Chicago Training School Archives Collection List ca 1857-1986

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Contents Lucy Rider Meyer Lucy Rider Meyer Personal Papers Notes on the Founding of the Chicago Training School transcribed from Lucy Rider Meyer’s letters and diaries (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x9) Lucy Rider Meyer (as Jeannie L. Rider) Speaking Engagements 18671874 Photographs (some photocopied) of Lucy Rider Meyer: (1) 1857 (age 8) (2) 1871 (3) 1872 (4) 1885 (5) 1890 (2 poses) (6) 1900 (7) 1910 (8) 1914 (9) 1915 (10) 1920 (11) Photocopied picture of Lucy Rider Meyer in her garden on Tamarack Farm in Twin Lakes, Michigan (12) One photograph of Lucy Rider and J. Shelley Meyer ca 1890. Products of Her Pen (1) Books – a published list of her books (2) 1986 – a handwritten list of her books, poems, and songs (3) “1986 Publications to Investigate” handwritten list of books perhaps for research about LRM (4) “Her Recorded Publication from all sources” [ca 1914] Assorted Writings of Lucy Rider Meyer (1) Notes jotted on the back of John Crerar Library slips (2) “The Do Without Band of Bloomtown” [pamphlet 2 !/2”x 6” 16pp, ca 1885] [2 copies one missing pages] (3) “Highlighting the History of CTS” notes from news stories, Lucy Rider Meyer’s diary, etc. [ca 1885, 5 pp typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”] (4) “The Mother in the Church” 1901 [bound booklet, 18 pp, 6”x8”] (5) “Just a Plain Little Woman” published in The Adult Bible Class Monthly, August 1922. [2 pp, 9” x 112”] (6) “For Jesus’ Sake” (tract, 4pp, 3 ½”x 6” ca 1885) (7) “An Open Letter to Teachers” (with Lottie E. Lowry) (tract, 4pp, 4”x6” ca. 1885) (8) “Bears and Fishes in Yellowstone Park” by Lucy Rider Meyer in Social Progress (n.d.) (9) “Helps to Bible Study: The Jewish Sacrifices and their Meaning” by Lucy Rider Meyer Deaconess Series No 1 (8pp 7x9) (Chicago: The Message Publishing Co, n.d.) (10) Fellow-Laborer with Paul by Marianne Farningham [glued to #15] 1

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(11) “One Girl and Her Education” by Lucy Rider Meyer [published n.d. n.p.] (12) “A Lonely Old Woman” (9p., n.d. handwritten on a notepad, 5”x7”, poor condition) (13) [odd collection of handwritten notes on various topics perhaps made during a meeting] (5pp, 5”x6”) (14) Christmas – a devotional [published in the Bulletin Nov 1924] (15) Favorite Sayings of LRM: “If you cannot understand you can always have faith” “If you have something to say, stand up and say it. Then sit down!” Speeches by Lucy Rider Meyer LRM (1) “A Missionary Training School for Women: A Paper Read before the Chicago Methodist Episcopal Minister’s Meeting June 15, 1885” [printed pamphlet, 16 pp, 3” x 7”) (2) Speech at Lesemann Inauguration by LRM [1917] (3 pp, 8 ½” x 10) (3) ‘Outline for Addresses” [by Lucy Rider Meyer?] Outlines for several different speeches about the Chicago Training School [1 p, 8 ½” x 11”, typewritten] (4) “The Amusement Question” given before the Methodist Preachers Body, also the Baptist and the Presbyterian Bodies. (ca1920) (25 pp, typed and handwritten, 8 ½”x11”) (5) The Beginnings of Wesley Hospital 1914. (2 copies – one 15 pages long with pages missing, one 17 pages long. Each has unique handwritten notes and corrections. A letter to Perley Lowe, 11/10/1914, refers to her desire to protect her husband’s anonymity to ensure her husband received the proper credit (see “General Correspondence” file) Typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (6) Her Last Sermon – Jonah – preached at St. James Church Chicago Dec 4, 1921. Prayers composed by Lucy Rider Meyer LRM (1) I Live and Move in the Safety of God’s Presence at All Times (typewritten, glued to a card with #s 2 and 3, 3”x6”) (2) Airplane Blessing (typewritten, glued to a card with #s 1 and 3, 3”x6”) (3) Prayer for Protection (typewritten, glued to a card with #s 1 and 2, 3”x6”) (4) Lord I Pray for the City (1p, typewritten, clipping 3”x3”) (5) Lord Keep Me From Being Afraid of Thee and Thy Leading (1p, typewritten, clipping 2”x3”) (6) I Thank Thee Father That I Live in This Time (1p, p. 52 torn from “In Memoriam” 6”x9”) (7) On Rev. 14 and 15 (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10) (8) For Blessing on Friends (1p, typewritten 4”x8 ½”) (9) Oh Lord We Are Glad of This Word [for blessings and inspiration] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (10) Oh, Jesus Christ, Who Art Eternal (about awakening to truth) (2pp typewritten 7 ½”x10) (11) Hymn 375 prayer (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10) (12) Hymn 354 prayer (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10) (13) Hymn 317 prayer (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10) (14) Prayer on I John 18 (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10) 2

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(15) Our Hearts Tremble Sometimes (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x6”) (16) Lord, Hear Our Prayer and Lead Us into Truth (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x6”) (17) We Pray for the World (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x5”) (18) Oh Lord Bless As Thou Canst (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x1” cut) (19) If Every Heart Here is Not Satisfied (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x3” cut) (20) Lord We Thank Thee for This Word (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x1”cut) (21) Oh Lord God, the Jehovah… (focus on the school’s needs) (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (22) …The Burden That is Upon Our Own Hearts… (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x6”) (23) Hymn 424 prayer (1p, handwritten, 8x10) (24) Oh, Lord, In the Midst of the Details of Our Daily Life… (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (25) Eternal Are They Mercies Lord (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (26) Hymn 451 Prayer (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (27) Bless With Us Our Dear Friends… (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (28) Hymn 106 Prayer (1p, handwritten 7 ½”x10) (29) …Help Us to Take to Our Own Hearts this Word of Exhortation (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (30) We Thank Thee Our Father for This Word (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (31) Fragment “…may be better…” (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (32) Fragment “…may they be drawn to thee…” (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (33) #16 Blessing over food (1p, hand transcribed, 8 ½”x11, used at an alumni gathering in 1984) (34) Lord Keep Us From Growing Narrow (1p, hand transcribed, 8 ½”x11, used at an alumni gathering in 1984) (35) #16 Help Me to Understand Lord (1p, hand transcribed, 8 ½”x11) (36) LRM Chapel Prayer [1924 June Bulletin] (1p, handwritten, 8 ½”x11) (37) Lord, I pray for the great city (1p, typewritten, [p 53, torn from “Some Little Prayers”], 6”x8”) Poems composed by Lucy Rider Meyer LRM (1) “The Burden” [6 copies, 3 different printed cards, one cut from a publication] (2) “Just the Common Humdrum of Life” a Christmas poem [signed by Belle James] (3) “Her Li’l Daughter” [2 copies – 1 from a publication, one the original with editorial notes) (4) “I am a Christian” (5) “The Teacher and His Task” (6) Scholars All for Jesus! [Lucy Rider Meyer written before 1908] a poem about teaching [these are the words to the song “All My Class for Jesus” with an additional verse] (1p typewritten) (7) “Mother and Father” by Lucy Rider Meyer (8) “Ships That Pass in the Daytime” by Lucy Rider Meyer (9) Untitled poem about death (“Hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth”) by Lucy Rider Meyer 3

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(10) “The Tides” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes about its composition) (11) “Venice” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes about its composition) (12) “Out of the Depth” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes about its composition) (13) “Charity” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes about its composition) (14) “Birdie and Kittie” (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 8”) Songs by LRM (1) breakfast Saturday morning (a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer), n.d., n.p. (3x5 card) (2) “Closing Prayer” n.d., n.p. (3x5 card) (3) school song by LRM (3 copies) (4) He was not willing, song by LRM (5) All My Class for Jesus, song by LRM [glued to cardboard with #6] (6) Peace I Leave With You [[glued to cardboard with #5] (7) Class Song (to the tune of Santa Lucia) (8) W’en Ye Doan’ Know What To Do (9) The Mother [on the same page with #10] (10) Dey’s a Li’l’ Six Feet of Groun’, Somewhere (A Spiritual) [on the same page with #9] 1919 (11) Dey’s a Li’l’ Six Feet of Groun’, Somewhere [original with notes? And a handwritten copy] 1919 (12) A Blessing for Our Friends (to the tune of Eidelweiss) (13)“The Lord Bless Thee and Keep Thee” sheet music [The Northfield Benediction?] copyright 1891 (14) “The Winds Are Whispering: Chautauqua Song, 1875)” by Lucy Rider Meyer. Sheet music. (15) “Forgiven” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes about its composition) (16) “De Lard, He’ll Carry You Through” (2 copies, sheet music, 3pp., 8”x10”) (17) “Battle Song” [two pages glued to cardboard backing] Bible Studies on Which Lucy Rider Meyer Was At Work 1920-21 (1) Notes on “the Apostle Paul” and “formless things” (2) Evolution (3) Hebrews (4) Samuel (5) Newsclipping about the “evil days” (Los Angeles earthquakes and World War I - 1914) (6) Hebrew Prophecy and the Prophets (outline 2 copies, typewritten, 8 ½”x11) (7) Prophecy and the Prophets (typewritten, 4pp, 8 ½”x11) (8) What is Prophecy? (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11) (9) God made known to the old Israelites…the Bible.. (typewritten, 7pp various sizes and shapes) (10) Who were Hebrews? (handwritten, 2pp, different sizes) 4

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(11) Prophecy and the Prophets of Israel: General Plan of Teaching (typewritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11) (12) Elijah, crisis, leaders, kings (handwritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11) (written on the back of Sermon on the Mount) (13) Sermon on the Mount (typewritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11) (#12 is written on the back of this) Autobiographical Writings LRM (1) “Deaconesses: Biblical, Early Church, European, American” [various selected pages, 12pp, photocopies, 8 ½” x 11” n.d.) [includes a photograph of the Chicago Training School faculty 1890] (2) “A Bit of Autobiography” [3pp typewritten 8 ½”x 11” n.d.] Biographical Writings about Lucy Rider Meyer LRM (1) “Presentation speech to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer on the occasion of their Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary, in the city of Milwaukee – May 21st, 1910.” By Isabelle Horton. (2) Lucy Rider Meyer 1922 [Isabelle Horton?]) (3) “Tribute to Lucy Rider Meyer” by Isabelle Horton. Vesper Service Sunday March 6, 1924. (4) Character Study Lucy Rider Meyer (speech at Alumni Annual May 8, 1981) (2pp, typed and handwritten) (5) “Lucy Rider Meyer: Methodism’s Jane Addams” with footnotes (1981) (16pp, typewritten, , 8 ½”x11”) (6) “Lucy Rider Meyer” a poem by Floyd Holden (7) Lucy Rider Meyer was a special student…1877-78. Card from Miles Humphreys to Belle L. James (8) “Saint Lucy” by John F. Fisher, Dean of University of Southern California (9) “Lucy Rider Meyer: A Tribute” by B. Elizabeth Squire 11/8/1896 (10)“Possessed by a Dream” by Thelma Campbell about Lucy Rider Meyer. Includes poem “The Mother” by Lucy Rider Meyer, in The World Outlook (n.d.) (11)“Lucy Rider Meyer” (n.a.) about LRM’s composition “Northfield Benediction” in The Northfield Alumnai Chronicle 2/1926. (12)Tribute to Lucy Rider Meyer ca 1923 (2pp, 8 ½”x11” typewritten) (13) Character Study of LRM Author unknown (14) “LRM” author unknown (handwritten, 2 pp, 8 ½”x11”) (15) “LRM Biographical Data” (handwritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11”) (16) “The Why and the How” by isabelle Horton with a note by Belle L. James (10pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”) (17) Speech by Irva Colley Brown [a list of times and places the speech was given is included] (2 copies, both with notes) (49pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (18) “Old Saints and Sinners in New Clothes: The Modern Eye” a sermon delivered by Robert Bruce Pierce (brochure) ca 1960s (2pp, 8 ½”x 16”) Newsclippings and Obituaries re: Lucy Rider Meyer LRM (1) “The Methodist Ministers” (source unknown, n.d.) article about a speech on missionaries to be given by Julia [sic] Rider Meyer to a meeting of Methodist clergy. (1p, poor condition, 5

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2 ½”x2 ½”, clipped to a card) [perhaps related to the 1885 clipping] (2) “The Methodists” [“from a Chicago paper in Spring of 1885”] article about a speech on the need for a school for missionaries given to a meeting of Methodist clergy. (1p, poor condition, 2 ½”x2 ½”, glued to a card) (3) “Victim of a World-Wide Conspiracy” amusing article about publishing a photograph of Lucy Rider Meyer without permission. [Poor quality photocopy] Deaconess Advocate August 1911. (4) “Deaconesses Hear Lucy Rider Meyer: Chicago Social Worker Guest at Meeting of Aid Society. Founded Order in America” (Providence Journal 9/24/1913) (1p., cut to irregular shape, 16” long) (5) New England Deaconess Journal 2/1918 includes cover photographs of Lucy Rider Meyer and Josiah Shelley Meyer and an “Editorial” on the succession of Louis F. W. Lesemann as president of the Chicago Training School [on page 4] (8pp., 8”x11”) (6) “Lucy Rider Meyer, Widely Known as an Educator, Dies” 3/17/1922 (publication unknown) (1p, 2 ½”x8”) (7) “A Pioneer Leader of Women” by Dr. Louis F. W. Lesemann, in the Western Christian Advocate 3/22/1922 (1p. 8 ½”x9”) (8) “Mrs. Lucy Rider Meyer” brief obituary in The Christian Advocate 3/23/1922 (1p, 3” x 2 ½”) (9) “Lucy Rider Meyer” obituary article in The Christian Advocate 3/23/1922 (2pp, cut to irregular shapes) (10)“A Friend of Girls” by Delphia Phillips in The Girl’s Friend [Dayton Ohio] 8/5/1923 (2pp front and back, 8 ½”x 12”) (11) “Story on Pages 233-34” a note in the table of contents of Adult Bible Class Monthly 8/1922 identifying “Just a Plain Little Woman” as the last thing LRM ever wrote (1p. 2 ½”x 2”, clipped to a card) (12)“Two Names in the Methodist Hall of Fame: Baffled to Fight Better” The Northwestern Christian Advocate 9/6/1928 (2 copies, 1p. cut to irregular shape) (13) “Lucy Rider Meyer and the Deaconess Movement” in Explore Spring 1979. (2pp front and back, 9”x10”) (14) “Our Friends in Christian Social Service” by Elizabeth P. Gordon in The Union Signal 7/20/1911. (15) In Memoriam Lucy Rider Meyer Unprocessed (1) Letter from Belle L. James to “Dear Friends” concerning the death of Lucy Rider Meyer on March 16, 1922. [with handwritten notes from Belle James to Ina Loy Shinn Katzenberger] [James was with LRM at the time of her death and recorded her last coherent conversation concerning whether her nurse was a Christian and her last word “Papa” her pet name for J. Shelley Meyer] (2) Memorial Service program (June 15, 1922) (4pp., 7”x10”) 6

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(3) Necrology of Alumni of Oberlin College: Deaths of Alumni Reported to the College Secretary During the year Ending October 1, 1922 (LRM on pages 13 – 14) (32pp., 6”x9”) (4) “Epitaphs” c.a 1927 (3 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) Shelley Rider Meyer (son of Lucy and J. Shelley) LRM “At age 37, 1887…” Lucy Rider Meyer’s handwritten account of his “arrival” Photograph of Shelley Rider Meyer at age 5 Lucy Rider Meyer Professional Papers Historical Sketch of LRM and CTS by Irva Brown, Sept 1977 [1960], LRM 48pp. 8 ½”x11” (typed/photocopy in black binder) Lucy Rider Meyer’s Principal and Superintendent Reports re: Chicago Training School and Deaconess Program (Moved to Board of Trustees Collection Series 2.1) Course Materials for Classes Taught by Lucy Rider Meyer LRM (1) Readings in Mrs. Meyer’s Class (2) Vital Issues – Evolution (3) Vital Issues – Required Readings (4) Vital Issues – Higher Criticism (5) Vital Issues – Development of the Idea of God (2 copies with notes) (6) Sin and Holiness (7) The Atonement (8) Required Readings for Week Ending Nov 9th (9) The Atonement (handwritten notes) (10) Readings for Vital Issues – A Junior (11) Philosophy Class – Take Notice (12) Books Readings Jonah (handwritten notes) LRM Delegate Badge worn to Ecumenical Methodist Conference LRM Toronto 1911 Correspondence – “My Dear Brother” 9/25/1885 (1 letter) LRM Correspondence – General LRM (1) Lucy Rider Meyer to [?] [n.d.] (postcard) (2) Lucy Rider Meyer to [?] [n.d.] (handwritten, 5”x8”) (3) Lucy Rider Meyer to Dear Folks [n.d.] (4) [J. S. Deneen?] to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/4/1905 (5) [?] to Lucy Rider Meyer and Josiah Shelley Meyer 5/5/1913 (includes content from M.F. Deaver (6) Alma E. Hall to Lucy Rider Meyer, [ca Oct 1913], (handwritten, 1 page, 6 ½”x10”) (7) F.M. Brigham to Lucy Rider Meyer, 10/29/1913 (8) Lucy Rider Meyer to Perley Lowe, 11/10/1914. (9) [Lucy Rider Meyer] to ? 11/12/1915 (10) Ripley Hitchcock to Lucy Rider Meyer 11/24/1915 (11) George M. Jones, Secretary Oberlin College to Lucy Rider Meyer 12/23/1915 (12) Delbert Ullrick to Lucy Rider Meyer 3/1/1917 (13) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to “Dear Friends” 4/17/1917 (14) Lucy Rider Meyer to E.S. Steele 3/25/1920 (15) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to Dr. Howell 8/28/1920 7

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(16) E.O. Excell to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/25/1921 (17) G.E. McCammon to Lucy Rider Meyer 9/26/1921 (18) Lucy Rider Meyer to James N. Gamble 11/29/1921 (19) D.W. Howell to Lucy Rider Meyer 12/23/1921 (20) Marion Hope to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/16/1922 (21) Mrs. S.M. Bailey to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/23/1922 (22) Minnie Cutler to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/5/1922 (23) Emmeline C. Knox to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/7/1922 (24) E.B. to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/8/1922 (25) Della Dimmitt to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/17/1922 (26) Lula Clifton to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/20/1922 (27) Minny Cutler to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/21/1922 Correspondence – Nellie M. Curtiss 1921 (1) Nellie M. Curtiss to Lucy Rider Meyer 9/26/1921 (2) Nellie M. Curtiss to Lucy Rider Meyer [n.d. 1921?] (includes pamphlet “Report of the Methodist Deaconess Home of the Oregon Conference for year ending September 1, 1921)

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(16) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N.W. Harris, 6/18/1914, (typewritten, 2 pages, 8 ½”x 11”) (17) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 3/24/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”) (18) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 4/1/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 6”x8”) (19) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 4/6/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”) (20) Lucy Rider Meyer’s secretary to N.W. Harris, 6/28/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”) (21) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 7/8/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”) (22) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N.W. Harris, 7/12/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”) (23) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 7/19/1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 6x 8”) (24) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 7/23/1915, (handwritten, 1 page, 6x10) (25) [Lucy Rider Meyer] to N.W. Harris [fragment of letter] ca 1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”) Correspondence – Isabelle Horton 1919-1920 Correspondence – Belle L. James 1911-1921 (1) LRM to Belle L. James 4/13/1911 (2) LRM to Belle L. James 3/28/1914 (3) LRM to Belle James 6/3/1919 (4) LRM to Belle L. James [summer 1921] (5) LRM to Belle L. James [n.d.] Correspondence - Ina Loy Shinn Katzenberger Correspondence - Virginia Kent 1921-1922 (1) Virginia J. Kent to Lucy Rider Meyer 10/1/1921 (2) Virginia J. Kent to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/8/1922

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Correspondence – Luella Kimball 1921-1922 (1) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 12/5/1921 (2) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 10/7/1921 (3) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 8/31/1921 (4) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 9/21/1921 (5) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/14/1922

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Correspondence – Josiah Shelley Meyer 1912 (1) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Lucy Rider Meyer [mailed 1/19/1912] (2) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Lucy Rider Meyer [mailed 1/24/1912] (3) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Jennie [Lucy Rider Meyer] 1/26/1912 (4) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Lucy Rider Meyer [mailed 2/8/1912] (5) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Jennie [Lucy Rider Meyer, n.d.] (6) Josiah Shelley Meyer to [Lucy Rider Meyer] [2/3/????] (7) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Jennie [Lucy Rider Meyer, n.d.] (8) [Josiah Shelley Meyer ?] to Lucy Rider Meyer [n.d.] Correspondence – Mary Moxcey 1922 (1) Mary Moxcey to LRM 2/24/1922 (2) LRM to Mary Moxcey 2/28/1922 9

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Correspondence – Alice P. Thatcher 1921-1922 (1) Alice P. Thatcher to Lucy Rider Meyer 10/14/1921 (2) Alice P. Thatcher to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/17/1922

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Correspondence – Business (various between LRM and her estate) 1915-1934 (1) Harper & Brothers to Lucy Rider Meyer 11/16/1915 (2) Cayton F. Summy to Lucy Rider Meyer 6/4/1921 (3) [C.?] A. Woodman of the Oliver Ditson Company to Lucy Rider Meyer 12/8/1921 (4) C.W. Barnes of the Home Quarterly and The Home Visitor to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/27/1922 (5) “WAF” of the Oliver Ditson Company to Belle L. James regarding publication of and royalties for Lucy Rider Meyer’s writings and music and the posthumous disposition of royalties 6/8/1922

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Reviews of Lucy Rider Meyer’s Book “Deaconesses” High Adventure Editorial Notes High Adventure: Life of Lucy Rider Meyer by Isabelle Horton (1 copy) Student and employee reminiscences about Lucy Rider Meyer (9 pp, handwritten, 3” x 5” cards) Lucy Rider Meyer Academic Work Philosophy of Religion (Notebook for Course) Fall 1907 Jesus [Christology?] (Notebook for Course) Fall 1907 Contemporary Theology (Notebook for Course) Fall 1907 Lucy Rider Meyer Scrapbook – do not use [has been scanned] Lucy Rider Meyer – husband – Josiah (J) Shelley Meyer Papers Memoirs J. Shelley Meyer (1) Memoir of the married lives of the Meyers (54pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (2) Excerpt for inclusion in “High Adventure” by Isabelle Horton with editorial notes. (2pp., typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (3) Excerpt (3pp., typewritten, 3 ½” x 11”) Photographs of J. Shelley Meyer (1) 1865 age 16 with his farm (2) [ca. 1890] (3) 1894 (4) 1914 (2 poses) (5) 1916 “Incidents In Our Work” [early draft of “Modern Miracles: Incidents of Our Work…for Our Intimate Friends” with editorial notes] a history of the Chicago Training School dictated by J. Shelley Mayer, Arranged by Isabella Horton, 57pp. 8 ½”x11” (109pp., typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) [ca. 1925] “Modern Miracles: Incidents of Our Work…for Our Intimate Friends” a history of the Chicago Training School dictated by J. Shelley Mayer, Arranged by Isabelle Horton (57pp. 8 ½”x11”) [ca. 1925] “Mr. Meyer’s Approach to Money Appeals” (2 copies) (2pp, typewritten, (8 ½”x 11”) Correspondence – General

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(2) Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions, 1902-1905. (Photocopy of a catalog) courses, staff, student missionary information. 38 p.) Testimonials 1913: Manuscripts and typed letters re: praise of CTS and its staff and students in response to a request for testimonials for some purpose Affiliated Institutions (1) “The Chicago Training School Has Furnished Methodism with the Founders, or First Superintendents and Chief Workers of 40 Institutions” List ca 1911 (1p, Typewritten, 5” x 8”) (2) “The Chicago Training School and Institutions It Has Helped to Organize and Develop” brochure ca 1930 (4p. 7”x9”) (3) “Institutions Founded Under the Direction of the Chicago Training School” – several lists, some duplicated information, 1885 – 1923 (6 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (4) Affiliated Institutions ca. 1915 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (5) “40 Inslilulion [sic]” Graduates who became leaders and founders of other institutions. Ca 1930 (after Lucy Rider Meyer’s death) (20pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (6) Agard Rest Home by J. S. Meyer n.d. (3pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (7) [Baby Fold] N. A. Mason Property (2pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (8) Chaddock Boy’s School (4pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (9) The Deaconess’ Home (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (10) Hedding House: The Working Girl’s Home,” (Methodist Episcopal Church) NYC, booklet ca 1903, (8pp., 5”x 6 ¾”) (11) Home for Aged n.d. (7pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (12) Jennings Seminary ca 1930s (3pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) clipped to promotional flier ca 1922 (1 pg. 3 ½”x6 ¼”) and pages from catalog “Catalogue Jennings Seminary Young Women’s School, Aurora, IL” ca 1922 (front cover of catalog, 1 pg., 4 ¾”x7”) and “The Building” two different views of Jennings Seminary ca 1922 (covers of catalog, 2pp., 4 ¾”x7”) (13) Lake Bluff Orphanage [passages from “High Adventure” by Isabelle Horton] n.d. (11pp, handwritten, most 8 ½” x 11”) (14) Building for the Future…The Methodist Children’s’ Home,” (Farmington, MI), booklet, ca 1922,( 4pp., 6”x9”) (15) Methodist Old People’s Home 1926 (1pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (16) Monnett Hall Reopened [home for women] 1922 page cut from publication (1p, 8 ½”x9”) (17) Monnett School for Girls n.d. (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11” and photograph) (18) Montana Deaconess School at Helena promotional newsletter with photographs ca 1920 (4pp, 9 ½”x 12”) (19) Presbyterian Training School [training for laymen] n.d. (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (20) Wesley Hospital by Josiah Shelley Meyer ca 1896 (9pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 12

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(5) Meeting Announcement with attendee list 6/5/1966 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 8”) (6) Minutes 6/15/1966 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (7) Garrett – Chicago Training School Society members 5/23/1967 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (8) Minutes 6/26/1967 (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (9) Announcement of meeting 7/1/1968 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 5 ½”) (10)Minutes 7/1/1968 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (11)Letter from Vera Largen Watts (secretary of the Society) to Gladys Lummis regarding the 7/1/1968 meeting 7/2/1968 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (12)Letter from Vera Largen Watts (secretary of the Society) to Horace Greeley Smith regarding the 7/1/1968 meeting 7/2/1968 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (13) Announcement of meeting 5/19/1969 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (14) Agenda 5/19/1969 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (15) Minutes 5/19/1969 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (16) Nominating Committee Report 5/19/1969 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (17) Letter from Vera Largen Watts to Mrs. A. M. Vandersall concerning her donation and its use 5/23/1969 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (18) Letter from Evalyn Caldwell to Vera Largen Watts 5/15/1970 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 5 ½”) (19) Agenda 5/23/1970 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 5 ½”) (20) Financial Report 5/20/1970 (5pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (21) Announcement of meeting 5/23/1970 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (22) Minutes 5/23/1970 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (23) Nominating Committee Report 5/23/1970 (24) Announcement of meeting 4/21/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (25) Current Membership Listing 4/22/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (26) Letter of resignation of Viola Sommerville Bond as President of the CTS Society 5/3/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (27) Memo from Austin W. Greene to Vera Largen Watts regarding furnishings for Lesemann Hall 5/13/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (28) Announcement of meeting 5/23/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (29) Proposal for Reorganizational Structure for CTS Society and Board of Trustees [2 versions] 5/22/1971 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (30) Agenda 5/22/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 5 ½”) (31) Minutes 5/22/1971 (6pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (32) Memo from Vera Largen Watts regarding minutes 9/20/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 5 ½”) 19

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(16)Daniel Protheroe CTs Faculty (in cardboard case stamped with Mr & Mrs Fenton S. Fox Chicago) (17)“Summer School 1943” Alice Stout, Mrs. Joe Roe, Genevieve Reynolds, Vera Shen, Belle L. James, Barbara Gardner, Esther Grether, Mary Anderson, Lorrine Seroheen, Mrs. Frost, Mrs. Walz, Dorothy Maloney, Betty Tennant, Esther Bjornberg, Helen Park, Jewell Traylor, Ruth Lernd, Katherine Eggenberger, Ellen Van Buskirk, Helen Strickland, Ardis Taylor, Lorena Jeanne McGregor, Maimy Chandler, Mrs. Allison Hopkinson, Jo Raye Thornton, Eleanor Parsons, Faye Marsh, Alice Van de Bogart, Cynthia Nixon, Rosalie Farwell, Evaline Gaw, Lola Jacobs, Lucille Schener, Violet Hardies, marie Allen, Betty Rae Hileman, Margaret Dukes (18)Gladys Lummis, n.d., farmyard 2 ½”x3 ½” (19)Gladys Lummis, Ivy Myers, 2 unidentified women, 1974, 4 ¼” x 3 ½” (20)Unidentified woman at typewriter, 2 ¼”x 2 5/8 (21)CTS Staff Apr 1923, 5 ½”x3 “Mrs. Linderman, Mr. Sloan, Mrs. Edelman, Miss Watkins, Emma Haber, Mrs. Boyer, Miss Holt, G. Lummis, Miss Schulz” (22)Unidentified woman standing next to CTS building, June 27 1926, 2 ¾”x4 ½” (23)Mabel Gardiner in front of brick house, Sept 1972 3 ½”x3 ½” (24)Gladys Lummis, Mrs. Hopkinson, Katherine Keighoe, Ruth Cox in garden at Corning Glass Factory, Oct 15, 1969 –, 3 ½”x3 ½” (25)Gladys Lummis, Ivey Myers, 3 ½”x5 (26)Gladys Lummis in Library Garrett 3 ½”x5 ¼” (27)Group in front of CTS, ca 1930, 8”x28” (28)Miss Hilda Steele (29)Helma J. Fernstrom “Northwestern Branch University of Cincinnati, B.S. India” (30)Pres. Lesemann (31)Eva Ploeger and Unidentified woman in cap and gown (32)Eva Ploeger (Heaver?) 1st roomate (33)2 Unidentified women in garden (34)4 Unidentified women in front of CTS (35)Raymond A. Bowman (36)Marguerite Laidley (37)Florence Bowers (38)Rose Elizabeth Blundell (39)Miss Hilda Steele dressed as Native American standing (40)Miss Hilda Steele dressed as Native American sitting (41)[Miss bj?], [?], Miss Hilda Steele, Miss Laurena Fox (42)Maggie May Prentice 1920 (43)Edith L Kelly (44)Inez Leigh 1924 (45)Maggie May Prentice 1920, Bessie Maxie 1925, unidentified person (46)Marion G. Schmitt 1924 25

(47)Group Photo [Frances Houch, Harriett Leedy, Jannette Holden (48)Singers Ruth Pitkin 1928, Bernice Nelson 1929, Janette Holden (49)Singers: Janette Holden, Ruth Pitkin, Bernice Nelson (50)Pearl A. Wisenthal 1924 (51)Harriet Leedy, unidentified person [Watkins?] Washington Park Chicago, IL 6/20/1926 (52)Group in caps and gowns [Harriet Leedy] (53)Mrs. Lewis (54)unidentified woman “Do you remember her? Not neer [sic] that big now!” (55)Dorothy ? (56)“myself” 1925 or 26 (57)50th anniversary of Hilda Steele being a deaconess at Bethany Methodist Home party “This is Your Life Program at Bethany” (58)Group “Miss Hilda Steele on left” in front of Garrett (59)unidentified people in caps and gowns (60)Rev. Ruth Husband 1925 Deaconess Iowa (61)Virginia Standing Deer (Cherokee woman who attended CTS, her niece, and Inez Meyers August 1964 (62)CTS Parlor post card Frank Davies, Mimi Seman, Miss Lord (63)Miss Hilda Steele Aug 1961 (64)Edith Blanche Chandler 1924 (65)Karol Jensen 1923 (66)Miss Hilda Steele (67)Harriet Leedy and May Davies (68)Dorothy Amanda Judd 1924 (69)Group [Harriet Leedy, Frances Houck, Daisy Driscoll] (70)S. Eleanor White 1924 and Elizabeth Fressley 1924 (71)unidentified woman and man [windy] (72)Miss Hilda Steele in her deaconess costume 1964 [?] (73)Georgiana Trumbull 1924 (74)Group – 2 in cap and gown, 2 companions (parents?) (75)Nellie Shepherd, Alice Schulz, and “Teddy” (76)Group of graduates “Frances Mehaffy 1925-28 center” (77)Maggie May Prentice, Bessie Maxey, Vivian Plager 1937 (78)Edith M. Arnold 1924 (79)Jestine E. Rennick 1924 (80)Group with Miss Hilda Steele seated 50th anniversary of deaconess work party given by Bethany Methodist Home 1960 (81)Group photo 1940 (82)Cheer Leaders (83)Kenny Knox, Irva Brown, Roy Steen, Viola Bertsch (84)Stella R. Cloud 1924 (85)Faye Marie Stultz 1924 (86)[?] and [Harriet] Leedy in play costumes (87)Lola May Hill 1922 (88)Vivian E. Predmore 1924 (89)Edith Therese Alfrida Collin 1924 26

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467 unidentified group seated [in classroom?] 468 people performing a play 469 unidentified group 470 unidentified group of students in class 471 unidentified group of men in business suits, one with a baby 472 First group of men students 473-474 unidentified groups 475 unidentified group of women around a typewriter 476 The Graduating Class 1924 477-478 composite photographs of interiors 479 there is none 480 Composite photograph of: 1. Student Volunteer Band 2. Deaconess Band 3. Cosmopolitan Band 4. First Group of Men Students 481 Composite photograph of: 1. Gymnasium 2. Tennis Court 3. Church Efficiency Exhibit 4. Dining Room 482-483 there are none 484 Composite photograph of Chicago Scenes 485 Composite photograph of local activities at religious institutions 486 -487 performance of the play “The Age Old Dream” by Grace Sloan Overton 488 Composite photograph of summer activities in Jackson, Sherman, and Washington Parks and the Lakeshore 489 Composite photograph of city libraries near the school 489a Composite photograph “out of doors within walking distance of the school” 490 Michigan Boulevard looking south 491 First Methodist Episcopal Church [Chicago Temple] 492-499 composite photographs of unidentified people 500-501 there are none 502 composite photograph of unidentified people 503-505 there are none 506-515 composite portrait photographs of unidentified people 516-522 there are none 523 Men students Fall 1924 524 Faculty 1924-1925 524a The Faculty 1928 – Beck, Myers, Lord, Gage, Mahaffie, Hoffer, D. Leiffer, M. Leiffer, Longenecker, Beck, Avann, L.F.W. Lesemann, Bjornberg, Shoenberger, W. Lesemann, Rogers, Palmer 524b composite portrait photographs L.F.W. Lesemann, Bjornberg, James, Beck 525 unidentified group [Belle L. James and ? Beck in back] 526 Preparatory Department 527 Junior Class 528 students acting silly 529 unidentified group 32

530 The Preparatory Class 531 The Student Volunteer Band 1926 – J. Bailey, Ruth Daugherty, M. Courtney, Elvyn King, O. Avann, C. Murray, R. DeWees, E. Johnson, E. Luce, A. Knox, O. Beltz, A. Lerbak, F. Davies, R. Raycroft, E. Erxleben, E. Scherer, M. Ellis 532 The Student Fellowship for Christian Life Service 1926 - P. Olson, E. Snook, E. Fawcett, Floyd Holden, A. Johnson, Daise Driscoll, F. Mahaffie, E. Endres, C. Dawson, S. Buck, E. Klock, M. Courtney, E. Gifford, N. Swanson, H. Greider, M. Curtiss, G. Peltz, T. Jennings 533 Deaconess Band 1926 – Esther Bjornberg, E. Choumont, E. Endres, A. Leakey, G. Sickles, M. Leakey, M. Johns, A. Arbogast, R. Purdy, A. Manzano, M. Davies, H. Leedy, E. Gifford, E. Nieman, Ethel Blair, E. Enemark, L. Kleinschmidt, S. Shea, G. Iverson, A. Bastow, J. Parish, Daise Driscoll, M. Young, M. Jackson 534 Group photograph of: B. Nutt, C. Murray, A. Johnson, W. Leech, Floyd Holden, G. Endres, P. Olsen, Elvyn King, Roy Steen, C. Dawson, S. Buck, T. Jennings, B. Lindberg, H. Cougill, F. Davies, C. Lockard 535 Student Government Association – C. Murray, Floyd Holden, C. Lockard, Elvyn King, B. Lindberg, J. Christenson, E. Scherer, Ethel Blair, E. Newcomer 536 Latina Sodalitas 1926 B. Lindberg, A. Johnson, S. Buck, P. Buono, C. Childs, S. Shea, I. Fatland, W. Leech, D. Summers, J. Figley, Daise Driscoll, N. Swanson, P. Olson, E. Klock, H. Greider, F. Mahaffie, M. Ellis, Ethel Blair, G. Endres, A. Knox, L. Lawrence, L. Anderson, G. Iverson, Ruth Daugherty, H. Leedy, E. Nieman, J. Bailey 537 The Chicago Training School Orchestra 1926 – Elvyn King, E. Luce, W. Lesemann, E. Klock, A. Bastow, G. Hubbell, Ethel Blair, F. Mahaffie, B Nutt, B. Lindberg, W. McClean, M. Daniels, M. Batzner 538 The Chorus – P. Hollingsworth, C. Lockard, R. Raycroft, A. Knox, Elvyn King, J. Parish, E. Nieman, W. McClean, B. Lindberg, M. Davies, G. Hubbell, S. Shea, M. Curtiss, S. Buck, E. Choumont, J. Figley, G. Cox, S. Lewis, Ethel Blair, Roy Steen, V. Pierstorff, H. Cougill, E. Luce, D. Protheroe, M. Wood, E. Fawcett, I. Cheatham, M. Young, L. Lawrence, A. Rehms, Floyd Holden, D. Jack, N. Jack, R. DeWees, E. Erxleben, M. Courtney, E. Anderson, E. Hansen [next pages not numbered – pages from The Torch yearbook 1926] 539-40 unidentified groups of students arriving at doorway 4949 with suitcases plus some clip art 539c composite portrait photographs of class officers: Margaret Hornwall, Ruth Daugherty, Kenneth Knox, Roy Steen, Marie Grolich, Elvyn King, Nellie Shepherd, Viola Sommerville (portrait glued over), Floyd Holden, Ethel Blair, A.R. Anderson, Hulda Hoskins, Viola Bertsch 540 there is none 541 Lighting the Candles on Founders’ Day 542 Central Group in Christman Pageant, 1928 543 A Group of College Girls Attending the Chicago Training School 544 A Corner of the Laboratory 545 Students at Work in the Library 546 The Typewriting Class at Work 547 Woman with telescope 548 clip art 33

549 there is none 550 clip art 551 The Little Playhouse [stage] 552 Scene from “The Seeing Heart” 553 Scene from “Sim Chung” 554 Initiation of Senior Class 1930 into Alumni Association 555 At Work in the Library 556 Students’ Prayermeeting in the Little Playhouse 557 Composite of photographs: “New Students in nearby Washington Park” “Give and Take” “The Long and Short of It 6’3” – 5’2”” [group of men students] 558 men with tennis rackets 559-560 clip art 561 Large Promotional Photograph of group in front of 4949, Louis F. W. Lesemann and Belle L. James in front. On reverse side of photograph are other duplicate photographs and some information about CTS 562 Aerial View – A Century of Progress, Chicago’s World’s Fair 1933 563 Hall of Science of a Century of Progress [World’s Fair 1933] 564 “Make the Chicago Training School your Headquarters During the Exposition” “Official Artist’s View of a Century of Progress International Exposition” 1932 [used in the Summer School bulletin October 1932] 565 Map of the Central portion of Chicago, showing proximity of the Chicago Training school to the Exposition Grounds 566 Travel and Transport building a Century of Progress International Exposition [used in the Summer School bulletin 1932] [several blank pages] Numbers resume at 550 a 550a-557a clip art 568 composite photograph of:  Our New Stage  L.F.W.L. [Lesemann]  J. Shelley Meyer and Bill  “The Rich Young Man”  Neumeyer-Boyer etal. Also Miss Holt  The Infants  The Four Graces  Fourth Floor Bums  Samaritan Dog!  Spirit of 1776  All out o’ luck!  Mrs. Lewis 569 composite photograph of:  Oh! How Ducky!  Majoring in Parkology  Oh Horrors!  Izzy  This is only a joke!  Danville Amourites 34

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29 – The Chicago Training School and Institutions It Has Helped to Organize and Develop 30 – If on My Mount of Vision… - The Co-educational Training School of Methodism 31 – Living Flag of Blue Jackets at Salute - The Work of the Chicago Training School for This Year 32 – A Word to You! The Co-educational Normal School of Methodism for the Training of Christian Workers - Start Your Christian Training 33 – House Regulations Fall 1943 34 – A Summer of Study and Vacation in Chicago - The Chicago Training School hs Trained 5000 Consecrated Wrokers for Methodism 35 – Ten Reasons Why - For Christian Training 36-37 Official Statements concerning the Chicago Training School 1924 38 – A World Service School [2 different versions] 39 – Views - An Inevitable Question 40 – Six Weeks of Study and Vacation in Chicago [1925] - Wanted Self-Starters 41 – A Unique School - A World Service School 42 – A World Service School [different version] - High Adventure 43 – Religious Dramatics - Chicago Training School Pledge - High Adventure Life of Lucy Rider Meyer by Isabelle Horton - Open Carefully This Letter Brings a Personal Message and Asks a Favor 44 – Dear Friend [post card] - For 44 Years [1929] 45-46 page missing 47 – The Bulletin Jan – Feb 1929 [duplicate] 48 – Winter Opportunities - The Bulletin May-June 1930 [duplicate] 49 – The Changing World in Christian Training - Cheer Up! 50 – Now is the Time for Courage, Preparation, Adventure – a Century of Progress [World’s Fair 1933] 51-124 blank pages 125 – Promotional Letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer 1910 [partially ruined by being glued] 126 – Promotional letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer and Belle L. James 1911 [partially ruined by being glued] 127 - Promotional letters written by Belle L. James 1911 [partially ruined by being glued] 128 - Promotional letters written by Belle L. James 1912 [partially ruined by being glued] 36

129 – Promotional letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer and Belle L. James 1912 [partially ruined by being glued] 130 – Promotional letters written by Belle L. James 1915 [partially ruined by being glued] 131 – Promotional letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer and Belle L. James 1915 [partially ruined by being glued] 132 – Promotional Letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer 1915[?] [partially ruined by being glued] 133 – Promotional Letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer and Cora B. Dilley 1916 [partially ruined by being glued] 134 – Promotional Letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer 1916 [partially ruined by being glued] 135 – Promotional Letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer and Cora B. Dilley 1917 [partially ruined by being glued] 136-137 – Promotional letters written by Lucy Rider Meyer and Belle L. James 1917 [partially ruined by being glued] 138 – Chicago Training School Department of Field Work [form] - Promotional letters written by Louis F. W. Lesemann 1917 [partially ruined by being glued] 139 – Promotional letters written by Louis F. W. Lesemann 1917 [partially ruined by being glued] 140-141 – Promotional letters written by Louis F. W. Lesemann, Lucy Rider Meyer, and Minnie M. Sorensen 1918 [partially ruined by being glued] 142 – Promotional letters written by Belle L. James and Louis F. W. Lesemann 1921 [partially ruined by being glued] 143- Promotional letters written by Belle L. James and Louis F. W. Lesemann 1922-23 [partially ruined by being glued] 144 – Promotional letters written by Belle L. James and Louis F. W. Lesemann 1922 [partially ruined by being glued] 145 – blank page 146 – Letter from M. A. Allen Vice President of the Board of Trustees with By-Laws 1/25/1924 [partially ruined by being glued] 147 – Form letters from 1923 and 1924 [partially ruined by being glued] 148-149 – Promotional letters written by Louis F. W. Lesemann, Belle L. James, and Eva C. Fields 1925 [partially ruined by being glued] 150-151 – Promotional and form letters from Belle L. James and Louis F. W. Lesemann 1925 [partially ruined by being glued] 152 – The Rich Young Man: A Play in Three Acts 3/23/1925 [cast list] [partially ruined by being glued] Samuel Buck, Margaret Johnson, Cecil Dawson, Daise Driscoll, Dora Eastman, John Figley, William Leech, Frank McWhorter, George Endres, Charles Murray, Elvyn King, Forrest B. Sharkey, Eva Ploeger, Dorothy Russell, Herman Cougill, Harold Salmon 153 Pageant: The Unfinished Task March 1925 [partially ruined by being glued] Etta Cutting, A. Ray Mangus, Dorothy Russell, Mao Young, Elva Hoag, Dora Eastman, Vera Smith, Edna Turner, Ruth Husband, Alma Doten, Nellie Saunders, Isabella McCann, Vera Wilkeson, Lillian Holmes, Hazel Challis, Ivy Myers, Mae Briggs, Ethelynn Anderson, Fanny 37

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2 – “Harris Hall Chapel” and “Interior of Harris Hall Chapel” 3 – Group of people Olive Shoenberger 2nd from left, J. Shelley and Lucy Rider Meyer back right 4 – Deaconess and little girl 5 – Cordelia [?] Monnett “Founder of [?]” [for whom Monnett Hall was named] - Monnett Hall [caption illegible] 6 – Harris Hall doorway, vestibule and dining room 7 – Chicago Training School suitcase tag and 1910 commemorative ribbon 8-9 – Programs and poem from the welcome dinner for Juniors 1909 10 – Thanksgiving dinner menu 1909 11 – service in the Chapel 12 – women in white dresses outdoors 13 – chapel interior 14 – women in nurses uniforms outside 4949 15 – group of women outdoors 16 – women in Deaconess garb in front of an audience [graduation?] Lucy Rider Meyer front left, Olive Shoenberger front right 17 – women in white dresses in chapel [graduation?] 18 – J. Shelley and Lucy Rider Meyer with a group at the front of the chapel with flags [graduation?] 19 – “Parlor” “The Old Chapel” “ The Music Teacher’s Room” 20 – Chicago Training School for Missions [small portraits] Lucy Rider Meyer, J. Shelley Meyer, A. Arnold, M. Hamer, L. Litzel, R. J. Maxon, L. Dalley [photo missing], H. Carpenter, Storer, A. Randal, M.B. Sweet, Olive Shoenberger 21 – Not I But Christ Class of 1909 [small portraits] D. King, H. Backlund, W. Smith, A. Swanson, E. Wittrig, N. Rouse, M. Richmond, E. Paul, E. Stone, F. Sherman, R. Graham, H. Kissell, I. Shetler, N. Monroe, E. Yocom, L. Beckley, M. Millard, L. Rice, R. Reimers, C. Hansen, N. Smith, A. Swanson, E. Kingsbury, unidentified woman 22 – F. Wattam, N. Custiss, A. Drenthe, E. Brooks, G. Nelson, V. Secor, J. Bassett, I. Lewis, E. Hurst, C. Giles, C. Teachman, R. Wekking [?], L. Owens, M. Tipsword, T. Harter 23 – Esther Bjornberg, E. Watts, E. Waters, M. Fullmer, W. Thomson, E. Chilcote, E. Yates, E. Bird, S. Simmons, L. Fell, E. Martin, M.Felters, E. Breckenridge [photo missing], M. McPherson, B. Walb 24 – two photographs of unidentified women in tree - group of women outdoors 25 – groups of women outdoors - large group at beach - unidentified man in doorway 26 – women in white in chapel, some processing. Olive Shoenberger standing in back 27 – group of women outdoors - group in Deaconess garb in front of Harris Hall - unidentified man in front of Harris Hall 28 – two photographs of groups of women in front of Monnett hall [?] 39

- group holding a sign that says the Atlantic States [J. Shelley Meyer top left] 29 - two photographs of groups of women in front of Monnett hall [?] 30 – group of women holding CTS and Wisconsin banners - group of women in front of Monnett hall [?] [Lucy Rider Meyer center] - group of women, some in Deaconess garb 31 – Card and photograph of event – possibly for graduating Seniors 1910 32 – two photographs of groups of women outside 33 – Three unidentified women in park - unidentified woman on log bench - unidentified woman on lawn 34 – unidentified woman doing laundry using a bucket to fill a machine - two unidentified women in park - three unidentified women dressed in traditional German outfits - unidentified woman dressed as cowgirl 35 – four unidentified portraits of women 36 - four unidentified portraits of women 37 blank page 38 – unidentified portrait of a woman and flowers 39 – three unidentified men 40 – women in deaconess garb surrounded by unidentified portraits of a woman in cap and gown, a woman in plain clothes, a woman in nurses hat, and a woman in Deaconess garb 41 – “Departments of Study” list of Chicago Training School departments - badly damaged page of instructions for students - postcard of Harris Hall and the chapel - Christmas card from Lucy Rider Meyer 42 – card announcing the 23rd anniversary of the school and dedication of the Kinnear building 43 – Materials relating to the wedding of Hilda Steele 1910 - drawing of the First Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church - newspaper announcement [in Swedish] - photograph of the couple - photograph of choir [?] and church organ - letter [of congratulations? In Swedish] from Eric P. Swan 44 – An Evening’s Recreation – photograph and description of a performance by the Swedish girls 45 – General Schedule of Recitations Fall Term 1909 - group of women in Deaconess garb 46 – four photographs of unidentified buildings – two churches 47 – [Commencement materials removed to the commencement collection Series 2.3.1] 48 – photograph of woman in Deaconess garb with children - “Please bring your weekly report to room 321 to-day” 49 – Photograph of woman in Deaconess garb with child - photograph of women in Deaconess garb on steps of house 40

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50 – “The Burden” a poem by Lucy Rider Meyer [duplicate] - photograph of unidentified women in an office 51 – photograph of women in Deaconess garb with babies in baskets - photograph of woman in Deaconess garb with children on city street 52 – blank page 53 – “Mizpah” a poem by Julia A. Baker with portrait of Olive Shoenberger 54 – photographs of a round church, exterior and interior 55-56 – Calling Cards:  Lucy Rider Meyer “at home this evening six-thirty to seventhirty”  “Merry Christmas from Amanda”  “Merry Christmas from Bothilda to Hilda Steele”  “You are invited to room 503 harris Hall this evening at 7:30 M.E.S.”  Rosemary T. Kobes [printed card]  “Hilda gratulesas hjartligt pa fodelsedagen fran Anna”  Elizabeth Bjorklund [printed card]  John P. Norton [printed card]  “Anna Arnold”  “Merry Xmas to Miss Steele from Paul and Evrett 1908” 57 – various invitations and notes:  You are invited to “A Pipe Dream”  Program for “A Pipe Dream”  Birthday poem  Song about Minnesota providing plenty of bread and butter to the world  Note “If all the wheat produced in Minnesota were made into one loaf we could furnish a sandwich for every man, woman, child, and animal in the Temperance parade tomorrow” 58 – [some event materials removed to event collection Series 2.3.2] - flier for Organ Recital 12/17/1909 Mildred Lambert Scrapbook 1910-1913 Photographs of Chicago Training School students Page 1 – Miss Rearick and Miss Carpenter 2 – Esther Bjornberg and Belle L. James 3 – unidentified woman being silly in pond 4 – Olive Shoenberger and unidentified woman 6 – Harris Hall before the chapel 7 - unidentified women 8 – Mrs. Mei and Belle L. James 9 – Winifred Chappell 10 – The long and the short of CTS [Edna Miller is the short one] 11-12 – Halloween 13 – Political Rally Oct 25 [1911] Prohibition camel and Democratic donkey Mary Falconer and Fernstroni

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14 – Georgiana Pence and unidentified women “Smiley and I” [is one Mildred Lambert?] [Bertha Smiley?] 15 – This is where we did our studying? [2 photos of unidentified women] 16 – Bertha Smiley 17 - unidentified woman in the window of an ivy-covered building 18 - unidentified woman in Deaconess garb 19 – Progressive Party Nov 1912 20 – Callahan, Mildred Lambert, Carr, Slosser, Williams, Reynolds [2 photos] 21 – “Lena “Laney” Lane, Geigie, Achie, Bluey Washington Park in front of conservatory” 22 – Edna Miller and Fredericka Brown 23 – “Betty as a nun on the roof garden” and “Berenice “Batty” Parker” 24 – Floma in Garfield Park Fern Room 25-26 – Betty, Floma, Mildred at Garfield Park [4 photos] 27 – Betty and I across the pond [Garfield Park Fern Room] 28-29 – Washington’s Birthday pageant 30 – Ina Shinn [Katzenberger] and Miss VanHorn 31 – Floma 32 – Bluey 33-34 – a day spent with Floma’s cousins 35 – Student Volunteer Quartet: Stoy, Six, Blakely, Achison 36 – Elevated tracks 37 – Image created by Agness Young [looks like a snowman indoors at a table] 38 – Floma in the Fern Room 39 – Killie’s Pet Lamb [refers to one of the people] and Billie on roof garden [two women] 40 – Miss Adam’s table just before Xmas [group photograph]: 1st row: Hunt, Davidson, Root, Mrs. Weimers, Donaldson, Slosser, Lambert 2nd row: Mrs. Barr, Mason, Adams, Wilson, Smith 41 – Women being silly [pretending to be men?] with Cubs sweaters on: Reynolds, Donaldson, Scribner, Root, Ince, Callahan, Lee, Whitlow 42 – Women in Cubs sweaters with fake moustaches and other women in fancy dresses: Root, Berenice “Batty” Parker, Betty, Lee, Schelly, Scribner 43 – group photograph: Bessie Green, Dora Dillon, Marion Smith, Dr. Walker, Emily Kappes, Luella Hager, Elsie Burmeister, Lulu Warner, Grace Wilke, Edna Miller, Mildred Lambert, Edith Cox 44 – group of women at a fountain: Miss Cox, Miss Dillon, Miss Miller [others not identified] - unidentified woman with book 45 – Photograph of a storefront “A Candy Remedy” 46 - unidentified woman 47-49 - unidentified women being silly on the roof 50 – Prophet’s Rock Battle Ground 51 – Tabernacle on Camp Ground, Battle Ground, Indiana 1917 52 – 5 unidentified women at gate marked “Battle of Tippecanoe” 42

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- two photographs of unidentified men playing on a cannon 53 – two photographs of unidentified people outdoors 54 - unidentified group outside a building “Knox” “Kewazakee” [note says Battleground 1917] 55 – two photographs of people outdoors “1922” 56 – group with a wagon “1922 battleground” - group on a bridge 57-58 “Montana Pictures” unidentified people and places 59 – “Montana Scenes” four photographs of a park 60 – two photos of women outdoors – writing is illegible 61 – “[?] and Ray” - [?] Bridge Turkey River” 62 – “Min” - “[?] Bridge” 63-64 blank 65 – “Vinkennes[?] School” - “Old Henderson[?] Hall [?] [?] [?] Mildred” 66 – “Harneld[?] Park” 1922 [two women by a cannon] - “Illinois” [man and woman by a road] Mildred Lambert Scrapbook 1975 [this scrapbook contains Chicago memorabilia from 192 -1913] Page 1 – photographs of interior of chapel, exterior of Harris Hall 2 – Christmas Card from CTS - “when you have finished a book please place it on the green table carpet” 3 – blank 4-7 – Autographs:  Pearl Van Horn  Mary Hutton  Ethel Noble  Estelle J. Bowe  Fay Burnett  Clauda Rogers  Anna G. Beckenjsas  Winifred Chappell  Frances Pearl Van Horn  Sister Isabelle Sinclair  Alice V. Walter  Alice the chair breaker in wonderland  Goldya Benson  Sarah E. Boyd  Clara D. Alarcon  Mrs. Paul Volk  Floma E. Geisert [De Freese]  Betty C. Campbell  Berenice Parker “Batty”  Ethel Hancock  Lena Lane “Laney”  Renyin Mei 43

 Edith F. Abel  Lavera Berber  Chicago Training School student ID 9/11/1912  Dora C. Dillon  Annie J. Burbidge  Bertha Clark  Jennie M. Johnson, Lutha Walker  Luella s. Hager  Gladys Wilmuth  Gwen L. Williams  Lulu Hedges  Pualine R. Schilling  Stella Carr 8 – autograph of Ona Van Velzor 8-9 – programs from the Chicago Sunday Evening Club [unrelated to CTS?} 10 – autographs:  Geneva S. Slosser  Gertrude E. mason  Rudah C. Wilson  Grace E. Hunt  Maryellen Davidson  Bernice R. Adams  Lucy A. Root  Bessie Barr  Rhuamah M. Smith  Mildred Lambert  Clara B. Wiemers  Glenne Donaldsen 11 – Class Day Program 4/29/1913 - Dr. Dan B. Brummitt Editor Epworth Herald [newsclipping about his lectures] - promotional card for Harris Hall as lodgings during the Chicago World’s Fair May 3 – June 7, 1913 12- newsclipping announcing a Scientific Temperance course to by taught by Letta D. Horner [n.d.] - “Large Reception at [Women’s Christian Temperance Union] Headquarters” [at Rest cottage home of Florence Willard] [newclipping, n.d.] 13 – flier for Nickel Bazaar at the Paulist Hall [unrelated to CTS] [n.d.] 14 – flier for Central Church [unrelated to CTS] 1/26/1913 15 – Photograph “[Women’s Christian Temperance Union] Class, Chicago Training school for Missions” Hosford, Sinclair [from Montana], Russell, Hale, Nelson, fellow, Koch, Drummond, Stangeland, Parrott, Cook, Mace, Van Syoc, Horner, Mahan, Woodford, McWhirter, Dilley, Berlew, atchinson, Hutton, McLeod, Geisert, Ramsey, Alarcon, Sinclair [from Australia], Lane, Gardner, hayes, McCleary, Dombourajian, Corbett 16 – World’s Fair stickers [1913] 44

17 – card informing new students of matriculation schedule and directions 9/9/1912 - Recital Norman Wait Harris Chapel 2/7/[1913] - Ester Vesper Service 3/23/1913 18 – school song by Lucy Rider Meyer 19 – card and hand-painted napkin from the 27th anniversary celebration 10/18/1912 20 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Chicago Telephone Company 21 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Sherman Park 22 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Davis Square 23 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Sears, Roebuck and Co. 24 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Hull House 25 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Chicago Boys’ Club 26 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Parting of the Ways House 27-28 – “From Armenia to America” newsclipping about Elizabeth Dombourajian 29 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Margaret Etter Creche Day Nursery 30 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Salvation Army Rescue Home 31 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Moody Bible Institute 32 – “Report of Inspection Trips” (Bridewell) Chicago House of Corrections 33 – Programme Gymnastic Exhibition Macfadden College of Physcultopathy 3/28/1913 [unrelated to CTS?] - Chicago Boys Club No. 3 installation of officials at Boyville 1/18/1913 34 – “Report of Inspection Trips” Association House 35 – Englewood Baptist Church Calendar of the week 2/9/1913 - Recital Norman Wait Harris Chapel 3/14/1913 36-38 – “Orchestra Hall” 2/9/1913 “Dr. Henry Van Dyke” [long, handwritten narrative] 39 – memorabilia of a political rally 10/25/1912 [Woodrow Wilson sticker might be valuable], “Chicago Children’s Benefit League 10/15/1912 40 – The University of Chicago University Religious Service 10/20/1912 41 – photograph of a group of children outside the Halsted Street Institution Church - post card of Hershey Station, Hershey PA 42 – Temperance pledge card and prayer - [Washington’s Birthday?] party favor in shape of hatchet “Student’s Parlor Feb 21” - card for The Gurney lunch club 23 S Wabash - card for Madison Cafeteria 221 W Madison 43 – two advertisements cut from magazine for a Shakespeare Repertoire performance of Romeo and Juliet at Garrick starring E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe 44 – materials relating to a non-denominational Daily Vacation School. Location is not mentioned, but N. W. Harris is on the Board of Directors of the “Chicago businessmen” who oversee the school. 45 – Thanksgiving Program 11/28/1912 - Thanksgiving 1912 card 45

- Organ Recital by Katherine Howard-Ward 12/6/1912 in the chapel 46 – [Christmas] Program at CTS 12/15/[1912] 47 – “Can You See?” December 1912 events at Englewood Baptist Church - Englewood Baptist Church calendar for the week 12/15/1912 48 – CTS Car Fare Blank 1913 - F. Geisert’s last day before Xmas vacation [paper doll] - “Bluey’s” birthday party Jan 20 [piece of crepe paper] 49 – Chicago Sunday Evening Club 12/15/1912 “Lunch in Loland’s Room” 50 – Chicago Sunday Evening Club 11/10/1912 51 – 1913 Commencement Calendar - Marshall Field and Company advertisement 52 – Chicago Sunday Evening Club 2/9/1913 53 – memorabilia from Junior/Senior banquet 1913 54 – [commencement program removed to commencement collection] 55 – Drug Store News March 1913 by E. G. Geisert [unrelated to CTS?} 56 – “Deaconess Work in Australia” newsclipping about Isabel Sinclair 57-58 – autographs:  Hazle Marguerite Todd “Hot Toddy”  Bertha Lloyd Smiley “The Caution”  D. Mae Griffith  Georgana Katherine Pence “Penny”  Bernice Viola Vickery  Ona Lowell Toland “Pest”  Beatrice Eva Butler “Bee”  Helma Josephine Fernstrom “The Baby”  Hazel Elizabeth Brown “Brownie”  Mae Miller “Mazie”  Barbara Bias  Edna R. Miller “Little Miller”  Helen F. Coleman  Charlotte Cushman  Cora B. Dilley  Mary Henryetta Schell “Schelly”  May Alice Reynolds “Rennie” or “Billiken”  Clauda Rogers “The Whistler”  Florence J. Mason “Masie”  Harriet L. Swerns “Petunia Pickles”  Harriet M. Atchinson  Beulah Cushman [loose items at the back] Wedding photo Newsclipping about Ren Yin Mei Newsclipping “All Hooper Pays Final Tribute to Beloved Woman: Many Out of Town People here to Attend Funeral of Mrs De Freese [10/8/1921] [Floma Geisert died in childbirth age 30] 46

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(14) Mary Ascher graduated 1931 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (15) Mrs. T. W. Asher graduated 1907 (3 pp, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (16) Charlotte Cushman Bailey graduated 1916 [letter dated 1985] (4 p, handwritten and typewritten, various sizes) (17) Clara Viola Barden graduated 1921 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 8”) [see 1966 Bulletin] (18) Carrie Marie Bartlett graduated 1904 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (19) Alice Bastow [letter dated 1985] (2 pp, handwritten, 6” x 7”) (20) Emily Eleanor Becht graduated 1916 (1 p, typewritten, 5” x 8”) (21) Roxanna Beck graduated 1905 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (22) Myrtle Dean Bedford graduated 1907 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (23) Emma J. Betow graduated 1900 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (24) Mabel Spohr Billings (husband Arthur) graduated 1955 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (25) Julia Bishoff graduated 1902 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (26) Katie B. Blackburn graduated 1891 (3 pp, handwritten, various sizes) (27) Laura Bobenhouse graduated 1897 [article dated 1969] (2 p, handwritten and torn from publication, various sizes) (28) Laura Gertrude Bobenhouse – memorial 1969 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (29) Ida Martha Stanford Bond graduated 1907 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (30) Viola Sommerville Bond “Two Retire to Continue Active Lives” article from the newsletter of the Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, [ca 1970s] (1p, 8 ½” x 11”) (31) Dora E. Bridges Bridgecroft graduated 1907 (5 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 cards) (32) Cora Dilly Brom [letter dated 1944] (2 pp, handwritten, 5” x 8”) [treasurer to the Alumni Association] (33) Grace Olive Kahl Bush graduated 1908 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (34) Helen Buss graduated 1924 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (35) Alice W. Chamberlin graduated 1915 [letter dated 1984] (4 pp, handwritten and typewritten, various sizes) (36) Orpha Chenney graduated 1917 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (37) Gertrude Robbins Colwell 1912 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (38) Joy Comstock graduated 1921 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (39) Herman Cowgill graduated 1926 [letter dated 1976] (4 pp, handwritten, various sizes) (40) Grace E. Cox graduated 1926 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (41) Olive Curry/Alice Curry/Alice McCurry [?] [letter dated 1985] (1 p, handwritten and typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) [no real information due to confusion over identity. Possibly a resident of Robincroft.] (42) Maria Daly – memorial 1931 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 69

(43) Maryellen Davidson graduated 1915 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (44) Maryellen Davidson – memorial 1969 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (45)Frank Davies graduated 1826 (10 pp, handwritten, various sizes) (46) Mary Dean graduated 1921 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (47) Marie Disney [letter dated 1965] (1 p, handwritten, 5” x 8”) (48) Elizabeth Drees (Mrs. J. R.) (1 p, 6” x 8” sympathy card) (49) Daise Driscoll [student who committed suicide] [autograph page from the 1929 yearbook and a poem by Florence K. Hickman] (2 pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (50) Rose Ellen Dudley graduated 1907 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (51) Estelle Forsyth graduated 1907 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (52) Elsie Scherer Foss graduated 1926 (3 pp, typewritten, various sizes) (53) Rose Taslyian Fox (Mrs. Harold) (54) Grace Hill Freeman [her creed] (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (55) Winnie Gabrielson graduated 1907 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (56) Lester E. Gatch graduated from preparatory school 1934 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (57) Etta Marie Gifford graduated 1926 [includes letters from 1976] (12 p, handwritten, various sizes) (58) Hannah L. Taylor Gillespie graduated 1905 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (59) Mamie E. Glassburner graduated 1904 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (60) Emily Adelia Gorin graduated 1901 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (61) C. Blanche Gould graduated 1895 (2 pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (62) Mary C. Grant graduated 1210 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (63) Dora Mary Moar Greer graduated 1902 (5 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 cards) (64) Name Hill Griff [?]graduated 1895 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (65) Marie Grolich graduated 1931 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (66) Ethel Lane Guelkey graduated 1910 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (67) Georgina Evelyn Hadden – memorial 1972 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (68) Grace Harris graduated 1911 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (69) Florence K. Hickman [2 drafts of her poem about Daise Driscoll] (2 pp, handwritten, various sizes) (70) Sophia Hilmar graduated 1892 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (71) May Hilton graduated 1885 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (72) Ida Mae Hoag graduated 1911 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (73) Eunice Kingsbury Hoesington graduated 1932 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) 70

(74) Robie Smith Hohanshelt [letters dated 1965 concerning her death](2 pp, handwritten and typewritten, various sizes) (75) Elizabeth Holden graduated 1885 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (76) Mary Alice Hoover graduated 1902 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (77) Frances A. Houck graduated 1929 [two letters dated 1976 and 1984] (3 pp, handwritten, various sizes) (78) Coral Houston graduated 1913 (2 pp, handwritten, 6” x9”) (79) Maurine Lapelli Humphrey graduated 1915 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (80) Leola Cecile Rutherford Hurley (husband Bert) graduated 1930 (2 pp, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (81) Mildred Ihue (husband Albert) graduated 1934 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (82) Marnell Spitler Iott (husband Clayton) graduated 1925 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (83) Sabra Jackson graduated 1916 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (84) Myra Jaquet graduated 1937 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x9”) (85) Myra A. Jaquet – memorial 1971 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (86) Carol Jensen graduated 1923 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card and 6” x 9”) (87) Edna Jones [letter dated 1966 concerning her death] (1 p, handwritten, 8” x 11”) (88) Louise F. Kleinschmidt graduated 1928 [letter dated 1976 with note that she died in 1982] (5 pp, handwritten, various sizes) (89) Elva G. Knox graduated 1916 (1 p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (90) Nellie Koedyken graduated 1914 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (91) Pearl Kostenbader graduated 1914 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (92) Minnie Lockwood graduated 1904 (1 p, handwritten, 6: x 9”) (93) Mabel C. Lawrence student 1914 [“nongraduate”] (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (94) Hariett M. Leedy graduated 1926 (5 pp, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (95) Anna E. Lerbak graduated 1927 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (96) Emma Linderud graduated 1910 (1 p, handwritten, 6”x 9”) (97) Grace Linfield graduated 1913 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (98) Anna Drenthe Martin (husband Worthy) graduated 1909 (4 pp, handwritten and typewritten, various sizes) (99) Grace Harmon McGary graduated 1911 (2 pp, handwritten and typewritten, various sizes) (100) Bethal Flood McGrath graduated 1918 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x9”) (101) Anna Mecum graduated 1912 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (102) Anna V. Mecum – memorial 1969 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 71

(103) Eva Mehling graduated 1917 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x9”) (104) Eva Milban graduated 1908 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (105) Eleanor S. Moore graduated 1902 (1 p, typewritten, 6” x 9”) (106) Olive Paul Mudge graduated 1908 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (107) Ella Marie Johnson Mulkey (husband Floyd) graduated 1930 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (108) Claryse D. Myers (Mrs. A. H.) graduated 1934[?] (2 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (109) Eva Iona Nelson 1916 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (110) Alice Ninan graduated 1895 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (111) Adela Curry Nixon graduated 1935 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (112) Mabel Ruth Nowlin graduated 1915 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (113) Mabel Ruth Nowlin – memorial 1973 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (114) Lydia Oelschlagen graduated 1925 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (115) Grace Sloan Overton (3 pp, article by her cut from The Church School Journal, 8 ½” x 12”) (116) Margaret Eggleston Owen (2 pp, article by her cut from The Church School Journal [in same packet with Overton’s], 8 ½” x 11”) (117) Opal Penrod graduated 1929 [letter dated 1964] (1 p, typewritten, 4” x 5”) (118) Eunice Porter graduated 1910 [letter dated 1965] (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (119) Vivian E. Predmore graduated 1924 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (120) Mollie M. Quinby graduated 1925 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (121) Eugenia Ranseer (husband Bruce J.) graduated 1962 from Garrett (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (122) Mimo Semans Rendall [return to sender notice ca 1985] (1 p, typewritten, 2” x 3”) (123) Alice Martha Robertson graduated 1904 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (124) Flora L. Robinson (1p, handwritten, 8 ½”x11”) (125) Mae Campbell Rohrbaugh graduated 1889 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (126) Dorothy Frost Schneider [return to sender notice 1985] (1 p, typewritten, 3” x 4”) (127) Grace B. Scribner graduated 1907 (4 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 cards) (128) Ella C. Shaw graduated 1894 (3 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card and 6” x 9”) 72

(129) Nellie Shepherd graduated 1936 (2 pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (130) Ruth Leaky Shutt (sister of Maureen Leakey Fisher) graduated 1924 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (131) Mildred Simonds graduated 1902 (2 p, typewritten and handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (132) Cara E. Simpson graduated 1907 (4 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (133) Laila Anderson Skager (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 cards) (134) Florence Slusser – memorial 1938 (1 p, typewritten, 8 x 9) (135) Denise Smith graduated 1899 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (136) Frederica Brown Smith graduated 1914 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (137) Wayne L. Snider and Mary McConnell both graduated 1924 [were married at the school] (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (138) Moneta T. Soper obituary (139) Flora Sorber graduated 1907 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (140) Edith M. Spicer graduated 1903 (2 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card and 6” x 9”) (141) Ellen Wilson Stadler graduated 1896 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (142) Louise Matilda Stark graduated 1902 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (143) Bertha Stoner [letter dated 1965 concerning her death] (1 p, handwritten, 5” x 8”) (144) Daus John Summers graduated preparatory school 1926 (3 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (145) Mary E. Sutherlan graduated 1915 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (146) Mary Emma Sutherland – memorial 1972 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (147) Mary Baily Sweet graduated 1903 (2 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (148) Maude Rush Sweet [letter dated 1965 concerning her death] (1 p, handwritten, 4” x 8”) (149) Mary Anna Taggat graduated 1895 (1 p, handwritten, 2 x 5 card) (150) Lena Leidig Thackery graduated 1910 (1 p, handwritten, 3 x 5 card) (151) Eva Knowles Turner graduated 1902 (4 pp, handwritten, 3 x 5 cards) (152) Harriet Hanson Terdal graduated 1930 (1 p, handwritten, 6” x 9”) (153) Florence Miller Timasheske graduated 1921 (4 pp, handwritten, 6’ x 9”) 73

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(4) “Shorthand Grades Second Semester 1917 – 18” (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 5 ½”) (5) “The Old Student” July 1917 (8pp, brochure, 6” x 9”) (6) Seniors 1924 (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (7) “Certificate” 1925 (1p, handwritten, 8 x 10) (8) “Scholarship Record for Class of 1928 Prep.” (1p, handwritten, 3x5) (9) “Scholarship Record for Class of 1928 Voc.” (1p, handwritten, 3x5) (10) “Rank” 1929 (1p, handwritten, 2x5) (11) “Grad 1924” (2pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (12) “Class of 1929” (1p, handwritten, 8x10) (13) “Vocational 1931” (2pp, handwritten 6x8) (14) “[1931]” (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (15) Class of 1898 [ca 1948] (2pp, typewritten and handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (16) “1926” [ca 1959] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (17) “Miss Bjornberg: Is this right?” [ca 1963] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (18) “’22 Ivy Myers” [1965] (1p, typewritten, 4 x 8 ½”) (19) News Items for 1966 Garrett-C.T.S. Bulletin 19pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (20) BROOKS-HOWELL CTSers [ca 1966] (7pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (21) Letter from Viola Sommerville Bond to “Dear Friends” 6/5/1966 – includes information about Mrs. Louis F. W. Lesemann, Esther E. Bjornberg, Ivy Myers, Richard S. Ford (22) Alumni Information (From Graduating Seniors) [1967] (3pp, typewritten and handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (23) Resident List Residence Halls and Fields of Service [1971] (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (24) Ministers Who Had Early Training in CTS [ca 1973] (7pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (25) 1978 (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (26) Publications by CTS’ers [ca 1979] (5pp, handwritten, various sizes) (27) “Founders Day 1980” (28) “Pinning Ceremony for 50-Year Anniversary Classes” [ca 1984] (2pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (29) “Torch Source 1934 (from Bulletin)” [ca 1984] (6pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (30) From CTS Letters at Alumni 1958 In Memoriam Memorial Lists of Deceased Alumni 1933; 1933-34; 1942-43; 194445; 1944-49; 1941 – 53; [ca 1965]; 1968; April 1969; October 1969; 1971; 1972; 1982; [ca 1983] Alumni Mailing Lists 1914 - 1984 Letters from the Class of 1926 On the 50th anniversary of their graduation Information page includes Herman Lewis Cougill, June L. Parish Cougill, Maxine Curtiss Stout, Etta Mary Gifford, Dorothy Hoffman 75

Vonberg, Maurine Leakey Fisher, May Laura Putnam Turco, Harold J. Salmon, Elsie M. Scherer Foss, Fannie B. Sinkhorn Murdichian, May L. Walker Rose, Mariam Courtney, Margaret Louise Johnson, Erma Newcomer, Helen Leora Shenberger, Mary Elizabeth Jackson Anderson, Louise F. Kleinschmidt, Grace Gertrude Sickles Noble, Frank Davies, Halen Greider Dawson, Harriet M. Leedy, Cecil R. Lockard, Eudora Nieman Buck, Daus John Summers, William E. Leech, Ben Lindberg, Amelia Victoria Manzano, George Endres, Daise Rosalyn Driscoll, Anna Elizabeth Lerbak.

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(2) “Mother Bowron of Hawaii” The Christian Advocate December 2, 1948 (6 pp, 8 ½” x 1 ½”) (3) “Community Building is Ready at Papakolea” Honolulu Star Bulletin May 27, 1950 (1 p, 6: x 9”) (4) “May Bowron, Retired Nurse, Dies; Rites on Wednesday” Honolulu Star-Bulletin April 12, 1960 (1 p, irregular size) (5) “May Bowron” descrition of the funeral by Winnifred Galley (1 p, typewritten, 6” x 9”) Maurine Leakey Fisher Graduated 1926 File contains: (1) “Maurine Leakey 1926” reminiscence about hitchhiking with friends (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (2) “The Story of the “Great Takeover”” (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (3) Local Preacher’s License 3/12/1925 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (4) Transcripts (2 pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (5) Letter from Louis F. W. Lesemann to “Dear Brethren” 2/28/1929 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (6) Letter from Louis F. W. Lesemann to Maurine Leakey 2/28/1929 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (7) Elder certificate 4/12/1931 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (8) “Maurine Fisher’s Life Recalled at Ogden Methodist Homecoming” The [Newcastle, Indiana] Courier-Times, 11/3/1973 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (9) “Profile of Maurine Leakey Fisher” (autobiographical notes for the celebration at Ogden Methodist Homecoming 1973 (5 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (10) Deacon certificate 4/7/1979 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (11) “Saturday Evening May 19, 1984” memorial at the CTS Spring Alumni meeting includes death notice and obituary from Knightstown Banner 3/7/1984 (2 pp, typewritten and handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (12) “Memorial Farewell and Communion for Maurine Leaky Fisher” May 24, 1984 (9 pp, typewritten and handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) Bertha Fowler Graduated 1888 – early (perhaps third?) female graduate of Garrett 1893 (1) Autobiographical Chronology [ca 1914] (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (2) “Financial Statement of My Service with the W.H.M.S. [ca 1928] (2 pp, typewritten, 6” x 11”) (3) Local Preacher’s License 1/15/1930 (1 p, typewritten, 8” x 9”) (4) “Philadelphia Deaconess Home and Settlement” biographical notes 12/12/1932 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 77

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(24) From Gladys Mackay to ??? June 1965 (2p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (25) From Vera Largen to Carol English 10/5/1965 (1 p, typewritten, 5 x 8) (26) From Elizabeth (Bess) Barnes to CTS-Garrett Alumni Association 10/21/1965 (1 p, typewritten, , 8 x 11) (27) From Lena Anderson [attended did not graduate] to ??? 10/21/1965 (3 pp, handwritten, 5 x 7) (28) From Lena Anderson to “Dear Ones” 1/13/1966 (3 pp plus envelope, handwritten, 5 x 8) (29) From Orville H. McKay to Lena Anderson 1/17/1966 (1 p, typewritten, , 8 ½” x 11) (30) From Linda Laird Nicholson [class of 1964] to “the Garrett Bulletin” 10/26/1965 (2 pp, handwritten, 4 x 6) (31) From Orville H. McKay to “Dear Alumnus and Friend of Garrett” December 1965 (2pp, typewritten with handwritten notes from Daisy Lineback by return mail, , 8 ½” x 11) (32) From Orville McKay to Daisy Lineback 12/21/1965 (1 p, typewritten, , 8 ½” x 11) (33) From Orville H. McKay to The Reverend Damon M. Timasheske 1/26/1966 (2 pp, typewritten with additional notes from Florence [Miller] Timasheske [class of 1921 AKA Mrs. Ira Richardson] by return mail, 7 x 10) (34) From Orville H. McKay to Mrs. D. M. [Florence Miller] Timasheske [class of 1921 AKA Mrs. Ira Richardson] 2/7/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (35) From Mary to Vi 2/8/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 4 x 6) (36) From Rose Fleet Cheney [class of 1905] to Henry E. Kolbe, editor of the Garrett Tower 2/15/1966 (2 pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11) (37) From Elizabeth Blanche Y. Temple to Dr. and Mrs. Orville H. McKay 2/15/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) [with attached pamphlet on her ministry, 4pp, typewritten, 4 x 6) (38) From Orville H. McKay to Mrs. Thomas H. [Elizabeth Blanche Y.] Temple 2/21/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (39) From Vera Largen to Rose Fox, Carol English, Ina Loy Shinn Katzenberger 3/10/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (40) From Ina Loy Shinn Katzenberger to Rose Fox, Vera Largen, Carol English 3/11/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (41) From Bessie Maxey [class of 1925] to President of Garrett 4/6/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (42) From Orville H. McKay to Bessie Maxey 4/11/1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11) (43) From Shirley Lindsay to Viola [Sommerville Bond] 4/23/1966 (2 pp, handwritten, 6 x 8) (44) From Lillie Bonner [class of 1911] to Rose Fox 5/24/1966 (3 pp, handwritten, 8 x 10) (45) From Caring Schwenk to President and Mrs. Mackay June 1966 (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 13) [reports on her mission work in Malaysia] 82

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(4) Maria L. Daly’s Will 8/ 14, 1923 naming Lottie Meyer and Edna Meyer as beneficiaries and J. Shelly Meyer as executor [two copies one marked “void”]. (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (5) Memorial Gift Book – lists contributions made in memory of Mary L. Daly who died 1/30/1926 (6) Mary L. Daly’s last will and testament 5/6/1930 [copy] naming Lottie Meyer and Edna Meyer her beneficiaries and Belle L. James as executrix (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) Chicago Training School Merger with Garrett Merger Process 1911 – 1934 Documents illustrate the merger from the earliest references to the completion of the physical move from 4949 South Indiana Street to the Garrett buildings in Evanston. (1) “Garrett/CTS A new student in 1911 asked….” [n.d.] (1p, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (2) A Proposal to the President and Faculty of Garrett [n.d.] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (3) “The Chicago Training School is on the Quarter instead of on the Semester…” [ca 1920s] (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (4) “The educational standards of the Chicago Training School…” [ca 1920s] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (5) Letter from [?] to Lucy Rider Meyer 3/3/1920 – references it is “inevitable” that Garret and Northwestern will include CTS in their plans (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (6) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to Louis F. W. Lesemann 11/10/1933 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (7) Letters exchanged between Louis F. W. Lesemann and Horace Greeley Smith in February and March of 1934 concerning food service (4pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (8) A New Opportunity for Women to Prepare for a Christian Vocation – promotional brochure 1934 (4pp, brochure, 4” x 6”) (9) “1904” handwritten card quoting a 1904 graduate’s comments on the merger and on Georgia Harkness(1p, 3” x 5”) (10) BASIC and RECOMMENDED studies for the various VOCATIONAL courses [1934] (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (11) Letter from Louis F. W. Lesemann to Horace Greeley Smith 2/9/1934 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (12) Letter from Louis F. W. Lesemann to Horace Greeley Smith 2/20/1934 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (13) Report to the Board of Trustees 3/2/1934 (6pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (14) “From Dr. Lesemann’s Report to the CTS Board of Trustees” 3/2/1934 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (15) Letter from Louis F. W. Lesemann to Horace Greeley Smith 3/5/1934 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (16) Letter from Louis F. W. Lesemann to Horace Greeley Smith 3/15/1934 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 89

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(4) Letters exchanged between Louis F. W. Lesemann and M.H. MacLean of Harris Trust and Savings Bank in April 1935 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (5) Resolutions [Chicago Training School Society] 4/12/1935 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (6) Report to the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 4/23/1935 (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (7) Minutes of Meeting of Board of Managers [Chicago Training School] 12/9/1935 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (8) Report to the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 12/9/1935 (5pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (9) Minutes of the Meeting of Board of Managers 1/2/1936 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (10) Report of the Director of the Chicago Training School 6/5/1936 (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (11) Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Management 9/28/1936 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (12) Report to the Board of Managers 9/28/1936 (4pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (13) Report to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees 2/19/1937 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (14) Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Management of the Chicago Training School 5/28/1937 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (15) Report to the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 5/28/1937 (7pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (16) Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 12/22/1937 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (17) Report to the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 12/22/1937 (5pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (18) Proportion of Special Students to Regular Student 1934 – 1938 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (19) Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Managers 1/27/1938 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (20) Plan for Cooperative Work at Garrett and the Chicago Training School… [Feb 1938] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (21) Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 11/22/1938 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (22) Report to the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 11/22/1938 (6pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (23) Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Training School 12/20/1938 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (24) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to “To the Board of Managers” [ca 1940s?] (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (25) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to “My dear Friends” [ca 1940s?] (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (26) A Statement Concerning the Course of Study for Prospective and Furloughed Missionary Women… [ca 1940s] (5pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 91

(27) Adjustment General Fund Surplus 7/1/1940 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (28) [from Minutes of ? Board Meeting] [Nov 1940?] (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (29) Revised Ad-Interim Agreement to Make Effective the Affiliation of the Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions with Garrett Biblical Institute [1941?] (3pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (30) Letter from P. N. Mitchell of Harris Trust and Savings Bank to Louis F.W. Lesemann 4/10/1941 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (31) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith “To the members of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Training School (Drs. English and Stone, Messers. Warnes, Hutchins, Mitchell) 5/22/1941 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (32) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to “My dear friends” (Dr. Newham, Messers. Warnes, Alderson, Hutchins, Mitchell) 5/22/1941 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (33) Informal Meeting of Board of Management July 1941 (2pp, handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (34) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith “To the members of the Executive Committee” 8/30/1941 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (35) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to John Seaton 9/10/1941 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (36) Letter from Marina Thompson to Registrar Garrett Biblical Institute 10/29/1941 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (37) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to Marina Thompson 11/1/1941 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (38) Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute 11/20/1941 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (39) Meeting of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Training School 2/7/1942 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (40) Letter from Charles B. Ketcham to “The President Chicago Training School” 3/19/1942 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (41) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to Charles B. Ketcham 3/25/1942 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (42) Anticipated Income 7/1/1942 – 6/30/1942 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (43) …statement of policy [ca 1943] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (44) Memorandum of a conference between Miss Geraldine Gregg and Mr. McKibben… 3/24/1943 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (45) Educational Budget Chicago Training School 7/1/1942 – 6/30/1943 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (46) By-Laws of the Chicago Training School for City, Home and foreign Missions and of its Board of Trustees 6/5/1943 (47) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith to “Messrs Stone, Hutchins, and Mitchell 10/7/1943 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 92

(48) Letter from Otto J. Babb to “Members of the Faculty at Garrett Biblical Institute: [ca 1944] (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (49) Anticipated Income 7/1/1943 – 6/30/1944 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (50) Letter from Horace Greeley Smith “to the Trustees and Friends of the Chicago Training School” [ca 1950] (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (51) “This tablet is placed as an enduring testimonial …” [a promotional card with information about a plaque placed in the narthex of Garrett chapel commemorating the years from CTS’s founding 1885 to its move to Evanston 1934] [ca 1953] (2pp, , 8 ½” x 15 ½”) (52) Larger photograph of the above plaque (1p, 8” x 10”) (53) Affiliation of the Chicago Training School [“From the Story of Garrett 1853 – 1953] (2pp, photocopied, 8 ½” x 11”) (54) Form letter from Horace Greeley Smith 7/18/1956 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (55) The Way Two Schools United Twenty-Five Years Ago by Horace Greeley Smith [1959] (4p, photocopied, 8 ½” x 11”) (56) Letter from Winona Campbell, Carroll English, Edmund Soper, Russell Watts to “Dear Alumna” 9/16/1969 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (57) Letter from Herbert L. Jones [Director of Development at Garrett] to Ina Loy Shinn Katzenberger concerning the change in relationship between the Garrett and CTS Alumni Associations 7/7/1969 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (58)Proposed Revision [to the by-laws of the Garrett Alumni Association] [preparing to combine with the Chicago Training School Alumni Association] 9/16/1969 (6pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (59) Letter from Anne Watson to Ina Katzenberger [as Treasurer of the Chicago Training School Alumni Association] 7/9/1970 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (60) Letter from Ina Katzenberger to “Gentlemen” at Garrett Theological Seminary 7/10/1970 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (61) Statement of Assets 8/31/1970 (5pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (62) Proposal for reorganizational Structure for CTS Society and Board of Trustees, Chicago Training School 5/22/1971 (1p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (63) Letters exchanged between Wesley S. Walton and Merlyn W. Northfelt President of Garrett Theological Seminary in February and March of 1972 concerning amalgamation of the boards of Garrett and the Chicago Training School (5pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (64) Letter from Carol Frodey of Harris Trust and Savings Bank and Helen Bouchet, Harvey R. Untiedt, and Merlyn Northfelt 2/29/1972 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) (65) Letter from Wesley S. Walton to Merlyn W. Northfelt 3/29/1972 (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”) 93

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