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

Items from Advancement: 2005 MC Alumni Days and Homecoming images, copy of the 1922 Chime Dedication program, materials related to the dedication of "Wilbur's," 2013 (including the McFadden Family Tree), materials related to the Science Center dedication, invitation to the Physical Education and Recreation Center (PERC) dedication, 2007 College Union dedication program and related materials, 2006 program for the groundbreaking of the remodeling of the College Union with printed images from that event, invitation list, groundbreaking program, "Legacy" mailings: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Fiscal Year President's Report and Honor Roll," 2014 and 2015 issues of "Manchester Magazine," President's Circle Donor Wall plaque ordering information, alumni Memorial Service programs, 2017 and 2018.

Aurora Photograph Collection 2001.  Many photographs are identified, including but not limited to:

• Campus Ministry Board, photograph #84.
• NRHH #83.
• Manchester College Reconcilliation Services #81.
• Photographs of international students #14, #16.
• Amnesty International #13.
• Homecoming.

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

Centennial Slide Show - a historical overview of Manchester College. Note: These slides were digitized. 

This file includes a wide variety of materials related to conscientious objection including tax resistance, draft counseling, correspondence related to Indiana Draft Counseling (1950's and 1970's), and peace related events.

See also: Civilian Public Service; Conscientious Objection Citations in the Gospel Messenger; Compulsory Military service; Convocations Cassettes Collection Tape 513 (21 April 1997); Selective Service System.

Conscientious Objection: Draft Counselor's Kit

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

• Material related to Allen Deeter, Religion and Philosophy.
• Allen Deeter: "What Kind of Pacifist Are You," from the BVS Training Unit, 10 August 1973.
• Allen Deeter: Thomas Cowley correspondence.

Correspondence, 1958 -1978 including but not limited to: Gladdys Muir's retirement, Peace Studies News-Letters from Gladdys Muir with handwritten notes, Memo from MC Treasurer regarding Gladdys Muir's library and retirement matters, the effect that a resignation would have on the Peace Studies program, Deeter's doctoral thesis, Conflict Resolution proposal, discussions with Professor William Schuhle, Ken Brown, Grady Snyder, Donald E. Miller, Dale Aukerman, and Linda Rehfeldt.

Materials related to: Council for Intercultural Studies and Programs, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Environmental Studies at Manchester, Brethren Volunteer Service, India 1973, 1978, India Delegation, 1975-1976, On Earth Peace, Testimony to Senate Subcommittee on Education - United States Peace Academy, On Earth Peace Academy, 1975-1976, World Without War Council, 1976. Deeter syllabi, papers, and Brethren Heritage materials.

Faculty and Staff photographs. Most are identified.

Food Service records with brochures, general material and assorted menus.

Food Service: Banquet menus (1977-1983), brochures, Polynesian Party flyer, information sheets.

See Also: The News-Journal, 28 August 2002 p.9;  Oak Leaves,  21 October 1943, p.4; 23 April 1964 p.3; 17 September 1964 p.2; 6 December 1967, p.2; 10 January 1968, p.2; 24 January 1968, p.1; 28 February 1968, p.1, 2; 7 April 1971, p.1; 9 November 1971, p.2; 16 November 1971, p.2; 14 December 1971, p.3; 11 September 1973, p.4; 14 October 1977, p.1; 4 May 1984, p.1.

Food Service Records

Newspaper article: "New Oaks Sets Collegiate Atmosphere."

Photographs pertaining to "The Oaks" in it's various locations through the decades.  History of the various locations ot "The Oaks."

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

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.

Files of the Northern Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren Historical Committee, historical resources,  and congregational surveys. Information related to the following congregations:

Arnold's Grove, Auburn, Baugo, Beacon Heights, Cedar Lake, Forest Grove, Goshen, Goshen City, Middlebury, Osceola, New Paris, North Liberty, North Webster, Pine Creek, Plymouth, Rock Run, South Bend City, Syracuse, Union, Wakarusa, Wawaka, and Camp Alexander Mack 65th anniversary celebration.

"MCRS is a program designed to help Manchester College students resolve conflicts.  With the help of a small, trained listening panel, composed of students and peers, you can settle a dispute.  The panel assists while you and the other party share all sides of the conflict and work together to create an acceptable resolution.  The resolution is not legally binding, and the entire process is free, voluntary, and confidential."  --from a brochure produced by MCRS .

See Also: Photograph #81 in Aurora Photograph Collection 2001, MC2004/408.

Materials related to the students who were employed as a "normal" in a control group against individuals who were "less than normal," or having some sort of medical deficiency or problem. The studies took place at the National Institute of Health.

Two photographs of the "Oaks," the college café, circa 1948.

Materials related to the Office of Printing Services.

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

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

Baccalaureate and Commencement Aurora Photograph Collection, 2001. Box 191 contains student, faculty, and staff portraits that appeared in the 2001 edition of the Aurora.  Each photograph is labeled with the subject's name. Box 193 contains 6 CD-ROMs and photographs.

Plan of campus development developed by Metropolitan Planners and MCRS, 1958-1960 in the A. Blair Helman papers.

See Powderpuff Football, photo #51, in Aurora Photograph Collection 2001.  This picture is part of a larger collection accessioned as MC2004/408.

Print Shop: Photo showing individual working in print shop with typesetting equipment and press in the background.

Printing Office Correspondence Collection.

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. 

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.

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.

Selective Service System Records.

Programs: 1961 Junior-Senior Reception, 1960 "Passport to Romance," Valentine Banquet and Dance, "Touch O' Blarney" featuring symphony, dinner, tea, Dad's Meal in the Oaks, and Mom's Day, 1960 "All-Sports Banquet."

Basketball season record 1969 - 1960."

1959 Tennis, Cross Country, and Football Schedule.

1958 campus calendar.

September 1959 Edition of "Oak Leaves," with article about cheerleaders including "Mary Ann Weck."

Images of Jo Young Switzer as Manchester student, professor, Vice President and Dean for Academic affairs (1993), and as President (December 2004) assembled as an exhibition in honor of Jo's retirement. Accompanying notebook of audience reflections.

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

1.  Letter to Sabra written and signed by Dan West on Church of the Brethren General Brotherhood Board stationery.

2.  Christmas letter from the West Family to Sabra and her family with a handwritten personal note on the verso by Dan West.

3.  Exhibit A: One article by Sabra (Baker) Staley (Unit 11, 1951) entitled "A Sign Along th e Road."  This is a story about how Sabra came to join Brethren Volunteer Service and accepted an assignment in Castener, Puerto Rico, in years 1951-1952.

3.  Exhibit B:  One color copy of Dan West's name and address in the family guestbook, circa 1952.

4.  Letter with vignettes about Dan West and Sabra's family.

5.  The story of the "henna-haired landlady."

"Living the Story, 50 Years of Brethren Volunteer Service," 1998."

Program booklet for the Church of the Brethren, 60th Anniversary BVS (Brethren Volunteer Service) Reunion, Falfurrias, Texas, March 2008, Brethren Service Farm. The booklet contains a history of the Falfurrias Brethren Voluntary Service Project with reports compiled by Pearl Whitcher and Anna Patrick.  Booklet Committee: Nelson Yoder & Stanley Bittinger.

• List of pastors and other church leaders - Falfurrias, Texas.
• List of Brethren Service Project Volunteers from the first unit in 1948.
• Falfurrias BVS Volunteers and interested persons mailing list accurate as of May, 2008.
• Copies of historical photographs.
• Description of 2008 reunion.

See Also: Oak Leaves 15 September 1960 p.2; 17 September 1964 p.1; 28 January 1965 p.1. 

See also:  Volunteer services.

This assortment of Church of the Brethren Materials includes but is not limited to: Southern Indiana legal drafts and documents - Brethren Service Commission statement regarding police action in Korea - Minutes of the Brethren Service Commission - Report of NY Relocation Hostel to the Committee for Resettlement of Japanese-Americans,1944 - Guiding principles and objectives of Brethren Service - Boni (ponee) family history - Mount Morris Church of the Brethren accomplishments and goals - Junior High Church School - "Account of the Society of Dunkards in Pennsylvania," 1786, from Lancaster to Ephrata - History of the Olympia, Virginia Church of the Brethren, Virginia - May 1930, Bulletin of La Verne College - "Echo," January 1960 - "Hier is des echo auf das Echo der Hamburger Gruppe." ICYE Exchange 1958/1959 - John David Bowman - Global Women's Project, "Globalink," Issue No. 21 1994 and No. 25 - Report to Heifer Committee January 1946, Brethren Shipment to Poland - 1944 report on Heifers for Relief Shipment Number 1 to Puerto Rico - Bethany Seminary 1941 graduates - Death of Mary Leedy - Appraisal of the Indiana Home Mission Extension Committee,1964 - Program, 129th District Conference of the Northern Indiana District - "Dedication Memorial and Membership Directory" for the Wenatchee Valley Church of the Brethren, 1929  - Winona's Greatest Convention, Church of the Brethren Conference - George Brubaker's handwritten notes on church practice -  Women in the church - unique and powerful - March 1999 and 1978 News Release citing female participation in a nationwide Gathering of Church of the Brethren Women - Universal Military Training vs the American Way, Kermit Eby's testimony before the House Armed Services Committee,1947 -"The Third Day," 1998, quarterly newsletter by the Office of Brethren Witness Environmental Working Group - "Sourvenir of McPherson College, 1904," photo album.- Information about "Liberty Cemetery," Orange County, Indiana - Listing and dates of Church of the Brethren congregations within Indiana along with districts and mother churches- Old German Baptist Brethren congregations in Canada, and in the United State - script, "The Missionary Awakening of Elm Grove," written by a Class in mission at Bethany Bible School - General Brotherhood Board and Commissions Agenda," 1952,Warren Bowman.

A variety of materials regarding the Church of the Brethren collected during the ages. "Academy for Church Leadership," Summer Intensive, 1987 - "Volunteer Service in the Local Church," featuring New Windsor BVS class with Dan West - 1987 newsletter from the COB Washington Office featuring Ronald Reagan and the Central American Peace Agreement - 1988 newsletter from the COB Washington Office featuring, "Civil Rights at Critical Juncture" - Minutes of District Meeting of Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, 1902, 1908,1940, 1954, 1955, 1960 - "Jesus Christ - Our Hope," Indiana Brethren Young Adult Retreat, 1976 (Warstler, Carter) - Three year Reading Course for Licensed Ministers - Eldership Ordination1965, Manchester/Liberty Mills COB.

Compulsory Military Service Article Collection, including:

"Atom Bomb May Kill Draft Issue" Chicago Daily News 16 October 1945

"Atom Boosts G.I.'s Value" Chicago Daily News 17 October 1945

Letter to Harry S. Truman regarding compulsory military service from historic peace churches.

Weaver, E. Paul.  "From UMT to Peace."

Weaver, E. Paul. "Keep America Free from Military Regimentation."

Weaver, E. Paul.  Untitled document.

L. W. Shultz Compulsory Military Service Postcard Collection:

1-4    BW political cartoon protesting compulsory military service.  Circa 1948.  Produced by Brethren Service Commission, General Brotherhood Board.  Unused cards.

5-13    Quote from Hitler's Mein Kampf regarding compulsory military service.  Circa 1948.  Produced by Brethren Service Commission, General Brotherhood Board.  Unused cards.

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