Month | Article Title |
March 9, 2025 – Annual Meeting at Bethel College Mennonite Church | Dorthy Stucky Haley shared her work with domestic violence offenders. A Documentary featuring the work is available. A recording of the event will be posted when editing is completed. There were approximately 60 people in attendance. Newly elected Board Members are reflected on the “About SMCHA” page. Watch Documentary Biographical Info |
October 10, 2024 – Annual Meeting at Faith Mennonite Church | Dale Schrag’s Presentation View Photos |
March 2024 – Annual Meeting – Presentation by Frank Stucky and 1974 Parade video | Frank Stucky’s Presentation 1974 Parade video |
October 26, 2023 – SMCHA Banquet featuring presentation from Jerry Juhnke | Jerry Juhnke’s Presentation See video |
March 12, 2023 Annual Meeting with Prehiem Lois Preheim presentation on The Children’s Blizzard. | See video |
Mennonite Mills presentation on October 27, 2022 at Banquet at Eden Mennonite Church by Brian Stucky | Mennonite Mills in Central Kansas |
March 8, 2020, Annual Meeting Bethel College Mennonite Church | Speaker: Jim Juhnke, “Mennonite Museum in Uzbekistan” |
Banquet – November 7, 2019 at Pine Village Wellness Center, Moundridge, Kansas | Speaker: Patricia Goering Smith Author: “Revolution Revisited: Behind the Scenes in East Germany 1989” See Video1 See Video Video 3 |
March 10, 2019 Annual Meeting | Speaker Dr. Kip Wedel, “Wrong Kingdom: Why Anabaptists are Suspicious of American Civil Religion.” Business Meeting Report Listen to audio See Video |
Banquet – October 18, 2018 at Bethel College Mem Hall | Don and Joanne Siegrist, “Anabaptist History: Trachselwald Castle and Events in Emmental” see photo read pdf see video |
October 2018 | Bernese Anabaptist History: a short chronological outline 1525-2018 See chart |
Annual Meeting – March 11, 2018 at Pretty Prairie Mennonite Church | Rev. Kathy Goering Reid “Schweitzer Culture and Peace in Our Homes” See photo Read pdf |
Banquet at Eden Mennonite, October 26, 2017 | Dale Schrag, “Searching for a Usable Past” see video |
August 2017 | Freeman, SD & Henderson, NE trip report Tour recalls tragedy of Jan. 12, 1888 in Freeman Courier 6/22/2017 Read pdf |
April 10, 2017 | “Passing on Stories” by Laurie Robinson, Mennonite World Review Read article |
Annual Meeting at First Mennonite, Newton KS – March 12 2017 | Curt Goering from Center for Victims of Torture Read pdf See photo |
Banquet at Faith Mennonite, Newton, KS – September 2016 | Susan K Goering – “One Mennonite Woman’s Journey for Race Equity and Justice” Read pdf See photo |
May 2016 | The Growth and Decline of the Alta Community: A Case Study of Dead and Dying Towns in Kansas ~ by Renae Stucky |
Annual Meeting – April 3, 2016 at First Mennonite, Hutchinson KS | John McCabe-Juhnke – Teaching at East European National University in Lutsk, Ukraine See Intro |
Banquet at Eden – October 29, 2015 | Common Threads: Anabaptist and African American Songs and Stories of Suffering and Hope” – Tony Brown, John Sharp, Ken Rodgers see video |
March 2014 | Remembering the Murdock Mill Read pdf |
Banquet November 11, 2014 | Jeff Koller “The Importance of Telling the Story” Read pdf |
October 2014 | A view of Swiss Volhynian Mennonites from interviews by Jason Holcomb Read summary |
Annual Meeting at Halstead Mennonite Church – March 9 2014 | Scholarship recipients. Read pdf |
November 2013 | Dave Ortman notes and slides – “Time Travel Schweitzer Style – More Research Needed” |
September 29, 2013 | Salem Zion Marker Project and Dedication Read about Event |
Banquet at Whitestone August 29, 2013 | David Ortman, “What Research Possibilities?” see video |
Annual Meeting at First Mennonite, McPherson KS March 10, 2013 | Marlene Krehbiel, “John J. Stucky 1898-1928” The Diary of John J. Stucky Listen to the audio |
February 2013 | Catlin Speeches by James Juhnke and Alan Stucky Read pdf |
February 2013 | Catlin Story – 138-year-old mystery of missing children is solved – Peabody KS Read pdf How our ancestors made peace with death by James C. Juhnke Read pdf |
Feb 8, 2013 | Those Who Helped the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites (excerpts) by David E. Ortman Read pdf |
2013 | Native Americans: How can we be Neighbors in “Indian Country” from Don and Eleanor Kaufman article, submitted by David E. Ortman Read pdf |
October 21, 2012 | Presentation at Eden Mennonite Church, James Juhnke,“Ambivalent Celebration: Kansas Mennonites and the Bicentennial of 1976”See Video |
Banquet at First Mennonite Church, Newton – October 18, 2012 | Rich Preheim, “Three Kingdoms: Origins of the Schweitzer Missionary Impulse.” Read pdf See photo Three Kingdoms by Rich Preheim |
September 2012 | Crises 1873 in Red River Valley – David E. Ortman Read pdf |
June 2012 | Immigrant Story-Children Buried at Catlin Cemetery See photo |
April 2012 | Face Lift At the Mennonite Marker |
March 11, 2012 | Life and Ministry of Elder Valentine J. Krehbiel of First Mennonite Church of Christian By David Habegger See photo Listen to the audio |
January 2012 | Indians and Boa Constrictors: The Making of a Swiss Volhynian Community in the Dakota Territory – Benjamin Waltner Goossen |
Banquet at West Zion October 2011 | Gary Waltner, “History of the European Roots of Kansas and South Dakota Schweitzers Before the Russian Sojourn” See photo Listen to the audio |
Annual Meeting at Eden. March 20, 2011 | Rosemary Fisher “Exploring Early Moundridge Through Photographs” See photo Read pdf |
2011 | The Tragedy on Kisiwa Creek |
2011 | Schweitzer Land |
Banquet – Thursday, September 23, 2010 at Faith Mennonite, Newton KS | Brian D. Stucky “Filling in the Gaps of Swiss History” See Intro See photo bio |
Annual Meeting at Eden Mennonite March 14, 2010 | Drama by First Mennonite Church of Pretty Prairie KS Enjoy word Presentation |
January 2008 | Tribute to Don Schrag |
December 2008 | Ordination of Pastor Gail Graber |
Annual Banquet at Eden Mennonite November 6, 2008 | S. Roy Kaufman “From Swiss Volhynia Amish to South Dakota Mennonite: An Unexpected Transformation”. see video |
March 2008 | A memorial to Oswald H. “Ozzie” Goering |
September 2007 | A memorial to Arthur D. “Art” Goering |
July 2007 | July 2007 Monthly Feature,Thoughts on the life of Leona (Wedel) Krehbiel – Rich Ratzlaff |
March 2007 | Devotions for SHMCA Sunday March 11, 2007 – Gail Graber |
January 2007 | The Story of the Schweitzers who stayed behind in Ukraine in 1874 By James W. Krehbiel |
November 2006 | “REMEMBERING FROM WHERE WE CAME” by Myron Voran |
January 2006 | Harley J. Stucky, July 26, 1920 – November 11, 2005 |
December 2005 | Orlo Kaufman Memorial Service |
November 2005 | DIE WEISSE FRAU (THE WOMAN IN WHITE) |
October 2005 | Queer People – Dorothy Thompson |
August 2005 | The Swiss Mennonite Heritage: Cheese-Makers and Wheat-Growers, or Peace-Builders and People of Courage by Kirsten Zerger at Bethel College |
June 2005 | The Pastor Lee Lever Story |
May 2005 | The Galen Flickner Story |
February 2005 | “The Perils of Conscientious Objection: An Oral History Study of a 1944 Event” |
January 2005 | The Perils of Conscientious Objection – Roger Juhnke |
December 2004 | The Death of Gerhard Stucky |
November 2004 | The near lynching of John Schrag |
September 2004 | Steven Stucky, world renowned composer from Pretty Prairie, Kansas |
August 2004 | “The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas: Part 4: Impact of the Russian-Germans Upon Kansas“ |
July 2004 | “The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas: Part 3: “Settling In” |
June 2004 | “The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas: Part 2: The Mennonites Arrive in Kansas“ |
May 2004 | “The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas: Part 1: The Russian Background“ |
March 2004 | Curt Goering on Human Rights: Convocation Speech at Bethel College |
August 2003 | Walter W. “Sprig” Graber, a man for all seasons |
June 2003 | The Mennonite Rider |
May 2003 | Mennonites and Amish Identities among the Swiss Volhynian’s in Europe |
April 2003 | Joseph’s Coat by Wynn Goering |
March 2003 | Just Which Swiss Volhynian Families Were Originally Amish And Which Were Not? by James W. Krehbiel |
January 2003 | Pioneer Days in Dakota and Kansas: A Difference by James W. Krehbiel |
December 2002 | The life and times of Dale Marlo Stucky |
December 2002 | The Andrew D. Schrag Story |
November 2002 | THE MENNONITE RIDER |
October 2002 | The Martin H. Schrag Story |
September 2002 | Will Ortman’s original oratorio, “Jesus the Man, the Christ” |
August 2002 | An intricate bond few other sisters could share |
January 2002 | The German Heritage of Kansas: An Introduction by William D. Keel, Univ of KS |
December 2001 | Congressional Record Sept 8, 1999 “Celebrating the 125th anniv. of arrival of Mennonites in America by Jerry Moran of KS and John R. Thune of SD |
August 2001 | R.C. Kauffman A Critical Evaluation of Ourselves From 75th Anniversary celebration |
July 2001 | The Josua & Freni Stucky Zerger Story |
1980 | Reuben Goertz Some in German Listen to the audio |
Article in Kansas Historical Society 1977 | https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-mob-violence-and-kansas-mennonites-in-1918/13278 by James C. Juhnke |
1974 | A Study Guide of the Swiss Mennonites who came to America in 1874 Read pdf |
1874 Ship List 4 congregations 163 families | Of immigrants who came from Russia by Harley J. Stucky Read pdf |