General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Board of Education.

The Board of Education of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches was organized in 1933 to oversee the operation of Tabor College. Founded in 1908, Tabor was run by an independent corporation until 1933, when the General Conferece adopted it as a conference school. Facing serious financial difficulties, one of the first acts of the new board was to close the college for the 1934-1935 school year. When the college reopened in the fall of 1935, it did so under the direction of the Board of Education of the General Conference. The Board oversaw the operation of Tabor until 1954, when it was given to the United States Conference Mennonite Brethren Church and placed under the direction of a U.S. Conference Board of Education (Record Group C240). Pacific Bible Institute, which until this time had been run by the Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, also became a U.S. Conference school in 1954.