Marburg and Strasbourg financial concerns, travel arrangements, teaching concerns, credit hours, housing - individuals including the Inghrams, Dolnikowskis, Rehfeldts, President Geisert of Elizabethtown College, Dr. Jan van Asselt, Director, BCA Europe, Dr. Bollinger of Manchester College who served as (temporary) Acting Administrative Coordinator for BCA, Iris White, Secretary for BCA at Manchester College,- BCA enrollment - the 1970-1971 BCA class - BCA students per college - Monthly Financial Reports for the years1969 and 1970 for Marburg and Strasbourg - BCA Budget Estimates for 1969/1970 - documents and reports from the BCA Administrative Committee, with Morley Mays, Chairman, and Herb Hogan and Merlin Frantz serving as committee members - 1968 student list - 1968-1969 student list, acceptance letters, transcripts and housing arrangements.

1968-1970 financial materials, including but not limited to: invoices and receipts - - 1968-1969 office, and housing expenses - bank information - financial reports - note that Linda Rehfeld is the Assistant Director of BCA Strasbourg (Feb. 1969).

1969-1971 Deeter Correspondence, including but not limited to: Dr. A. G. Breidenstine, (Administrative Coordinator, BCA), other institutions in U.S. and abroad, student BCA program inquiries, student addresses abroad, 1970/1971 Survey of U.S. College Sponsored Study Abroad Programs, selective service / draft board concerns (K. Rogers), addresses of European directors, student financial concerns and educational difficulties, etc.

Dr. Breidenstine's 1969-1970 General Correspondence: Letters to and from Dr. Breidenstine (B.C.A. Administrative Coordinator).

Dr. Breidenstine's 1970-1971 General Correspondence: Letters to and from Dr. Breidenstine (B.C.A. Administrative Coordinator), regarding student concerns, student program applications and withdrawals, program expansion into Spain, communication with Brethren colleges, etc.

Dr. Breidenstine's 1971-1972 General Correspondence: Letters to and from Dr. Breidenstine (B.C.A. Administrative Coordinator)

Dr. Breidenstine's 1972 General Correspondence: Letters to and from Dr. Breidenstine (B.C.A. Administrative Coordinator). Student letters and applications are included.

1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 correspondence primarily received and sent by BCA administrative individuals at Manchester College. Names associated with these letters include but are not limited to: Breidenstine (BCA Administrative Coordinator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania),  Allen Deeter, H. Book (Manchester College Dean), Bollinger, Garver, Garner, and BCA students. Topics include: payments, travel requirements, study/educational concerns, what to take to Europe, student worker exchange concerns, the Selective Service/Draft, student list comprising the BCA's 1969-1970 academic year, and the November 1972 B.C.A. Administrative Visit Report.

1974 - Council on International Educational Exchange - information in response to Breidenstine's inquiry: Very simply BCA is in trouble financially because of inflation, dollar devaluation, and too low an enrollment.  Langauge enrollments in our colleges are shrinking seriously.  If CIEE could suggest alternate programs for our centers in Marburg, Strasbourg, and Barcelona -- programs requiring very little or even no foreign language would be very helpful right now. -- I feel that more and more students will seek a transcultural experience not requiring a language other than English...


1974-1975 correspondence between Wayne Geisert, President of Bridgewater College and other listed individuals regarding various topics, including but not limited to: Allen Deeter, Dr. Breidenstine, D. V. Ulrich (Dean of Bridgewater), Presidents of Juniata, La Verne, Manchester, Elizabethtown, and McPherson regarding package cost and application fee - evaluation of BCA by former students (January 1975) - Virginia Council for Study Abroad, program questionnaires, 1976.

1975-1976 General and Assorted Correspondence - including but not limited to:
American Council on Education regarding work study and study abroad regulations.
Confidential student information.
Student and Manchester College administrative and faculty correspondence.
payment information, fees, discounts.
Correspondence with schools and other BCA related institutions.
Language requirements.
Housing in Barcelona.
Correspondence with Dr. A. G. Breidenstine.

1975-1976 General Institutional Correspondence
:
Berea College, Bridgewater College, Eastern Mennonite, Elizabethtown College, Goshen College, Juniata College, McPherson College, University of La Verne.

1979-1980 General Correspondence, and Institutional Correspondence. Topics involve student payments, arrangements, educational credit, marketing, and a variety of issues: General File, Bethel, Bridgewater, Case Western Reserve University, Clark College, Depauw, Elizabethtown, Fresno Pacific College, Georgetown University, Goshen College, Juniata College, University of La Verne, McPherson College, Messiah College.

1979-1980 correspondence between the following individuals, including, but not limited to: Helga Walsh, Assistant to Dr. Deeter, Dr. Howard Book (Brethren Colleges Abroad, Cheltenham, England), and A Blair Helman (President of Manchester College), 
Date of Accession25 December 2020
Bio History Note
Dean Earl Garver, Administrative Coordinator for BCA of Manchester College, died of a coronary occlusion on Wednesday, March 13, 1968.

Description of BCA taken from Dr. Breidenstine's letter of 15 February 1971. It describes the program at that point in time: BCA is a junior-year-abroad program, with a center in Marburg, Germany and one in Strasbourg, France. The program is unique in several ways - (1) We have a regular faculty member with his wife from one of the cooperating colleges stationed at each center on a two-year assignment.  These directors are carefully chosen for their knowledge of the language, skills in dealing with students, serving as liaison with the cognizant university abroad, and skilled in dealing with the foreign culture of the country; and (2) We do not insist on only language majors - all disciplines are welcome.

c 1965-1966 and c1966-1967, Miriam Schlegel, Director of BCA Europe.

 c1967-1968 and c1968-1969,  Jan van Asselt, Director of BCA Europe.

c 1968 - 1969 and c 1969-1970, William Keip, Director of BCA Europe.





Dean Earl Garver, Administrative Coordinator for BCA of Manchester College, died of a coronary occlusion on Wednesday, March 13, 1968.

Dr. Bollinger, served as temporary Acting Administrative ??
Morley Mays??? Coordinator for BCA 

Dr. Bollinger served as Administrative Coordinator until until his retirement in 1969, when the position was given to Dr. Breidenstine, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Archivist NoteDescription prepared during December 2020 by Jeanine Wine.
 


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