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Shank, David Arthur (1924-2010)

2020-12-08T11:21:48Z

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[[File:David and Wilma Shank.jpg|thumb|David and Wilma Hollopeter Shank. Photo courtesy Mennonite Church USA Archives]]
David Arthur Shank was born 7 October 1924 in [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville, Ohio]], the sixth child of Charles L. and [[Shank, Crissie Yoder (1888-1929)|Crissie (Yoder) Shank]], one-time Mennonite missionaries to [[India|India]] (1915-1919). During [[World War (1939-1945) - Germany|World War II]] (1943-1946), Shank served for three years with [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] working in soil conservation and public health. He married Wilma E. Hollopeter of Sharon City, Ohio, in 1948 and together they had four children, Michael, Stephen, Crissie and Rachel.

Shank’s educational background included Goshen High School (1942, with letters in debate, orchestra, and chorus), [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1948, Bachelors in Sociology), [[Goshen Biblical Seminary (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen Biblical Seminary]] (1952, Bachelor of Divinity, with supplementary studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Brussels and the Free University of [[Brussels (Belgium)|Brussels]]), Eastern Baptist Seminary (1956, Master of Divinity) and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (1980, Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies). Shank’s three-volume PhD dissertation focused on the life, thought, and ministry of the Liberian prophet William Wade Harris—a comprehensive study which in 1994 was abridged by Jocelyn Murray and published as Prophet Harris, the “Black Elijah” of West Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill).

Over a period of nearly four decades, Shank and his wife, Wilma, served with [[Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church)|Mennonite Board of Missions]], first in [[Belgium|Belgium]] (1950-1973) and then West Africa (1979-1989). In Belgium, the Shanks ministered to immigrants, provided emergency relief and care for war orphans, launched the first Mennonite church in the country after a hiatus of nearly three and a half centuries and created the Brussels Mennonite Center. In the early years of their Belgium assignment, Shank joined seven other American Mennonite men living in Europe—former relief workers, missionaries, university students—to assess the European post-war spiritual, ecclesiastical, and religious situation and to reflect on their own Mennonite calling and vocation in that setting. In preparation for the group’s first meeting in January 1952, Shank prepared a paper he entitled, “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society.” This essay and other papers produced over the next two decades by what became informally-known as the “Concern Group” resulted in an entire [[Concern Pamphlets Movement|Concern pamphlet series]] focusing upon the condition of the American Mennonite church in relation to its founding principles.

Many North American Mennonite service workers heading for francophone Africa studied French in [[Brussels (Belgium)|Brussels]], Belgium, before continuing on to their assignments in [[Algeria|Algeria]] or the [[Congo, Democratic Republic of|Congo]]. In Brussels, they met and were ofttimes hosted by David and Wilma Shank. These encounters, along with a growing number of Africans traveling through or residing in Belgium, planted early seeds for what became a second career for the Shanks. Through contacts with members of the Kimbanguist Church in the Congo, Shank became interested in the rapidly growing [[African Independent Churches|African-initiated churches]] (AICs) across the continent. To pursue that interest, he began doctoral studies in 1976 at the University of Aberdeen under the supervision of three prominent “Africanist” church and mission historians—Drs. Andrew Walls, Harold W. Turner, and Adrian Hastings. The Shanks eventually served for ten years in West Africa (1979-1989), laying the groundwork for Mennonite ministries in [[Côte d'Ivoire|Ivory Coast]] and Benin, building relationships with AICs across the region, hosting pan-African consultations with AIC leaders and other Western mission workers, and teaching in a wide-range of ecumenical and academic institutions.

A collection of Shank’s writings on both his European and African mission experience—including “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society,” “Discovering the Strategy of the Spirit,” “What Western Christians Can Learn from African-Initiated Churches,” “A Religious Itinerary from African Traditional Religion to New Testament Faith,” and “Qualities That Enable Mennonites to Relate to African-Initiated Churches”—were compiled, edited, and published in 2010 by James R. Krabill under the title, Mission from the Margins. A complete bibliography of Shank’s writings is included there on pages 341-351.
= Bibliography =
Krabill, James R., editor. Mission from the Margins: Selected Writings from the Life and Ministry of David A. Shank. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2010.

Shank, David A. “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 28, no. 1 (January 1954): 39-55.


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2020-12-08T11:15:26Z

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David and Wilma Hollopeter Shank

Shank, David Arthur (1924-2010)

2020-12-08T11:08:04Z

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David Arthur Shank was born 7 October 1924 in [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville, Ohio]], the sixth child of Charles L. and [[Shank, Crissie Yoder (1888-1929)|Crissie (Yoder) Shank]], one-time Mennonite missionaries to [[India|India]] (1915-1919). During [[World War (1939-1945) - Germany|World War II]] (1943-1946), Shank served for three years with [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] working in soil conservation and public health. He married Wilma E. Hollopeter of Sharon City, Ohio, in 1948 and together they had four children, Michael, Stephen, Crissie and Rachel.

Shank’s educational background included Goshen High School (1942, with letters in debate, orchestra, and chorus), [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1948, Bachelors in Sociology), [[Goshen Biblical Seminary (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen Biblical Seminary]] (1952, Bachelor of Divinity, with supplementary studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Brussels and the Free University of [[Brussels (Belgium)|Brussels]]), Eastern Baptist Seminary (1956, Master of Divinity) and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (1980, Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies). Shank’s three-volume PhD dissertation focused on the life, thought, and ministry of the Liberian prophet William Wade Harris—a comprehensive study which in 1994 was abridged by Jocelyn Murray and published as Prophet Harris, the “Black Elijah” of West Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill).

Over a period of nearly four decades, Shank and his wife, Wilma, served with [[Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church)|Mennonite Board of Missions]], first in [[Belgium|Belgium]] (1950-1973) and then West Africa (1979-1989). In Belgium, the Shanks ministered to immigrants, provided emergency relief and care for war orphans, launched the first Mennonite church in the country after a hiatus of nearly three and a half centuries and created the Brussels Mennonite Center. In the early years of their Belgium assignment, Shank joined seven other American Mennonite men living in Europe—former relief workers, missionaries, university students—to assess the European post-war spiritual, ecclesiastical, and religious situation and to reflect on their own Mennonite calling and vocation in that setting. In preparation for the group’s first meeting in January 1952, Shank prepared a paper he entitled, “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society.” This essay and other papers produced over the next two decades by what became informally-known as the “Concern Group” resulted in an entire [[Concern Pamphlets Movement|Concern pamphlet series]] focusing upon the condition of the American Mennonite church in relation to its founding principles.

Many North American Mennonite service workers heading for francophone Africa studied French in [[Brussels (Belgium)|Brussels]], Belgium, before continuing on to their assignments in [[Algeria|Algeria]] or the [[Congo, Democratic Republic of|Congo]]. In Brussels, they met and were ofttimes hosted by David and Wilma Shank. These encounters, along with a growing number of Africans traveling through or residing in Belgium, planted early seeds for what became a second career for the Shanks. Through contacts with members of the Kimbanguist Church in the Congo, Shank became interested in the rapidly growing [[African Independent Churches|African-initiated churches]] (AICs) across the continent. To pursue that interest, he began doctoral studies in 1976 at the University of Aberdeen under the supervision of three prominent “Africanist” church and mission historians—Drs. Andrew Walls, Harold W. Turner, and Adrian Hastings. The Shanks eventually served for ten years in West Africa (1979-1989), laying the groundwork for Mennonite ministries in [[Côte d'Ivoire|Ivory Coast]] and Benin, building relationships with AICs across the region, hosting pan-African consultations with AIC leaders and other Western mission workers, and teaching in a wide-range of ecumenical and academic institutions.

A collection of Shank’s writings on both his European and African mission experience—including “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society,” “Discovering the Strategy of the Spirit,” “What Western Christians Can Learn from African-Initiated Churches,” “A Religious Itinerary from African Traditional Religion to New Testament Faith,” and “Qualities That Enable Mennonites to Relate to African-Initiated Churches”—were compiled, edited, and published in 2010 by James R. Krabill under the title, Mission from the Margins. A complete bibliography of Shank’s writings is included there on pages 341-351.
= Bibliography =
Krabill, James R., editor. Mission from the Margins: Selected Writings from the Life and Ministry of David A. Shank. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 2010.

Shank, David A. “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 28, no. 1 (January 1954): 39-55.


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Shank, David Arthur (1924-2010)

2020-12-08T10:59:41Z

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Shank, David Arthur (1924-2010)

2020-12-08T10:57:11Z

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Shank, David Arthur (1924-2010)

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David Arthur Shank was born 7 October 1924 in [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville, Ohio]], the sixth child of Charles L. and [[Shank, Crissie Yoder (1888-1929)|Crissie (Yoder) Shank]], one-time Mennonite missionaries to [[India|India]] (1915-1919). During [[World War (1939-1945) - Germany|World War II]] (1943-1946), Shank served for three years with [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] working in soil conservation and public health. He married Wilma E. Hollopeter of Sharon City, Ohio, in 1948 and together they had four children, Michael, Stephen, Crissie and Rachel.

Shank’s educational background included Goshen High School (1942, with letters in debate, orchestra, and chorus), [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1948, Bachelors in Sociology), [[Goshen Biblical Seminary (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen Biblical Seminary]] (1952, Bachelor of Divinity, with supplementary studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Brussels and the Free University of [[Brussels (Belgium)|Brussels]]), Eastern Baptist Seminary (1956, Master of Divinity) and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (1980, Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies). Shank’s three-volume PhD dissertation focused on the life, thought, and ministry of the Liberian prophet William Wade Harris—a comprehensive study which in 1994 was abridged by Jocelyn Murray and published as Prophet Harris, the “Black Elijah” of West Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill).

Over a period of nearly four decades, Shank and his wife, Wilma, served with Mennonite Board of Missions, first in Belgium (1950-1973) and then West Africa (1979-1989). In Belgium, the Shanks ministered to immigrants, provided emergency relief and care for war orphans, launched the first Mennonite church in the country after a hiatus of nearly three and a half centuries and created the Brussels Mennonite Center. In the early years of their Belgium assignment, Shank joined seven other American Mennonite men living in Europe—former relief workers, missionaries, university students—to assess the European post-war spiritual, ecclesiastical, and religious situation and to reflect on their own Mennonite calling and vocation in that setting. In preparation for the group’s first meeting in January 1952, Shank prepared a paper he entitled, “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society.” This essay and other papers produced over the next two decades by what became informally-known as the “Concern Group” resulted in an entire Concern pamphlet series focusing upon the condition of the American Mennonite church in relation to its founding principles.

Many North American Mennonite service workers heading for francophone Africa studied French in Brussels, Belgium, before continuing on to their assignments in Algeria or the Congo. In Brussels, they met and were ofttimes hosted by David and Wilma Shank. These encounters, along with a growing number of Africans traveling through or residing in Belgium, planted early seeds for what became a second career for the Shanks. Through contacts with members of the Kimbanguist Church in the Congo, Shank became interested in the rapidly growing African-initiated churches (AICs) across the continent. To pursue that interest, he began doctoral studies in 1976 at the University of Aberdeen under the supervision of three prominent “Africanist” church and mission historians—Drs. Andrew Walls, Harold W. Turner, and Adrian Hastings. The Shanks eventually served for ten years in West Africa (1979-1989), laying the groundwork for Mennonite ministries in Ivory Coast and Benin, building relationships with AICs across the region, hosting pan-African consultations with AIC leaders and other Western mission workers, and teaching in a wide-range of ecumenical and academic institutions.

A collection of Shank’s writings on both his European and African mission experience—including “A Missionary Approach to a Dechristianized Society,” “Discovering the Strategy of the Spirit,” “What Western Christians Can Learn from African-Initiated Churches,” “A Religious Itinerary from African Traditional Religion to New Testament Faith,” and “Qualities That Enable Mennonites to Relate to African-Initiated Churches”—were compiled, edited, and published in 2010 by James R. Krabill under the title, Mission from the Margins. A complete bibliography of Shank’s writings is included there on pages 341-351.

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GAMEO:About

2020-05-15T17:01:35Z

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=== Introduction ===
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[[File:Roth JohnD.jpg|200px|thumbnail|''John D. Roth'']]
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=== Management and Editorial Committees ===
[[File:Management Board 2017.jpg|300px|thumbnail|''GAMEO Management Board, May 2017. L-R: Sam Steiner (Associate, Editor, Kitchener, Ont.), Jason Kauffman (Elkhart, Ind.), Jon Isaak (Winnipeg, Man.), Richard Thiessen (Retiring Managing Editor, Abbotsford, B.C., Eric Kurtz (Goshen, Ind.), John D. Roth (General Editor, Goshen, Ind.), Bert Friesen (Chair, Winnipeg, Man.). Absent: Ken Sensenig (Akron, Pa.), Alf Redekopp (Associate Editor, St. Catharines, Ont.)'']]

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Rohrer, Warren Eby (1927-1995)

2020-05-14T10:21:44Z

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[[File:Rohrer Warren.jpg|thumb|Warren Eby Rohrer, circa 1955. Scan courtesy of the Rohrer family]]
Abstract painter Warren Eby Rohrer was born in Smoketown, [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], on 4 December, 1927, to Israel D. Rohrer (1902-1988) and Edna (Eby) Rohrer (1902-1951). The eldest of five siblings, Warren grew up on a poultry farm and attended public school, demonstrating at an early age a talent for drawing. He joined [[Mellinger Mennonite Church (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)|Mellinger Mennonite Church]] and attended [[Lancaster Mennonite School (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster Mennonite High School]], from which he graduated in 1945. In the fall of that year he enrolled in [[Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)|Eastern Mennonite College]] to study Bible in preparation for the ministry. After also taking art education courses at nearby Madison College, Warren graduated with bachelor’s degrees from both institutions.

In 1948, he married Martha Jane Turner (b. 1928), daughter of Charles Casper Turner (1900-1985) and Mildred (Shoemaker) Turner (1901-1969), of [[Broadway (Virginia, USA)|Broadway]], [[Virginia (USA)|Virginia]]. The couple had two children, sons Jon Warren (b. 1952) and Dean Michael (b. 1953). Jane supported her husband’s artistic career and later published collections of her own poetry. During the 1950s, Warren studied painting at The Pennsylvania State University over the course of three summers, and took evening classes at [[Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)|Philadelphia]] institutions while teaching high school. In 1961 the Rohrers moved to a farm near Christiana, [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, where Warren converted the barn into a painting studio. He joined the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) in 1967, and exhibited his work in Philadelphia and New York. After the Rohrers moved to Philadelphia in 1984, Warren often returned to [[Lancaster (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster]] to photograph and sketch the agriculturally altered landscape that inspired his final, large paintings. He died on 21 February 1995, at the age of 64. His work is housed in private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

= Bibliography =
Carrier, David and Elaine Mehalakes. Warren Rohrer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Locks Art Publications and Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, 2016.

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson, eds. Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer. State College, Pennsylvania: The Palmer Museum of Art, 2020.

Oral history interview with Warren Rohrer by Marina Pacini, March 9, 1989–June 1, 1989, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-warren-rohrer-12993


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Rohrer, Warren Eby (1927-1995)

2020-05-14T10:19:16Z

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[[File:Rohrer Warren.jpg|thumb|Warren Eby Rohrer, circa 1955. Scan courtesy of the Rohrer family]]
Abstract painter Warren Eby Rohrer was born in Smoketown, [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], on 4 December, 1927, to Israel D. Rohrer (1902-1988) and Edna (Eby) Rohrer (1902-1951). The eldest of five siblings, Warren grew up on a poultry farm and attended public school, demonstrating at an early age a talent for drawing. He joined [[Mellinger Mennonite Church (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)|Mellinger Mennonite Church]] and attended [[Lancaster Mennonite School (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster Mennonite High School]], from which he graduated in 1945. In the fall of that year he enrolled in [[Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)|Eastern Mennonite College]] to study Bible in preparation for the ministry. After also taking art education courses at nearby Madison College, Warren graduated with bachelor’s degrees from both institutions.

In 1948, he married Martha Jane Turner (b. 1928), daughter of Charles Casper Turner (1900-1985) and Mildred (Shoemaker) Turner (1901-1969), of [[Broadway (Virginia, USA)|Broadway]], [[Virginia (USA)|Virginia]]. The couple had two children, sons Jon Warren (b. 1952) and Dean Michael (b. 1953). Jane supported her husband’s artistic career and later published collections of her own poetry. During the 1950s, Warren studied painting at The Pennsylvania State University over the course of three summers, and took evening classes at [[Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)|Philadelphia]] institutions while teaching high school. In 1961 the Rohrers moved to a farm near Christiana, [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, where Warren converted the barn into a painting studio. He joined the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) in 1967, and exhibited his work in Philadelphia and New York. After the Rohrers moved to Philadelphia in 1984, Warren often returned to [[Lancaster (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster]] to photograph and sketch the agriculturally altered landscape that inspired his final, large paintings. He died on 21 February 1995, at the age of 64. His work is housed in private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

= Bibliography =
Carrier, David and Elaine Mehalakes. Warren Rohrer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Locks Art Publications and Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, 2016.

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson, eds. Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer. State College, Pennsylvania: The Palmer Museum of Art, 2020.

Oral history interview with Warren Rohrer by Marina Pacini, March 9, 1989–June 1, 1989, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-warren-rohrer-12993


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Schrock, Alta Elizabeth (1911-2001)

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[[File:Schrock Alta.jpg|thumb|Alta Elizabeth Schrock, 1947. Scan courtesy Goshen College Archives]]
Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the [[Amigo Center (Sturgis, Michigan, USA)|Mennonite Youth Village]] in White Pigeon, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISTA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

= Bibliography =
Dueck, Jack. “Alta Schrock: A Pragmatic Visionary.” Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business, eds. Calvin Wall Redekop and Benjamin W. Redekop. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996.

Hunsberger, Mary Lou. “The Life of Dr. Alta Schrock.” Mennonite Historical Library (term paper) 1961-1962, John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest, Mennonite Historical Library. Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

Kauffman, Jason B. [http://mennoniteusa.org/archives-2/biology-service-archival-traces-mennonite-environmentalist-thought/ “Biology for Service: Archival Traces of Mennonite Environmentalist Thought.”] Menno Snapshots Blog, 21 December 2016.

Miller, Susan Fisher. Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 1994.

== Archives ==
Alta Schrock Oral History Recordings, Leonard Gross Papers, 1530-2018, HM1-447, Mennonite Church USA Archives, Elkhart, Indiana. https://mac.libraryhost.com/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=1760


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Schrock, Alta Elizabeth (1911-2001)

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[[File:Schrock Alta.jpg|thumb|Alta Elizabeth Schrock, 1947. Scan courtesy Goshen College Archives]]
Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the [[Amigo Center (Sturgis, Michigan, USA)|Mennonite Youth Village]] in White Pigeon, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

= Bibliography =
Dueck, Jack. “Alta Schrock: A Pragmatic Visionary.” Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business, eds. Calvin Wall Redekop and Benjamin W. Redekop. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996.

Hunsberger, Mary Lou. “The Life of Dr. Alta Schrock.” Mennonite Historical Library (term paper) 1961-1962, John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest, Mennonite Historical Library. Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

Kauffman, Jason B. [http://mennoniteusa.org/archives-2/biology-service-archival-traces-mennonite-environmentalist-thought/ “Biology for Service: Archival Traces of Mennonite Environmentalist Thought.”] Menno Snapshots Blog, 21 December 2016.

Miller, Susan Fisher. Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 1994.

== Archives ==
Alta Schrock Oral History Recordings, Leonard Gross Papers, 1530-2018, HM1-447, Mennonite Church USA Archives, Elkhart, Indiana. https://mac.libraryhost.com/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=1760


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Schrock, Alta Elizabeth (1911-2001)

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[[File:Schrock Alta.jpg|thumb|Alta Elizabeth Schrock, 1947. Scan courtesy Goshen College Archives]]
Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the [[Amigo Center (Sturgis, Michigan, USA)|Mennonite Youth Village]] in White Pigeon, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

= Bibliography =
Dueck, Jack. “Alta Schrock: A Pragmatic Visionary.” Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business, eds. Calvin Wall Redekop and Benjamin W. Redekop. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996.

Hunsberger, Mary Lou. “The Life of Dr. Alta Schrock.” Mennonite Historical Library (term paper) 1961-1962, John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest, Mennonite Historical Library. Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

Kauffman, Jason B. [http://mennoniteusa.org/archives-2/biology-service-archival-traces-mennonite-environmentalist-thought/ “Biology for Service: Archival Traces of Mennonite Environmentalist Thought.”] Menno Snapshots Blog, 21 December 2016.

Miller, Susan Fisher. Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 1994.


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Schrock, Alta Elizabeth (1911-2001)

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[[File:Schrock Alta.jpg|thumb|Alta Elizabeth Schrock, 1947. Scan courtesy Goshen College Archives]]
Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the Mennonite Youth Village in White Pigeon, Michigan, and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

= Bibliography =
Dueck, Jack. “Alta Schrock: A Pragmatic Visionary.” Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business, eds. Calvin Wall Redekop and Benjamin W. Redekop. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996.

Hunsberger, Mary Lou. “The Life of Dr. Alta Schrock.” Mennonite Historical Library (term paper) 1961-1962, John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest, Mennonite Historical Library. Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

Kauffman, Jason B. [http://mennoniteusa.org/archives-2/biology-service-archival-traces-mennonite-environmentalist-thought/ “Biology for Service: Archival Traces of Mennonite Environmentalist Thought.”] Menno Snapshots Blog, 21 December 2016.

Miller, Susan Fisher. Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 1994.


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Schrock, Alta Elizabeth (1911-2001)

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Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the Mennonite Youth Village in White Pigeon, Michigan, and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

= Bibliography =
Dueck, Jack. “Alta Schrock: A Pragmatic Visionary.” Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business, eds. Calvin Wall Redekop and Benjamin W. Redekop. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996.

Hunsberger, Mary Lou. “The Life of Dr. Alta Schrock.” Mennonite Historical Library (term paper) 1961-1962, John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest, Mennonite Historical Library. Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

Kauffman, Jason B. [http://mennoniteusa.org/archives-2/biology-service-archival-traces-mennonite-environmentalist-thought/ “Biology for Service: Archival Traces of Mennonite Environmentalist Thought.”] Menno Snapshots Blog, 21 December 2016.

Miller, Susan Fisher. Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 1994.


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Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the Mennonite Youth Village in White Pigeon, Michigan, and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

= Bibliography =
Dueck, Jack. “Alta Schrock: A Pragmatic Visionary.” Entrepreneurs in the Faith Community: Profiles of Mennonites in Business, eds. Calvin Wall Redekop and Benjamin W. Redekop. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1996.

Hunsberger, Mary Lou. “The Life of Dr. Alta Schrock.” Mennonite Historical Library (term paper) 1961-1962, John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest, Mennonite Historical Library. Goshen College, Goshen, IN.

Kauffman, Jason B. [http://mennoniteusa.org/archives-2/biology-service-archival-traces-mennonite-environmentalist-thought/ “Biology for Service: Archival Traces of Mennonite Environmentalist Thought.”] Menno Snapshots Blog, 21 December 2016.

Miller, Susan Fisher. Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994. Goshen, IN: Goshen College, 1994.


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Schrock, Alta Elizabeth (1911-2001)

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Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the Mennonite Youth Village in White Pigeon, Michigan, and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] in [[Berlin (Germany)|Berlin]], then spent eight months traveling alone in [[Europe|Europe]], researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the [[Miller family|Millers]]. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the [[Casselman River Conservative Amish Mennonite Congregation (Maryland/Pennsylvania, USA)|Casselman Valley]] and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of [[Springs Mennonite Church (Springs, Pennsylvania, USA)|Springs Mennonite Church]] in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in [[Garrett County Old Order Amish Settlement (Garrett County, Maryland, USA)|Garrett County]], Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

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Alta Elizabeth Schrock, humanitarian and environmentalist, is popularly known as the founder of Penn Alps Restaurant and Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]]. Schrock is also remembered as the first (Old) Mennonite woman to earn a PhD and retain her membership in the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]].

Born on 3 April 1911 to Alvin C. and Amelia (Miller) Schrock near Grantsville, Alta attended school at the [[Amish Mennonite Children's Home (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)|Amish Mennonite Children's Home]], an orphanage built on her grandfather’s farm, and Salisbury High School, across the Mason-Dixon Line in Salisbury, [[Somerset County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Somerset County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. During the 1930s, she wrote a column on nature, folklore, and local history for a weekly newspaper, the Meyersdale Republican. She attended Waynesburg College (AB 1937); University of Cincinnati, Oberlin College, and Kent State University (MS 1939) before earning a PhD in biology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1944. As a scholarship student at Waynesburg, she painted wildflowers onto hundreds of glass lantern slides for use in botany courses. Her doctoral dissertation focused on analysis of pollen recovered from test borings in Glade Bog, a wetland on Mount Davis several miles north of Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants, and moved some specimens to a similar bog in [[West Virginia (USA)|West Virginia]] and contributed others to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

In 1940-41 she taught biology and served as dean of women at [[Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)|Bluffton College]]. That spring she went home and shipped a truckload of trees and plants from Mount Davis to Bluffton College, where she supervised planting of a campus arboretum. In the early 1940s, she helped to establish [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] Camps at [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)|Bluffton, Indiana (#13)]]; [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Denison, Iowa, USA)|Denison, Iowa (#18)]], and [[Civilian Public Service Camp (Wells Tannery, Pennsylvania, USA)|Sideling Hill, Pennsylvania (#20)]]. She served as matron and practical nurse, but also published nature columns in camp newsletters and led the men on nature walks.

She taught anatomy, physiology and bacteriology to nursing students at American University (1944-46), then joined the faculty at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (1946-58). At Goshen she taught biology, anatomy and physiology, nature study, horticulture, and conservation, and developed “Biology for Rural Service,” which combined studies in soil conservation, community development, and church planting. During this time, she directed a chapter of the Audubon Society on campus and opened her home, Fliederhof, a relocated hay barn furnished with antiques, for weekly student gatherings. Additionally, she raised funds to establish the Mennonite Youth Village in White Pigeon, Michigan, and contributed articles to [[Gospel Herald (Periodical)|''Gospel Herald'']] and [[Mennonite Community, The (Periodical)|Mennonite Community]].

While on leave from Goshen in 1951-1954, she worked with refugees under Mennonite Central Committee in Berlin, then spent eight months traveling alone in Europe, researching traditional handicrafts and the origins of Amish families including the Millers. She taught for three more years at Goshen, but by the late 1950s, she longed to return to Appalachia in hopes of serving the people of the Casselman Valley and nearby mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. From 1960-1977 she taught biology at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, while advising its chapter of Intervarsity Fellowship.

A lifelong member of Springs Mennonite Church in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, she established the Springs Historical Society in 1957; and in 1958, instituted the annual Springs Folk Festival, the first of many projects to foster economic, social, and spiritual development in the region. She opened Penn Alps Restaurant and Crafts Shop in 1958 to market the work of local people, and in 1967 expanded the complex by relocating settlers’ log cabins and repurposing them as studios for pottery, weaving, woodcarving, and metal work, creating Spruce Forest Artisan Village. She was founding editor of The Casselman Chronicle (1961) and co-editor of Journal of the Alleghenies (1963), and in 1960 she published a history of the Joel B. Miller family. She started the first kindergarten in Garrett County, Maryland, and worked with VISA volunteers in community development efforts. Her devotion to the welfare and heritage of the region were recognized by her induction into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame in 1991, and in 2007 the Maryland State Arts Council created an award called the Achievement in Living Traditions and Arts (ALTA) Award, named in her honor. She died on 7 November 2001 in Cumberland, Maryland.

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Yoder, Joseph Warren (1872-1956)

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[[File:Yoder JW.jpg|thumb|J. W. Yoder, circa 1920. Scan courtesy Kermit Yoder (private collection)]]
Joseph Warren Yoder was born 22 September 1872 in the Kishacoquillas Valley of [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin County]], Pennsylvania, USA. He was the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder. Yoder portrayed Rosanna as the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants who was raised by an Amish woman in [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), which has sold more than 400,000 copies.

Following his graduation from Brethren Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, Yoder served for two years as principal of the Milroy High School. His charismatic personality and success as a teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, Greek, and light gymnastics from 1897 until 1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. In Chicago he boarded at the YMCA and embraced physical culture and progressive causes, such as temperance and women’s suffrage. In 1901 he returned to Juniata College to serve as the school’s first athletic director while completing a BA degree. Under the influence of M. G. Brumbaugh—pioneering [[Church of the Brethren|Church of the Brethren]] educator, historian, and later Pennsylvania Governor—Yoder wrote a short history of the Amish people, returned to his home community to notate Amish hymns, and published poems in English and Pennsylvania Dutch.

Following graduation from Juniata in 1904, he began to teach singing to public school teachers at teachers institutes, and to offer singing schools for [[Mennonite Church (MC)|(Old) Mennonites]], who were just beginning to permit four-part singing in worship. From 1905 through 1909, he taught logic and math while coaching basketball, baseball and debate teams at the Normal School in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Through the 1910s and ‘20s, he shared a home with John M. Hooley and his family in Richboro, Pennsylvania, and continued to maintain an itinerant schedule of teaching singing and musical literacy schools for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, River Brethren, and Amish Mennonites during the winter, then serving as musical director for teachers institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and other states during the summer. He annually published compilations of religious and secular songs, including his own proposed state song. In 1915, he also began serving as a traveling high school recruiter for Juniata College.

In 1932, at the age of 60, Yoder married Emily Lane and bought a home in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Provoked by stereotypes of “Dumb Dutch” and Amish people in popular novels by Helen R. Martin and Ruth Lininger Dobson, he determined to write a “true” account of his mother’s life and accurately to represent the virtues of Amish culture. S. Duane Kauffman has since shown that many of the details in Rosanna of the Amish cannot be reconciled with the historical record. Yoder published Amische Lieder (1942), a song book combining shaped notes and German text for hymns sung by the Amish in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, as well as some others. Although unappreciated by his intended Amish audience, this project was applauded by musicologists who had believed that the sixteenth century tunes for the [[Ausbund|Ausbund]] texts had been lost.

Yoder subsequently published Rosanna’s Boys (1949), a fragmented sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), a confrontation of congregational division, [[Shunning|shunning]], use of the [[German Language|German language]], meat eating, and other practices in Amish life that he regarded as unscriptural or unhealthy. This book was denounced by [[Erb, Paul (1894-1984)|Paul Erb]] in both Mennonite and Amish publications. Yoder’s final booklet, The Prayer Veil Analyzed (1954), launched a strenuous theological argument against the [[Prayer Veil|head covering]] and subjugation of women in Christian churches. He died on 13 November 1956. Throughout his life, Yoder maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where his funeral services were held.
= Bibliography =
Erb, Paul. Review of Amish Traditions by J. W. Yoder. Gospel Herald (12 June 1951): 575.

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2003.

Kauffman, S. Duane. “Rosanna of the Amish: Fact or Fiction?” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 31, no. 3 (July 2008): 2-11.
= Original Mennonite Encyclopedia Article =

By John S. Umble. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from ''Mennonite Encyclopedia'', Vol. 4, p. 1007. All rights reserved.

Joseph Warren Yoder (1872-1956), the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder, an Irish Catholic orphan reared by an Amish maiden lady.

Following his graduation from Brethern Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, he served for two years as principal of the Milroy (Pennsylvania, USA) High School. His outstanding personality and his success as an inspiring teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, and Greek in 1897-1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. He returned to Juniata College in 1901 where he secured the BA degree in 1904. Following his graduation he taught in Lock Haven (Pennsylvania, USA) Teachers Normal for a number of years. From 1904 on, one of his major interests was music.

Yoder taught music classes for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, [[River Brethren|River Brethren]], and Amish Mennonites. He became one of the most widely known "musical directors" at teachers' institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia. His connection with Juniata College as "high school visitor" attracted many young people to that institution. He is widely known for his books: [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), his mother's story, an intimate, authentic account of Amish family life; Amische Lieder (1942), a "first" in the history of musicology - notating the tunes of the hymns sung by the Amish in [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin County, PA]]; Rosanna's Boys (1949), the sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), an effort to show that many divisions arise from unscriptural causes.

"J. W." maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where on 15 November 1956, his funeral services were held. He died on 13 November 1956.
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Yoder, Joseph Warren (1872-1956)

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[[File:Yoder JW.jpg|thumb|J. W. Yoder, circa 1920s. Scan courtesy Julia Spicher Kasdorf]]
Joseph Warren Yoder was born 22 September 1872 in the Kishacoquillas Valley of [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin County]], Pennsylvania, USA. He was the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder. Yoder portrayed Rosanna as the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants who was raised by an Amish woman in [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), which has sold more than 400,000 copies.

Following his graduation from Brethren Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, Yoder served for two years as principal of the Milroy High School. His charismatic personality and success as a teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, Greek, and light gymnastics from 1897 until 1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. In Chicago he boarded at the YMCA and embraced physical culture and progressive causes, such as temperance and women’s suffrage. In 1901 he returned to Juniata College to serve as the school’s first athletic director while completing a BA degree. Under the influence of M. G. Brumbaugh—pioneering [[Church of the Brethren|Church of the Brethren]] educator, historian, and later Pennsylvania Governor—Yoder wrote a short history of the Amish people, returned to his home community to notate Amish hymns, and published poems in English and Pennsylvania Dutch.

Following graduation from Juniata in 1904, he began to teach singing to public school teachers at teachers institutes, and to offer singing schools for [[Mennonite Church (MC)|(Old) Mennonites]], who were just beginning to permit four-part singing in worship. From 1905 through 1909, he taught logic and math while coaching basketball, baseball and debate teams at the Normal School in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Through the 1910s and ‘20s, he shared a home with John M. Hooley and his family in Richboro, Pennsylvania, and continued to maintain an itinerant schedule of teaching singing and musical literacy schools for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, River Brethren, and Amish Mennonites during the winter, then serving as musical director for teachers institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and other states during the summer. He annually published compilations of religious and secular songs, including his own proposed state song. In 1915, he also began serving as a traveling high school recruiter for Juniata College.

In 1932, at the age of 60, Yoder married Emily Lane and bought a home in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Provoked by stereotypes of “Dumb Dutch” and Amish people in popular novels by Helen R. Martin and Ruth Lininger Dobson, he determined to write a “true” account of his mother’s life and accurately to represent the virtues of Amish culture. S. Duane Kauffman has since shown that many of the details in Rosanna of the Amish cannot be reconciled with the historical record. Yoder published Amische Lieder (1942), a song book combining shaped notes and German text for hymns sung by the Amish in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, as well as some others. Although unappreciated by his intended Amish audience, this project was applauded by musicologists who had believed that the sixteenth century tunes for the [[Ausbund|Ausbund]] texts had been lost.

Yoder subsequently published Rosanna’s Boys (1949), a fragmented sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), a confrontation of congregational division, [[Shunning|shunning]], use of the [[German Language|German language]], meat eating, and other practices in Amish life that he regarded as unscriptural or unhealthy. This book was denounced by [[Erb, Paul (1894-1984)|Paul Erb]] in both Mennonite and Amish publications. Yoder’s final booklet, The Prayer Veil Analyzed (1954), launched a strenuous theological argument against the [[Prayer Veil|head covering]] and subjugation of women in Christian churches. He died on 13 November 1956. Throughout his life, Yoder maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where his funeral services were held.
= Bibliography =
Erb, Paul. Review of Amish Traditions by J. W. Yoder. Gospel Herald (12 June 1951): 575.

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2003.

Kauffman, S. Duane. “Rosanna of the Amish: Fact or Fiction?” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 31, no. 3 (July 2008): 2-11.
= Original Mennonite Encyclopedia Article =

By John S. Umble. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from ''Mennonite Encyclopedia'', Vol. 4, p. 1007. All rights reserved.

Joseph Warren Yoder (1872-1956), the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder, an Irish Catholic orphan reared by an Amish maiden lady.

Following his graduation from Brethern Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, he served for two years as principal of the Milroy (Pennsylvania, USA) High School. His outstanding personality and his success as an inspiring teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, and Greek in 1897-1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. He returned to Juniata College in 1901 where he secured the BA degree in 1904. Following his graduation he taught in Lock Haven (Pennsylvania, USA) Teachers Normal for a number of years. From 1904 on, one of his major interests was music.

Yoder taught music classes for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, [[River Brethren|River Brethren]], and Amish Mennonites. He became one of the most widely known "musical directors" at teachers' institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia. His connection with Juniata College as "high school visitor" attracted many young people to that institution. He is widely known for his books: [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), his mother's story, an intimate, authentic account of Amish family life; Amische Lieder (1942), a "first" in the history of musicology - notating the tunes of the hymns sung by the Amish in [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin County, PA]]; Rosanna's Boys (1949), the sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), an effort to show that many divisions arise from unscriptural causes.

"J. W." maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where on 15 November 1956, his funeral services were held. He died on 13 November 1956.
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Yoder, Joseph Warren (1872-1956)

2020-04-06T20:18:44Z

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Joseph Warren Yoder was born 22 September 1872 in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA. He was the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder. Yoder portrayed Rosanna as the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants who was raised by an Amish woman in [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), which has sold more than 400,000 copies.

Following his graduation from Brethren Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, Yoder served for two years as principal of the Milroy High School. His charismatic personality and success as a teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, Greek, and light gymnastics from 1897 until 1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. In Chicago he boarded at the YMCA and embraced physical culture and progressive causes, such as temperance and women’s suffrage. In 1901 he returned to Juniata College to serve as the school’s first athletic director while completing a B.A. degree. Under the influence of M. G. Brumbaugh—pioneering Church of the Brethren educator, historian, and later Pennsylvania Governor—Yoder wrote a short history of the Amish people, returned to his home community to notate Amish hymns, and published poems in English and Pennsylvania Dutch.

Following graduation from Juniata in 1904, he began to teach singing to public school teachers at teachers institutes, and to offer singing schools for (Old) Mennonites, who were just beginning to permit four-part singing in worship. From 1905 through 1909, he taught logic and math while coaching basketball, baseball and debate teams at the Normal School in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Through the 1910s and ‘20s, he shared a home with John M. Hooley and his family in Richboro, Pennsylvania, and continued to maintain an itinerant schedule of teaching singing and musical literacy schools for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, River Brethren, and Amish Mennonites during the winter, then serving as musical director for teachers institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and other states during the summer. He annually published compilations of religious and secular songs, including his own proposed state song. In 1915, he also began serving as a traveling high school recruiter for Juniata College.

In 1932, at the age of 60, Yoder married Emily Lane and bought a home in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Provoked by stereotypes of “Dumb Dutch” and Amish people in popular novels by Helen R. Martin and Ruth Lininger Dobson, he determined to write a “true” account of his mother’s life and accurately to represent the virtues of Amish culture. S. Duane Kauffman has since shown that many of the details in Rosanna of the Amish cannot be reconciled with the historical record. Yoder published Amische Lieder (1942), a song book combining shaped notes and German text for hymns sung by the Amish in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, as well as some others. Although unappreciated by his intended Amish audience, this project was applauded by musicologists who had believed that the sixteenth century tunes for the [[Ausbund|Ausbund]] texts had been lost.

Yoder subsequently published Rosanna’s Boys (1949), a fragmented sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), a confrontation of congregational division, shunning, use of the German language, meat eating, and other practices in Amish life that he regarded as unscriptural or unhealthy. This book was denounced by Paul Erb in both Mennonite and Amish publications. Yoder’s final booklet, The Prayer Veil Analyzed (1954), launched a strenuous theological argument against the head covering and subjugation of women in Christian churches. He died on 13 November 1956. Throughout his life, Yoder maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where his funeral services were held.
= Bibliography =
Erb, Paul. Review of Amish Traditions by J. W. Yoder. Gospel Herald (12 June 1951): 575.

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2003.

Kauffman, S. Duane. “Rosanna of the Amish: Fact or Fiction?” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 31, no. 3 (July 2008): 2-11.
= Original Mennonite Encyclopedia Article =

By John S. Umble. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from ''Mennonite Encyclopedia'', Vol. 4, p. 1007. All rights reserved.

Joseph Warren Yoder (1872-1956), the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder, an Irish Catholic orphan reared by an Amish maiden lady.

Following his graduation from Brethern Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, he served for two years as principal of the Milroy (Pennsylvania, USA) High School. His outstanding personality and his success as an inspiring teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, and Greek in 1897-1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. He returned to Juniata College in 1901 where he secured the B.A. degree in 1904. Following his graduation he taught in Lock Haven (Pennsylvania, USA) Teachers Normal for a number of years. From 1904 on, one of his major interests was music.

Yoder taught music classes for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, River Brethren, and Amish Mennonites. He became one of the most widely known "musical directors" at teachers' institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia. His connection with Juniata College as "high school visitor" attracted many young people to that institution. He is widely known for his books: [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), his mother's story, an intimate, authentic account of Amish family life; Amische Lieder (1942), a "first" in the history of musicology - notating the tunes of the hymns sung by the Amish in [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin County, PA]]; Rosanna's Boys (1949), the sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), an effort to show that many divisions arise from unscriptural causes.

"J. W." maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where on 15 November 1956, his funeral services were held. He died on 13 November 1956.
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J. W. Yoder

Yoder, Joseph Warren (1872-1956)

2020-04-06T20:12:50Z

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Joseph Warren Yoder was born 22 September 1872 in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA. He was the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder. Yoder portrayed Rosanna as the orphaned daughter of Irish immigrants who was raised by an Amish woman in [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), which has sold more than 400,000 copies.

Following his graduation from Brethren Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, Yoder served for two years as principal of the Milroy High School. His charismatic personality and success as a teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, Greek, and light gymnastics from 1897 until 1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. In Chicago he boarded at the YMCA and embraced physical culture and progressive causes, such as temperance and women’s suffrage. In 1901 he returned to Juniata College to serve as the school’s first athletic director while completing a B.A. degree. Under the influence of M. G. Brumbaugh—pioneering Church of the Brethren educator, historian, and later Pennsylvania Governor—Yoder wrote a short history of the Amish people, returned to his home community to notate Amish hymns, and published poems in English and Pennsylvania Dutch.

Following graduation from Juniata in 1904, he began to teach singing to public school teachers at teachers institutes, and to offer singing schools for (Old) Mennonites, who were just beginning to permit four-part singing in worship. From 1905 through 1909, he taught logic and math while coaching basketball, baseball and debate teams at the Normal School in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Through the 1910s and ‘20s, he shared a home with John M. Hooley and his family in Richboro, Pennsylvania, and continued to maintain an itinerant schedule of teaching singing and musical literacy schools for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, River Brethren, and Amish Mennonites during the winter, then serving as musical director for teachers institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] and other states during the summer. He annually published compilations of religious and secular songs, including his own proposed state song. In 1915, he also began serving as a traveling high school recruiter for Juniata College.

In 1932, at the age of 60, Yoder married Emily Lane and bought a home in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Provoked by stereotypes of “Dumb Dutch” and Amish people in popular novels by Helen R. Martin and Ruth Lininger Dobson, he determined to write a “true” account of his mother’s life and accurately to represent the virtues of Amish culture. S. Duane Kauffman has since shown that many of the details in Rosanna of the Amish cannot be reconciled with the historical record. Yoder published Amische Lieder (1942), a song book combining shaped notes and German text for hymns sung by the Amish in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, as well as some others. Although unappreciated by his intended Amish audience, this project was applauded by musicologists who had believed that the sixteenth century tunes for the [[Ausbund|Ausbund]] texts had been lost.

Yoder subsequently published Rosanna’s Boys (1949), a fragmented sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), a confrontation of congregational division, shunning, use of the German language, meat eating, and other practices in Amish life that he regarded as unscriptural or unhealthy. This book was denounced by Paul Erb in both Mennonite and Amish publications. Yoder’s final booklet, The Prayer Veil Analyzed (1954), launched a strenuous theological argument against the head covering and subjugation of women in Christian churches. He died on 13 November 1956. Throughout his life, Yoder maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where his funeral services were held.
= Bibliography =
Erb, Paul. Review of Amish Traditions by J. W. Yoder. Gospel Herald (12 June 1951): 575.

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher. Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2003.

Kauffman, S. Duane. “Rosanna of the Amish: Fact or Fiction?” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 31, no. 3 (July 2008): 2-11.
= Original Mennonite Encyclopedia Article =

By John S. Umble. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from ''Mennonite Encyclopedia'', Vol. 4, p. 1007. All rights reserved.

Joseph Warren Yoder (1872-1956), the son of an [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] preacher, Christian Z. Yoder, and his wife Rosanna (McGonegal) Yoder, an Irish Catholic orphan reared by an Amish maiden lady.

Following his graduation from Brethern Normal School (now Juniata College) in 1895, he served for two years as principal of the Milroy (Pennsylvania, USA) High School. His outstanding personality and his success as an inspiring teacher led to an invitation by [[Coffman, John S. (1848-1899)|John S. Coffman]] to teach at the [[Elkhart Institute (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)|Elkhart Institute]] where he served as an instructor in English, music, and Greek in 1897-1901, interrupted by a period of study at Northwestern University. He returned to Juniata College in 1901 where he secured the B.A. degree in 1904. Following his graduation he taught in Lock Haven (Pennsylvania, USA) Teachers Normal for a number of years. From 1904 on, one of his major interests was music.

Yoder taught music classes for Brethren, Mennonites, Methodists, River Brethren, and Amish Mennonites. He became one of the most widely known "musical directors" at teachers' institutes in [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia. His connection with Juniata College as "high school visitor" attracted many young people to that institution. He is widely known for his books: [[Rosanna of the Amish]] (1940), his mother's story, an intimate, authentic account of Amish family life; Amische Lieder (1942), a "first" in the history of musicology - notating the tunes of the hymns sung by the Amish in [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin County, PA]]; Rosanna's Boys (1949), the sequel to the 1940 volume; and Amish Traditions (1950), an effort to show that many divisions arise from unscriptural causes.

"J. W." maintained his membership in the Mennonite Church ([[Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Belleville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Maple Grove]], at [[Belleville (Pennsylvania, USA)|Belleville, Pennsylvania]]) where he was baptized and where on 15 November 1956, his funeral services were held. He died on 13 November 1956.
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Civilian Public Service Unit (Greystone Park, New Jersey, USA)

2019-09-23T14:19:07Z

JasonKauffman:

The Greystone Park ([[New Jersey (USA)|New Jersey]]) [[Civilian Public Service|Civilian Public Service]] (CPS) Unit No. 77, under [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] direction, established 19 January 1943 and closed August 1946, was attached to the New Jersey State Mental Hospital at Greystone Park, New Jersey, 40 miles (65 km) west of New York City. With 5,000 patients it was one of the largest mental hospitals in the country. Leaders of the unit were Lawrence Burkholder, Melvin Funk, Wilton Hartzler, and Harold W. Griest. In July 1945 one hundred CPS men were working here.
= Bibliography =
Gingerich, Melvin. ''Service for peace: a history of Mennonite Civilian Public Service''. Akron, Pa.: Mennonite Central Committee, 1949.

"Hearing the Voices of the Former Greystone Hospital Community." Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Oral History Project. 2019. Web. 23 September 2019. http://www.greystoneoralhistory.com/. See interviews with conscientious objectors who served at Greystone during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. {{GAMEO_footer|hp=Vol. 2, p. 579|date=September 2019|a1_last=Bender|a1_first=Harold S|a2_last=|a2_first=}}

Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)

2018-12-21T16:45:29Z

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[[File:Chapel-Hill-Mennonite-Fellowship-1.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Jennifer Peifer and pastor Isaac Villegas confer after worship. 
Thomas Lehman photo.'']]
Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (CHMF) evolved from a Chapel Hill-Durham small group within the Raleigh Mennonite Church, augmented by other Mennonites living in Chapel Hill and Durham, [[North Carolina (USA)|North Carolina]]. The group of about 20 persons began to hold one worship service per month in November of 2001.

On 22 September 2002, Raleigh Mennonite Church gave CHMF official recognition as a separate body, and CHMF, by then worshiping weekly, had its first communion that evening.

The congregation was self-generated, i.e., without the efforts of a church planter. Thus the congregation’s character was largely shaped by the experiences and convictions of its members. Sermons were initially provided by two doctoral students of the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University and three other members of the group. In 2005 the congregation published A Word in Season, How Good It Is!, a Christian year in sermons by eleven preachers from the Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship. It was edited by Thomas Lehman and published by Rosenberry books, whose principals were then members of the congregation.

In May 2006 CHMF engaged Isaac Villegas as half-time pastor; he had graduated from the Duke Divinity School that month, and had worshiped with the congregation during most of his three-year MDiv program. Prior to that time most of the planning was done by members, more than half of whom offered to serve on the original worship committee.

In 2010 Isaac Villegas, employed .75 time, preached about half the time; other Sundays were assigned to one of several members. This yielded diversity within unity, and worked well. The Revised Common Lectionary was the basis of worship.

On 8 February 2004 CHMF held a membership service with 22 charter members. This step was preceded by serious discussion; one member asked why, when things were going well, the group should bother to establish a formal membership list.

Because of the close proximity of CHMF to two major universities (University of North Carolina and Duke University), there has been a marked transitional element to the composition of the congregation. Of the original 22 members, exactly half had left by 2010. Five years after its charter membership service, CHMF had 27 active members and an average Sunday attendance of about 40 persons.

The congregation has met in the Meeting House of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, located next to the University of North Carolina campus. Sunday worship began at 5:00 p.m. The pastor carried the congregation’s cell phone; there has been no land line phone and no postal address. The order of worship for each Sunday can be found in the archives of the Eastern Mennonite University Library. Most sermons are posted to the congregation's website.

In addition to its pastor, the congregation in 2015 had a moderator, a treasurer, a secretary, four deacons, and committees for committees for worship planning, financial matters, hospitality, building, and children.
= Additional Information =
Meeting Address: Church of Reconciliation, 110 North Elliott Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (In 2010 worship held at 5:00 p.m. on Sundays; see website)

'''Phone''': 919-357-5496 (congregational cell phone in 2010)

'''Website''': [http://mennonit.es/chmf/ Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship]

'''Denominational Affiliations''':

[http://www.mennoniteusa.org/ Mennonite Church USA] (2003-present)

[http://www.vmconf.org/ Virginia Mennonite Conference], Eastern Carolina District (2003-2018)

[https://mcusacdc.org/ Central District Conference] (2018-present)

= Maps =
[[Map:Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)|Map:Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)]]
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California Mennonite Church (Montgomery, Michigan, USA)

2018-12-21T16:28:12Z

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California Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), located in California Township, Michigan, twelve miles northeast of Angola, Steuben County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], was established in 1956 under the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] as a mission outpost of [[Forks Mennonite Church (Middlebury, Indiana, USA)|Forks Mennonite Church]] in Middlebury, Indiana. The congregation met in a former Methodist church before constructing its own building in 1960. On 22 November 1959, Forks Mennonite Church voted to release the California congregation to independent ministry and on 13 March 1960 Bishop Earley C. Bontrager installed Deacon Malvin P. Miller as pastor. The small congregation included six local families and met for several years before closing in 1975.

=Bibliography=
Wenger, John Christian. ''The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan''. Scottdale: Herald Press, 1961: 250-251.


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Coldsprings Christian Fellowship (Kalkaska, Michigan, USA)

2018-12-20T21:56:29Z

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Coldsprings Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), Mancelona, Antrim County, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], was organized in 1948 as a mission of [[Fairview Mennonite Church (Fairview, Michigan, USA)|Fairview Mennonite Church]]. In 1952, the congregation constructed a church building on the corner of Twin Lake Rd. and County Rd. 571 and, in 1981, the building was enlarged.

Willard L. Bontrager was ordained to ministry on February 29, 1949, and served the congregation as pastor for 45 years, retiring in 1994. Dewey Miller then served as pastor for one year and Brent Bontrager became pastor in 1996. In 1960, the congregation had 22 members. Regular attendance stood at around 50 in 1990.

In 1998 the congregation changed its name to Coldsprings Christian Fellowship. On July 9, 2010, the congregation officially withdrew from the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference and joined Partners in Harvest, a worldwide fellowship of churches and ministries. As of 2018, the congregation was located in nearby Kalkaska, Kalkaska County, Michigan.
=Bibliography=
"Who We Are." 2018. Web. 20 December 2018. https://www.coldspringscf.com/who-we-are/.
=Additional Information=

'''Address:''' 532 South Cedar Street, Kalkaska, MI 49646

'''Phone:''' 231-715-1101

'''Website''' [https://www.coldspringscf.com/ Coldsprings Christian Fellowship]

'''Denominational Affiliations:'''

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (1948-present)

Mennonite Church USA (1948-2010)

Partners in Harvest (2010-present)
===Coldsprings Mennonite Church Pastoral Leaders===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Minister !! Years of Service
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| Willard L. Bontrager || 1949-1994
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| Dewey Miller || 1994-1995
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| Brent Bontrager || 1996-present
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Mennonite Historical Bulletin

2018-12-20T21:03:20Z

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The Mennonite Historical Bulletin was published by the Historical Committee of Mennonite Church USA (formerly [[Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church|Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church)]]. The first issue appeared in April 1940 and for two years it remained a four-page semi-annual publication. Since 1942 four issues a year have been published, two of which have been eight-page since 1952. It features biographies, local church history, family history, book reviews, and other articles of a semipopular nature. The Bulletin has maintained the same format, 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Editors have been [[Wenger, John C. (1910-1995)|John C. Wenger]], [[Yoder, Edward (1893-1945)|Edward Yoder]], [[Stoltzfus, Grant Moses (1916-1974)|Grant Stoltzfus]], [[Gingerich, Melvin (1902-1975)|Melvin Gingerich]], and [[Hostetler, John A. (1918-2001)|John A. Hostetler]], who was the editor in 1956. The last issue of the ''Bulletin'' was published in 2012.
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Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church

2018-12-20T20:56:50Z

JasonKauffman: I made a few minor changes to this entry...mostly updates. At some point I would like to write a complete and more detailed update.

The Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church was established by the 1911 session of the [[Mennonite Church General Conference|Mennonite Church General Conference]] as a committee of ten with the assignment to prepare a Mennonite church history, and continued as a standing committee of the conference. In 1937 it was authorized to co-opt additional members and after that usually had a membership of 12. Officers through 1956 were: chairman, [[Coffman, Samuel Frederick (1872-1954)|S. F. Coffman]] 1911-1947 and [[Bender, Harold Stauffer (1897-1962)|H. S. Bender ]]1947- ; secretary, [[Horsch, John (1867-1941)|John Horsch]] 1911-1927, [[Burkholder, Lewis Josephus (1875-1949)|L. J. Burkholder]] 1927-1935, H. S. Bender 1935-1947, [[Wenger, John C. (1910-1995)|J. C. Wenger]] 1947- ; custodian of the archives, H. S. Bender 1940-1947 and [[Gingerich, Melvin (1902-1975)|Melvin Gingerich]] 1947- ; treasurer, J. C. Wenger 1939-1941, 1945-1947, [[Yoder, Edward (1893-1945)|Edward Yoder]] 1941-1945, and Ira D. Landis 1947- .

The committee early promoted the building up of a Mennonite historical library at the [[Mennonite Publishing House (Scottdale, Pennsylvania, USA)|Mennonite Publishing House]], [[Scottdale (Pennsylvania, USA)|Scottdale]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], which was for a time its property, with John Horsch as librarian, but later this library was turned over to the House. The committee appointed historians for the various district conferences to secure material for a history of the Mennonite Church in America. Throughout its history it from time to time recommended, promoted, and supervised the publication of historical works, and served as assistant to the Mennonite Publishing House and the latter's Publishing Committee in the choice of historical writers and in the production of historical literature.

A new phase of the committee's work began in 1939 with the organization of the Mennonite Historical Association, whose officers were the officers of the Historical Committee. At the same time it began the publication of the [[Mennonite Historical Bulletin|Mennonite Historical Bulletin]], which was published by the Historical Committee of Mennonite Church USA until 2012. In 1940, by direction of the Mennonite General Conference, it established the archives of the Mennonite Church first located in two rooms in the [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] Library, at [[Goshen (Indiana, USA)|Goshen]], [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]]. The Mennonite Church USA Archives was located on the Goshen College campus until 2017 when the collections were moved to the denominational building in Elkhart. The committee also subsidized the publication in Europe of the series of volumes of Anabaptist documents known as the Täuferakten. The committee helds annual business meetings.

After the merger of the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church (MC)]] and the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]], the committee was superseded by the Historical Committee of Mennonite Church USA. The Historical Committee continued to meet until 2012 when the board was disbanded. The archives continues to function under the authority of the Executive Board of Mennonite Church USA.
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Mennonite Church of Warsaw (Warsaw, Indiana, USA)

2018-12-07T20:38:34Z

JasonKauffman:

The Mennonite Church of Warsaw ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]) began in 1988 as a church plant of [[Waterford Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Waterford Mennonite Church]] under the leadership of Arvid and Maria Martin. In November 1988, Bob Gerber was called as the first pastor and in 1990 the congregation joined the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] with 30 covenanted members. For its first several years, the congregation met in the homes of members and rented space before purchasing a building in 1994. Other pastors included Frank Byler, Gary Richard, and Alan Leinbach. In 2002, membership stood at 30 members (and 40 total regular attenders). The pastor at that time was Alan Leinbach.


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Mennonite Church of Warsaw (Warsaw, Indiana, USA)

2018-12-07T20:34:29Z

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The Mennonite Church of Warsaw ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]) began in 1988 as a church plant of [[Waterford Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Waterford Mennonite Church]] under the leadership of Arvid and Maria Martin. In November 1988, Bob Gerber was called as the first pastor and in 1990 the congregation joined the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference with 30 covenanted members. For its first several years, the congregation met in the homes of members and rented space before purchasing a building in 1994. Other pastors included Frank Byler, Gary Richard, and Alan Leinbach. In 2002, membership stood at 30 members (and 40 total regular attenders). The pastor at that time was Alan Leinbach.


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Bethany Mennonite Church (Imlay City, Michigan, USA)

2018-12-07T18:25:16Z

JasonKauffman:

Bethany Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), southwest of Imlay City, Lapeer County, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], was organized on 17 June 1918 under the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] by Peter Ropp, its first leader. Paul Wittrig, ordained for this congregation in 1938, was the minister in 1954. In 1953 the membership was 30. Other ministers who served the congregation were Simon Sommer, Wayne Wenger, Sam Hostetler, Leonard Schmucker, Arthur Zehr, and Lloyd Miller. Due to declining membership and the inability to support a part-time pastor, the congregation sold the church building in 1986. Remaining members continued to meet periodically as a fellowship before officially closing in 1998.
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Bean Blossom Community Church (Morgantown, Indiana, USA)

2018-12-07T18:20:15Z

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Bean Blossom Mennonite Church ([[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite Conference]]) is located in Bean Blossom, a village in Jackson Township, Brown County. The building, which in 1954 was 107 years old, was occupied by the Presbyterian Church until approximately 1941. In May 1945 the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board]] began permanent work there by ordaining and placing there Charles C. Haarer of the Shore congregation, [[Lagrange County (Indiana, USA)|Lagrange County]], Indiana. The total baptized membership in 1953 was 34.

The congregation was part of the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] until about 2003 when it joined the [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite Conference]]. The pastor in 2016 was Jeff Miller; the membership was 49.

In 2017 the congregation changed its name to Bean Blossom Community Church.
= Additional Information =
'''Address''': 5046 N. State Rd 135, Morgantown, IN 46160

'''Phone''': 812-988-7359

'''Website''': http://beanblossomchurch.com/

'''Denominational Affiliation''': [http://cmcrosedale.org/ Conservative Mennonite Conference]
=== Bean Blossom Mennonite Church Ministers ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Minister !! Years of Service
|-
| Charles Haarer || align="right" | 1945-1970
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1970-1974
|-
| Randy Nafziger || align="right" | 1974-1979
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1979-1980
|-
| Walter Funk || align="right" | 1980-1986
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1986-1987
|-
| Gary Link || align="right" | 1987-2014
|-
| Jeff Miller || align="right" | 2016-present
|}

= Maps =
[[Map:Bean Blossom Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Indiana)|Map:Bean Blossom Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Indiana)]]
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Bean Blossom Community Church (Morgantown, Indiana, USA)

2018-12-07T18:19:31Z

JasonKauffman: /* Bean Blossom Mennonite Church Ministers */

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Bean Blossom Mennonite Church ([[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite Conference]]) is located in Bean Blossom, a village in Jackson Township, Brown County. The building, which in 1954 was 107 years old, was occupied by the Presbyterian Church until approximately 1941. In May 1945 the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board]] began permanent work there by ordaining and placing there Charles C. Haarer of the Shore congregation, [[Lagrange County (Indiana, USA)|Lagrange County]], Indiana. The total baptized membership in 1953 was 34.

The congregation was part of the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] until about 2003 when it joined the [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite Conference]]. The pastor in 2016 was Jeff Miller; the membership was 49.

In 2017 the congregation changed its name to Bean Blossom Community Church.
= Additional Information =
'''Address''': 5046 N. State Rd 135, Morgantown, IN 46160

'''Phone''': 812-988-7359

'''Website''': http://beanblossomchurch.com/

'''Denominational Affiliation''': [http://cmcrosedale.org/ Conservative Mennonite Conference]
=== Bean Blossom Mennonite Church Ministers ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Minister !! Years of Service
|-
| Charles Haarer || align="right" | 1945-1970
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1970-1974
|-
| Randy Nafziger || align="right" | 1974-1979
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1979-1980
|-
| Walter Funk || align="right" | 1980-1986
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1986-1987
|-
| Gary Link || align="right" | 1987-2014
|-
| Jeff Miller || align="right" | 2016-present
|}

= Maps =
[[Map:Bean Blossem Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Indiana)|Map:Bean Blossem Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Indiana)]]
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New Wine Church (Bourbon, Indiana, USA)

2018-11-30T20:51:26Z

JasonKauffman:

Bremen Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), northeast of Bourbon, Marshall County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], was organized in 1962 under the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] by Richard Yoder, pastor at [[North Main Street Mennonite Church (Nappanee, Indiana, USA)|North Main Street Mennonite Church]] in Nappanee, Indiana. The congregation purchased a building and became Bourbon Mennonite Chapel in 1964. It joined the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference in 1965 under the leadership of pastor Bob Gerber. Subsequent pastors included Marvin Stutzman, Joe Deiner, and Don Miller. On September 29, 1996, the congregation changed its name to New Wine Church and withdrew from the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, citing differences in interpretation regarding the authority of scripture. The pastor at that time was Brent Leichty.


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New Wine Church (Bourbon, Indiana, USA)

2018-11-30T20:50:19Z

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Bremen Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), northeast of Bourbon, Marshall County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], was organized in 1962 under the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] by Richard Yoder, pastor at [[North Main Street Mennonite Church (Nappanee, Indiana, USA)|North Main Street Mennonite Church]] in Nappanee, Indiana. The congregation purchased a building and became Bourbon Mennonite Chapel in 1964. It joined the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference in 1965 under the leadership of pastor Bob Gerber. Subsequent pastors included Marvin Stutzman, Joe Deiner, and Don Miller. On September 29, 1996, the congregation changed its name to New Wine Church and withdrew from the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, citing differences in interpretation regarding the authority of scripture. The pastor at that time was Brent Leichty.


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Bethany Mennonite Church (Imlay City, Michigan, USA)

2018-11-30T19:18:37Z

JasonKauffman:

Bethany Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), southwest of Imlay City, Lapeer County, [[Michigan (USA)|Michigan]], was organized on 17 June 1918 under the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] by Peter Ropp, its first leader. Paul Wittrig, ordained for this congregation in 1938, was the minister in 1954. In 1953 the membership was 30. Other ministers who served the congregation were Simon Sommer, Wayne Wenger, Sam Hostetler, Leonard Schmucker, Arthur Zehr, and Lloyd Miller. Due to declining membership and the inability to support a part-time pastor, the congregation sold the church building in 1986. Remaining members continued to meet periodically as a fellowship before officially closing in 1998.
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Bean Blossom Community Church (Morgantown, Indiana, USA)

2018-11-30T18:43:31Z

JasonKauffman: /* Additional Information */

Bean Blossom Mennonite Church ([[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite Conference]]) is located in Bean Blossom, a village in Jackson Township, Brown County. The building, which in 1954 was 107 years old, was occupied by the Presbyterian Church until approximately 1941. In May 1945 the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board]] began permanent work there by ordaining and placing there Charles C. Haarer of the Shore congregation, [[Lagrange County (Indiana, USA)|Lagrange County]], Indiana. The total baptized membership in 1953 was 34.

The congregation was part of the [[Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference]] until about 2003 when it joined the [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite Conference]]. The pastor in 2016 was Jeff Miller; the membership was 49.

In 2017 the congregation changed its name to Bean Blossom Community Church.
= Additional Information =
'''Address''': 5046 N. State Rd 135, Morgantown, IN 46160

'''Phone''': 812-988-7359

'''Website''': http://beanblossomchurch.com/

'''Denominational Affiliation''': [http://cmcrosedale.org/ Conservative Mennonite Conference]
=== Bean Blossom Mennonite Church Ministers ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Minister !! Years of Service
|-
| Charles Haarer || align="right" | 1945-1970
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1970-1974
|-
| Randy Nafziger || align="right" | 1974-1979
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1979-1980
|-
| Walter Funk || align="right" | 1980-1986
|-
| Henry Wagler || align="right" | 1986-1987
|-
| Gary Link || align="right" | 1987-?
|-
| Jeff Miller || align="right" |

= Maps =
[[Map:Bean Blossem Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Indiana)|Map:Bean Blossem Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Indiana)]]
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