John Allen Lapp

Background

Lapp, John Allen was born on March 15, 1933 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John E. and Edith Ruth (Nyce) Lapp.

Education

Bachelor, Eastern Mennonite College, 1954. Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1968.

Career

From instructor to professor of history, Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1958-1969; executive secretary peace section, Mennonite Control Committee, Akron, Pennsylvania, 1969-1972; executive secretary, Mennonite Control Committee, Akron, Pennsylvania, 1985-1996; executive secretary emeritus, Mennonite Control Committee, Akron, Pennsylvania, since 1996; professor of history, dean, Goshen (Indiana) College, 1972-1979; professor of history, provost, Goshen (Indiana) College, 1979-1984. Representative Church World Svc. and Witness, New York City, 1985-1996. Observer World Council Churches, Canberra, Australia, 1991.

Visiting professor of history Bishop's College, Calcutta, India, 1996-1997. Senior fellow Young Center on Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) College, since 1998.

Achievements

• John Allen Lapp has been listed as a noteworthy religious organization administrator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Mennonite Church in India, 1897-1962.

    (The comparitively small Mennonite church in India is a pr...)

  • The View from East Jerusalem

    (Book by Lapp, John Allen)

  • The Mennonite Church in India : Eighteen Ninety-Seven to Nineteen Sixty-Two (Stu
  • The Mennonite Church in India: Eighteen Ninety-Seven to Nineteen Sixty-Two (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History)

Membership

Visitor N. Center Association Schools and Colleges, Chicago, 1976-1984. President Rockingham Council on Human Rels, Harrisonburg, 1962-1965. Vice president Virginia Council on Human Rights, Richmond, 1965-1969.

Member Conference on Faith and History, Mennonite History Society (president 1972-1984).

Connections

Married Alice Weber, August 20, 1955. Children: John Franklin, Jennifer Lapp Lerch, Jessica.

Father:

John E. Lapp

Mother:

Edith Ruth (Nyce) Lapp

Spouse:

Alice Weber

child:

Jessica Lapp

child:

Jennifer Lapp Lerch Lapp

child:

John Franklin Lapp