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Correspondence with friends, former president of Bethany (Emory Lindquist), Lutheran Mutual Life Insurance, The Bethany Press, Dean Hadley, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding the omnibus farm bill. There are also memos from the Board and correspondence to and from Dr. Emory Lindquist.

File includes the Bethany College Bulletin and Alumni News from 1954-1958. Each issue includes remarks from Dr. Mortvedt with the last issue announces his retirement from Bethany College.

Speeches delivered by Dr. Mortvedt from 1953 to 1955 including the following: “Christmas Eve Broadcast Radio Station” (December 24, 1953), “Residues Are Not Enough” (June 2 and 4, 1953), “Welcome to New Students” (1953), WDAF Address at Bethany College (October 17, 1953), “A Growing Church is A Teaching Church: A Definition of Purpose” (April 1954), “Not Talk, but Power” (1954), “The Educational Undergirding of Our Church Or Why Attend Our Church Colleges” (1954), “Congregations Have Talents, Too!”, “WDAF ‘Messiah’ Preparation,” “Welcome to New Students” (1955), “Go Ye Therefore and Teach,” “In Him All Things Hold Together (1955), and “Are You Ready For That Job?” (1955).

Congratulatory inaugural letters from friends, colleagues, fellow university Presidents, public school administrators, the Kansas State Department of Public Instruction, the Board of Education of the American Lutheran Church, the president of the Augustana Lutheran Church, the Board of Christian Education of the ELC and other church related organization and corporations. Also included are copies of Dr. Mortvedt's responses.

Official congratulatory inaugural letters from colleges, universities and United State senators. Responses and regrets to invitations to attend the inauguration.

Materials regarding the Centennial celebration of Bethany College on October 17, 1981.

“Are You Ready For That Job?” (1955), “Dedication of Seminary Library,” “Education in the Shadow of the Church,” “How Important Are Our Church-Related Colleges?”, “Tuition Fees at the Seminary,” “Bethany’s Diamond Anniversary” (1956), “The Miracle of the Mind” (1956), “The Status of the Dormitory—A Report to the Students” (1957), “Charge to the Class” (1957), “Why am I in College?” (1957), “Turn to the Lord,” and a bound copy of “ Mission Fields in the Continent of Learning” (1958).

Speeches delivered by Dr. Mortvedt throughout 1958-1959: “The Miracle of the Mind” (May 1958), “Residues Are Not Enough” (1958), “Toward A Philosophy of Christian Higher Education” (1958), “Chosen For What?” (1958), “Mission Fields in the Continent of Learning” (1958), “What The Church Should Expect of Its Colleges” (1959), “Presentation to Seminaries” (1959), “What Do Our Church Colleges Mean to You?” (1959), “Residues Are Not Enough” (1959), “The Mission of The Church In Higher Education” (1959), and “The Role of the Christian College” (1959).

Speeches delivered by Dr. Mortvedt throughout 1960-1962: a bound copy of “The Music of A Different Drum” (September 1960), bound copy of “The Role of the Christian College” (October 1960), “Education ‘Under God’” (February 1960), “What’s In A Question?” (1960), “The Geese that Never Flew” (March 1960), “Poised to Walk on A Star” (1961), “The Role of the Church-Related Hospital in Nursing Education” (September 1961), “Have Book—Will Travel or What Is Literature?” (January 1961), “In Him All Things Hold Together” (May 1961), “The Role of Education in Tomorrow’s World” (May 1961), “Education in His Name” (1961), “For Our Colleges: A Mighty Report” (1961), and “Thoughts on Coming Home” (1962).