| Topic | Accession # | Description Summary |
| Demonstrations | MC2008/94 | Peace marches and dialogue. |
| Finnell, Loren: Autobiography | MC2011/200 | Recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award by the National Peace Corps Association, and an honorary doctorate from Manchester College, Loren Finnell is a member of the Manchester College Class of 1964. He composed a draft of a autobiography entitled, "Still a County Boy.....After having been around the world a couple of times, The memoirs of Loren Finnell." In this manuscript Loren relates his experience at Manchester College, including a clandestine trip to Washington, D.C. for a "Ban the Bomb" demonstration. |
| Graduation 1973: Commencement Address - Miller, Irwin and Alumni Awards | MC2010/184 | 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." |
| Helman, A. Blair Papers: Criticism of the College | MC2004/299 | File 1 Correspondence that criticizes various stances, activities, and admissions policies at the College by individuals. File 2 Correspondence of similar nature to File 1, from churches. |
| Helman, A. Blair Papers: Vietnam War era | MC2004/297 | 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. |
| Housing and Visitation: Helman, A. Blair Papers | MC2004/303 | "An Appeal to President Helman for Approval of the Micro-Lab Experiment," dated 1969. Community Council recommendation to revise off-campus housing policy, dated 14 April 1969. Petition regarding cooking and use of electrical appliances in residence halls. Petition regarding women's hours policy. Petition regarding Calvin Ulrey Hall concerns, 9 October 1969. Letter regarding removal of door in East Hall, 23 April 1974. Letter regarding living conditions in Calvin Ulrey Hall. Letters and petition regarding dripping faucets in Oakwood Hall, 1 March 1979. Letters regarding closing of Calvin Ulrey Hall, dated 1983. Petitions and correspondence regarding R.A.'s, dated 1974. |
| Peace Studies: Deeter, Allen | MC2009/185 | Peace Studies Materials Including Helman and Deeter Articles. President A. Blair Helman's, "The Peace Studies Program: Retrospect and Prospect." Professor Allen C. Deeter's, "Pioneering in Peace Education in the Church Colleges." Allen Deeter's, "Educational and Career Inventory of Peace Studies Students, Manchester College, 1948-1970." - Fellowship of Reconcilliation events (folder #7).
- "America's Post-War Foreign Policy."
- "Towards a World Organism, Specific Proposals for - an integrated, functional approach to world organization - and for creative technics of building world unity and understanding. This much we could achieve by 1960," by Kenneth Ives.
- "From UMT To Peace," by E. Paul Weaver, Chairman Commission on National Legislation, Indiana Council of Churches, Mexico, Indiana.
Bookmark, "Please Remember, Bombs Are Made To Kill People." Clipping, "Sobbing, Fainting Mark Realistic War Rehearsal..."
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| Peace" Clippings | MU2017/72 | Peace related newspaper clippings: School of Peace held in Peru COB(1962), Harry Zeller speaks "Sane Living Under the Threat of Nuclear Extinction" (1963), 58th annual contest of the Indiana Peace Speech Association (1964), peace rally and candle-light procession (1971), peaceful rally to end the war [MOBE] (1971), Senator William Proxmire will speak at 25th anniversary of the Peace Studies program (1974), Church as Peacemaker Conference "Living With Diversity" (1991), Robert Bowman at MC Peacemaker Conference (1992), "Let Justice Roll" tour with Ken Mediema and Jim Wallis (1993), workshop on organization for social change (1993), artist Phan Nguyen Barker brings "Seedlings of Peace" art show (1994), Norman Solomon speaks at Peace Studies Institute (1993). |
| Peace: Church of the Brethren March in Washington | Photo Box 58 | Church of the Brethren March in Washington, D. C., 1987. Included in the picture is Yvonne Dilling, Manchester College alumna, 1979. |
| Stand Against Hate Vigil | MC2003/221 | "Stand Against Hate Vigil" Materials. |
| Student Affairs: Records | MC2006/13 Student Affairs | Student Affairs: AAFRO Club and House 1970-71 through 1972-73 (including student lists, 1969 Experience in Soul, incidents of October 1969, lunch-counter sit-ins), Crisis Center, Dancing, String Festival, WBKE Radio Station (formerly WMIB), Association of Women Students (AWS). |
| Underground Publication circa 1971 | MC2010/191 | One newsletter. There is not a title or exact date on this publication, but a caricature of President Richard Nixon and a list of recommended anti-Vietnam War deadlines for action in 1971 serve as a date in themselves. |
| Underground Publication: Vietnam War Protest, Nation-wide Student Strike | MC2010/192 | An underground publication announcing a nation-wide strike called by the National Student Association and the National Student Lobby in response to the Indochina War. The date of the strike was set for April 21 and a year is not given. |
| Violence: Lemberg Center | MC2002/186 | The Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence contains information on the race riots of the 1960s and originated at Brandeis University outside of Boston. The archive was transferred to Manchester College on permanent loan in 1979, and was housed there until 1997, when it was transferred to the University of Notre Dame.
See Also: Oak Leaves, 21 September 1979 p.6. |
