Folder 1. Personnel record, headed "C. Kansas" but with "Kansas East" notation at the bottom, outlining Rev. Appleton's background and early appointments. Information card with two color photos, one of Rev. Appleton only, nad hte other with his wife and three sons; brought up to date to 1989. Newspaper clippings from unidentified newspaper; one giving news of Rev. Appleton's retirement (probably published in 1999), one describing a class or lecture being given by Rev. Appleton (undated), and one a simple headshot (undated). Newspaper clipping, "Rev. Gary Appleton to be speaker at small membership church confab" (Crossfire/UM Review, Octber 4, 1985). Index card, 3x5 inches, with typed note "Stewart Scholarship Applicant," undated. Information sheet for Kansas West Conference journal memoir for Alice Marie Munson (died 1984). Information sheet for Kansas West Conference journal memoir for Lawrence Oliver Munson (died 1983). Profile updates for Rev. Appleton, Kansas West, Concordia District, for 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983. Photograph, black and white, of Rev. Appleton standing in a pulpit; printed caption on reverse "Bradley's Redwood Studio, 116, West Harvey, Wellington, Kansas" and handwritten note on reverse "Gary Appleton, Mayfield Federated, 1964 -- Soph at Southwestern." Index card, 3x5, possibly to be matched with photo described above, with typewritten note "This photo on brochure publicizing the scholarship opportunity (See Stewart Scholarship Fund -- history)."