1

1

Guide to NCC RG 7

1

2

General Files. Divisional Assemblies: Minutes, 1956-1964

1

3

Divisional Assemblies: Materials, 1961-1965

1

4

Divisional Assembly, 1960

1

5

Divisional Assembly, 1959

1

6

Assembly, 1958

1

7

Assembly, 1956

1

8

Assembly, 1954

1

9

Assemblies, 1951-1953

1

10

Assembly Program Committee, 1951, 1953-1959

1

11

Executive Board, 1964

1

12

Executive Board, 1963

1

13

Executive Board, 1962

1

14

Executive Board, 1961

1

15

Executive Board, 1961

1

16

Executive Board, 1960

1

17

Executive Board, 1959

2

1

Executive Board, 1957-1958

2

2

Executive Board, 1955-1956

2

3

Executive Board, 1953-1954

2

4

Executive Board, 1952

2

5

Executive Board, 1950-1951

2

6

Administrative Committee, 1960-1964

2

7

Administrative Committee, 1954-1959

2

8

Administrative Committee, 1950-1953

2

9

Home Missions Council of North America, Board of Directors, 1953-1964; Legal Committee, 1951

2

10

Policy and Strategy Committee, 1959-1964

2

11

Policy Committee, 1956-1958

2

12

Policy Committee, 1952-1955

2

13

Budget & Finance Committee, 1956-1964

2

14

Budget Committee, 1949-1955

2

15

Church Extension Committee, 1952-1964

2

16

Cooperative Field Projects Committee, 1961-1963

2

17

Personnel Matters

3

1

"Churching Sparsely Populated Areas" (Conference & Surveys) I

3

2

"Churching Sparsely Populated Areas" II

3

3

"Churching Sparsely Populated Areas" III

3

4

"Churching Sparsely Populated Areas" IV

3

5

In-Service Training (Surveys & Reports) I

3

6

In-Service Training II

3

7

In-Service Training III

3

8

In-Service Training IV

3

9

In-Service Training V

3

10

Community Development, 1961-1963

3

11

Long-Range Planning, 1959-1960

3

12

R.G. Ross-J.R. Regier, Memos; Regier, Evangelism Paper

3

13

Resource File

3

14

Staff Meetings, 1962

3

15

Staff Meetings, 1960-1961

3

16

Staff Meetings, 1957-1959

3

17

Staff Meetings, 1951-1955

4

1

Administrative Committee; Alaska Committee; American Bible Society; Annual Reports, 1951

4

2

Bank Accounts; By-Laws; Church Building; Defense Communities

4

3

DHM Assembly; Field Research Committee

4

4

Finance

4

5

Government Projects; Home Missions Institutions

4

6

Intermountain Committee; Literature

4

7

Migrants; Missionary Education; Missionary Personnel

4

8

Dr. Nace; NCC; New York Projects (i.e., East Harlem Protestant Parish); Nominating Committee

4

9

Promotion & Publicity; Public Relations

4

10

Sharecropper Committee; Southern Mountains; Southwestern Office; Spanish-Speaking

4

11

Town & Country; UCYM; Unity

4

12

Urban Church; West Indies Committee

4

13

Work Camps; World Day of Prayer; Youth & Student Work

4

14

Administrative Committee; Adult Work; Alaska Committee; Annual Report, 1952

4

15

By-Laws; Church Building; Comity

4

16

Defense Communities; DCLW

4

17

DHM Assembly; Ecumenical Relations; Executive Board

4

18

Extension Unit (Sharecroppers); Field Administration; Field Research Committee

4

19

Finance

4

20

Government Projects; Home Missions Institutions

4

21

Immigrants; Intermountain Area; Literature

4

22

Master List; Migrants; Miscellaneous; Missionary Personnel

4

23

Nace-Articles; NCC Appraisal Committee

4

24

National Parks; New York (EHPP); Nominating Committee

4

25

Policy Committee; Sharecropper Committee

4

26

Spanish Work; Town & Country Church

4

27

Urban Church; West Indies Committee; World Day of Prayer

4

28

Administrative Committee; Alaska Committee; Association of Council Secretaries, 1953

4

29

Comity; Councils of Churches; Defense Communities

4

30

Displaced Persons; DHM Assembly

4

31

Executive Board; Extension Unit Committee; Field Research

4

32

Finance

4

33

Home Missions Institutions; Intermountain Area; Inventory; Literature

4

34

Migrants; Miscellaneous; Missionary Personnel

4

35

NCC; National Social Welfare Assembly

4

36

Policy Committee; Reorganization Plan

4

37

Spanish American Work

4

38

Town & Country Church; Urban Church

4

39

West Indies; "Working Together in Home Missions"; World Day of Prayer

4

40

Alaska Committee; Annual Report; Councils of Churches, 1954

4

41

Directory of Committee Membership; DHM Assembly; Executive Board; Extension Unit

4

42

Field Administration; Field Research Committee

4

43

Finance

4

44

Government Projects; Headquarters Location

4

45

Home Missions Council of North America, Board of Directors

5

1

Home Missions Institutions

5

2

Insurance; Intermountain Area; Jews, Christian Approach to

5

3

Migrant Work; "Wetbacks"

5

4

Miscellaneous; Missionary Education; Missionary Personnel

5

5

Nace; I.G.; NCC; Nominating Committee

5

6

Pensions; Personnel Committee; Planning Committee; Policy Committee

5

7

Publication & Distribution; Racial & Cultural Relations; Reorganization Plan; Research; Southern Mountains

5

8

Spanish-American Work

5

9

Town & Country Church

5

10

United Church Men; United Church Women

5

11

Urban Church

5

12

Washington Office; West Indies

5

13

World Council of Churches; World Day of Prayer

5

14

Administrative Committee; Alaska Committee; American Bible Society, 1955

5

15

By-Laws & Standing Rules; Comity

5

16

Conference, Churches & Social Welfare; Councils of Churches

5

17

DCLW; DHM Assembly

5

18

E&R Church; Executive Board; Executives of Home Missions Boards; Extension Committee

5

19

Finance

5

20

Fundamental Education; Government Projects; Gypsies

5

21

Home Missions Council of North America

5

22

Home Missions Institutions; Jews, Christian Approach to; Literature

5

23

Miscellaneous

5

24

Migrants; Missionary Summer Conferences; Mormons

5

25

Nace-Articles; NCC; National Parks; Nominating Committee; New York (EHPP)

5

26

Policy Committee; Promotion & Publicity; Publication & Distribution

5

27

Regional Offices; Religious Census; Research

5

28

Sharecroppers; Southern Mountains

5

29

Spanish-American Work

5

30

Staff Association; Town & Country Church; United Church Men; United Church Women

5

31

Urban Church; Washington Office; West Indies

5

32

White House Conference on Education; World Day of Prayer

5

33

1966 Files (titles on front of folder)

6

1

1957 Files (titles on folder)

6

2

1958 Files

6

3

1959 Files

6

4

1960 Files

6

5

1961 Files

6

6

1962 Files

6

7

Department of Church Building and Architecture. Minutes, 1960-1965

6

8

Executive Committee; "Bureau of Church Building" (history)

6

9

Joint Conferences on Church Architecture, Feb 1955-Feb 1957

6

10

Church Architectural Guild of America

6

11

Miscellaneous, Feb 1951-April 1965; n.d.

6

12

Department of Indian Work. Indian Work Committee, 1951-1953

6

13

Indian Work Committee, 1954-1957

6

14

Indian Work Committee, 1958-1959

6

15

Indian Committee, 1951

6

16

Brigham City; Cook School

6

17

Literature; National Congress of American Indians; Religious Work Directors

6

18

Files, 1952; 1954

6

19

Indian Committee, 1955

7

1

Bureau of Indian Affairs; Brigham City

7

2

Carter, J. Russell

7

3

Cook School

7

4

Coordinating Committee on Indian Affairs

7

5

Fredonia; Legislation; Lindquist

7

6

National Fellowship of Indian Workers

7

7

Phoenix Ariz.; Principle of Consent

7

8

Religious Work Directors; Twin Cities

7

9

Published and Distributed Materials (Includes National Fellowship of Indian Workers, Nos. 62 - 80)

7

10

Department of Migrant Work. National Migrant Committee, 1962-1964

7

11

Department of Migrant Work, Minutes, 1960-1961

7

12

National Migrant Committee, 1957-1959

7

13

National Migrant Committee, 1952-1956

7

14

National Migrant Committee, 1950-1951

7

15

National Migrant Committee-Committees

7

16

Committee on Promotion & Publicity; Special Events Committee

7

17

Finance, 1951-1958

7

18

DHM Annual Assemblies, 1953-1955

7

19

Annual Reports, 1957-1958, 1963-1964

7

20

State Reports, 1956 (I)

7

21

State Reports, 1956 (II)

7

22

Field Reports, 1955 (I)

7

23

State Reports, 1955 (II)

8

1

Correspondence with Chairman: Paul Warnshuis, Tollie Caution

8

2

Correspondence: Alexander, Lula E.

8

3

Alexander, Theophilus D.; Boggs Academy

8

4

Casson, Paul M. - Florida Supervisor

8

5

Collins, Dean S. - Western Regional Supervisor, 1956-1957

8

6

Collins, Dean S., 1954-1955

8

7

Collins, Dean S., 1953

8

8

Davidson, Edmonia (with Report on Migrant Education)

8

9

Dawson, Ethel B.

8

10

Eckstrom, Margaret H. - Northeast Area, 1956-1958

8

11

Eckstrom, Margaret H., 1953-1955

8

12

Koch, William H. (Citizenship Education Project-Saul Alinsky)

8

13

Leaf, Kathryn A.

8

14

Pennington, Lenore - New York State Supervisor

8

15

Scholes, William E. Mid-West Regional Supervisor, 1957-1958

8

16

Scholes, William E., 1955-1956

8

17

Scholes, William E., 1952-1954

8

18

Still, Douglas M. - California State Supervisor

9

1

Weaver, Dortha

9

2

Central Region

9

3

Eastern Region

9

4

Western Region

9

5

Arkansas

9

6

Arizona (see addenda also)

9

7

Connecticut

9

8

California (see addenda also)

9

9

Colorado, 1956-1958

9

10

Colorado, 1950-1955

9

11

Florida, 1956-1958

9

12

Florida, 1951-1955

9

13

Idaho

9

14

Illinois

9

15

Indiana

9

16

Iowa; Louisiana; Maine-New Hampshire-Vermont

9

17

Maryland-Delaware

9

18

Massachusetts

10

1

Michigan, 1955-1958

10

2

Michigan, 1950-1954

10

3

Minnesota; Missouri; Nebraska

10

4

New Jersey, 1953-1958

10

5

New Jersey, 1951-1952

10

6

New Mexico

10

7

New York: Migrant Committee

10

8

New York: Correspondence

10

9

New York: Reports, 1957

10

10

New York, Reports, 1956

10

11

New York: Reports, 1955

10

12

New York: Reports, 1953-1954

10

13

New York: Reports, 1951-1952

10

14

New York: Buffalo, Hudson Valley, Long Island, Utica-Clinton

10

15

North Carolina; North Dakota

10

16

Ohio

10

17

Oregon, 1956-1958

11

1

Oregon, 1951-1955

11

2

Pennsylvania, 1956-1958

11

3

Pennsylvania, 1951-1955

11

4

Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota

11

5

Texas

11

6

Virginia

11

7

Washington

11

8

Wisconsin

11

9

Assorted Reports, 1950-1951

11

10

Directors Conferences, 1954; 1956-1958

11

11

Eastern Area Conferences

11

12

Mid-West and Western Area Conferences

11

13

"Human Interest Stories" (by field workers) (I)

11

14

"Human Interest Stories" (II)

11

15

"Family Case Stories"; "Articles"

11

16

"What the Summer Has Meant to Me"

11

17

Alphabetical Files: Adult Education Project

11

18

American Bible Society

12

1

Articles

12

2

Audio-Visual Materials: Visual Aids; Films; Filmstrips; Radio & TV

12

3

Baseball Clubs (equipment - Mickey McConnell); Child Care Centers

12

4

Churches: Am. Baptist; AME; Ch. of the Brethren; Congregational-Christian

12

5

Churches: Disciples of Christ; E&R; Evangelical; Evangelical United Brethren

12

6

Churches; Friends; Augustana Lutheran; Evangelical Lutheran; National Lutheran Council; United Lutheran

12

7

Mennonite; Methodist

12

8

Presbyterian US; Presbyterian USA; Reformed Church in Am.

12

9

Community Organization

12

10

Conscientious Objectors; Cuban Refugees

12

11

Education of Migrant Children

12

12

Education Questionnaire

12

13

Evaluation of Committees & Job Analysis

12

14

Fundamental Education Supervisory Committee

12

15

Future of Migrant Labor

12

16

Harvester Dedication Services (station wagons)

12

17

"Harvester News"; "New England Harvester"

12

18

Health Problems of Migrants; "Humanity by the Carload" (play)

12

19

Indian-Migrant Development; King Ferry Episcopal School; Laboratory School-Fort Lupton

12

20

Lenski, Lois (migrant plays)

12

21

Literature & Publishing

12

22

Lowry, Edith E. (Director), Background Material, 1958

12

23

Lowry, E.E., Background Material, 1956

12

24

Lowry, E.E., Memos to Supervisory Staff

12

25

Lowry, E.E., Personal

12

26

Lowry, E.E., Speeches and Reports

12

27

Migrant Luncheons, 1955-1957

12

28

Migrant Meal Project; Migrant State Committee Study

12

29

Miscellaneous

12

30

National Child Labor Committee

12

31

National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor (NCALL)

12

32

NCC: Adult Work Coordinating Committee; Div. of Christian Education

12

33

NCC: Div. of Christian Education- Migrant Curriculum

12

34

NCC: Commission on Cooperative Field Projects

12

35

National Education Association; National Sharecroppers' Fund

13

1

Public Law 78 (importation of foreign workers)

13

2

Public Relations

13

3

Quality Bakers (advertisement)

13

4

Rural Slums (survey) I

13

5

Rural Slums (II)

13

6

Scouts (Girl & Boy); Social Security; Spanish-Speaking Migrants; Summer Service Units

13

7

Transportation of Migrant Workers; Tuskegee Staff Replacement; United Council of Church Women

13

8

U.S. Government: Health, Education & Welfare; Joint Committee on the Economic Report

13

9

U.S. Government: Labor Department

13

10

U.S. Govt.: East Coast Migrant Conference, 1954;

13

11

U.S. Govt.: Public Housing Administration; Seminar on Migrant Children (1952)

13

12

Vacation Church Schools

13

13

Vocational Education Project; Vocational School Project

13

14

Weekend Work Camps; World Youth Project

13

15

Studies & Reports (I)

13

16

Studies & Reports (II)

13

17

Studies & Reports (III)

13

18

"Harvester News", 1954-1957; "Eastern Harvester", 1950-1954; “Western Harvest”, 1951-1958

13

19

Manuals

13

20

Working Guides (I)

13

21

Working Guides (II)

14

1

Teachers' Guides

14

2

Textbooks (I)

14

3

Textbooks (II)

14

4

Published & Distributed Material

14

5

Children's Work Coordinating Committee, July 1951-1960

14

6

Christian Life and Work, Oct 1955-Nov 1958; n.d.

14

7

Church and Economic Life, June 1951-June 1958; n.d.

14

8

Council on National Organizations, Dec 1955-July 1957

14

9

Councils of Churches, Sept 1953-Dec 1958; n.d.

14

10

Displaced Persons, Dec 1951-May 1953; n.d.

14

11

Emergency Services, May 1951-1953; n.d.

14

12

Evangelism Department, March 1952-1958

14

13

Finance, May 1956-June 1958

14

14

General Administration, March 1952-Nov 1954; n.d.

14

15

Group Procedures Conference, Sept-Dec 1955

14

16

Information Office, Sept 1951-Aug 1958; n.d.

14

17

International Justice and Goodwill Department, Oct 1953-Dec 1958; n.d.

14

18

Juvenile Delinquency, Nov 1952-July 1956

14

19

Missionary Education Commission, July 1957-Sept 1958; n.d.

14

20

Personnel Office, Jan-April 1958

14

21

Research and Survey Bureau, March 1953-Dec 1956

14

22

Research and Survey Bureau, Feb 1957-May 1958; n.d.

14

23

Treasury Department, Dec 1953-Feb 1960; n.d.

Department of Town and Country Church

14

24

Minutes, 1961-1964

15

1

Minutes, 1955-1957; 1959-1960

15

2

Minutes, 1950-1954

15

3

Agricultural Hall of Fame; AME Church; Census Conference Change (1961)

15

4

Continuing Education; Conservation

15

5

Convocations & Conferences, 1955-1964

15

6

Committee on Rural Economic & Social Trends - CREST (continuing Land Tenure Committee), 1951-1955; 1957-1965

15

7

County Beautiful; Farm Labor Migrancy

15

8

Federated Churches

15

9

In-Service Training

15

10

Interchurch Relations Committee

16

1

Miscellaneous

16

2

Mormons; Organizational Meeting of Four Denominations

16

3

Poverty; Production Committee for Poverty Film

16

4

Research Committee

16

5

Seminar on Theology & Rural Life (papers); Work in the Great Plains Area

16

6

Rural Life Sunday and Harvest Festival Bulletins

16

7

"The Christian Rural Fellowship Bulletin", 1951-1959

16

8

Publications

16

9

Publications

16

10

Department of Urban Church. Minutes, 1962-1965

16

11

Minutes, 1958-1961

16

12

Minutes, 1956-1957

16

13

Minutes, 1953-1955

16

14

Minutes, 1951-1952

16

15

Minutes of Committees, 1951-1956

16

16

Office Diary (distributed material), 1964

17

1

Office Diary, 1961-1962

17

2

Office Diary, 1959

17

3

Office Diary, 1958

17

4

The Church and Urban Politics; Church Extension Committee

17

5

Church Extension Conferences (I)

17

6

Church Extension Conferences (II)

17

7

Defense Communities; Defense Services Committee

17

8

Department of Urban Affairs & Housing (Federal)

17

9

Effective City Churches (I)

17

10

Effective City Churches (II)

17

11

Mission to the Metropolis (study)

17

12

Miscellaneous

17

13

Narcotic Addiction, Conference; Regional Planning Institute

17

14

"Research on City Life - On City Churches"

17

15

Serving Children & Youth Not Served by Churches & Agencies-Workshop; Task Force on Housing

17

16

Task Force on Urban Responsibilities; Training for the Urban Ministry

17

17

Wagner, John H., Jr. (Director)

17

18

Speeches

17

19

Papers & Reports

17

20

Publications (I)

17

21

Publications (II)

18

1

DHM Publications. Yearbooks and Reports

18

2

DHM Publications: Miscellaneous

18

3

“The City Church”, vols. 9-5, 1958-1964 (missing issues listed on front of folder)

18

4

"The City Church", vols. 1-8, 1950-1957

18

5

"Town and Country Church", Nos. 148-179, 1960-1964

18

6

"Town and Country Church", Nos. 68-147, 1951-1959

ADDENDA

Migrant Work

18

7

"Again... Pioneers," Oct. 1950-1951

18

8

Arizona, Sept 1950-Sept 1956

18

9

Arizona, Oct 1956-July 1957; n.d.

18

10

California, Feb 1951-July 1952

18

11

California, Aug 1952-1953

18

12

California, May 1954-Nov 1956; n.d.

18

13

Personnel Committee, Feb 1951-Oct 1956; n.d.

18

14

White House Conference on Education, Dec 1954-April 1956