MMHS Board of Directors - 1999
Elections of the January 23 annual general meeting resulted in the following list of MMHS directors for 1999:
Abe Dueck, Centre for MB Studies, vice president; Adolf Ens, CMBC, president; Henry Ens; Bert Friesen, treasurer; Otto Hamm, chair of the Local History Committee; Elmer Heinrichs; Ed Hoeppner, chair of Membership and Publicity Committee; Marianne Janzen; Lawrence Klippenstein, chair of Historic Sites and Monuments Committee; Irene Kroeker, executive member-at-large; Martha Martens; Jacob Peters, University of Winnipeg; Alf Redekopp, Mennonite Heritage Centre, chair of Genealogy Committee; Ken Reddig, Mennonite Heritage Centre, secretary; Gary Snider, Mennonite Heritage Village; Conrad Stoesz; and Hans Werner, chair of Research, Scholarship, and Publication Committee.
The active committees again include Executive, Membership and Publicity, Genealogy, Historic Sites and Monuments, Research, Scholarship, and Publication, and Local History.
1999 Plans of the Committees
The Membership and Publicity Committee is now overseeing an expanded version of the MMHS newsletter. Heritage Posting is to appear four times a year with eight pages each time. The 125th anniversary of the coming of Mennonites to Manitoba will be a major focus of the upcoming issues for 1999 and 2000. Bert Friesen and Lawrence Klippenstein will edit the newsletter for now. At its recent meeting it discussed plans for the coming two years of the newsletter which will include features on pioneer leaders, congregational histories, and other content of significance during the 1870s and 1880s.
The Genealogy Committee is working on a publication of genealogical records received from the former Soviet Union. Peter Rempel has provided the material. It is also hoping to edit and publish items from the St. Petersburg Archives microfilm collection obtained through the auspices of the St. Petersburg Christian University several years ago. A Russian-speaking student, Sergei Chaiderman, now residing in Winnipeg, has been assisting in translation under a summer grant.
The Research, Scholarship, and Publication Committee is considering the publication of a manuscript on the Mennonite pioneers of Old Kildonan (Winnipeg), prepared by Heidi Koop and Helga Dyck.
The Local History Committee is working on a third volume in the West Reserve series which already includes Reinlaender Gemeinde Buch and 1880 Village Census of the Mennonite West Reserve. The committee is also planning a spring workshop in the Altona-Gretna area.
The Historic Sites and Monuments Committee has completed its Post Road research project under the direction of Conrad Stoesz. Several articles on the topic are being published in local Mennonite community papers. And Altbergthal School museum committee is being constituted under the supervision of the Historic Sites Committee. Plans are now underway to collaborate with the town of Emerson in setting up a Post Road sign on Highway 75.
A committee to direct 125th activities is being set up. Celebrative projects already underway include the planning of a sunrise workshop service at The Forks in Winnipeg on 1 August, the establishment of a Post Road tourist route in southern Manitoba, and including theme-related papers at the spring workshop put on by the local history committee (see above).
The executive committee serves as finance committee. It also supervises a special project for archives development among Mexican Mennonites. Money for this has been raised by numerous showing of the Mexican Mennonite 75th anniversary held in 1997. It will shortly complete the appointment of a 125th anniversary committee for MMHS. A winter lecture by Dr. James Urry on "Politics among Mennonites of Manitoba", given at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on 13 February, was planned by the executive also (see article on the lecture elsewhere in this issue).
Adele Dyck, a Winkler realtor and immigration agent, addressed the annual meeting of MMHS held at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on Saturday, 23 January, 1999. She spoke about issues related to a Winkler-based plan to bring 50 or more families of Aussiedler (emigres from the former Soviet Union living in Germany now) to southern Manitoba. She is seen in the photo (centre) with her daughter, Gabriele and Gerhard Ens, former Bote editor, and long-time principal at the MCI in Gretna, dealing with questions brought to the discussion. Photo: Courtesy of Elmer Heinrichs, Altona, Manitoba.
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