© Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Last updated Oct. 17, 2006)
P.R. Harder served as the business manager of CMBC from 1959-1973.
These records consist primarily of correspondence and related documents generated or collected by the CMBC business manager.
Included in the series are CMBC Board minutes (1959-1962), reports to the Council of Boards (1965-1966), as well as a variety of other reports (1962-1967). The major portion of these files consists of administrative correspondence. Letters pertain personnel, donations of vehicles for choir tours, donations for the kitchen, university accreditation, and many other subjects. In addition to this there are folders of correspondence from J.J. Thiessen, Howard Snider and other prominent Mennonite churchmen. Finally this series also contains some financial records.
Most of the materials are typewritten in the English language. The materials are all original and are in good condition.
Inventory file lists
VOLUME 395 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1. Correspondence Miscellaneous, 1962-1967 2. Correspondence Special projects, 1962-1966 3. H.K. Irving, Correspondence, Waiver of Liens, 1963-1966 4. University Accreditation 1957- 1963 5. Social Appeal letters 1960-1965 6. August Correspondence 1970 7. University of Manitoba Correspondence, 1966-1977 8. Scholarship, Peter Thiessen, 124 DeGraff Bay, Winnipeg, 1967 9. Scholarship, I.P. Klassen, Thompson Manitoba, 1967. 10. October 1970 Correspondence 11. Correspondence January 1971 12. Correspondence September 1971 13. Correspondence January 1972 14. Scholarship correspondence, General, 1960-1971 15. Correspondence, Student Accounts, 1966-1970 VOLUME 396 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1. Correspondence, Hans Bergrnann and John Dueck 2. Correspondence Re: secretary 3. Holtby, Miss Phillis 4. Krause, Mrs. Jake, Correspondence 5. Erna Redekopp, Paraguay 6. CMBC correspondence, Rudy Regehr 1965 7. Correspondence David Schroeder 8. David Schroeder, 1966-1967 Salary. Arrangements with Board of Education 9. Howard Snider, Sociology professor 10. Special Instructors 1967-1968 11. Suderman Brothers, Haskett Manitoba, Potatoe Sale 12. Correspondence, Miss Irma Wieler 13. J.J. Thiessen Correspondence 14. College Board. budget salary schedule, Minutes 1959 15. Salary Schedule and Budget 1959-1960 16. Salary Schedules 1962-1963 17. CMBC Salary Schedules 1973-1974 18. College pension 19. Student Aid. 1959-1960 20. Student Accounts 1960-1961 21. Student Aid letter 1966 22. Student Aid Loan applications, 1967 23. B.A. Barkman. Steinbach Manitoba Student Aid 1967 VOLUME 397 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager 1959-1973 1. Correspondence, Student Aid Fund, 1966-1973 2. Student Journal 1963-1964 3. Student Journal 1964-1965 4. Student journal 1962-1963 5. Worksheets 1957-1958 6. Worksheets, 1958-1959 7. Worksheets 1959-1961 8. Worksheets 1960-1961 9. Worksheets 1962-1963 10. Worksheets. Financial statements 1963-1964 11. Worksheets 1964-1965 12. Financial Reports and Worksheets, 1962-1965 VOLUME 398 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) CMBC periodic Financial Reports to the churches 1960 2) Financial Reports 1960-1961 3) CMC Financial Statements 1968 4) Monthly Reports, Financial Building, 1958-1961 5) Statements financial 1961-1962 6) Statements Financial 1962-1963 7) Statements financial, 1963-1964 8) Statements financial 1964-1965 9) Conference Annuity plan 10) CMBC Annuities etc. VOLUME 399 CMBC P.R. Harder Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) Financial Statements, 1968-1973 2) Dormitory plan display items 3) Building committee 1963-1965 4) Boys and girls dormitory 5) Financial sheets, Building committee 6) Building fund Receipts correspondence 7) Building fund, Canada and U.S . A. donations and loans 8) Dormitory building, loans from Saskatoon 9) Room furnished by... 10) Dormitory furniture, 1958-1959 VOLUME 400 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) CMBC Tenders 2) Dormitory Contract documents, 1958 3) Smith, Carter, Searle and Associates 4) Statements from Semmler construction 5) Frank Unger construction Ltd. Winnipeg 6) Architects, Bills and payments, New dormitory 1957 7) Statements dormitory Building 1958 8) Paid Bills Dormitory 1958-1959 9) Building Fund ledger 10) J.R. Stephenson and Architects 11) J.R. Sbephenson proposal for CMBC 12) New Dormitory Gas permits 13) Projections re: Building Expansion Materials 14) Levy, 1958-1959 VOLUME 401 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) Dormitory Addition Expense Record. 1962-1965 2) Dormitory Extension Materials. Architects summaries 1925-1965 3) Correspondence Re: Law 1959-1960 VOLUME 402 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) Letters re: Levy and Donations, 1960-1961 VOLUME 403 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) Correspondence re: Levy 1961-1962 2) Levy Correspondence 1965-1966 VOLUME 404 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) Rooms, Registration Record 1967-1969 2) Offer to purchase the Town of Tuxedo, Letter of Acceptance, 1953 3) The Town of Tuxedo 4) Samaritan Service constitution 5) Administrative committee CMBC 6) Sign for CMBC 7) Station Wagon and Tractor Insurance Policy. 8) Station Wagon Reports, 1961-1q62 Term 9) Station Wagon Reports 1966-1967 10) Grand Piano, 1970 11) Work Camp at CMBC 1960 12) Blessing and Honour Record Correspondence 1964 13) Christmas Oratorio/Budget Correspondence, 1965 14) Choir Tour 1965, 1966, 1968 15) Summer Music School 1966 16) Oratorio - CMBC and MBPG Requiem 1967 17) Oratorio, Israel in Egypt, 1967 18) Sunday Scope Script, 1967 19) Oratorio expenses. 1967 20) Oratorio, Brahms Requiem, 1968 VOLUME 405 CMBC P.R. Harder Business Manager, 1959-1973 1) Summer Music School. 1968 2) Oratorio, 1969 3) Record Cutting, A Cappella Choir 1969 4) Choir Tour, 1969 5) Summer School sessions, 1969 6) Christian Education Conference, 1969 7) Oratorio, Elijah, CMBC and MBBC, 1970 8) Choir Tours, 1970 9) Summer School, 1970 10) Opera, 1971 11) Choir Tours. 1971 12) Festschrift, CMBC, 1972 13) Peace Team and Choir Tour, British Columbia, 1972 14) Oratorio, Bach’s passion of St. Matthew, 1969 15) Oratorio, 1971 16) Oratorio, 1972, CMBC and MBBC Haydn’s Creation 17) Choir Itineration 1972-1975 18) CMBC and MBBC Oratorio, Bach, St. Matthew’s Passion, 1973 VOLUME 998 CMBC P.R. Harder Files, 1959-1965 1. College Board Minutes 1959-1962 2. CMBC Report 1962 3. CMBC Report to Council of Boards 1965 VOLUME 999 CMBC P.R. Harder Files, 1966-1968 1. CMBC Report to Council of Boards 1966 2. CMBC 1967-1963 VOLUME 1601 CMBC P.R. Harder, Business Manager, 1959-1973 1. Building Loan File “A-F”, 1960-1973 2. Building Loan File “C-K” 3. Building loan File “L-Z”