[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation “folder 2-5" means “Box 2, Folder 5"]

Series: Audio Tapes

Arrangement: Tapes are in chronological order

Date Range: 1936-1996

Volume: 16 reels of audio tape

Type of Materials: Audio and video tapes were intended for broadcast; the documents in the folder are newsletters, brochures and similar publicity material

Subjects: Spiritual needs of inner city kids, work of Teen Haven, ministry of Billy Drury, comparison of Christianity and Communism, American Evangelical ministries in South Korea, prayer breakfasts

Notes: T11 through T13 contain programs that he recorded on the spot during the 1962 Helsinki Communist youth festival, during which Drury and members of the Pocket Testament League, among others, witnessed and evangelized among the crowds in the city.

Tape 1 – Tape 10: Oral History Interviews with William A. Drury in which he describes his parents, youth, materialism and child rearing practices of American Evangelicals in the 1990s, his military service during World War II, marriage, conversion, street preaching experiences in New York City, attendance at National Bible Institute (later Shelton College), contacts with James Oliver Buswell and evangelist Percy Crawford, evangelistic work among young people in Philadelphia, work as executive director of Youtharama in Philadelphia, origins of Teen Haven, reaction of white, middle class Christians to work in the inner cities; the development of Teen Haven branches in Buffalo, NY, and Washington, DC; his run for congress in 1976, his 1962 trip to Finland to preach during a communist youth festival; his 1963 trip to Korea and his involvement in the Billy Graham Philadelphia evangelistic meetings and the 1957 New York campaign. Events described in the interviews cover the time period 1926-1996.

Tapes 14 – Tape 16: The collection also contains tapes of radio programs about the Korea and Finland trips, a National Prayer Breakfast, and meetings Drury held in Ohio and a couple programs of the radio show UNSHACKLED.

T14 contains reports that Drury taped during his trip to Korea in 1963, when he preached in Korean churches and on US military bases and visited various Evangelical ministries in that country.

Tape T15 contains descriptions of evangelistic meetings that Drury was holding in Mansfield, Ohio, in the 1960s and a report on a National Prayer Breakfast, probably from 1963.

Tape T16 includes two programs of the radio show Unshackled. The first is a dramatization of the early life of Drury and the second is the true story of Luis Centano, who was saved through the ministry of Teen Haven. Both programs conclude with a message from Drury.

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Series: Photographs

2 Photo Files described below:

DRURY, WILLIAM A. Picture of Drury demonstrating a zip gun, portrait photo. 2 b&w, undated.

TEEN HAVEN. Picture of the Teen Haven camp bus, filled with campers; picture of a group of kids in front of a Teen Haven house, possibly in Philadelphia; Polaroid of the gym at the Teen Haven camp in York, Pennsylvania. 2 color, 1 b&w. 1988, undated

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Series: Video Tapes

The collection also has a video of a local (probably Lancaster, Pennsylvania) television program about the Teen Haven camp in Brogue, Pennsylvania. The video includes interviews with Bill Drury and two men who were saved through the work of Teen Haven, Darrell Melvin and Greg Brocato. There are also scenes from life at the camp and interviews with kids who were there at the time of the program.

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Series: Paper Records (Box List)

Folder 1-1 includes brochures, press releases, copies of newspaper articles and other material about the ministry of Teen Haven.