© Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Last updated Oct. 17, 2006)
This series consists of mostly correspondence with churches, individuals, students, businesses, other educational institutions and correspondence, minutes, memos and reports from other committees with which George K. Epp was involved, e.g. MCC East-West Consultation and the Umsiedler program, the Task-Force on Higher Education, the Friends of Higher Learning, the Council of Church-Related Colleges of Winnipeg (CCRCW) and the China Educational Exchange. There is correspondence regarding the incorporation of CMBC and memos and minutes from the Dean's Search Committee which led to the appointment of Gerald Gerbrandt, and President Search Committee files following the resignation of George K. Epp.
Inventory file list
20% of the correspondence is in German.
Arranged and described by Rachel Mills, summer 2001.
Some
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- Academics – correspondence with U of M, AMBS, U of S, 1975-79
- Administration correspondence 1978-79 letter to Dr. Paul Peters re board job descriptions, job descriptions from 1973/74 to 1978/79 attached
- Administration correspondence 1979-80 files 3-7 contain memos, letters, minutes, notes re administration of CMBC
- Administration correspondence 1980-81 as above
- Administration correspondence 1981-82 as above
- Administration correspondence 1982-83 as above
- Administration correspondence 1983-84 as above
- President’s Correspondence April 1981 – December 1981 GKE files 8-11 almost exclusively letters from President’s office, some in German
- President’s Correspondence January 1982 – June 1982 GKE
- President’s Correspondence June 1982 – December 1982 GKE
- President’s Correspondence January 1983- June 1983 GKE also GKE’s final Year End Report June 1983 with commencement program 1983
- President’s Correspondence July 1983 – August 1984 GKE, then HH – interim – letters to and from President’s office
- Alumni Association 1978-84 correspondence, annual reports, meeting minutes, budget, newsletters
- AMBS 3 letters (1978) re CMS summer session 1980
- Book articles and reviews by (and about) George K. Epp, 1978-1983
- Budget 1981-83 auditor’s report 1981, memos, minutes, correspondence, notes, reports 1982-83
- Building Committee – apartment building 1979-80 correspondence, quotes, reports, memos, minutes
- CAMS Canadian Association of Mennonite Schools, 1979-84 conferences, meetings, directories, memos, articles
- Chair of Mennonite Studies U of W – correspondence 1979-82, minutes, article by Harry Loewen (some discussion on journal - with CGC)
- Chapel Committee – list of chapel services 1982-83, letter to faculty asking for suggestions
- China Educational Exchange 1980-83 Council of International Ministries correspondence and other correspondence, minutes of CEE meetings (with program proposals and budgets)
- China Educational Exchange 1984-85 correspondence, memos, minutes
- China Educational Exchange 1986-87 as above
- Church Arrangements – correspondence re GKE speaking at churches, schools 1978-82 (mostly 1979)
- CMBC Daycare – 3 letters/memos re daycare October 1980
- CMBC Items for the Record – mostly letters/memos to/from the board 1978-81, CMBC Board minutes 1978, 1980
- CMBC-MBBC-Menno Simons College – correspondence, minutes re joint ventures 1966-83, Brief on All-Mennonite College 1983, info on Menno Simons College 1982, info on MBBC 1982
- CMBC – new chairs, also David D. Friesen proposal 1978
- Council of Mennonite Colleges (CMC) – correspondence re Presidents’ meetings, minutes 1979-84
- Council of Church-Related Colleges of Winnipeg (CCRCW) 1977-79 mainly drafts, correspondence, memos re government funding, also meeting minutes, member lists
- CCRCW (Government Funding of Private Schools) reports/studies 1978-79
- CCRCW (Government Funding of Private Schools) correspondence 1980-85
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President George K. Epp Files
- CCRCW (Government Funding, Tax Exemption Bill 17) correspondence, reports 1985-87
- CMC Secretary – Larry Kehler correspondence to/from LK (GKE’s file) August 1982-May 1983 meeting minutes (CMC Admin), correspondence, memos, reports
- Columbia Bible Institute, BC 5 pieces correspondence between GKE and Roy Just 1980-82
- CMC Goal Setting 1979-80 reports (mainly H. J. Gerbrandt), correspondence
- COM correspondence 1981-82 mostly re Gerald and Mary Hope Stucky – missionaries in residence at CMBC
- Conrad Grebel College – 1975-82 correspondence, reports re publications e.g. joint journal, Mennonite Yearbook, Mennonite Sociology Reader
- Confidential – 1978-82 confidential correspondence re profs, difficult student situations, (spiritual) concerns about CMBC from outsiders and responses, student comments on CMBC
- COE – correspondence re meetings, conferences, 1981-82
- Dean’s Search Committee 1981 correspondence, minutes (Gerald Gerbrandt chosen)
- Faculty Fund 1971-83 lists, correspondence re spending of faculty fund for professional development of faculty
- Finances – correspondence to/from donors to fund/foundations/scholarships 1978-82
- Harold W. Turner Visit to CMBC correspondence September-November 1981
- Honours – certificates for W. Janzen & G. Lohrenz, Convocation honouring W. Janzen Schedule 1981
- Incorporation of CMBC - correspondence 1981-82
- Kitchen Correspondence 1979-82 re hours, wages, budget, personnel (confidential letter re problems in kitchen)
- CMBC (GKE) letters to/from Churches and church members 1978-83 (some of a more private nature – criticisms of CMBC – restricted?)
- Letters to/from/re Foreign Students applying/at CMBC 1979-83
- Letters – references for students, profs and letters requesting references 1978-83
- Letters – to, from, re students 1978-82 (one marked confidential from grandparents re student 1979)
- Letters – South America 1978-83 to/from students, re trips
- Letters – Administration March - July 1978– administration correspondence files contain renewal of sessional teaching agreements, telegrams, correspondence to/from other schools, businesses, churches, from students (all or some of the above description – the earlier files are much thinner, however)
- Letters – Administration 1978-79
- Letters – Administration 1979-80
- Letters – Administration 1980-81
- Letters – Administration 1981-82
- Letters – Administration 1982-83, 1983-84
- Liberal Arts College/Mennonite Higher Education – reports, meeting minutes, symposium notes 1980-82, feasibility studies, papers, proposals, Friends of Higher Learning (including GKE)
- Manitoba – Department of Education (K. Fast) correspondence to GKE re speaking at in-service days mostly, 1981
- Material for Policy Manual 1979-83 correspondence between GKE and John J. Bergen, drafts of manual
- MCC Akron, Pennsylvania correspondence and initiatives 1978-82
- MCC Canada correspondence 1978-84
- MCC East-West Consultation 1974-77 correspondence (some confidential – names, details of Russian believers), meeting agenda and minutes
- MCC East-West Consultation 1978-80 - as above
- MCC East-West Consultation 1981-83 letters, research notes, meeting minutes (confidential)
- Moltmann, Jürgen, J. J. Thiessen lecturer 1982 – correspondence 1979-82, lecture program 1982 (also project on Moltmann by Willi Braun, CMBC)
- Monument – H. H. Ewert 1983, plaque, drawing of cairn and cost estimate
- News Releases, newspaper articles, programs, bulletins, letters 1978-83
- Personnel Applications 1980-81 resumes, correspondence from and to applicants for jobs at CMBC (confidential)
- President’s Resignation & Search Committee – meeting minutes, reports 1983 (confidential)
- Practical Theology – discussion papers, letter, memos, meeting minutes, proposals 1977-80
- Public Relations Committee 1982-83 Nov. 82, Feb. 83 minutes, also choir tour suggestions 1983-84
- Renovations CMBC 1981 correspondence with City of Winnipeg, Budget projection, Admin minutes
- South American Tour 1978-79 – correspondence, minutes, travel arrangements, itinerary
- Study Conference Jan. 1984 “Authority and the Church” – Brochure, news release, application form (sample), correspondence, talks, discussion
- Student Placement in Ministry 1981-83 – correspondence with churches, minutes, resumes to place graduating/graduated students in church ministry openings (confidential)
- Summer Institute 1981 – brochure, schedule, talk by GKE – topic: Teaching Youth in Church and School
- Student Council 1978-82 selected minutes, correspondence, memos, questionnaire, student suggestions, list of council, candidates of election (scattered records of these 4 years)
- Student Aid CMBC 1981-82, 1982-83 – correspondence re scholarships, bursaries to/from students, government offices, donors and lists of aid recipients (confidential)
- Task Force on Higher Education 1981-83 – proposals, reports, research papers by various people (CMBC profs, Frank H. Epp) from within the Mennonite community re the future of Mennonite higher education, correspondence, memos
- Tuxedo Heights Church Feasibility Study reports by Leo and Darlene Driedger, correspondence, interview, questionnaires 1978-79
- Umsiedler –correspondence, reports 1977-82 (confidential)
- University of Brandon – 3 letters all re GKE attending Brandon’s convocations 1982, 1983
- University of Manitoba correspondence with CMBC 1978-83 re students, staff, general business (confidential)
- Writers Workshop January 1983 – correspondence mainly with workshop leaders, program schedule, info on Barbara Smucker, samples of work (1982-83)
- Writers Workshop January 1983 – registration lists, correspondence with participants (1982-83)
- Year of the Handicapped 1982 – correspondence/pamphlets/articles on improving handicap facilities and the way handicapped people are treated (largely from MCC) 1979-81