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Collection Overview
Title: John H. Schaal Collection, 1928-1991
ID: COLL/218
Primary Creator: John Hamburg Schaal (1908-2002)
Extent: 15.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church, academic dean of the Reformed Bible College, and editor of Sunday School Papers. The collection includes: sermons, Sunday School Committee minutes, correspondence, reports, lecture notes, outlines for Bible studies, Young Calvinist articles, class notes, programs, brochures, pamphlets, and an interview with J. H. Brinks relating the beginning of the Reformed Bible Institute. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Biographical Note
John Hamburg Schaal was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on April 28, 1908. Schaal attended Calvin College, graduated with his B.A. in 1930, and went on to Calvin Seminary graduating in1933. Schaal’s first call came from his hometown, Kalamazoo’s Milwood congregation. He served there from 1933 until 1943 when he accepted the call from Second Fremont. Schaal’s gift of being a great educator and writer led him to be the denomination’s editor of the Sunday school papers and material.
He was the editor and pastor of Second CRC until 1948 when he agreed to be the Bible instructor at the Reformed Bible Institute. In 1972, he was appointed as the Academic Dean at the Reformed Bible College. Only a year later Schaal entered emeritus status. At the age of 94, John Schaal died on September 24, 2002. His wife, Grace (Workman), preceded him in death. His son Wendell and five grandchildren survived Schaal.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Sub-Series:
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Sub-Series 1: Biographical Material, 1928-1989],
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Sub-Series 2: Board Member, Chaplaincy, Committees, 1933-1991],
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Sub-Series 3: Evangelism and Miscellaneous, 1934-1989],
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Sub-Series 4: Reformed Bible College Material, 1939-1989],
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Sub-Series 5: Sermonic Material, 1933-1984],
[Sub-Series 6: Sunday School Material, 1946-1972],
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Sub-Series 7: Addenda and Miscellaneous Material, 1946-1975],
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- Sub-Series 6: Sunday School Material --- 1946-1972
- Box 14
- Folder 1: Activities and papers
- Folder 2: Articles and papers
- Folder 3: Articles
- Folder 4: Committee Meetings --- January 17, 1963-November 6, 1967
- Folder 5: Convention programs --- 1946-1966
- Folder 6: Convention programs --- 1972
- Folder 7: Correspondence and Reports
- Folder 8: Sunday School Editor for Bible Guide and Bible Truth --- 1955
- Folder 9: Sunday School editorials in The Key --- 1969-1971
- Folder 10: Sunday School Feed my Sheep. Booklet with articles, draft, correspondence, finished copy --- 1972
- Folder 11: Sunday School Lesson Plans --- 1962-1972
- Folder 12: Sunday School: Midwest Association, Vol. 1 no. 2- Vol. 14 no. 1
- (incomplete)
- Folder 13: Sunday School Association minutes. Constitution of the Association, convention program --- 1971
Browse by Sub-Series:
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Sub-Series 1: Biographical Material, 1928-1989],
[
Sub-Series 2: Board Member, Chaplaincy, Committees, 1933-1991],
[
Sub-Series 3: Evangelism and Miscellaneous, 1934-1989],
[
Sub-Series 4: Reformed Bible College Material, 1939-1989],
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Sub-Series 5: Sermonic Material, 1933-1984],
[Sub-Series 6: Sunday School Material, 1946-1972],
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Sub-Series 7: Addenda and Miscellaneous Material, 1946-1975],
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