Alyssa Hamre Kontak, 2024-08-08
Scope and Contents
The Women of Bethel: An Oral History Project Collection was created from the summer of 2024 through the spring of 2025 and spans .5 cubic feet of textual materials, an external hard drive and videos on the Digital Library website.
The Women’s History Month Devotionals at the front of the box are copies from 2000, 2001, and 2003 yearly publications out of the four-year span.
The Interview Permissions folder contains permission forms for the interviewers (Chris Gehrz, Ellie Heebsh, and Sam Mulberry) governing use of videographic, photographic, and textual resources.
The Interviewee folders contain printed interview transcripts, biographies, interviewer notes, lists of questions, and/or other additional personally provided materials pertaining to each of the following women:
Alyssa Hamre Kontak
Amy Dykstra
Avis Soderstrom
Barb Barnes
Barb Martin
Beth Peterson
Bethany Opsata
Carla Dahl
Carole Çragg
Carole Spickelmier
Deb Harless
Deb Sullivan-Trainor
Donna Johnson
Eleanor Edman
Gretchen Hunt
Jeannine Brown
Jessica Henderson
Judy Moseman
Julie White
Kathy Nevins
Katie Bonawitz
Laurel Bunker
Liz Burd
Marion Larson
Miranda Powers
Nikki Daniels
Patrice Conrath
Peggy Kendall
Penny Foore
Sara Shady
Sherie Lindvall
Sherry Mortenson
Stephanie Williams O’Brien
Tricia Brownlee
The Women’s History Month Devotional Revival 2025 contains a complete printed copy of the new devotional created and disseminated on Substack by Chris Gehrz and Ellie Heebsh in March 2025.
The Miscellaneous Materials folder contains interview notes, project announcements, a blank permission form, and preparatory project materials from Chris Gehrz, Sam Mulberry, and Ellie Heebsh.
The external hard drive contains a copy of all video and audio files of the Oral History interviews.
Dates
- 2024-08-08
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researcher use.
Extent
From the Collection: .5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Lindvall, Sherie (Person)
- From the Collection: Nevins, Katherine (Person)
- From the Collection: Soderstrom, Avis (Person)
- From the Collection: Barnes, Barbara (Person)
- From the Collection: Cragg, Carole (Person)
- From the Collection: Harless, Debra (Person)
- From the Collection: Edman, Sagrid Eleanor (Person)
- From the Collection: Kontak, Alyssa Hamre (Person)
- From the Collection: Dykstra, Amy (Person)
- From the Collection: Martin, Barbara (Person)
- From the Collection: Peterson, Elizabeth (Person)
- From the Collection: Opsata, Bethany (Person)
- From the Collection: Dahl, Carla M. (Person)
- From the Collection: Spickelmier, Carole Lundquist (Person)
- From the Collection: Sullivan-Trainor, Deborah (Person)
- From the Collection: Johnson, Donna (Person)
- From the Collection: Hunt, Gretchen (Person)
- From the Collection: Brown, Jeannine (Person)
- From the Collection: Henderson, Jessica R. (Person)
- From the Collection: Moseman, Judith (Person)
- From the Collection: White, Julie (Person)
- From the Collection: Bonawitz, Katie (Person)
- From the Collection: Bunker, Laurel (Person)
- From the Collection: Burd, Liz (Person)
- From the Collection: Larson, Marion H. (Person)
- From the Collection: Powers, Miranda (Person)
- From the Collection: Daniels, Nikki L. (Person)
- From the Collection: Conrath, Patrice (Person)
- From the Collection: Kendall, Peggy (Person)
- From the Collection: Foore, Penny Witzenburg (Person)
- From the Collection: Morenson, Sherry (Person)
- From the Collection: Shady, Sara L. H. (Person)
- From the Collection: Brownlee, Patricia (Person)
- From the Collection: O'Brien, Stephanie Williams (Person)
- From the Collection: Gehrz, Christopher (Person)
- From the Collection: Mulberry, Samuel Pahl (Person)
- From the Collection: Heebsh , Elizabeth (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the The History Center: Archives of Bethel University and Converge Repository