I.            General Conference 1859-1969

              E.          Conference sessions

                            1.           1935-1968 (1.6 cu. ft.)

                            2.           Miscellaneous items found in the Bound Manuscripts (Bd.Ms.) and Small Archives (SA) sections 1859-1950

                            3.           Original General Conference minute book (handwritten) 1859-1926 (.3 cu. ft.) (brought from General Conference vault, 4 Dec 1990)

                            4.           1953 session recordings (7 reel-to-reel tapes, copied onto 15 CDs in 2006) (see also elecrec/acc160) (.3 cu. ft.)

                            5.           1965 session recordings (10 reel-to-reel tapes, copied to CD in 2007) (see also elecrec/acc161) (.6 cu. ft.)

                            6.           1968 session recordings (10 reel-to-reel tapes) (see also elecrec/acc170 for digitized versions) (.3 cu. ft.) (tape 27, the last tape, consists of orchestral music on one side and Native American and maybe African music on the other side; it maybe doesn’t belong to the 1968 conference set)

                            7.           1956 recordings (see also elecrec/acc173 for digitized version) (.15 cu. ft.) (recording found on tape 289.7G2 #36 side A (labeled Church Unity Committee; see I.OO.1), recording of Taiwan missionaries made as a report to the Winnipeg conference)

Total volume: 3.25 cu. ft.

Note: Additional General Conference minutes and proceedings can be found in MLA serials under “General Conference Mennonite Church - Minutes.”

MLA.I.E.1 Conference sessions 1935-1968

Box       Folder                 Contents

 1             1                        1959 miscellaneous correspondence

                2                         1962 findings of discussion groups

                2a                        1962 record of resolutions

                2b                       1962 minutes

                2c                        1962 prepared statements

                                           1965 session

                3                         Transcript - Saturday-Sunday - tapes 1a-2b

                4                         Transcript - Monday-Tuesday - tapes 3a-5a

                5                         Transcript - Wednesday - tapes 5b-6a

                6                         Transcript - Thursday - tapes 6b-8b

                7                         Transcript - Friday - tapes 9a-10a, and Youth Convention (Monday)

 2             8                        Programs

                9                         Resolutions, newssheets, ballots

                                           1968 session

               10                        Transcript - Saturday-Monday

               11                        Transcript - Tuesday

               12                        Transcript - Wednesday-Friday

               13                        Planning correspondence

               14                        Prayer group

               15                        Program Committee

               16                        Program

 3             17                       Miscellaneous papers handed out

               18                        Speakers

               19                        Delegates

               20                        Fraternal delegates

               21                        Lodging, travel

               22                        Nominating Committee

               23                        Newssheet

               24                        Display Committee - Lester Janzen

               25                        Display Committee - Walter Unrau

               26                        Applications for displays

               27                        Displays

               28                        Discussion groups

               29                        Group leaders

 4             30                       1947 session - resolutions and delegates

                                           Program Committee papers

               31                        1956 session

               32                        1956 session

               33                        World Conference materials

 4             34                       1959 session

               35                        1959 session

               36                        1959 session - photographs

               37                        1962 session

               38                        1965 session

 5             39                       1968 session

               40                        1968 session

                                           Appendix

               41                        1935 session, Upland, California - miscellaneous

               42                        1962 minutes and reports

               43                        1965 Youth Conference correspondence - Marvin Dirks, Jr.

               44                        1965 Youth Conference - program planning

               45                        1965 Youth Conference - program planning

               46                        1968 session - delegate packet

               47                        Miscellaneous delegate ribbons and certificates

MLA.I.E.2 Miscellaneous items found in the Bound Manuscripts (Bd.Ms.)

and Small Archives (SA) sections 1859-1950

Bd.Ms. 75            Delegate register, 1945 session in North Newton, Kansas

Bd.Ms. 179          List of delegates and guests to the General Conference 1917

SA.II.163             Peter Klassen, "Report about the churches in South America on the conference at Freeman," 1950, both German and English copies of report; typed

SA.II.536a           Printed minutes of the General Conference No. 1-4, 1860-66, No. 7, 1876 and No. 12, 1890

SA.II.817             "Program, Brotherhood of General Conference Mennonites, Third Annual Meeting to be held in Perkasie Park, Perkasie, Pa., on Labor Day, September 6, 1920"

SA.II.1219           Scrapbook of newspaper clippings about the 17th General Conference sessions, Mountain Lake, Minnesota, October 1905

MLA.I.E.3 Original General Conference minute book (handwritten) 1859-1926

Box       Folder   Contents

 1             1           Original General Conference minute book (handwritten for early years, then consisting of pasted-in printed minutes) 1859-1926