Record Group 3-Administration:

Curriculum & Educational Adjuncts:

Mission conferences, program and promotion-1961-1976

Personal Papers:

Olaf Hansen, 1917-Rev. Hansen was a missionary in China from 1946 to 1948 and Japan from 1949-1961. (It is not known if his personal papers at Luther Seminary contain any information pertaining to his time as a missionary. For more information please contact Luther Seminary Archives)

Record Group 3-Administration:

Curriculum & Educational Adjuncts:

Missions, conferences (Global Missions Institute), 1988-present.

School of Missions Collection

In 1954, the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA) authorized the creation of a School of Missions. The site chosen for this school was at the then Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary. It opened in 1957 and by 1959, the Augustana Lutheran Church was sending its missionary candidates there for study.

The school itself was a graduate-level academic training institution sponsored by the Chicago Lutheran Seminary and the Board of Foreign Missions of the ULCA. When space would permit, candidates appointed by boards other than the ULCA and also ULCA missionaries on furlough who were enrolled in the Division of Graduate Studies could study there.

The following is an abbreviated listing of the School of Missions collections. The complete listing, from which this information was taken, was compiled under the direction of Dr. David Lindberg, Director of the Archives Department, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. For more information on specific holdings, please contact the seminary directly.

1. Governance, 1955-1969 5 boxes:

Official documents-1 box:

Basic documents; ad hoc committee of School of Missions; other documents
History

Board of Directors-2 boxes:

Correspondence, minutes, and agendas of School of Missions Consultative Committee, and Inter-Lutheran Co-operation in Mission Training;
Correspondence and visits of Area Secretaries and other staff of the Board of World Missions;

LSTC Board Relations with other Seminaries and Merger-1 box:

CLTS and possible merger with Hamma Divinity School; LSTC Chicago campus; LSTC mergers; co-operation with Makumira Seminary, Tanzania,

Lutheran Church in America-1 box:

Synodical Mission Committee material from Board of World Missions

2. Administration, 1958-1969 8 boxes:

Office of the Dean-2 boxes:

Minutes, correspondence, evaluation forms from students and faculty; examination schedules; correspondence of School of Missions task force: steering committee, interviews, replies from seminaries, questionnaire responses and letters, reports from task force.
Chapel Services

Finances (see official list for sub-headings under "Finance)-5 boxes:

Material includes: contracts and warranties; communications regarding orientations, registration; weekly staff-student conferences; housing information; maintenance of School of Missions; questionnaire on vacating apartments; budgets of School of Missions and Seminary.

Budgets-1 box:

This material pertains to the School of Missions budgets for 1956-1969.

3. Academic, 1964-1969 15 boxes:

Announcements & Catalogues-1 box:

LSTC catalog

Transcripts-1 box:

Grade Reports

Curriculum-5 boxes:

Class schedules, curriculum, and teaching material of courses offered at the School of Missions.

Faculty Minutes-1 box:

Meetings and agendas of Faculty Committee of the School of Missions

Faculty Vitae-1 box:
Professors-1 box
Installations-1 box

Promotion and Tenure
Disicipline

Academic Programs-3 boxes:

Institute for Furloughed Missionaries; missionary conferences of LCA; summer programs; summer school

Library-1 box:

Library services
Commencements

4. Student Services, 1957-1970 11 boxes:

Recruitment-1 box:

Travel information

Application and Matriculation-4 boxes:

List of applicants; miscellaneous missionary data forms; applications for admissions; requests for transcripts.
Transcripts.

Thesis-1 box:

Student-at-large: recommendations to the University of Chicago

Publications-1 box:

Student minutes, student association, student activities

Students-1 box:

Furloughed Missionary Students
Prospective Students
Seminary Students
Graduate Students

Organization-1 box:

Outfit lists for missionaries

Graduates & Candidacy-1 box:

Certificate of eligibility(for international students), graduation

International Students-1 box:

Health information; student handbook; babysitting information; foreign students; work reports of baby sitters

Office of the Dean of Students Discipline

5. Development, 1957-1969 4 boxes:

Donor Solicitation-1 box:

gifts

Alumni-1 box:

office requests for information, public requests for information

Publications-1 box:

publicity; publication project; retreats

Special Events-1 box:

guests lecturers, visiting professors, institute for furloughed missionaries

Chair
Archives

Diaries
Photos in Stewart Herman collection
Photo as president of Seminary
Photos of departure from India

Letter to John L. Snyder about Mr. Heyer (missionary to India) August 8, 1845

2 copies bound manuscript for book In Tent and Bungalow
Photo file (2)-found under Sadtler, Amy

1 photo of he and his wife (Amy Sadtler Albrecht) and 1 photo of just himself

Transcript of letters to her family, 1885-1887

Diaries
Photo file (1)

10 letters
Photo file: 2 separate photos of he and his first and second wives, 2 photos of
Africa, mission envelope
File folder: memorial books for he and his first wife; biographical sketches

Photo file: several photos in David Day's file.

Photo in Stewart Herman papers

NCCCUS 1953-1963:
Family papers and photos; 2 letters from India to A.R. Wentz; letters from colleagues on retirement

Papers (portion of a trial) handwritten in Telegu
Photo Collection:

1983 Dedications of the Watts College
n.d. Group of Government officials
1905 First All India Lutheran Missions Conference
1895 First Telegu Lutheran Inter Missions Conference
1895 Bathing Tank (Tiruvanamalay)(back of Telgu Conf.)
? *Group in Calcutta (not sure what of) signature & date damaged
1923 Sunday School Farewell (Nov. 2)
1923 Higher Elementary Schools Farewell to Mr. &Mrs. Aberly; Mr. & Mrs. Goldeke welcomed at same time
1917 75^th Anniversary Founding of Guntur Mission (Dr. Uhl in center)
? Pastor, Catechists and School Teachers of our Mission Tenali Taluk Missionaries'
Farewell (Tenali Taluk: Christians 23,068; Schools 78; Congregations 144; Pastors 8; Other Workers 142)
1923 Farewell to Mr. & Mrs. Aberly on leaving India (The couple with grandson Harold on howdah)
1917 Guests-75^th Anniversary Guntur Mission
1923 Theological Training Institution (Guntur) (Feb. 27)
? Guntur Church
? Interior of Guntur India Church
? Dr. Paru (Indian) and her husband Chris (English)
? *C.E. Society
1923 Miss Brewer *Women's Hospital Farewell
? 2^nd Anniversary of Andra Pradesh? Brotherhood Guntur
? Prize Distribution. Caste Girls School (A.S. Kugler; Miss Dryden; Hindu widow-a schoolgirl not quite twelve years old. When 12 years old will have all her jewels taken away; Warder
? ? back of building
? ? front of same building

Photos of: Aberly; Dunkelbergers; Anna Kugler; Baltimore Board of Foreign Missions
Scrapbook from South America
Booklet on the history of the Women's Missionary Society of the Synod of West Pennsylvania
40^th Anniversary booklet (1879-1919) of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society

Letters
Photo file: (4)
See also J. William Albach, William Morten Reynolds, and Peter Rizer

Minutes-missionary conference (1893-1907)
Executive Committee Minutes (1903-1907)
Treasurer's Report (1894-1917)

Report of conference with Rev. Andrew S. Fichthorn

Photo in Stewart Herman collection
Photo file: several of her, of 2 friends; part of an obituary

Papers
Photo file: (2)

Handwritten letters concerning a convention at which Gettysburg students propose to form a missionary alliance.

Journals (transcribed), correspondence regarding journals
Photo file: (4)

Letter dated June 17, 1845 to John L. Snyder concerning C.F. Heyer

Letter dated May 11, 1841 to John L. Snyder concerning C.F. Heyer

Photographs
Literacy materials
Scholarly articles
Photo file: (1)

Papers, numerous photographs
Photo file: (15)

Letters, clippings, personal documents

Minutes, correspondence (1940-1951) from Council of Secretaries

Photo file – under David. Day (2)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1882-1911)
Executive Committee Proceedings (1923-1939)
History (1882-1932, 1891-1922, 1932-1939)
Treasurer's Book (1886-1939)
Bulletins (1925-1939)
Presidents' pictures
Ladies of Hanover – play written by Elsie Singmaster Lewars

Cumberland Valley Conference (1856-1938)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1926-1938)

York County Conference (1859-1938):

Monthly reports-Missionary Secretary (1895-1897)
Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings 1912-1928; 1929-1948

Adams County Conference (1882-1938)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings 1934-1959

Superintendent of Missions:

Report 1913-1932 (pastoral acts included)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings-1888, 1893, 1932, 1939
History
62 Portraits of Women Missionaries
Treasurer's Reports (1891-1907)
Scrapbook (1880-1939, 1936)

Danville Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Minutes (1915-1931)

Easton Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1892-1908, 1909-1916, 1920-1935)
History

Harrisburg Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1892-1908, 1909-1916, 1920-1935)

Philadelphia Conference

Lutheran Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1890-1913)

Women's Missionary Society:

History

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1924-1939)
Corresponding Secretary's Record Book (1915-1922)
Treasurer's Account Book (1882-1903, 1909-1937)
Annual Reports (1902-1914)
Statistics (1923-1937)
Letter from Kate Moser, Altoona, Pa. dated October 20, 1891, in reply to request from Joseph R. Focht to prepare a brief history of organization (found under Focht, Joseph R.)

Somerset County Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1912-1923, 1929-1947)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1880-1920)
Corresponding Secretary's Reports (1883-1920)
Treasurer's Accounts (1892-1898)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings of conventions (1887-1918)

West Branch Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1904-1949)

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1934-1936)

Young People's Missionary Institute (Miriam Treon Miller Institute):

Proceedings (1925-1954)

Northern Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1936-1953)

Committee on Foreign Missions: Proceedings (1938-1960)

United Lutheran Church Women

Women's Missionary Society:

Bulletins and Programs (1940-1958)
Merger Papers, 1939

Allegheny Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1940-1946)
Treasurer's Reports (1938-1944)

Cumberland Valley District

Women's Missionary Society:

Membership & Financial Records, Correspondence (1947-1953)

Somerset District:

Women's Missionary Society

Proceedings (1948-1956)

West Allegheny Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1956-1962)

East Pennsylvania Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1940-1952)
Executive Committee Minutes (1940-1962)
Programs (1941-1955)

Easton District:

Women's Missionary Society

Programs (1940-1953)

Harrisburg District:

Women's Missionary Society

Proceedings (1947-1953)
Executive Committee Minutes (1949-1953)
Programs (1948-1953)

Lebanon District:

Women's Missionary Society

Program (1937-1953)

Philadelphia District:

Women's Missionary Society

Proceedings (1944-1953)

Juniata Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1953-1962)

Lancaster Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1954-1961)

Susquehanna Conference

Presidential Papers (1951-1957)
Foreign Missions
Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1953-1958)
Executive Committee Minutes (1951-1953)
Convention Programs (1939-1953)

Juniata District

Women's Missionary Society:

Statistical Reports (1952-1953)

North Branch District

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1947-1953)

West Branch District

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1950-1953)

West Pennsylvania Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1940-1962)
Executive Committee Minutes (1939-1953)
Treasurer's Quarterly Reports (1940-1952)
Anniversary Programs, Bulletins, News Flashes (1942, 1954)

York Conference

Women's Missionary Society:

Proceedings (1953-1962)

Synodical Administration
Bishop
Task Force for Peace
Task Force on Peace-Nicaragua Trip
Task Force-World Hunger, Minutes
Commissions:

Commission on Mission and Ecumenism
Global Missions Committee (1975-1987)

Lutheran Church Women
Women's Missionary Society:

Correspondence
Includes photos of Anna Kugler Memorial in India

President's Task Force:

On Human Values and Human Needs
On World Hunger

Vision in Mission

Schmitthenner, Rev. Samuel W.-missionary to India-"Relationship of Central Pennsylvania Synod & Andra Evangelical Lutheran Church which grew out of the India Mission Field of General Synod & Ministerium beginning with Father Heyer in 1842."

Minutes, 1867-1886
Constitution
By-laws
Rules of Election
Treasurer's Record 1886-1919-bound in one book
Memoirs of Theological Students 1831-1895-bound in one book, index at back:
Handwritten memoirs about former students telling of their live in the pastorate. Written from time to time and read before the Missionary Society.
Missionary Benevolence – from Seminary students 1915-1922
Framed letter honoring Edgar Hildebrand 1931
Society of Inquiry on Missions-all handwritten, bound in one book:
Constitution
By-laws
Proceedings 1827-1856 (bound)
Answers to letters 1827-1839 (bound)
Correspondence
Individual handwritten letters bound in one book, with several placed loose in book
17 handwritten loose letter (in separate folder)

Rev. D.A. Day (Africa 1874); T.Elmira, Christian School Mistress, India; Rev. B. John, ordained minister, India; Rev. E. Unaugst, D.D., India 1858; Rev. M. Nathaniel, ordained minister, India; P. Lucy, Zenana worker, India; Rev. L.L. Uhl, India 1873; American Lutheran Mission Church, Guntoor, India; American Lutheran Mission House, Guntoor, India; Mission High School, Guntoor, India; Missionary Tent Life in Zenana Work-showing missionary lady, Hindu women, etc.; view of Hindu village; India famine scene, 1877-78; Rev. Charles Schnure, India, 1880; Christian schoolgirl, India; high caste school girl, India; Miss Kate M. Boggs, missionary to India of the W.H.&F. Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church; high caste woman, India; Christian schoolboy, India, Rev. A.D. Rowe, India, 1874.

The following list is comprised of essays of which it was clearly discernible from the title that the subject dealt with some aspect of foreign missions. The complete list contains essays for home missions, foreign missions, and mission theory in general. For the more detailed listing, contact either the archives at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, or the ELCA Archives in Chicago.

Box 1
Eichelberger, Lewis, 1827 Mohammedan Missions
Weyl, Charles G., 1828 History of the American Colonists of Liberia
Cline, John Phillip, 1825 Newell, Harriet
N.a., 1830 Bacon, Rev. Samuel (Africa)
N.a, n.d. Buchanan, Claudius (India)
Eyster, M., n.d. Oberlin, John (France)
N.a., n.d. Marsden, Joshua (Nova Scotia)
N.a., n.d. Martin, Henry (India)
Vogler, Jesse, 1830 Heber, Reginald (India)
N.a., n.d. Sandwich Islands, Missionary
N.a., n.d. Labours (The Heathen and Popery)
Hauer, Washington C., 1845 Africa
Bishop, H., n,d, (Greek and Latin Churches)
Anstadt, Peter, 1845 (South America, Brigham and Parvin)
Harris, J.G., 1840 China
Hay, Charles A, n.d.. Armenian Church
Heck, John, 1840 Madagascar (Slave trade)
Hiester, John P, 1840. Evangelizing the World,...
Lehman, John, 1840 Polynesia

Box 2
Morris, John G., 1824 Tranquebar & Madras, Mission to
Cline, John P., 1824 Tranquebar, Danish Mission to
N.a., 1827 (Greenland, Danish & Moravian i in – Egede)
Capito, George, 1827 Vanderkemp, D. – Holland – Africa mission
Reynolds, W. M., 1828 South America, History...United Brethern
Reynolds, W. M., 1828-30? Facilities for Evangelizing the World
Altman, D.S., 1843 Turkey, the Present Religious Condition of
Diehl, M., 1844 South Africa,...United Brethern in
Scherer, Simeon, 1847 (Lutheran Church and Foreign Missions)
Crist, G.W., 1876 Our African Mission
Snyder, J.Milton, 1877 Scudder, Rev. John M.D. (India
Hoshour, Samuel K., 1855 Tranquebar – 18^th Cent. Denmark Mission
Diehl, Samuel K., 1891 Foreign Missions, Gettysburg Seminary in,
McDowell, S.J., 1891 Guntur (Guntoor) Missions, History of (India)

Box 3
13 large files of missionary papers (some included in list above)
Missionary benevolence 1915-1922 (notebook)
Framed letter honoring Edgar Hildebrand, 1931
Missionary Society Treasurer's Reocrd, 1886-1919 (book)
Missionary Society Minutes, 1867-86; constitution; by-laws; rules of election (book)
Memorial Tributes of Students, 1831-1895

Box 4
Society of Inquiry on Missions:
1. Constitution; by-laws; proceedings 1827-1856 (book)
2. Proceedings, 1868-1873 (book)
3. Loose Reports and miscellaneous
4. Correspondence:

answers to letters; 1827-1839 (book)
correspondence, 1830
loose papers 1830-1848
itemized list in folder

The seminary has a few scattered pieces, relevant to global missions, at LTSP. They have information on the Reed Award presented at the Japan Lutheran Seminary and was commissioned by Paul Feil, a missionary to Japan. They also have the original Wantanabe painting that is the pictorial background for the annual award.

2 folders on the LCA Divison for World Mission and Ecumenism, 1971-1978.

1 folder on the LCA Divison for World Mission and Ecumenism, 1982-1987.

1 file folder (alumnus file) of Rev. Melvin Langeland, ULCA missionary to Liberia:
Commissioning service bulletin of Shirley & Melvin Langeland to Liberia
8x10 bw photo of the laying on of hands in the service
1955 letter written from mission school in the U.S. to Dr. & Mrs. Harry Mumm, PLTS faculty member
letters from the Langelands to their supporters and friends in the U.S. (these copies sent to Dr. &Mrs. Mumm):

a) October 18, 1959
b) March 27, 1957
c) January 1960
d) July 1960
e) April 1961
f) Christmas 1961

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