Alice M. Kendrick Professional Files, 1968-1987.

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Alice M. Kendrick Professional Files, 1968-1987.

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Alice M. Kendrick professional files (1968-1987) contain correspondence, minutes and agenda, memoranda, newsletters, handbooks, and directories regarding Kendrick's activities as Assistant Director and later Director of the Lutheran Council in the USA's (LCUSA) Archives. Files also concern her involvement in the American Theological Library Association (ATLA). Topics include reference requests and inquiries; the transfer of the LCUSA's Archives to the newly established Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1987; the compilation of Lutheran church body and education statistics; and Center meeting arrangements and agenda. ATLA files concern meeting arrangements and agenda, job descriptions, and oral history projects. The largest portion of the collection contains correspondence with individuals regarding research. Requests, administrative issues, interviews for the Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism oral history project; and other Center projects. Correspondents include theological seminary faculty, Lutheran World Federation officials and staff; Lutheran pastors; former National Lutheran Council staff; LCUSA officials and staff; and magazine editors. Correspondents of note include Lutheran historian E. Clifford Nelson; U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation and Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Carl H. Mau; LCUSA General Secretary C. Thomas Spitz; and Concordia Historical Institute (St. Louis, Missouri) Director August R. Suelflow.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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