Subject Files, 1959-1977.

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Subject Files, 1959-1977.

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Office of Volunteer Services/World Brotherhood Exchange subject files (1959-1977) contain minutes and agenda, correspondence, memoranda, reports, by-laws, articles of incorporation, publicity items, World Brotherhood Exchange (WBE) newsletters, and publications regarding the establishment of the program (1961), volunteer recruitment and placement activities in specific countries around the world, WBE chapter work, finance and tax issues, film production and publicity, WBE student program activities, personnel issues, coordination of volunteer work with other Lutheran and non-Lutheran agencies, integration of work with the National Lutheran Council (NLC), transfer of WBE to the Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA)(1967), and legal issues regarding a 1973 bequest. Correspondents include WBE Directors. Conrad S. Braaten and James Hoxeng; WBE Board members; The American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America, and Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod officials and mission office staff; LCUSA officials including General Secretary C. Thomas Spitz; WBE chapter leaders; Lutheran World Federation-Department of World Mission staff; NLC officials; Lutheran and non-Lutheran volunteer agencies; and volunteers and placement site officials.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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