Program Files 1918-1963.

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Program Files 1918-1963.

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Box 1 contains primarily reports and historical accounts, including information about the Argentine work prior to the formation of the ULCA. The reports were written following various fact-finding trips by secretaries Luther B. Wolf, Earl S. Erb, Herbert L. Gilbert, Edwin Moll, and others. Correspondence files (Boxes 2 and 3) are named by chief correspondent and filed alphabetically. These correspondents include secretaries Erb, Gilbert, Luther B. Gotwald, Warren C. Johnson, and M. Edwin Thomas; missionaries Levon H. Spath, N. Earl Townsend, and Myrtle Wilke; and ULCA President Franklin C. Fry. Subject files (Box 3 and 4) contain some property documents and files on two congregations. They also include a correspondence file of Efraim Ceder, the missionary sent by the Pan Lutheran Society. This file was too large to be included with the letter-size boxes of correspondence.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968

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American Lutheran clergyman and Protestant leader. Born August 30, 1900 and ordained June 10, 1925. Served congregations in Yonkers, New York and Akron, Ohio. He was president of the United Lutheran Church in America (1945-1962), Lutheran Church in America (1962-1968) and the Lutheran World Federation (1957-1968). He served as Central Committee Chairman, World Council of Churches, 1954-1968. Dr. Fry died June 6, 1968. From the description of Papers, 1925-1972. (Evangelical Lutheran C...

Thomas, M. Edwin.

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Moll, Edwin A., 1882-1961.

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Erb, Earl S.

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While attending Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Earl S. Erb set a school track and field record that stood for twenty years by running the mile in four minutes, twenty seconds. Years later the Rev. Earl S. Erb would employ an even faster form of transportation, the airplane, to log approximately 500,000 miles while traveling in his capacity as executive secretary for the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA) and then its successor, th...

Wilke, Myrtle.

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Gotwald, Luther Alexander, 1927-

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United Lutheran Church in America

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Formed in 1918 by the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, and United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South, including 45 synods in 26 states and Canada, in 3,747 congregations. From the description of Minutes, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70924945 ...

Gilbert, Herbert L.

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Wolf, Luther B.

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Ceder, Efraim.

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Spath, Levon H., 1921-

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Townsend, N. Earl.

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Johnson, Warren C. (Warren Charles), 1901-

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United Lutheran Church in America. Board of Foreign Missions

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The Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America (See ULCA 19 Administrative History) divided the oversight of its mission work among several secretaries. Paul P. Anspach was called as Secretary for Malaya and China in 1953. His title soon changed to Secretary for Malaya and Hong Kong. In 1958 he began teaching in the School of Missions, and Warren C. Johnson took over the Malaya and Hong Kong work, with Anspach serving as an advisor. Johnson had previously served as Secret...