Records of the Board of Education, 1935-1955

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Records of the Board of Education, 1935-1955

Contains minutes for the Board of Education and its Executive Committee for the years 1935-1954. Also includes the minutes of the Board's Steering Committee on Coordination, which planned the transition to U.S. Conference responsibility, from 1951-1954. A small amount of correspondence dating from 1952-1955 is also included here. For records of the U.S. Conference Board of Education (1954-1980), see Record Group C240.

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Tabor College (Hillsboro, Kan.)

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General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Board of Education.

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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 Bo...