Manchester College Banner Collection.

A wide assortment of Admissions materials circa the 1980's through 2009/2010.

Advancement Christmas card, promotional materials, mission and vision statement, posters, Church of the Brethren connection, events, societies, self-study, float plan for a parade, and more.  Read the accession page for a complete listing.

1947 photo spread from "The News-Sentinel" that features the Chime Tower, Oakwood Hall, student housing, tennis courts, trailers for married students, the radio station, Manchester College professors, the May Day queen, football players, and the Education/Professional Programs Division.

DVDs -  (1) "The Friends of Manchester College Golf Outing, Looking Back on 15 Years" (1990 forward). (2) the Manchester experience, preparing graduates to think deeply and critically, with attention to the benefits of the Auburn Golf Outing.

Video clips - Student Union (now Jo Young Switzer Center) renovation, time- elapsed photography of construction.

Church of the Brethren relations - programs from the Alumni Luncheons at Church of the Brethren  Annual Conferences 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

Alumni Directory (1939) with notes.

Alumni Directory 1960.

Class of 1951 Senior Recognition Day program.

Notecard prints of watercolors campus buildings by Deb Hammond (MC Class of 1992).

Programs; Athletic Hall of Fame - luncheon and induction ceremony 2000 - "M" Club induction (undated) - Citation for  the 1994-1995 Basketball Team (Athletic Hall of Fame 2000).

1941 - 1991 Golden Anniversary booklet for the Class of 1941.

1999 Alumni Day Banquet program, with Honor Award recipients, and Golden Anniversary of Class of 1949.

2001 and 2002 Alumni Day Banquet program.

Manchester College song written by Lucile Klinger and Henrietta Wassman.

"Bulletin" focusing on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barry Goldwater visits.

This collection includes but is not limited to:

• Program for "Manchester College Spartan Soccer, Alive in '95."
• Reunion: Class of 1941, activities and "Test Your Memory," quiz (with answers).
• "Golden Anniversary, 1927-1977, 'The Mini-Aurora."
• 1990 Centennial Celebration.
• Cluster Reunion, May 17-19, 1991.  Theme: "It Happened On Our Watch..."
• 1991, Set-up Needs for May 1991 Alumni Day "Weekend."
• Invitation for Homecoming and Family Weekend 2008.
• Brochure, "Alumni Connections for Life, Alumni Days, June 3-4, 2009."

Photographs are from Homecoming and Alumni Days 1993. Many alumni are identified.

Photographs of Athletic related events, including the MC mascott.

This box includes but is not limited to: Faculty Athletics Committee minutes, all sports statistics, all conference statistics (1948-1963), membership history and statistics (including ICAC, HCAC, NCAA, NAIA, HBCC), historic athletic organization rules and reports, news releases, schedules, intramural sports, sports camps, policies, Women's Athletic Association Records (1941 through 1950), Hoosier Conference for Women (HCW) meeting minutes and statistics, women's award boards for all sports, women's and men's M-Club winners, sports awards, sports banquets, and Hall of Fame materials.  See finding aid for a more complete list.

Athletic scores, newspaper articles, and materials regarding individuals, types of sports and  sports events - multiple years: Women's Basketball, Men's Basketball, etc.

See also Large Box #21.

Objects in the collection of former Manchester College Archivist and Professor, Ferne Baldwin.  The collection includes assorted MC historical materials and records.

General: Basketball (Men's) Records, 1950 - 2000. 1936 - 1937 booklet documenting the history of Coach "Smilin Bob" Stauffer's winning 1937 Spartans.

Hoosier College Conference Champion 1954 photo on program for Manchester Spartans vs. Huntington Forresters, December 4, 1954 game. The "Wolfmen" defending their title. Includes player statistics for 1953-54.

1. One program book with vignettes of players and coach.

Spartans Basketball Team Photo that was probably taken between 1930 and 1960.

Photograph montage of Manchester College Spartans 1985-86 Hoosier Conference for Women Co-Champions

Photo montage of team representing classes of 1986, 1987, 1989. Many players are identified.

Women's basketball statistics, newspaper clippings, and souvenir programs [1965 - 2012 various].

Video titled, "Spartan Successes, An Indiana Basketball Success Story, How Steve Alford made Manchester College a champion again. Footage of Alford and players from the Alford Era.

• "History of Basketball at Manchester College," 1969.
• Poster: "Manchester College says Thanks!" - Ed Butterbaugh, President and Steve Alford, Head Coach.
• College Basketball Register Project. 
• Basketball Scorebook 1927 - 1928 season.
• Basket Ball Schedule 1931 - 1932.
• December 1954 souvenir program - Hoosier College Conference Champions 1954.
• Manchester Spartans vs Taylor Trojans, 11 January 1955 souvenir program featuring the Manchester College Band.
• DePaul vs Manchester College program with De Paul Univ. Varsity Schedule 1955 - 1956.
• Manchester College Men's Basketball 1992 - 1993 with Head Coach, Steve Alford, Souvenir Program.
• 1994 - 1995 ICAC Champions, Manchester College Basketball Sourvenir Program.
• Manchester College Spartans vs Illinois Wesleyan University Titans, 20th Anniversary NCAA Basketball Championship, NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Second Round Game, 5 March 1994 program.
• Unidentified basketball photos. 
• Basketball photo (identified) 1939 - 1940.

VHS tape and DVD:  Inside - Behind the Scenes with a National Contender - Manchester College Spartans - NCAA Division 3  - 1994 and 1995. Baseline Productions, a Jeff Shafer and Rob Nichols video production.

A variety of cards, passes and schedules, for a variety of uses. They include but are not limited to: classes, organizations, and athletic events.

Spartan Chew Crew, circa 1980: "We need to put chewing tobacco back to its proper respect," said MC Spartan Chew Crew President Duane Sautbine. "Only proper gentlemen chew tobacco."

One newspaper article from an unidentified paper.

An assortment of historical materials from Manchester University's WBKE Radio Station.

Certificates establishing the Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha forensics honor society (1964), the Pi Kappa Delta Forensic Honor Society (March 17, 1993), and the Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Fraternity(January,1975).

Photograph Contact Sheet (Scott Mcalpine, photographer) from 1985 - 1989 including classroom and sports scenes and images of faculty and students.  Many individuals have been identified.

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

A football history composed by Archivist, Ferne Baldwin, that tells the story behind Manchester College, and rival, Ball State.  Also included are the heroic efforts of student, Bob Brandon.

Footage of the Manchester College vs. Ball State football game of 1940.  The score: MC 7, Ball State 6.

Football Records and sports brochures through 1989.

Funderburg Library handbooks or guidebooks from circa 1966,1982, 1984.

Personal and Assorted departmental files from Joy Groninger, Publications and Design.

Manchester College Guide Book and Spartan Cue Collection.

Books from 1969 - 1979 and beyond.

See Also: Student Handbook.

Photographs & postcards: Homecoming 1997 Postcard.

BW photograph of Homecoming tents.  Back labeled, "Manchester College Office of Alumni Administration.  Come one, come all.  It's Homecoming under the Big Top in the fall.  Every fall, alumni return to campus for a day of football, reunions, food, memories, and more.  It's tradition.  And you're invited.  mark your calendars now for Homecoming 1997:  Oct. 11.  On the field, the Manchester Spartans tackle the Wabash Little Giants.  We'll see you under the Big Top!"  Unused cards.

Homecoming records, 1929-2000 and 2007, including Homecoming 23 October 1954  Souvenir Program, Manchester Spartans vx. Anderson Ravens.

• 1929-present. 
• One Homecoming Souvenir Program, Manchester Spartans vs. Anderson Ravens, 23 October 1954 (added by J. Wine 20 June 2008).
• One 1943 Homecoming Banquet menu and Program with autographs.
• One oak leaf nametag for the homecoming celebration of the Class of 1932.

Trailer Court: Rotogravure, The News-Sentinel, 1947.

Trailer Court: Rotogravure, The News-Sentinel, 1947.

Featured in this newspaper spread are:

• the Chime Tower and Oakwood Hall
• Spartan Halls (barracks for men)
• (the new dormitory to house 100 men and costing an estimated $225,000
• Professor O. W. Neher and Professor Edward Kintner conferring in biology building with crayfish chart
• Tennis courts and 30 trailers for married veterans
• Campus radio station featuring Irvin Hoff, student and Dr. Orland lefforge, speech professor officiating as members of TKA, honorary speech fraternity, broadcast. Photographed are Wayne Miller, from North Manchester; Miss Elsie Rossmanith, Rensselaer; Ralph Yaney and Glen Crago, North Manchester
• Coeds, Miss Anna Mae Ehrmin, Mishawaka and Carlton Stoddard, Louisville, Ohio
• 1947 May Queen Mary Kathryn Cooper, Dayton, Ohio with football players John Krieg, Ft. Wayne and Ellis Lehman, Windbor, PA.
• Miss Mary Jane Penrod, Bluffton, IN, learns how to be a school teacher at Thomas Marshall School with Mrs. Esther Mae Ashley, student teacher director, and Miss Lucille Wright, critic teacher, along with a class of schoolchildren.
• Professors A. R. Eikenberry (Psychology), Fred R. Conkling (English) and Dr. C. S. Morris (Physics) in Administration Building with portrait of Otho Winger, President from 1911 - 1941 in background.

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

Images of the Manchester College Men’s basketball exhibition game against University of New Mexico, November 2010. The photographer is unknown.  Coach for the University of New Mexico team, Steve Alford, was a famous basketball player and once a coach for Manchester College.  Featured in the pictures is President Jo Young Switzer, Steve Alford and the Manchester College athletic director/baseball coach, Rick Espeset. 

Posters:

• "Spartan Pride," Homecoming, October 14, 1995.
•  Manchester Symphony Orchestra, 16 May 1993, featuring Young Artist Competition Winners.
• Manchester Symphony Orchestra, 6 November 1994, Jodie DeSalvo, Piano Soloist.
• Manchester Symphony Orchestra, 13 March 1994, featuring Julie Eckert, Soprano Soloist. 3. 
• Manchester Symphony Orchestra, 12 May 1996, "High School Young Artist Competition Winners."
• Manchester College Theatre presents, "The Miser, 1668," by Moliere, October 1994.
•  Manchester College Theatre presents, "Mehitabel," May 1993.
• Heifer Project International Living Gift Market, Sponsored by North Manchester Area Churches.
• "The Voice KCMO of the Prairie," by John Olive, May 1994, Cordier Auditorium.
• Public Program: "The Mikado," 10 April 1994.
• Manchester College Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Luncheon for members of Class of 1995.

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. 

Images include: Individual portraits of Football players (circa 1976) -  Dr. Ed Miller presenting the the Carl Waldo Holl Scholarship - Football Coaches Jack Jarrett and Jim Gratz with assistant,  Bill Phillips - football game with fans - Images from a "Jesus" concert - Baseball pictures (Mark Frey and Jim Jenkins) - the Morris Observatory telescope (circa December 1973) - early to mid 1970's track and football players (including Dan Taylor) - Spring 1972 track photos with Pat Hollar and discus discus, Lindsey Grantham, and the Spring 1972 Track Team - pictures from 1975 Business class.

Materials designed and/or printed by the Manchester College Office of Printing Services for many College departmets.  See "Scope and Content."

Assortment of photographs of campus buildings, the construction of Holl-Kintner, the old observatory, May Day, Ikenberry Hall, students and professors, including Allen Deeter, Niswander and Glade.

Also included are photographs of Football 1960 - 1976 and Martial Arts.

Students in class and on campus, 1974 and earlier: 1974 photo of Yvonne Frey, Dave Ball, Margie Schaeffer.  Phil Amadon, Donna Hubscher, Nancy Hood, Patricia Dickens.

Photographs of pottery and painting art class.

Photographs and contact sheets from the 1980 featuring faculty, staff and students.  Also included are athletics pictures, Camp Mack Day, President Robinson, theater, the radio station, students playing the chime, and many other images.  Many pictures are identified.

Photographs, contact sheets and negatives for the purposes of Media and Public Relations. January 1997 through December 1997.

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

Photographs, contact sheets and negatives for the purposes of Media and Public Relations. August 1999 through December 1999.

• 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. 

Slides, Transparencies and News Clips From the Office of Public Relations including Manchester College campus and classroom scenes, athletic and other events, faculty, staff, students and images from the North Manchester area.

Articles related to Manchester University(2015) include but are not limited to:

Abigail Fuller (minimum wage), Phil Wright (emergency doctor back on the front line), Gerad Good (men's basketball head coach), Benson Onyeji (Iran agreement), Tiana Maclin and Aja Michael (millennials honored), Heather Schilling (call on teachers), Leonard Williams, Thelma Rohrer and Tim Ogden (new deans), social work program earns perfect reaccreditation score, volunteers clean Eel River,college sexual-assault rules, Adam Hohman (online education), MU exemplifies career pathway programs, Nicole Sauder (Teacher of the Week), Lisa Updike Starks (Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award), Chris Garber (illness and obituary),  President Dave McFadden (seek out and learn from those who are different, Wanda Will Button), Pharmacogenomics Master's Degree, MU one of "Best in Midwest,'" Brad Pyrah (married same-sex couples and tax season), student newspaper wins statewide awards, students selected (Inaugural Fellows for a new Greater Fort Wayne Inc.), Holly Beer ("Vote 'yes' for Fremont Community Schools"), MU degree first of kind (genetic-based drugs wave of future), antidiscrimination policy at MU(sexual orientation and gender identity), Dwight Farringer (interest in science shouldn't be discouraged), Ahmed Abdelmageed (adding pharmacists to health care team), Tim McElwee - Melanie Harmon (VP for Academic Resources, Names Advancement Leader), Mark Huntington (Associate Dean for Natural and Health Sciences), Jack Gochenaur (Nonprofit CFO of the Year), death of Rowan Daggett, Emma Nellans (working with an autistic child), death of Bill Scott, Maggie Wimberly (Wabash Habitat for Humanity), MU honors Bob Keller and Dee Keller, Athletic Hall of Fame inductees [(Donna (Shively )Moudy, Heather (Harshman) Turk, Todd Saylor, Todd Saunders, Joe Phillips, Andy McClain] ,Holiday Community Events, Robert Pettit (Disneyland), Tiana Maclin (recognized for community involvement), Whitney Caudill (member of  Embassy Theatre board and board member of YMCA Northeast Indiana.), pharmacy students (link between DNA and medical results), K-3 students experience MU during "Walk Into My Future" event, 2015, "Manchester U. Launches First-of-Its-Kind Degree," Brian Henriksen poison ivy), colleges and universities collaborate to align with business work-force needs," campus lockdown following threats, Graduation 2015 Set for May 17,"MU Men's Tennis .500 for Weekend," "MU Baseball Team Geared up for Conference Tourney," Neil Wollman (Democrats need to unite to defeat Pence), MU's program expands academic offerings, "Small schools sidestep Sweet Briar's struggles," Debra Futa (director of the St. Joseph County Public Library), Deanna Beckner (Faith in Action Award from  Office of Religious Life), honoring Rachel Polando (in photo with student, Emma Scheumann), Jim Brumbaugh-Smith, and Katharine Ings, promotions of Tim McElwee, Melanie Harmon and Raylene Respond, Christer Watson (GOP quashes climate change research), Judd Case (Chess Camp), String Camp (Robert Lynn,  Elizabeth Smith, Scott Humphries), Robotics (Robin Mitchell).

Manchester College in the news during 2011, including; the deaths of alumni, Alina BigJohny and Jennifer Haskell (Indiana State Fair stage collapse), one rainy morning Manchester's peace studies students appear on ABC's "Good Morning America's" segment  "My Three Words" ("Work for peace. Rain or shine),  MC starts construction of School of Pharmacy, Christer Watson, associate professor of physics at MC (Pluto review), Coach Shannon  Griffith (Spartan football), Manchester has highest enrollment in forty years.

Newspaper spread: Promotional: "Rotogravuer, The News-Sentinel," Saturday, November 8, 1947.

Visual media from Public Relations that came from the Administration Building during the office moves of 2012. Many pictures of students, events, and faculty/staff circa the mid to late 1990's.  Pictures from other years offer campus scenes, Fall 2003 Service Day at North Mandchester Historical Society, Fun Fest and more.

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. 

Description of Spartan Coin and first three recipients.

• Man dressed as a Spartan.
• Man on Horse dressed as a Spartan.
• Spartan logo.

Spartanettes records.

Spartans, the history behind the name.

Booklet entitled, "Antioch Notes," 15 September 1925, "Tobacco and Scholarship."

See Also: "Spartan Chew Crew," MC2009/11.

One encapsulated newspaper collage with segments from other newspapers and typed copy related and unrelated to Manchester College.

Captions include:

• Widow Sole Heir in Coolidge Will
• Hangs Self in Barn
• Relief of Sneezing Girl is Attributed to Own Will Power
• Rosanna Huff, Sophomore, Chosen to Head State Group Next Year
• Prominent Manchester College Senior Wins State Honors, Father Hears Son's Speech
• Will Rogers Says--
• Spartans to Meet Bluffton and Huntington Colleges in Twin-Bill Here Saturday Evening

Numerous programs, photographs, publications and items of interest about Manchester College received from Wayne Van Der Wheele, alumnus, MC Class of 1949.

Manchester Symphony Orchestera, programs from the 1940's.

One copy of "Manifesto," Vol. 1, No. 14, "Above All Nations is Humanity," April 1947, published monthly by the journalism section of Students for Federal World Government of Manchester College, Editor in chief, Cecil Powell.

Materials from the Office of the Vice President of Manchester College.