COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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An ad hoc group of individuals who supported the ordination of women in the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes interviews, articles, reports, devotion booklet, calendar, papers, news clippings, a banner, custom T-shirts, Cloud of Witnesses events, synodical  materials, and conference materials regarding women in office.

Abstract Details the efforts of one local committee under the umbrella of the larger Committee for Women in the Christian Reformed Church in North America, that worked to have all members of the denomination, regardless of gender, be able to make full use of their talents in serving the church, and specifically the CRC denomination. The Committee was not an official agency of the denomination, but was made up of people concerned about gender equality. The collection details various educational...

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Nurse in China and Thailand. The collection includes: papers entitled "Under Communism" and "Communism in China;" and a family history "For the Scenario of Life There is No Script."

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Professor of political science at Calvin College. The collection includes: a thesis entitled "Confessional Political Parties in the Netherlands, 1813-1906;" articles; and a letter to H. J. Brinks with recollections regarding Y. P. De Jong and the Grandville Avenue Dutch neighborhood.

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Farmers at Randolph, Wisconsin. The collection includes letters between the Westras and their children, i.e., Rena, Dewey, Jasper, and William. In Dutch, with a translation by daughter Rena Westra. [See also Genealogy Collection, Our History and Family Tree, by Rena D. Westra, and children's collections, i.e., Coll. 327, Dewey Westra; and Coll. 400, Rena Westra ]

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Professor of education at Calvin College. The collection includes: a gospel hymnbook, and the papers "The Calvinistic Conception of Family," "Critique of the Authentic Person by Sidney J. Harris," and "Warranted Discrimination."

Abstract Administrator at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan; the University of California at Berkeley, California; American Council of Education at Washington, DC; and at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation at Menlo Park, California. The collection includes personal materials; and materials from the institutions and foundations he served, i.e., speeches, statements, articles, correspondence, news clippings, publications, photographs, and papers on student unrest. [See also the...

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Chaplain of Christian Sanatorium Association (Wyckoff, New Jersey), Pine Rest Christian Hospital (Grand Rapids, Michigan), and Executive Director of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. The collection includes papers on the subject of clinical pastoral counseling; and poems that were collected in two monographs entitled Musings of W. L. H. and God's Grace in Free Verse.

Abstract Minister of the Christian Reformed Church; and professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. The collection includes class notes; lectures; speeches; addresses; sermons; chapel talks; papers; articles; correspondence; book reviews; subject files; a thesis entitled "Herman Bavinck's Doctrine of the Covenant"; a bound manuscript entitled "The Centrality of the Heart"; and revisions, corrections, and correspondence regarding the published books and articles. [See also the...

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes sermons; speeches; articles published in church publications, partly in Dutch; and correspondence with H. Beets, B. J. Bennink, M. Fakkema, J. G. Roberts, and S. Volbeda. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]