Elementos de identidade
Código de referência
Nome e localização da entidade custodiadora
Nível de descrição
Título
Data(s)
- 1959-1981 (Produção)
Dimensão
1.35 cubic feet
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
W. Maynard Sparks (1906-1999) was an Evangelical United Brethren bishop. He graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 1927, United Theological Seminary in 1930, and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1936. He was licensed as a Quarterly Conference minister in 1919, granted a license to preach in 1923 by the Allegheny Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, and ordained by that conference in 1930. In 1931 he married Blanche M. Frank. Sparks pastored for sixteen years in western Pennsylvania and then elected Superintendent of the Allegheny Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1946. He served in this position until 1950. In 1950 he was elected to the faculty of Lebanon Valley College to serve as Assistant Professor of Religion. In 1958 he was elected bishop and assigned to the Western Area where he resided in Sacramento, California. Sparks later served in the Seattle Area. Sparks also served overseas in Sierra Leone (1961-1967), Germany and Switzerland (1965), and Brazil (1967). He was also a member of the Commission on Church Union. Sparks died August 17, 1999.
Elementos de conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
Bishop Sparks correspondence concerns Sierra Leone from 1966 until 1973. The oral history interview was conducted as part of the Center for the Study of Evangelical United Brethren History, Oral History Program. This program was part of the EUB Heritage Project. The interview was conducted by John R. Knecht on February 21, 1981, in Sacramento, California. There is one cassette tape with this interview as well as a twenty-one page typed transcript.
Sistema de arranjo
The folders are arranged by record type and topic.
Condições de acesso e uso dos elementos
Condições de acesso
There are no restrictions regarding this collection.
Acesso físico
Acesso técnico
Condiçoes de reprodução
Detailed use restrictions relating to our collections can be requested from the office of the archivist at the General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.
Idiomas do material
- inglês
Escrita do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Instrumentos de descrição
Elementos de aquisição e avaliação
História custodial
Fonte imediata de aquisição
Accession: 1975-013 Gift. Sparks, Bishop W. Maynard
Informações de avaliação, seleção e eliminação
Incorporações
Elementos de materiais relacionados
Existência e localização de originais
Existência e localização de cópias
Material arquivístico relacionado
Portland Episcopal Area Records and Seattle Epsicopal Area Records
Descrições relacionadas
Elemento de notas
Nota geral
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, W. Maynard Sparks Papers, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
Notas especializadas
Identificador(es) alternativo(s)
Elemento de controle de descrição
Regras ou convenções
Fontes utilizadas
Nota do arquivista
An interview release form is included with the oral history interview and can be found in the Collection Information Drawer.
Nota do arquivista
Prepared by Joseph Strausbaugh, Student Assistant and Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist
Pontos de acesso
Pontos de acesso - Assuntos
Pontos de acesso - Locais
Pontos de acesso - Nomes
- Evangelical United Brethren Church (Assunto)