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Collection Overview
Title: John E. Meeter Collection, 1955-1981
ID: COLL/170
Primary Creator: John E. Meeter (1901-1993)
Extent: 1.0 Box
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Published and unpublished poems.
Biographical Note
Educator and Minister, John E. Meeter, was born in Hammond, IN on October 8, 1901. After Meeter graduated from Calvin College and Seminary, he went off to Harvard Divinity School and Princeton Seminary earning his Master of Theology. Meeter then studied aboard at Free University in Amsterdam to earn his Doctorate of Theology.
Meeter first started his teaching career at Princeton Seminary. He then went off to teach at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA for ten years. In 1945, he began serving the congregation of Westside CRC in Cleveland, OH as their pastor. In 1951, he moved to New Jersey to serve the congregation of Englewood CRC. In 1966, Meeter retired.
During his career and into retirement, Meeter focused on editing and publishing the works of Dr. Benjamin Warfield, a notable Princeton scholar. Meeter had opportunity to publish his own poetry and sermons as well. His works made their way to the journals of the Christian Reformed Church and Princeton Seminary.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: Poems
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Poems written by J. Meeter and correspondence
- Folder 2
- Item 1: Iowa Poetry Day Association Bicentennial Edition --- 1975
- Item 2: Second Edition --- 1976
- Folder 3
- Item 1: "Dubuque Poems" --- 1976
- Item 2: "Reflections on the Lord's Prayer" --- 1955
- Folder 4: "Lyrical Iowa" --- 1972, 1975-1976
- Folder 5
- Folder 6: Iowa Poetry Day Association Brochure of Poems --- 1977-1978
- Folder 7: Iowa Poetry Day Association Brochure of Poems --- 1979
- Series 2: The North American Mentor
- Box 1
- Folder 8
- Item 1: The North American Mentor, Volume 10, No. 3 --- 1972
- Item 2: The North American Mentor, Volume 11, No. 3 --- 1973
- Folder 9
- Item 1: The North American Mentor, Volume 12, No. 3 --- 1974
- Item 2: The North American Mentor, Volume 13, No. 1 and 4 --- 1975
- Folder 10
- Item 1: The North American Mentor, Volume 16, No. 3 --- 1978
- Item 2: The North American Mentor, Volume 19 --- 1981
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