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Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

October 12, 2015

When most of us plan for Halloween, we think about costumes to wear, parties to attend, jack-o-lanterns to carve, or candy to hand out and devour. Sixty-five years ago, a Presbyterian minister had the idea to make the fun-filled holiday into something even more special: a way for young people to help families around the world.

From 1946 to 1951, Reverend Clyde M. Allison worked for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (PCUSA) Board of Christian Education in...

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Lisa

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American History, Holidays

Processing the Edmiston Papers

June 2, 2015

Processing is one of the most important and enjoyable tasks we do as archivists--arranging, describing, and properly storing the papers of an individual or family or the records of an organization according to archival standards. For one week this year, I processed the personal papers collection of Alonzo Edmiston, a missionary to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission...