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Collection Overview
Abstract
Principal of Grand Rapids Christian High School, field agent for the Historical Committee of the CRCNA, and translator. The collection includes records of the Christian Reformed Laymen's League of the 1960s, Synodical Study Committee material, articles published in The Banner, a speech, entitled "Christian Education in Grand Rapids," and many banquet speeches.
Biographical Note
Son of Rev. John Post and Jessie Kuiper, Egbert R. Post was born in Almont, Michigan on August 28, 1896. Post began his teaching career in a one-room Christian School house in Baldwin, Wisconsin. After only a year of teaching Post enter the army at the end of World War I. When he returned, he enrolled at Calvin College and later transferred to the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan he received his BA and MA in economics.
Post accepted a teaching position at Grand Rapids Christian High School. There he taught the subjects of social science, commercial law, and governments. In 1932 Post became principal of the Grand Rapids Christian High School and remained principal until his retirement in 1965. Post became affectionately known as "Erpie" because of the way he signed slips.
Outside of the school, Post and his wife Catherine (Hennink) ran a summer youth camp called Camp Roger on Little Bostwick Lake. Once he retired, Post worked at Heritage Hall, Calvin College. He served as a field agent for the Christian Reformed Church, collecting material for the archives and microfilming them. Post also translated documents from Dutch to English for the archives.
On June 11, 1993 Egbert R. Post died from congestive heart failure. His wife preceded him in death in 1982. He is survived by his son, Jay Post and daughter, Eunice Hope.
Correspondence and Items Related to the CRC Layman's League
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Correspondence and Items Related to the CRC Layman’s League],
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Series 2: Synod of 1971],
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Series 3: Miscellaneous Papers],
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- Series 1: Correspondence and Items Related to the CRC Layman’s League
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- 1963
- Folder 2: Correspondence --- 1964
- Folder 3: Correspondence --- 1965
- Folder 4: Correspondence --- 1966-1967
- Folder 5: Correspondence --- undated and 1976
- Folder 6: CRC Layman's League Information
- Folder 7: Towlette Program
- Folder 8: Wayside Chapel
- Folder 9: Layman's League Projects
- Folder 10: Newspaper evangelism
- Folder 11: O'Hare Matter
- Folder 12: CRC Synod on Worldly Amusements
- Series 2: Synod of 1971
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Synod of 1971: Reports and letters --- 1971
- Folder 2: Synod of 1971: Overtures --- 1971
- Folder 3: Synod of 1971: Committee 1 --- 1971
- Folder 4: Synod of 1971: Committee 2 --- 1971
- Folder 5: Synod of 1971: Committee 3 --- 1971
- Folder 6: Synod of 1971: Committee 4 --- 1971
- Folder 7: Synod of 1971: Committee 5 --- 1971
- Folder 8: Synod of 1971: Committee 6 --- 1971
- Folder 9: Synod of 1971: Committee 7 --- 1971
- Folder 10: Synod of 1971: Committee 8 --- 1971
- Folder 11: Synod of 1971: Committee 9 --- 1971
- Folder 12: Synod of 1971: Committee 10 --- 1971
- Folder 13: Synod of 1971: Committee 11 --- 1971
- Folder 14: Synod of 1971: Committee 12 --- 1971
- Folder 15: Synod of 1971: Committee 13 --- 1971
- Folder 16: Synod of 1971: Committee 14 --- 1971
- Folder 17: Summary of Synodical Decisions of Doctrinal and Ethical Matters
- Folder 18: Committee on "Synodical Decisions . . ." - minutes, reports, drafts
- Folder 19: The Harold Dekker- Ann Arbor Chapel matter materials
- Series 3: Miscellaneous Papers
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- 1982
- Folder 2: Speech: Jamestown CRC 75th Anniversary
- Folder 3: Speech: "Christian Education in Grand Rapids" --- 1978
- Folder 4: Banner article, "Calvin College: Recollections after Sixty Years" --- April 1976
- Folder 5: "Echoes from the Early Twenties," seven manuscripts written in response to a request to send an autobiographical sketch covering the past fifty years or more. Contributors: Harry Abma, Matthys H. De Vroome, Garret E. Roelofs, Garret Kempers, Jacob G. Kooistra, Sheldon H. Sturrmans, and Gerben Zylstra
- Folder 6: Translation
- Folder 7: CRC Careers Tape #2
- Folder 8: CRC Careers Tape #3
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