Guide to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Office of Institutional Chaplains Records
Open for research.
In 1950 the General Assembly made the Board of National Missions responsible for the development of a program to further the ministries in hospitals, prisons and other institutions. A part-time and limited work was carried on by an Institutional Ministry Committee until the Office of Institutional Chaplaincy was created in 1956 to coordinate the work of all Presbyterians serving as institutional chaplains. The Office assisted in setting regulations and standards for chaplaincy work and in the enlistment and training of new chaplains. A scholarship fund was established to aid ministers and seminary students to receive training for chaplaincy work. The Office prepared literature to assist parish ministers in hospital ministry.
In the reorganization of 1972 the responsibility for institutional chaplaincy was assigned to the Program Agency (PA). After the merger of 1983 the function was given to the Social Justice and Peacemaking Ministry Unit (SJP).
The collection consists of correspondence between institutional chaplains and the Office of Institutional Chaplains and the Office of Health and Welfare, applications of chaplains for scholarships for clinical pastoral training, applications for classification and accreditation, and annual reports of chaplains. There are records related to professional organizations and concerning chaplain training programs, scholarships and regulations and standards for institutional chaplaincy.
SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, APPLICATIONS, REPORTS, 1951-1965
Subseries 1: Chaplains: Correspondence, 1951-1965
Subseries 2: Chaplains: Correspondence, Applications, Reports, 1952-1962
Subseries 3: Retired or Deceased Chaplains: Correspondence, Applications, Reports, 1950-1960
Subseries 4: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1955-1959
SERIES II: PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, 1955-1961
SERIES III: PROGRAMS AND REGULATIONS, 1952-1963
The researcher should look at the published reports of the Board of National Missions to the General Assembly and the library catalog for additional materials relating to institutional chaplains.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared, April 1992
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 301.5 | |
| SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, APPLICATIONS, REPORTS, 1951-1965 | |||
| Subseries 1: Chaplains: Correspondence, 1951-1965 | |||
| 1 | 2 | Acrey-Erb | |
| 1 | 3 | Farrell-Johnson | |
| 1 | 4 | Kandle-Moye | |
| 1 | 5 | Nabors-Robinson | |
| 1 | 6 | Sawyier-Turney | |
| 1 | 7 | Udell-Weeston | |
| 1 | 8 | Widmann-Zingg | |
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence, 1961-1965 | |
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence and Annual Reports, 1951-1962 | |
| Subseries 2: Chaplains: Correspondence, Applications, Reports, 1952-1962 | |||
| 1 | 11-22 | Alexander-Carlson | |
| 1 | 23-35 | Carpentar-Foulkes | |
| 1 | 36-42 | Golden-Hewlett | |
| 2 | 1-13 | Houston-Layman | |
| 2 | 14-23 | Maguire-Rotenberry | |
| 2 | 24-33 | Sammon-Tracy | |
| 2 | 34-42 | Urie-Wilson | |
| Subseries 3: Retired or Deceased Chaplains: Correspondence, Applications, Reports, 1950-1960 | |||
| 2 | 43 | Anthony-Bryan | |
| 2 | 44 | Buchholtz-Guthrie | |
| 2 | 45 | Haight-Lowry | |
| 2 | 46 | Macaulay-Mooore | |
| 2 | 47 | Muunay-Reiter | |
| 2 | 48 | Reynolds-Sherwin | |
| 2 | 49 | Sibilio-Zimmerman | |
| Subseries 4: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1955-1959 | |||
| 3 | 1 | The Chaplain Advisory Committee re Classification and Accreditation, 1956-1957 | |
| 3 | 2 | The Committee on Chaplains and Service Personnel, 1955, 1956, 1959 | |
| 3 | 3 | The Presbyterian Church in the US (PCUS) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1955-1957 | |
| SERIES II: PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, 1955-1961 | |||
| American Protestant Correctional Chaplains' Association | |||
| 3 | 4 | Correspondence, 1956-1961 | |
| 3 | 5 | By-Laws, Reports, Newsletters, 1956-1961 | |
| Association of Mental Hospitals | |||
| 3 | 6 | Correspondence, 1955-1959 | |
| 3 | 7 | Handbook, Officiaries, 1957-1959, n.d. | |
| Association of Protestant Hospital Chaplains | |||
| 3 | 8 | Constitution, Instructions for Accreditation, 1958, n.d. | |
| SERIES III: PROGRAMS AND REGULATIONS, 1952-1963 | |||
| 3 | 9 | Chaplains Training Program: Correspondence, 1952-1962 | |
| 3 | 10 | Chaplains Training Program: Minutes and Reports, 1956-1958, n.d. | |
| 3 | 11 | Scholarship Aid Program: Correspondence, 1956-1963 | |
| 3 | 12 | Regulations and Standards for Institutional Chaplaincy: Reports and Correspondence, 1952-1962 |