One framed historic offset lithograph, Spring 1990, given to supporters of the Manchester College Centennial Campaign.

VHS tapes and cassette tapes documenting significant events on the Manchester College campus, including Step Up to the Future (1987) as part of the Centennial Campaign. Focus on the college's Centennial year.  Brochures on the Ministry Training Institute and Training in Ministry.  Church of the Brethren pamphlets, some authored by faculty or alumni of Manchester College.

Alumnus, Troy Smith, is one of two of Manchester College's first graduating class (A.B. degree)-1900.

Correspondence, records. FERPA laws apply.

Welch, Rosa Page: Photograph with Don Royer and Mrs. Schwalm.

Hall of Fame photographs and other athletics pictures.

Pictures of team members from circa 1990,1991, 1992, including; Rick King, Jason King, Eric Morgan, Joel Mallery, Bob Overmyer, Shockey, Balkey?,P. J. Fauquher, Troy Mercer, along with other unidentified players from unidentified years, and 1989-1990 baseball team photograph.

Basketball Photos with team, managers, trainers and Coach Alford.

Men's basketball photographs from circa 1920 through 1999.

Photographs Manchester College Board of Trustees 2003 and 2003 MC Trustees who grew up in the vicinity of North Manchester.

Abortion.

"Human Sexuality from a Christian perspective, Church of the Brethren Annual Conference Statement," circa 1983.

"A Statement on The Church and Its Colleges," Adopted by the COB Annual Conference, 1960.

"A Statement of the Church of the Brethren on War," and "Biblical Basis of a Peace Witness."

"How Shall We do justice? Let U Count the Ways," by Howard Royer.

"Militarism and Education, a Report," by David Frantz.

"The Brethren and the Work Ethic," by Donald E. Miller.

Photographs, periodicals, correspondence, audio recordings, video and VHS recordings of Manchester College students who, as conscientious objectors, served in Civilian Public Service projects during WWII.

Class Gifts Records.

Photographs dating from 1896 forward until circa the 1960's portraying clubs, groups and organizations at Manchester College. Most of the images predate the 1920's.

College Woman's Club Records: Minutes, directories (1912 forward),  newspaper articles, alumni interviews, financial materials, arrangements for events.

Bill for postage, rosebud and vase, expenses for cards and postage, 1995, Arrangements for Christmas Tea, 1996.

A listing of Convocation cassette tapes and recordings.  Some of these recordings have been digitized but this list does not reflect this information . 

Poster for Earth Day, "Go Plant a Tree!!!, Earthday Celebration 20 years."

Paul Flory Collection.

Four photographs of what appears to be the Flying Club

The 1967 Aurora features the Flying Club on pgs. 62 and 63.

Detailed description of two Forensics boxes filled with materials. Included are newspaper articles, scrapbook, manuscripts from oratorical contests written by MC students: Fujii, Butler, Thomas, Childs, Dye, Mendenhall, Hoffman...and much, much more.

Information about Paul Flory, James Shaffer, and Roy Plunkett.

Dr. Carl Waldo Holl Scholarship Fund Resolution, 1948

1.  One resolution, 1948, signed by Roy J. Plunkett, Harry R. Weimer and Don Martin.

2.  One bulletin following Dr. Holl's death revising the name of the scholarship to "the Carl Waldo Holl Memorial Scholarship Fund."

Football, King and Queen, and royalty candidate pictures, processed on 3 October 2009 and probably taken during Homecoming 2009.

Award in honor of L.D. Ikenberry, former treasurer and former acting president of Manchester College.

• Nomination materials, lists, photographs.

The book, "Memories of...Manchester," by Otho Winger, former President of Manchester College, pgs.39-40. The accession page offers excerpts of President Winger's experiences on campus caring for students during the flu epidemic circa 1918. :

See Also: Oak Leaves, December 1918 p.7, 8, 9, 10-12, 13; January 1919 p.6, 7, 8, 9, 11-12; February 1919 p.7, 10; March 1919 p.10; April 1919 p.8, 10; May 1919 p.2-4; Aurora, 1919 p.6-7, 21, 36,

Myrtis Becker Justiniano 's (MC Class of 1954) collection of Manchester College memorabilia, including May Day 1953.

Audio recording of Professor Edward Kintner's funeral. 

The collection of Manchester College alumna, Ruth Smith Kurtz, that includes a MC flyer containing an aerial photograph of campus and vicinity (1940) and College Woman's Club directories. Smith family history regarding relationship with the College.

Collection of articles, publications, letters, videos, and photographs dealing with Dr. Hamer's time in Nigeria, especially his connection with the discovery of the Lassa Fever Virus.

Historical videos of 1934 Homecoming, 1934 May Day festivities, sports events, and graduation exercises 1939 and 1941.  Camp Mack Day circa that same era.

Articles of historical interest and significance to Manchester College and to the Town of North Manchester.

Copies of 1925 Oak Leaves articles reporting Thomas R. Marshall's last address to the public that took place at Manchester College commencement.  Also published is the last photo of Marshall following commencement on the College campus taken by Millard Royer, Manchester College alumnus, Class of 1928. There is also an Oak Leaves article regarding Marshall's death.  CD of material.

File on Thomas Marshall that belonged to Archivist, Ferne Baldwin containing biographical information.

The Thomas R. Marshall Home Restoration Project citing financial support by the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Lexington, Kentucky. 

"Tom Marshall's Home Again," a program for a play by Charles Boebel.

See Also:

Graduation Program 1925 cover, the only known 1925 commencement program cover known to exist.  It was probably used to design the 1926 commencement program cover as evident in the markings.  

Oak Leaves,1925, Marshall Commencement speech.

Oak Leaves, 13 June 1925 p.1 (photos).

Much more material than can be described. Please go into the accession page to read Scope and Contents. The collection includes the following but is vastly larger:

Obituaries, information on the Shull children, photograph of son of Moy Gwong,  "Memory Speaks, North Manchester Celebrates Its First 150 Years," program for play written by Dr. Charles Boebel, article from "The Noble County American," Albion, Indiana, Thursday, June 24, 1982, pg. 7 regarding the Potawatomi Chief Simon Pokagon, Last Chief of the Potawatomies, personal information about Edith Alice Miller, letter by Otho about his wife's, Ida's death, and Class of 1926 Information, as saved by Edith Miller.

For more information on Edith Alice Miller see West Manchester Church of the Brethren.

Elder Robert Henry Miller, minister in the Church of the Brethren had a son, Manchester College Professor Robert Henry Miller, a minister as well.  The accession page gives information about both father and son. MC2009/87 is the manuscript of an unpublished book by Professor R. H. Miller, "Comments on the Gospel of John."

Miller, Robert Henry (1825-1892) obituary in the Gospel Messenger.

Qualifications for a Foreign Missionary and missionary wife - Reorganization Plan of COB Home Mission Work to carry on the work of Church Extension in America and the World. - 1925 Report of the Regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the C. B. I. S. Held at the School 9 1925 along with Recommendations for the Idaho request  - Private School Inspection form - Balance Sheet and Statement For Year Ending 1913, 1916,1919, 1925 for the Brethren Publishing House, and Schedule of Business for Directors meeting of the Brethren Publishing House, 1925 - Newspaper clippings - 1942 clipping recapping President Schwalm's Lion's Club speech -"Odd-Fellowship" and its history and Why Christians cannot belong - Secret Societies - 1922 Brethren Publishing House Financial Report - Buying Brethren Publishing Co. stock to support missionary work - Young People's Commission appeal promoting their own publication -  Manchester College Audit Report for F/Y 1935 - Manchester College and Manchester College Foundation and Holding Co., Inc. audits,1937 -  Preliminary meeting and estimates for Fine Arts Building construction and pledge reports - Official Reports of the General Mission Board 1920-1927 - Helser correspondence - Early Nigerian missionary conflicts - Correspondence 1920 forward, between Charles Bonsack and Otho Winger, including the1937 Japanese capture of the China mission area - Correspondence between the General Brotherhood Board and missionaries in India and China (1913 - 1918) - Copies of  Business/Financial Reports/and Minutes of the Church of the Brethren General Mission Board (1912 -1947).

• Mount Morris Alumni Card File

Mount Morris College Academic Department Permanent Records - grade cards from 1889-1890,  including cards of Mary (Emmert) Stover and Adam Eby.

Photographs of the 1931 fire at Mt. Morris College.

Lucile Buck Kinsley's Mount Morris College Memorabilia Collection circa 1932.

Mount Morris College Memorabilia: 1906 through 1931.

The Merger of Mount Morris College and Manchester College

Mount Morris: Copy of agreement to merge with Manchester College and other legal documents

A postcard collection belonging to Robert Mohler, 1912 graduate of Mount Morris College. Pictures show Old Sandstone during and after the fire of 1912, and an image of the campus circa 1915-1920.

This is the postcard collection of Ida Fields Neff who graduated from Manchester College in 1920.  It reflects student life at Manchester College, Indiana and at Mount Morris College, Illinois. Included is an image of West End Mission, North Manchester.

Mount Morris College - miscellaneous permanent records. Academy records.

Permanent records of Mt. Morris College, arranged alphabetically.

Fourteen photographs of Mount Morris College.

Photographs of Mount Morris College circa 1912.  Some were used as postcards and have messages written on the verso. Images of Old Sandstone's exterior and interior after being damaged by fire. Pictures of Old Sandstone being rebuilt and after the building program. 

Photograph of Mount Morris President, J. G. Royer

Photograph:This photograph might be an image of President J. G. Royer, Mt. Morris College.

Miriam Stover's Mount Morris College Memorabilia Collection, circa 1913 - 1920.

This large collection of materials ranging from MC2009/7-A  -  MC2009/71-V,j1a,b includes printed and hand-made posters and other memorabilia accumulated throughout the years in the Manchester College Archives. 

A history of actress, Michaele Myers, as written by Martha Ann Merkle Myers.  Also included are plays, photographs, newspaper articles, and posters.

Actress Michaele Myers Collection that includes personal books and pamphlets, as well as clippings, scripts, pictures and correspondence surrounding her acting career. 

Centennial Science Symposium, 1990, " Global Change, Human Impact."

1. One folder with flyer, programs and brochures.

1. One folder containing a brochure for the 1975 Chemistry Symposium that featured: Dr. Paul J. Flory, Dr. Roy J. Plunkett, Dr. Allan R. Shultz,  and Dr. Rex B. Gosnell.

Sadie S. Wampler directed many wonderful theatrical productions on campus.  This correspondence deals with royalties for the play, "The Devil Passes." 

"The Devil Passes" Letters from Samuel French, Play Publishers, New York, regarding royalty fees.

Photographs, contact sheets and negatives for the purposes of Media and Public Relations. January 1998 through December 1998.

Topics related to MC's safety and maintenance concerns and include but are not limited to:

1959 – Shrubbery memorial by Dr. Lee Smith.

1960 - Gift of property.

1965 - Gift of car to College.

1969 – Business Office renovation.

1974 - Auction notice.

1977 – Railroad track removal.

1977 – Renovation of Administration Building – letter of concern.

1980 – Storm warnings.

1981 – Vehicle maintenance 1981

1981 –Computer use by Physical Plant -  Paul Shrider’s establishment of the computer system in the power plant building.

1985 – David Good in enclosed  snowplow.

1988 - Tornado Preparedness Week.

1993 – custodial care.

1994 - Policies - use of facilities.

1994 – Staff saves $200,000.

1995 - Insurance Safety Inspection

1995 - Use of fleet vehicle policy 2000 - Parking

Photograph albums, memorabilia from Du Pont related trips, yearly publications of  "The National Inventors Hall of Fame," member directory of the Division of Fluorine Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (1989-1990) and other miscellaneous materials.

Plunkett, Roy, Manchester College alumnus, Class of 1932.  Biographical material related to this prominent scientist and inventor of Teflon.

Plunkett, Roy: Pivotal scientific publication

A detailed description of the Roy Plunkett collection - Box #1: 1938 - 1988.

Roy Plunkett Collection, containing but not limited to: Interview materials, articles, general info., address and photograph albums, photographs, awards, stoles.  Memorabilia including temperature and humidity indicator. Speech given at Manchester College.  Obituary from "Parade" magazine.  Personal correspondence.  Teflon demonstration pieces, such as utilization in the repair of the knee joint and medical prototypes.

• File Folder MC2009/71-A: A Cappella Choir
• File Folder MC2009/71-AL: Artist Lecture Series
• File Folder MC2009/71-B: Brethren Colleges Abroad
• File Folder MC2009/71-C: Children's Theatre
• File Folder MC2009/71-CB: Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble
• File Folder MC2009/71-CH: Choral Events
• File Folder MC2009/71-CY: Church of the Brethren Youth Conference
• File Folder MC2009/71-D: Dances
• File Folder MC2009/71-E: Events on Campus
• File Folder MC2009/71-MSO: Manchester Civic and Symphony Orchestra
• File Folder MC2009/71-MU: Music Department
• File Folder MC2009/71-PEV: Performances and Events
• File Folder MC2009/71-PMOA: Plays, Musicals, One Acts
• File Folder MC2009/71-SP: Sports, Posters with Football schedules.
• File Folder MC2009/71-V: Various, including Admissions Material, Parents' Weekend, Fundraising, Phonathon, Graphics Department

A large collection of materials ranging from MC2009/7-A  -  MC2009/71-V,j1a,b consisting of  printed and hand-made posters and other memorabilia that accumulated throughout the years in the Manchester College Archives. 

Deeds of property owned or administered by Manchester College and Mount Morris College, including property divided with the Church of the Brethren. Documents of agreement between MC and Calvin Ulrey and Miriam Ulrey. Lots including Railroad Addition North Manchester (Judge John Comstock). Cook family property. Koinonia. Property associated with Eel River Church of the Brethren. Insurance policies (property/equipment/autos).

1895 articles of incorporation and charter (E. S. Young) - also documents following administration change 1900 and also the formation and dissolution of Manchester College Foundation and Holding Company.

This is a large collection of printed and hand-made posters along with other memorabilia that had accumulated thorugh the years in the Manchester College Archives. 

Faculty and student photographs for the Wall of Fame.

Material related to Dr. Donald Royer, Professor of Sociology at Manchester College.

Printed family album of John Grove Royer and Elizabeth (Reiff) Royer.  J. G. served as president of Mount Morris College.

John G. Royer taught at Mt. Morris College and also served as  President of the College.  These are newspaper articles related to his death.

Scholarship, Loan, and Grant Records:

Freshman Honor Scholarships, Oppenheim Trust - Chair of Mathematics and Scholarships, W. Arthur Cable Award forensics), Leroy Smith Scholarship, Higher Education Loan Plan of Indiana, Calvin Ulrey Award.

A great deal of material including but not limited to: Correspondence surrounding Schwalm's trip to Nigeria, including letters to and from missionaries and interaction with the Foreign Mission Commission of the Church of the Brethren General Brotherhood Board. Issues regarding the Mexico Indiana Old Folks Home and Schwalm's leadership in the creation of Timbercrest.

Many drafts of presentations as well as completed speeches, articles, and sermons by Vernon Schwalm, including an address given in the fall of 1923 at Manchester College, the year the Academy was eliminated. Schwalm gives a brief history of the institution.

Addresses presented by outside speakers on the Manchester College campus.

Schwalm's correspondence dealing with Church of the Brethren related materials, including reminescences of Baugo Church of the Brethren. Materials surrounding the 250th anniversary of the founding of the denomination. Bibliography for the study of church history.  Corespondence with individuals at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Illinois on a variety of topics. Annual Conference program committee notes and other Annual Conference materials. The collection contains a variety of letters, including that of Siegfried Leffler of Germany, giving thanks for a donation towards a peace bell.

A vast assortment of correspondence and materials from a variety of sources concerning personal and professionally related topics. Some are related to the Church of the Brethren One letter of interest regards Mr. Max Pinney, Huntington, Indiana, who donated a charcoal drawing of Roanoke Classical Seminary (by the artist, Hansacre, of Chicago) to Manchester College.

Schwalm's materials surrounding President Otho Winger and family, including Otho's funeral service and tribute to Oscar Winger. Letters regarding Schwalm's book on Otho Winger. Assorted correspondence with Dan West, Gladdys Muir and others.

Decades of correspondence between Vernon Schwalm and Andrew Cordier. Cordier gives detailed accounts of behind-the-scenes activity at the United Nations during the Cold War, and the reader can watch the situation in the Congo unfold.  Cordier's role in the Cuban missile Crisis is described to Schwalm as are events on the Columbia University campus during a period of student uprising in the the 1960's. Cordier is always in the thick of things and his descriptions of political figures and events are intriguing.

Images of the cast from the 2004 production of "The Sound of Music."

A definite assortment of pictures: Photographs of Steve Alford as well as members of the Alumni Baseball team and Alumni Volleyball team at Homecoming.  Photographs of football team and coaches, various professors and female basketball players.  Baseball team photographs and soccer, track and field.

• Summer School booklets containing calendar, general information, class schedules, description of professors.
• Two laminated pages featuring summer instructors: T. Wayne Rieman, Paul Keller, Max Allen, Neal Merritt, Ray Keim, Earl Garver, Dr. Bollinger, and Don Royer (no date given).
• Brochures.
• Summer Session 1954 brochure.

Chapel: Sunday School Day in the College Chapel, 18 January 1899, with notes of lecture by Emma Bowman.

Other speakers included:

A, I. Mow, Edna Puterbaugh, E. M. Crouch, Owen Cottrell, Edson J. Ulrey, Mrs. T. T. Myers, Gorman Heeter, J. W. Kitson, J. R. Miller, Mrs. Emma Garver, Mrs. Kate Hollinger, Mrs. W. Wright, I. L. Burkey, Alice King, M. M. Sherrick, S. D. Royer.

A grouping of materials related to the history of Wabash, and Wabash County, Indiana.

Letters and momentos from Otho and Ida's foreign excursion.

What appear to be President Otho Winger's files on Alcohol and Tobacco which he labeled "Peade and Temperance."  Some of the materials were addressed to Mrs. Oscar Winger, his brother's wife.

President Winger's correspondence with the State of Indiana as he strives to certify Manchester as a "standard college." This involves heavy financial requirements.These letters also deal with State of Indiana requirements for teaching certifications. The story behind the abandoning of the Academy. Corresondence 1917 - 1928.

Materials and photographs related to Jean Childs Young: 1953 May Day Queen, Manchester College alumna, 1954, wife of Andrew Young (married June 1954), and Manchester College honorary doctorate recipient.

Church of the Brethren materials, primarily from the Middle Indiana and South/Central Indiana Districts: 1921 Huntington, IN COB directory - 1920 , 1921, 1922, 1924 programs for the COB Summer Conference and Summer Assembly - 1922 Bulletin for Middle Indiana Church of the Brethren Equity Board - 1922 Minutes of the COB District Meeting  - 1958-1959 Church Extension Project - Lessons in Stewardship Studies - 1954-1955 Brotherhood Fund Giving - 1972, 1973 Memo from Carroll Petry, South Central District of Indiana - 1972, 1973SALT newsletters from the District Witness Commission - Program for the South/Central District Conference, 1972, 1973 - "Together" publication - 1953 - 1966, "Central Region Herald" - 1955-1971 "Guide Lines" - 1922-1958 District News Letters - "Living the Story, 50 Years of Brethren Volunteer Service" -1948 Middle District of Indiana directory - other COB directories from various years and including District Conference Minutes from 2004, 2005, 2006 - 1895 Annual German Baptist Meeting, Decatur, Illinois, an informational booklet from the Wabash Railroad advertising service and accommodations - 1912 Christmas postcard from Sunday School Teacher, Frank Weybright to Viola Neher - Postcard - Bird's eye view of North Manchester- 1940 Postcard of Peabody Memorial Home - photograph of  a COB District Meeting - 1912 program for Special Bible Term - Notes regarding discussion at Annual Meetings during the middle1800's - Letters, Reports, Elders' Meeting programs - "The Eldership: Ordination and Responsibilities - Guidelines for ministerial ordination - 1940-1941 church organizational list - 1969 letter to Brother Harshbarger (Ladoga Church) from the Heeters. Commemorative plates: COB Buffalo, Mexico, Liberty Mills. Pleasant View and Peru COB directories. Centennial Program of the Mexico COB.  Manchester COB Heritage Celebration,1991, honoring Elder R. H. Miller and Sister Emma Miller along with other Manchester COB historical publications and church directories. 1910 and 1923 joint Sunday School programs.  Statistics, research, meeting minutes and discussion matierials related to the merger of the Middle and the Southern Indiana Districts of the Church of the Brethren. A variety of Northern Indiana District materials.

Photographs: The collection is thought to contain pictures of Pleasant View Chapel and Milford Indiana Church of the Brethren, Milford, Indiana Bethel Church of the Brethren as well as Flat Creek Mission, Creekville, Kentucky and Mud Lick Chapel of the Flat Creek mission.

A wide assortment of Church of the Brethren related materials, including but not limited to: A narrative play about Church of the Brethren history - photographs of church buildings and members - Photograph of participants in the Church of the Brethren Christian Citizenship Seminar, circa Spring 1974 - Picture of  "Brethren Church" - National Youth Conference at Valparaiso University 1971 - Church of the Brethren related images (see finding aid for locations and identifications) - Brochure for "Pastoral Family Assistance Program" - COB history - picture of Bethany Seminary with students (1907-1908) - background material regarding the "History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana."

Folder #11 - Notes and materials leading up to the writing of  "History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana" - photographs of the Old Order German Baptist Brethren tent conference - brochure describing the Association for the Arts in the Church of the Brethren - program for  "The Brethren's Ministerial Meeting for the Southern District of Indiana,"April 1897- program for the "Seventh Summer Assembly of the Church of the Brethren of Middle Indiana"  - District News Letter 1 August 1948 - The Indiana Cooperative Board (1964-1966) letters, documents, program - credential for Delegates to the District and General Conference of the Church of the Brethren - Declaration of Principles and Purposes - Constitution and Function of the Delegate Body of Annual Conference.

"Manchester College, 1997 Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute," issue dedicated to Civilian Public Service - After 50 Years.   Interviews with men and their responses to war as well as memories and reflections regarding Civilian Public Service: 

John Ebersole, J. Roy Valencourt, Gilbert R. Weldy, Larry Gara, Lester J. Glick, Melvin Holt, Paul Keller, Harry K. Zeller, Wilbur Dunbar.

Kermit Eby: Writings and biographical information.  Link to Record #  to see listing.

"Gemeinschaft - Gesellschaft, Perspectives on the Human Adventure," by Earl S. Johnson, the first address in the Kermit Eby Memorial Lectureship. This copy of Johnson's address also contains biographical material about Kermit Eby.

Biographical Article: "Kermit Eby: Pragmatic Idealist," by Philip G. Altbach.

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.

Donald Royer dissertation, "The Acculturation Process and the Peace Doctrine of the Church of the Brethren in the Central Region of the United States." 

An assortment of  items found in basement of the South Central Indiana District Office building.  Some interesting items include a notebook containing Funerals at the Eel River Church along with obituaries of individuals who died in the area.

Files of the South Central Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren, including congregational correspondence with the District Minister and church histories: Anderson, Arcadia, Arcadia/Windfall Yoked Fellowship, Beech Grove, Bachelor Run, Christ Our Shepherd, Clear Creek, Eel River, Hickory Grove, Howard, Huntington City, Kokomo, Lafayette, Liberty Mills, Locust Grove, Logansport, Loon Creek, Lower Deer Creek, Manchester, Marion, Muncie, Nettle Creek, Northview, Peru, Pipe Creek and Guernsey, Pittsburg, Richmond and Richmond/Four Mile Yoked Parish, Rossville, Salamonie, South Whitley, Sweetser, Wabash, West Eel River.

District Minister position description.

Minutes of the Mission-Ministerial Board of the Middle District of Indiana Church of the Brethren (1939).

Correspondence regarding tornados of 1965, also referred to as the Palm Sunday Disaster.  The Kokomo, Indiana, Church of the Brethren building was completely destroyed, and in other parts of Indiana four Church of the Brethren people were killed and four injured.

For additional material related to "inclement weather," see also: Aurora 1996 ed. p.40;  Manchester College Bulletin July 1975 p.3; March 1977 p.3; April 1977 p.3; March 1978 p.1; April 1978 p.5; Oak Leaves 6 May 1965 p.2; Photo Box 135.