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Lutheran Historical Conference NewsletterVol. 40, No. 3 … August 2002 … ISSN 0460-0274
Meet Me in St. Louis!While there is no world's fair taking place in Saint Louis this fall, the biennial conference of the Lutheran Historical Conference is October 17–19, 2002. Concordia Historical Institute is celebrating 75 years of ministry for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and the Concordia Seminary campus will provide a lovely fall setting for the meeting. The CHI staff has planned tours and time for fellowship, and of course from the program committee is an excellent group of sessions on the theme “Re-Examining Conflict and Cooperation: Implications for Current Understandings of American Lutheranism.” The program is an attempt to move beyond the familiar traditional retelling of American Lutheran history to new examinations of the implications of both conflict and cooperation for ongoing Lutheran church life in the 21st century. Members should have received their program registration packet. If you have not received a packet or need extras, contact: Marvin A. Huggins, CHI, 801 DeMun Ave., St. Louis, MO 63105; 314-505-7900; e-mail: mhuggins@chi.lcms.org. New MembersWelcome to the following new members who joined the LHC since the last issue of this Newsletter:
News by/for/about MembersMaria Erling,
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 61 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg,
PA 17325, and Mark A. Granquist, Gustavus
Adolphus College, 800 College Ave., St. Peter, MN 56082, will be working
together on a new history of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. The
Augustana Heritage Association announced its commissioning of the work during
the AHA Gathering at Bethany College,
Lindsborg, Kansas. Karl Krueger, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 7301 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19119, has been named the Director of the Krauth Memorial Library of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He succeeds David J. Wartluft who retires at the end of 2002. Karl is a 1980 graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. While serving a Slovak Lutheran church in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, he earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. More recently he also earned an Information Science degree from Drexel University (Philadelphia). Prior to coming to the Krauth Library as Assistant Librarian, he was employed at the Balch Institute, an ethnic museum/archives in Philadelphia. Paul M. Ruff, 18 Fosterville Rd., Greensburg, PA 15601, a retired pastor, is translating the journal of missionary John Michael Steck, on whom Paul is an expert. Steck began the journal with his ministry at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and subsequent work to Bedford, Sommerset and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Ruff also has records of Steck's pastoral acts. David J. Wartluft, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 7301 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19119, who has served as Director of the library since 1977 and on the library staff since 1966, will retire at the end of 2002. Dr. Karl Krueger will serve as Acting Director from September 1st while David takes a leave granted by the Board of Trustees to prepare a course in Comparative Spirituality. The course, first offered in Spring 2003, will look at the piety, ethos and practices of four ecumenical partners Episcopalians, Moravians, and portions of the Calvinist tradition in relation to Lutherans. David has served two terms on the Board of the Lutheran Historical Conference, and variously as membership secretary, treasurer, and editor of Essays and Reports. He has been active in the Lutheran Historical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Association Uniting Religion and Art, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Theological Library Association. During his career he has also filled various roles in the leadership of the American Theological Library Association including a board member, board secretary and a decade as executive secretary. He has indexed more than 40 books for various publishers, and recently served on the writing team for the 250th anniversary history of his home congregation, St. Daniel Lutheran, Robesonia, Pennsylvania. Congratulations Dave! Resource OfferedMrs. Gladys Suelflow is offering for sale bound copies
of the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly that had belonged to her
late husband, Dr. August R. Suelflow. There are a total of 15 volumes in a red
binding covering the years 1928 to 1991 (Volume 64). The last volume is unbound
issues and the volume covering 1976-1979 is missing. Best offer and postal
charges will New ResourcesIn an effort to serve the Eastern Cluster of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seminaries and others, the East Coast Catalog Online (ECCO), has become a reality. The ECCO is the combined databases of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina). Powered by Endeavor's Voyager system, the catalog is available on the Internet by visiting the home page of any of the three seminaries and clicking on the Library link. Still to come is a link from the fledgling ECCO home page. The catalog has been operative since June and the additional components of acquisitions and serials control are being implemented with the new fiscal year that began July 1. The project, funded by the Luce Foundation under a three-year grant dubbed “One Library Under Three Roofs,” is an endeavor to provide more resources to more people while coordinating purchases and holdings. Yet to be implemented are such elements as cluster access to indexes and full-text journals. Although each seminary offers a range of programs and degrees, with the largest the M.Div. program, special emphases such as the D.Min. program centered at Philadelphia are centered at one of the seminaries on behalf of the cluster. A case study on the effort to date was presented by David J. Wartluft, director of the Krauth Memorial Library of the Philadelphia seminary, at the June conference of the American Library Association. The text of the presentation is being published in the conference proceedings. Just as you may be getting used to the new name Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a centennial history of one of its predecessors, Aid Association for Lutherans, is now available. Promises Kept, The Story of Aid Association for Lutherans and Its Extraordinary Heritage of Service is a book compiled by various AAL staff members and published in 2001. The highly illustrated, 240-page book makes excellent use of the AAL archives in Appleton, Wisconsin. Because both AAL and Lutheran Brotherhood have been so important in the lives of North American Lutherans, this is an important addition to any reference library. For further information contact: mail@thrivent.com. LHC Board NominationsMaria Erling is associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America and of global mission at Gettysburg Seminary. Educated at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, and Yale University Divinity School, Maria has also studied at Lund University in Sweden. Ordained in 1983, she served parishes, supervised urban ministries for the New England Synod and participated in the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in the region. She received a Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1996 after conducting research on Swedish immigrant congregational life in New England. In her teaching she focuses attention on the missionary dimension of Lutheran history. In her research she continues to investigate aspects of Augustana heritage as it developed in local and regional variations. A focus of her teaching and research is the use of digital technology to bring primary sources into the classroom and to make archival records more accessible to the student. Mark Granquist received his bachelor's degree from St. Olaf College, his M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His dissertation concerned Swedish-American denominations. Mark teaches in the Religion Department at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota. He's published many articles, reference entries and book chapters on American Lutheranism and on Scandinavian-American history, including five papers in the LHC's Essays and Reports. “I'm interested in strengthening the core mission of the LHC, and also in broadening its scope by reaching out toward, and working with allied groups.” Russell Kleckley has his bachelor's degree from Newberry College, Newberry, North Carolina, and his M.Div. from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina. He also holds the degrees of STM and Dr.theol. from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and the University of Munich, Germany, respectively. He has served as parish pastor, research assistant at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and on the faculty of Newberry College. Starting in fall 2002 he will become a faculty member at Augsburg College, Minneapolis. He is a past member of the board of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Eastern Cluster and the James R. Crumley Region 9 Archives, including chair; and is currently on the board of the Division for Higher Education and Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Russell's research interests are the Reformation and19th century American Lutheran theology. Russell's vision for the LHC is to continue as collegial focal point for scholars in American Lutheranism and increase ties to regional archives and congregational historical interests. Jeanene H. Letcher is the ELCA Region 6 rchivist at Trinity Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, where she has served for almost five years. She previously worked at the university museum of Southern Illinois University, as well as in other museum positions. Jeanene received her B.A. in history from Millersville University in Pennsylvania and her M.A. in history from Southern Illinois University. She is a member of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the relationship between archivists and historians, women's history and current trends in archives and museums. Jeanene believes LHC can benefit greatly from forging the connections between the work of historians and that of museums and archives. Jon Pahl received his Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago Divinity School in Robert E. Smith is the electronic resources librarian of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Originally from New York, Bob received his B.A. degree in theology and theological languages from Valparaiso University, an M.A. in library science from Indiana University and his M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He served at St. Luke Lutheran Church, Winamac, and Messiah Lutheran Church, Wolcottville, both in Indiana. He also serves as the archivist and historian of the Indiana District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Bob is part of the team that compiles the annual bibliography of Lutheranism in America for the LHC Newsletter. He also served as program chair for the 1992 LHC meeting and was local arrangements chair in 1996. He coordinates Project Wittenberg, an informal effort to put the writings of Martin Luther and other Lutherans on the Internet. He moderates its electronic mail discussion group, WITTENBERG, and a discussion group on the Book of Concord called BOC-L. He serves as the webmaster for Concordia Theological Seminary's Walther Library and contributes resources to the larger site. (<http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/>) Bob has written articles, Bible studies, book reviews and hymns for Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Lutheran Digest, Lutheran Witness and other publications. He has been lecturer and discussion leader on various subjects: evangelism, American Lutheran church history and the use of technology for theological research. Bob is married to Kristina and their three children are twins Wesley and Lucas and Hannelore. The Smiths are members of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, where Bob serves as chair of the board for Christian education, is on the church council and is webmaster. Joel Thoreson has been the reference archivist at the Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since November 1999. In addition to reference duties, he is responsible for the archives web site and online exhibits. Two of his most recent online exhibits are “Images of Luther” and “The Lutheran Churches of Chicago: A Genealogical Guide.” Joel earned his B.A. from Augsburg College and his M.A. from the University of Nebraska. He has worked for the Nebraska State Historical Society and Minnesota Historical Society, both in archives and museum collections divisions. He recently completed a term as the executive director of Trinity Lutheran Church, Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Joel is the son of an ELC/TALC/ELCA pastor with Haugean roots. [The LHC election takes place at the biennial meeting in St. Louis, October 17-19.] What Will the Next LHC Newsletter Contain?This newsletter will be able to fulfill its intended purpose of being a clearinghouse of information for archivists, historians and librarians only if you provide material for it. Please send material for publication to the editor. Items of interest to readers will include notice of research in progress, new appointments, publications, meetings and celebrations planned or held, bibliographical materials and generally anything of interest to LHC members. The editor cannot promise to print everything received, although all submissions are welcomed. The LHC Newsletter is issued four times a year: February, May, August and November. The November issue includes the annual “Index of Writings in the Field of American Lutheranism.” The deadline for each issue is the 15th of the month prior to each issue. Please send items to Elisabeth Wittman, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives, 8765 W. Higgins Rd., Chicago, IL 60631, or FAX: 773-380-2977; or E-mail: ewittman@elca.org. The deadline for the next issue is 15 October 2002. © 2002 Lutheran Historical Conference |
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