History of JWHA
JWHA was founded on September 18, 1972 by fourteen historians and scholars associated with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) now called the Community of Christ. The founding members were (in alphabetical order): Alma Blair, Paul Edwards, Robert Flanders, Barbara Higdon, Barbara Howard, Richard P. Howard, Larry Hunt, Warren Jennings, Gerald Kruse, Mark McKiernan, W. Grant McMurray, Gordon Mesley, William Russell, Geoff Spencer, and Pat Spillman.
As of 2007, JWHA reported 402 active members on its rolls, split roughly equally between the Midwestern United States and the Mormon cultural zone in the Western US.
The archives of JWHA are housed in the Du Rose Room of the Frederick M. Smith Library at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
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