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  • Driedger, Leo, 1928-


    Retrieval numbers: Volumes 5426-5428

    Title: Leo Driedger fonds
    Dates: 1959-1969
    Extent: 24 cm of textual records
    Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

    Historical note

    Leo Driedger, best known for his contributions to Canadian sociology, to the study of ethnicity, and to the sociology of Mennonite and other Anabaptist religious groups, was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1928. As a scholar and professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, he was the author of numerous books on these themes.
    During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he lived in Newton, Kansas and served the General Conference Mennonite Church under the Board of Christian Service, as the Associate Secretary Director of Voluntary Service (ca. 1958-1962). By the mid 1960s he was living in Winnipeg and serving as a Canadian elected member of the Board of Christian Service and its Peace and Social Concerns Committee.

    Scope and content note

    This fonds consists of papers collected by Leo Driedger related to his involvement with the Board of Christian Service and the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the General Conference Mennonite Church during the 1960s. They include peace education materials, meeting dockets and various papers on social issues such as nuclear weapons, everyday ethics and sexuality.

    Index terms

    Creators

  • Driedger, Leo, 1928-
  • General Conference Mennonite Church - Board of Christian Service
  • General Conference Mennonite Church - Peace and Social Concerns Committee

    Adjunct descriptive data

    Finding aids

    Inventory file list available

    Notes

    Custodial history

    Alf Redekopp picked up these materials from Leo Driedger's home at 83 Rutgers Bay in Winnipeg shortly before his move to Lindenwood Drive in 2007.

    Language

    English and a little German

    Arrangement

    Arranged and described by Alf Redekopp, July 2009.

    Restrictions on access

    None to access

    Immediate source of acquisition

    Leo Driedger

    Other notes

    (Acc. 09-039)

    Inventory File list

    Volume 5426
    Leo Driedger papers (Acc. 09-039)
    1. GCMC – School of Peace [curriculum]: materials prepared by the Peace and Social Concerns (PSCC) committee for primary children, juniors, intermediates, youth and adults and edited by Leo Driedger. – 196_.
    2. GCMC – PSCC meeting. – Nov. 4-5, 1966.
    3. GCMC – PSCC meeting. – Mar. 31-Apr. 1, 1967.
    4. GCMC – PSCC meeting. – Nov. 17-18, 1967.
    5. GCMC – PSCC meeting. – Apr. 4-6, 1968.
    Volume 5427
    Leo Driedger papers (Acc. 09-039)
    1. GCMC – Board of Christian Service meeting docket. – Dec. 2-6, 1968.
    2. “People and Hunger” (consultation presentations and findings). – 1968.
    3. GCMC – General Board meeting docket. – Dec. 4-6, 1968.
    4. A manual of Draft information for Conscientious Objectors / compiled by MCC Peace Section. – 1968.
    5. GCMC – PSCC meeting. – Apr. 24-26, 1969.
    Volume 5428
    Leo Driedger papers (Acc. 09-039)
    1. GCMC – Division of Administration meeting docket. – Dec. 3-5, 1969.
    2. GCMC – Commission on Education meeting docket. – Dec. 3-5, 1969.
    3. GCMC – Commission on Overseas Missions annual meeting docket. – Dec. 1-5, 1969.
    4. Various papers relating to peace and social concerns:
    1. “The Church in the Nuclear Age” by Frank H. Epp
    2. “Unsere Einstellung Zum Krieg”
    3. “Report on the experimental use of Peacemaker series” (including comments by E. Cornelsen, BC; P.G. Sawatzky, SK; J.F. Paul, MB; D. Janzen, ON; N.W. Dick, Board) / Abe. W. Sawatzky.
    4. “Christian Pacifism Reassessed” by Roland H. Bainton (reprint from The Christian Century)
    5. “Triple Revolution (Cybernation, Weaponry, Human Rights) together with commentary” by Dave Dellinger and “Growing up Absorbed” by Paul Goodman” (reprint from Liberation, Apr. 1964)
    6. “Who Chooses the People you Know” by William Peters (1959) (reprinted from Redbook magazine)
    7. “One Man’s War on War” by Jhan and June Robbins (reprinted from Redbook, May 1964)
    8. “Learning to Live in a Troubled World” by Benjamin Spock, M.D. (reprinted from Redbook, Aug. 1964)
    9. “Are you a conscientious Objector to war?” / Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. – 1967.
    10. “The Creative ‘Yea:’ Who is ready to build the dream?” by Dorothy T. Samuel.
    11. “The Christian Peacemaker: the theology of conviction” by Thomas Merton. – 1963. (reprinted from Fellowship: Magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation)
    12. “The Church and Vocational Pacifism” by John Nevin Sayre (reprinted from Fellowship: Magazine of the Fellowship of Reconciliation)
    1. Choice: a weekly broadcast / produced by Mennonite Advertising Agency (Harrisonburg, VI). – 196_? (Author-commentator David Augsburger working at everyday ethics from a Christian perspective)
    2. Conference on Sexuality (held at Camp Arnes, Manitoba). – Feb. 7-8, 1969.