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Sylvia Metzler Papers

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files of Sylvia Metzler

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Collection Inventory

Biographical information.
Box 1
Media coverage.
Box 1
Service of installation, February 1990.
Box 1
Personal calendar, 1989.
Box 1

Letters written, 1984-2000.
Box 1
Letters written: "Newsletter" #1-10, December 1989 – January 1992.
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Correspondence: letters from Sylvia's children and grandchildren, 1990-1991 circa.
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Correspondence: letters from Sylvia's brother Bill, 1990-1991.
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Correspondence: letters from Sylvia's parents and Uncle Denny, undated.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1980.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1985.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1986.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1987.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1988.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1989.
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Correspondence: letters received, January-April 1990.
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Correspondence: letters received, May-July 1990.
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Correspondence: letters received, August-December 1990.
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Correspondence: letters received from Jerilyn Bowen (WILPF), 1990-1991.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1991.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1992.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1993.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1994.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1995-1996.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1997.
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Correspondence: letters received, 1998-1999.
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Correspondence: letters received, 2000-2006.
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Correspondence: letters received, undated.
Box 6

Notes made.
Box 1
Fundraising, 1987-1999.
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Talks given; writings; Letters to the Editor written.
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Audiocassettes made.
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Contact/mailing lists.
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Action/notes re: Nicaragua.
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Involvement with Norristown Area Coalition for Action, 1969-1971.
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Suit brought against Montgomery County school districts for drug testing for 8th graders, 1972.
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Involvement with Brethren Volunteer Service, 1980-1990 circa.
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Study tour of Nicaragua Health Care Sector [photographs removed], 1984.
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Actions and arrests, 1985-1989.
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Involvement with local groups working re: Nicaragua, 1985-2000 circa.
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Civil disobedience at Willow Grove Naval Air Station (September 22, 1985), 1986.
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Civil disobedience at Willow Grove Naval Air Station (September 22, 1985) – media coverage, 1985-1986.
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Involvement with Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America, 1986-1990 circa.
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Involvement with SHARE, 1988.
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Clearness session re: Nicaragua, 1988.
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Trip to Nicaragua for course, July-August 1988.
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Actions and arrests, 1990-1992.
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Attendance at Hospital Bautista event (?), Managua, Nicaragua, 1990.
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Attendance at WILPF Gertrud Baer Seminar, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 1-5, 1990.
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Involvement with / attendance at Fast and Vigil for Peace in the Middle East for Managua Moravian Church, February 1991.
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Philadelphia Human Needs delegation to Nicaragua [organized by Sylvia, and/or participated in?], August 1991.
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Re-entry retreat, May 3, 1992.
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Participation in Nicaragua/Philadelphia Friendship Delegation to Managua, Nicaragua, April-May 1992.
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Participation in Anti-Drug Delegation to Nicaragua, November 1992.
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Involvement with Clinica Medica Morava, 1992-1997 circa.
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Participation with Nicaragua/Philadelphia Friendship Delegation to the U.S., April-May 1994.
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Participation with Se Puedo / It Can Be Done delegation of Nicaraguans to the U.S., June-July 1996.
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Civil disobedience and arrest at "The Death Penalty on Trial" (October 20, 1997), 1997-1998.
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Protest against the death penalty and arrest and jail sentence, 1998.
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Prison journal kept, April 29, 1998 – May 8, 1998.
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Trip to Nicaragua, November 18-27, 2000.
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Involvement with MEDNICA: meeting minutes, 2000-2007.
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Involvement in finding supplies: paperwork for shipments and deliveries of medicine, 2001-2009.
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Visit to the Middle East as part of two-week CPT delegation, September 2002.
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Visit to the Middle East as part of two-week CPT delegation: notebook kept, September 2002.
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Civil disobedience and arrest for protesting Iraq War (March 20, 2003), 2003-2004.
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Actions and arrests, 2003, 2006-2007.
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Death of Juanita de Mendoza, February 2004.
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Participation in delegation to Nicaragua, 2005.
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Involvement with Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care, 2005-2007.
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Participation in Med-Nica trip, November 2006.
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Involvement in finding supplies for Accion Medica Cristiana, 2006-2012.
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Participation in trip to Nicaragua, November 2007.
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Involvement in Betania Community water tank project, 2007-2008.
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Involvement with HCAP (Health Care for All Philadelphians), 2008-2010.
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Involvement with Save the Date auction fundraiser, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 2009.
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Participation in delegation to Honduras, 2009.
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Participation in MedNica delegation to Nicaragua, April 20-28, 2013.
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Interest in [involvement in?] "Fracking: Health Care Implications for Nursing", 2013-2015.
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Participation in trip to Nicaragua, 2014.
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Involvement with HEAP (Health Care for All Philadelphians), 2016-2019.
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Participation in trip to Nicaragua, November 2017.
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Reference material: booklet "Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual (Elementary Counselors Manual) [3rd edition], 1982.
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Reference material: booklet "Toward a Nonviolent Economics" by Charles Gray, 1989.
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Reference material: Jennifer Casola's arrest in El Salvador, 1989.
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Reference material: Clinica Iglesia Morava de Managua, Nicaragua – report, 2000.
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Reference material: Clinica Morava-Managua, Nicaragua – reports, 2002, 2005-2008.
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Reference material: Moravian clinic, Nicaragua – medical reports, 2006-2013.
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Reference material: Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America.
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Reference material: Pledge of Resistance Philadelphia.
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Reference material: Israel.
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Reference material: miscellaneous material [4 folders].
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