Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records, 1936-1981

Collection: DG 118

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Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: (610) 328-8557 (Curator)
Fax: (610) 328-8544
Email: wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu (Curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/

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Descriptive Summary
Repository
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Creator
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Title
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records
Inclusive Dates
1936-1981
Call Number
DG 118
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
6 linear feet [papers only]
Abstract
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The EPF has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and has contributed to pacifist projects in other countries.

Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
None
Usage Restrictions
None
Alternate Form of Material
None
Acquisitions Information
Gift of 1975, John Nevin Sayre, [Acc. 75A-106]; 1978, Dana S. Grubb, [Acc. 78A-023]; 1980, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, [Acc. 80A-082]; 1983, Paul L. Ward, [Acc. 83A-092, Acc. 83A-171] John M. Gessell [Acc. 83A-100], 1985, Dana S. Grubb, [Acc. 85A-070], [Acc. 85A-076]; 1986, Patricia K. Scharf [Acc. 86A-113]; 1987, William Davidson, [Acc. 87A-090]; Bruce M. Brown, [Acc. 87A-115]; 1988 Paul L. Ward, [Acc. 88A-098]; 1989, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, [Acc. 89A-147]; 1990, Paul L. Ward, [Acc. 90A-003]; 1994, Thomas Lee Hayes [Acc. 94A-062]; 1997, Thomas Lee Hayes [Acc. 97A-048]
Processing Information
Processed by SCPC staff. This version of the finding aid was created by Wendy E. Chmielewski, October 2009.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records (DG 118), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law

Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
See tripod record

Related Collections
John Nevin Sayre Papers (DG 117) [Series A-Correspondence: Ames, Winslow; Boehmer, Peter J.; Davidson, John; Eaton, Eleanor; Jehle, Herbert; Johnston, Mary; Jones, Paul; Lawrence, W. Appleton; Walter, Mitchell; Mygatt, Tracy; Molnar, Enrico and Georgine; Moors, Ethel Paine; Parson, Artley; Piece, Katherine C.; Pierson, Robert L.; Regas, George F.; Russell, William K.; Von Selle, Margaret; Yungblut, John]

Historical Background
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship, an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The basis for affiliation was gradually broadened to include "those working for reconciliation" who were not necessarily absolute pacifists; thus the name was changed in 1966 to Episcopal Peace Fellowship. The organization has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and has contributed to pacifist projects in other countries. The EPF has been affiliated with the Fellowship of Reconciliation since 1939. John Nevin Sayre was one of the founding members of the organization.

Collection Overview
This collection consists of administrative records, correspondence, and program reports from the 1940s through the 1970s. This part of the collection has been processed.

Items removed:
Photographs
Issues of The Witness [periodical]

Arrangement of Collection
Records from the first 30-35 years of the EPF have been processed. Administrative records are contained in boxes 1-4. Correspondence is contained in boxes 4-7; literature and EPF publications are in boxes 7-9; program material and files are in boxes 10-12; box 10 also contains files on other Episcopal social justice organizations; box 13 contains files of the EPF publication, The Witness. Later accessions are unprocessed and significant holdings are listed here in accession number order.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Processed material

Unprocessed accessions
Acc. 86A-113
Acc. 87A-090
Acc. 97A-048


Box 1
History archives (correspondence)
25th Anniversary, 1964
Basis statement- revision and policy discussion, 1962
Basis statement- revision, 1966
By-laws, 1941, 1966, 1970
Membership lists, 1963 - 1966
Membership (special lists), 1962 - 1966
Annual reports, 1951 - 1962
Executive committee minutes, 1939 - 1945
Executive committee minutes, 1946 - 1953
Executive committee minutes, 1954 - 1959
Executive committee minutes, 1960 - 1963
Executive committee minutes, 1964 - 1966


Box 2
Executive committee and staff: minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous, 1967
Executive committee and staff: minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous, 1968 - 1971
Executive committee and staff: minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous, 1972
Executive committee and staff: minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous, 1973
Executive committee and staff: minutes, correspondence, miscellaneous, 1974 - 1976
Executive officers: K.C. Pierce, secretary, 1947 - 1949
Executive officers: S.N. McCain, Jr. chairman, 1959 - 1961
Executive staff: corespondence, reports, releases, 1972 - 1974

Box 3
Literature committee, 1962 - 1963
Nominating committee, 1962 - 1967
Personnel committee: search for an executive secretary, 1965
Personnel committee: candidacy and election, 1966
Annual meeting: programs, minutes, reports, 1941 - 1951
Annual meeting: programs, minutes, reports, 1963
Annual meeting: correspondence, reports, etc., 1964
Annual meeting: correspondence, reports, etc., 1965
Annual meeting: correspondence, reports, etc., 1966
Annual meeting: programs, minutes, reports, 1967
Annual meeting: miscellaneous, 1970 - 1973
Annual meeting: correspondence, resolution, 1972 - 1973
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1960
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1961
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1962
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1963
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1964
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1965
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1966
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre. 1967

Box 4
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1968
Overseas projects: correspondence and reports of Kathleen W. Sayre, 1969
Seminary programs, 1962 - 1966
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1939 - 1942
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1943 - 1946
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1947 - 1953
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1954
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1955 - 1958
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1959
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1960
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1961

Box 5
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1962 (January - June)
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1962 (July - December)
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (General), 1965 - 1969
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Ames, Winslow, treasurer, 1956 - 1962
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Beggs, Robert W., 1963 - 1965
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Blaxall, Arthur W., 1961, 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Brown, John Pairman, ("The Christian Individual and the Peace Movement [typescript] 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Butler, John, 1960 - 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Crittenden, William, 1963 - 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Cutler, Woolcott, general secretary, 1960 - 1966

Box 6
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Cutler, Woolcott (articles by and about), 1960 - 1966
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Dahlbert, Edwin T., 1964 - 1965
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Davidson, William, 1965 - 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Fisher, Charles, general secretary, 1963 - 1966
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Halbert, Herschel, 1965 - 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Hayes, Thomas Lee, executive director, 1966
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Hayes, Thomas Lee, executive director, 1967 - 1969
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Heidbrink, John, 1962
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Johnston, Mary (estate), 1966 - 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Kitagawa, Daisuke, (correspondence and report on "Laos and South Viet Nam"), 1962 - 1968
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Lawrence, W. Appleton, 1962 - 1963
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Lawrence, W. Appleton., 1964 - 1969
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Mize, Robert H., 1961, 1968
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Molnar, Enrico and Georgine, 1948 - 1968
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Mygatt, Tracy (see Witherspoon, Frances)
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Niemoller, Martin, 1962 - 1963

Box 7
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Pollard, William G., 1961 - 1962
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Spofford, William B., 1949, 1960 - 1966
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Starrattt, Alfred, 1954, 1962 - 1963
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Sullivan, Paul Wilson, 1967
Correspondence of John Nevin Sayre (Individual), Walberg, Elsa, 1961 - 1963
Episcopal Peace Fellowship circular letters, 1936 - 1952
Episcopal Peace Fellowship circular letters, 1953 - 1955
Episcopal Peace Fellowship circular letters, 1956 - 1962
Episcopal Peace Fellowship circular letters, 1966 - 1969
Releases, miscellaneous, 1963 - 1966
Releases, miscellaneous, 1967 - 1968
Releases, miscellaneous, 1969 - 1970

Box 8
Releases, miscellaneous, 1971 - 1973
Releases, miscellaneous, 1974 - 1979
Releases, miscellaneous, 1980
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Epistles (newsletter), 1944 - 1945
Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Letters from the General Office, 1947 - 1949
Episcopal Peace Fellowship newsletters, 1963 - 1966
Episcopal Peace Fellowship newsletters, 1967 - 1969
Episcopal Peace Fellowship newsletters, 1970 - 1973
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Newswatch, 1973 - 1974
Media, Pennsylvania chapter of Episcopal Peace Fellowship, 1972

Box 9
Confereneces: correspondence, programs, etc.
-Buckstop Falls and Seabury House, 1942, 1951 - 1960, 1943 - 1953
-Seabury House, 1961 - 1962
-Seabury House, 1963
-Seabury House, 1964 (John Howard Yoder's lectures)
-Seabury House, 1965
-Seabury House, 1966
-Seabury House, 1967
Diocesan Conferences
-Orleton Farms (Midwest), 1954 - 1961
-Bloy House (West Coast), 1965
General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, 1964
General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, 1967
General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, 1969

Box 10
Anglican and Episcopal Church entities
-Anglican Congress, Toronot, 1963
-Anglican Pacifist Fellowship: correspondence, releases, 1941 - 1967
-Anglican Pacifist Fellowship: annual reports, 1950 - 1968
-Anglican Pacifist Fellowship: monthly newsletters, 1961 - 1968
-Anglican Pacifist Fellowship: pamphlets and leaflets, 1951 - 1962
Berkeley Free Church, 1969
Episcopal Churchment for South Africa, 1958 - 1967, 1971 - 1972
Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, 1960 - 1962
National Episcopal Students Committee, 1969

Box 11
Special programs and concerns; coalitions
-Amnesty, 1972 - 1973
-Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), 1966 - 1969
-Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), national organizing conference, 1971
-Military chaplaincy, 1972 - 1974
-"Milwaukee 14" and "Catonsville 9", 1968
-Mobilization, 1967

Box 12
Special programs and concerns; coalitions
- Pentagon masses, 1969 - 1970, 1972
-Pentagon masses, People's Life Fund records, 1971
-Bail money receipts, 1972
-Prisons and prisoners (U.S.), 1968 - 1971
-Prisons and prisoners (Vietnam), 1968 - 1971
-Racism (U.S. and southern Africa), 1971
-World Without War (California diocesan program), 1972
Miscellaneous material

Box 13
Episcopal Peace Fellowship publications
"Activities of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship," "Why an Episcopal Peace Fellowship?"
"Christian Approach to Nuclear War, " (includes Sayre - Lawrence correspondence)
"On War and Peace," 1966 revision (includes Sayre correspondence)
Prayers, 1965 (includes Sayre correspondence)
Seabury House conference lectures, 1952 - 1964
Pamphlets and leaflets, 1940 - 1969
Pamphlets and leaflets, 1970
The Witness (annual Episcopal Peace Fellowship numbers), correspondence, 1963
The Witness (annual Episcopal Peace Fellowship numbers), correspondence, 1964
The Witness (annual Episcopal Peace Fellowship numbers), correspondence, 1965
The Witness (annual Episcopal Peace Fellowship numbers), 1946 - 1962

Acc. 86A-113
Box 1
General correspondence, 1970
Miscellaneous records, 1967 - 1974
Miscellaneous records, 1974

Acc.87A-090
Miscellaneous records, undated [1 folder]

Acc. 97A-048
Box 1
Genocide (Sartre article)
Amnesty articles, resources from the files of Tom Lee Hayes
Miscellaneous materials
G.I. Task force, New Mobe
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Military Counseling Service
Militarism in Education
Episcopal Peace Fellowship pamphlets, miscellaneous
Episcopal Peace Fellowship-West, 1975 - 1977
Peace symbol/peace cross folder
Military Chaplaincy
Chaplaincy project
Investments and social responsibility
Episcopal Peace Fellowship correspondence, 1980 - 1981
Episcopal Peace Fellowship conference, 1982
 
Box 2 [Acc. 97A-048 ]
Church and War [2 folders]