Foundation Board holds its semi annual meetings in Aylmer, Ontario

Plett Board

Left to Right Leonard Doell, John J. Friesen, Abe Rempel, Ralph Friesen, Kennert Giesbrecht; Hans Werner, Executive Director; Royden Loewen, Board Chair

The Plett Foundation Board held its semi annual meetings in Aylmer, Ontario in early October. The Board took the opportunity to meet in Aylmer as a number of Board members and the Executive Director were participating in or attending the Mennonite History Conference at Conrad Grebel College in Waterloo on October 12th and 13th. It was a full day that included meeting leaders from the Old Colony Mennonite Church in Aylmer, a tour of their school, an interview on the local Low German radio station, De Brijg, and an evening in the local Sommerfelder Church to hear a presentation about the shootings of Amish children in Nickel Mines, Pa. last year. The Board heard a report from the Executors of the Delber Plett Estate, which noted that they had liquidated about 1/2 of the estate and transferred funds to the Foundation. The Board also considered a number of grant applications and approved its 2008 budget. Among the initiatives to be explored is the potential for creating a Mennonite History curruculum for use by conservative churches.