Files, 1965-1982.

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Files, 1965-1982.

Files (1965-1982) of the Office of Research, Planning, and Development's Research and Information Center contain correspondence, minutes and agenda, memoranda, reports, policy statements, proposals, newsletters, and publications regarding Office meetings; records retention policies; the twentieth anniversary of the Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism; transfer of files to the Archives; placement of the Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) Central Records system under Office authority; creation of a guide to the Archives; updating biographical files; the use of census data by Lutheran churches; LCUSA Central Records listings; Research and Information Center (RIC) holdings; revision work on the "Lutheran Church Directory for the United States;" proposal of a Lutheran Listening Post to survey Lutheran laity, parish. Pastors, and other church workers' opinions and ideas; microfilming projects and purchases; the Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism oral history project; and research requests for statistical data, Office publications and published holdings, and studies. Correspondents include Edward A. Rauff, RIC Director; Alice M. Kendrick, RIC Assistant Director; Helen M. Knubel, Archives consultant; LCUSA General Secretaries C. Thomas Spitz, George F. Harkins, and John R. Houck; LCUSA member church body officials; E. Clifford Nelson, Lutheran historian/author; Lutheran World Federation Information Bureau staff; and August R. Suelflow, Concordia Historical Institute (St. Louis, Missouri) Director.

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Lutheran Council in the USA. Office of Research, Statistics, and Archives.

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The Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) was founded in 1967 as an inter-Lutheran agency of The American Lutheran Church (TALC), the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (SELC)(which became an LCMS nongeographic district in 1970), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) joined LCUSA in 1978 and the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became a member in 1982. LCUSA coordinated...

Lutheran World Federation. Information Bureau.

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Nelson, E. Clifford, 1911-

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Houck, John R., 1923-

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Lutheran Council in the USA. Office of Research, Planning, and Development. Research and Information Center.

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The Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) was founded in 1967 as an inter-Lutheran agency of The American Lutheran Church (TALC), the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (SELC)(which became an LCMS nongeographic district in 1970), and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) joined LCUSA in 1978 and the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became a member in 1982. LCUSA coordin...

Kendrick, Alice M.

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Harkins, George F., 1913-1991.

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Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism (Lutheran Council in the USA)

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Collecting area: Material concerning inter-Lutheran cooperation in the United States. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155504646 ...

Spitz, C. Thomas, Jr., 1921-

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Suelflow, August Robert, 1922-

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Knubel, Helen M., 1901-1992.

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Lutheran Council in the USA. Records and Information Center.

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Rauff, Edward A.

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