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Vol. 36, No. 3...August 1998...ISSN 0460-0274

1. From the President
2. Jeff G. Johnson (1922-1998)
3. Bibliography for 1997 Being Assembled
4. New Members!
5. News By/For/About Members
6. LHC Nominations
7. From the Membership Secretary
8. Pope's Letter Donated
9. Bachmann Papers Donated
10. Knubel Grant Completed
11. Project to Collect Memories of 1997 Floods
12. Local Historical Societies
13. Oldest Altar Restored
14. DuBois County Church Marks 150th Year
15. New Resources
16. NAHA Scholarship Initiated
17. New Address for SAA
18. What Will the Next LHC Newsletter Contain?

From the President

A few items that will bring you up-to-date are that Bob Scholz and the Program Committee have been putting together a very interesting program for the October 29-31, 1998 meeting at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York. The theme, *Eastern Lutheranism and the National Church--Influence and Foil* will bring together a wonderful group of papers that should help us understand the dynamic interaction between one historic region of the church and the various national church bodies represented in that region. The program and local arrangements are coming along very well and the program should already be in the hands of all LHC members. If you have not received your program information, please contact: Constance Seddon, 14 Oak Rd., Briarcliff, NY 10510; 914-941-5202; E-mail: cseddon@computer.net

We also have good news that LHC Treasurer David Wartluft is recovering from surgery. Dave, our prayers have been and will continue to be with you!

Best Wishes!

Progress is also being made on our publications. In a conversation with Marvin Huggins in St. Louis, he noted that work necessary for the volume by Bob Wiederaenders should be completed by the Fall. Ray Kibler and Ray Bost have been working on the 1994 volume of Essays and Reports also expect a Fall publication date. David Wartluft has been working on the 1996 Essays and Reports, although due to his surgery, the process may have been slowed. We are still striving to have all three volumes in print prior to the Fall meeting.

Finally, the Nominations Committee has completed its work and elsewhere in this issue you will find biographical statements on candidates for the LHC Board. Also in this issue is the annual call for information for our annual bibliography, which depends on submissions from the membership in addition to the information located by the compilers.

--James W. Albers, President

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Jeff G. Johnson (1922-1998)

The Rev. Dr. Jeff G. Johnson, died June 16, 1998, in Los Angeles due to complications from a stroke. A pastor and professor of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, he graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 1948 and held both a Master's Degree and PhD. from the University of Southern California. He served as pastor to congregations in Detroit, East St. Louis, Illinois and Indianapolis prior to serving on the faculty of Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana from 1962-1984, including service as chair of the Dept. of Sociology from 1974-1980. He was the author of the 1991 book, Black Christians: The Untold Lutheran Story (Concordia Publishing House), a pan-Lutheran survey of African-American Lutheran history. Jeff had been a presenter on this topic at recent LHC meetings. He also served on the LCMS Commission on Black Ministry (1986-1995) and was a consultant for the Synod's 1994 document of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, *Racism and the Church: Overcoming the Idolatry.* Memorial services for Jeff were held at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, June 25, 1998.

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Bibliography for 1997 Being Assembled

The annual American Lutheran Bibliography is in the process of being compiled. Although a variety of databases will be searched, there are always books, articles, and even videos which somehow do not make it into these databases. If you know of items, particularly congregational and organizational histories, that are privately published, they are not likely to be in databases. In addition, members are reminded that important sources for years prior to 1997 may have been missed in other annual compilations and citations to those works are welcome as well. Pass along your information, in as complete a format as possible, to: Robert Smith, C.F.W. Walther Library, Concordia Theological Seminary, 6600 N. Clinton St., Fort Wayne, IN, 46825 (cosmithb@ash.palni.edu); or James Albers, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 46383 (Jim.Albers@valpo.edu).

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New Members!

Since the last issue of the Newsletter, we welcome two new members to the LHC:

Walter A. Jensen
7618 Eleventh Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11228

Darren G. Poley
Krauth Memorial Library
Lutheran School of Theology
7301 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19119-1794

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News By/For/About Members

Robert M. Calhoon, University of North Carolina, History Dept., Greensboro, NC 27412, is one of sixteen scholars to be awarded a Pew Endowment Evangelical Scholars Program Fellowship for the 1998-1999 academic year. The awards are given to scholars who can demonstrate that their Christian faith informs the assumptions and methods with which they approach their scholarly work. Robert's fellowship will be devoted to writing a book, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Political Moderation in Anglo-American History, 1570-2000. One of the themes of this project will be the moderation of Confessional Lutherans who balanced historic orthodoxy with evangelical witness. Robert's interest in Lutheran confessionalism dates to the mid 1980s through the influence of The Rev. Andrew F. Weisner, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Greensboro, North Carolina and former Bishop Michael C.D. McDaniel, North Carolina Synod.

Trygve R. Skarsten, 12402 Pintails Circle, Pickerington, OH 43147, delivered a lecture, "The Reformation and Its Implications for Lutheran Confessional Identity," at Concordia University, Irvine, California in November 1997, which will be published in the forthcoming Charles Manske Festscrift.

August R. Suelflow, 7249 Northmoor Dr., St. Louis, MO 63105-2109, has completed, Heritage in Motion, which documents challenges faced in six arenas during the period of the 1960s-1990s, within the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. The book is available for $28.95 from: Concordia Publishing House, 3558 S. Jefferson, St. Louis, MO 63118; 314-268-1329. Augie is also presently working "tooth and nails" on a new biography of C.F.W. Walther. He notes that the biggest problem is that there is far too much material and being selective in the project is proving extremely difficult.

Elisabeth Wittman, ELCA Archives, 8765 W. Higgins Rd., Chicago, IL 60631, recently hosted and participated as a member in a meeting of the International Council on Archives, Religious Archives Section, Steering Committee, July 29-31, 1998, at the ELCA's Lutheran Center, Chicago. The new ICA section was formed in 1995 and brings together church archivists from around the world. The steering committee is chaired by Dr. Helmut Baier, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria, and other members attending were from the Reformed Church archives in The Netherlands and Hungary; the Catholic Archives of Texas; the Episcopal Church U.S.A.; and Marquette University. For further information on the ICA Religious Archives Section, please feel free to contact Elisabeth.

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LHC Nominations

The following biographical sketches are for those persons who have agreed to be nominated to the Lutheran Historical Conference Board. The election will take place at the biennial meeting of the LHC in October 1998. Other persons may be nominated from the floor at that time. Outgoing members of the board comprise the Nominating Committee: Norman J. Threinen, chair; Marvin A. Huggins and Robert F. Scholz.

Paul A. Daniels, has served as archivist/curator for Luther Seminary and the ELCA Region 3 Archives since 1988, with prior service as seminary archivist since 1982 and archivist for the American Lutheran Church, 1983-1987. He is a 1979 graduate of Augsburg College and holds an MA in church history from Luther Seminary (1982). Daniels has been a member of the LHC since 1983 and is member of: the Twin Cities Archives Roundtable, Midwest Archives Conference and Society of American Archivists. He also has serves on the ELCA Churchwide Archives Advisory Committee, including chair of the committee since 1997. He has produced an AAL-funded video series, "Hearing Voices: the Role of Memory in the Church;" edited, "Hope and Thanksgiving," the 125th anniversary history of Luther Seminary and chaired that anniversary committee; compiled, "Memory Work: A Guide for Congregational Archives and History;" and conducted oral history interviews and overseen a congregational microfilming program for the Region 3 Archives.

Susan W. McArver, obtained her PhD. in American church history from Duke University, 1995. In Summer 1998, she joined the faculty of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina. She has presented papers at the last three LHC meetings, including works on Lutheran social reform among southern mill workers at the turn of the century; the development of men's and women's auxiliaries in the southern Lutheran church; and a historiographical essay on current trends in denominational history. For her 1992 paper on southern Lutheran activity among mill workers, she received an Award of Commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute. She has also presented papers at Hartwick College, the Muhlenberg Symposium, the North Atlantic Missiology Project of the Pew Charitable Trust, the American Society of Church History and the American Academy of Religion. She also serves on the advisory committees for the ELCA Churchwide Archives and the Center for Religion in the South.

John E. Peterson, has been curator of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia (Northeast Regional Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), since 1977. The regional archives concept for the ELCA was the same as the one developed at the Center by former synods of the Lutheran Church in America prior to the ELCA merger in 1987. John is a graduate of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota and Luther Seminary, St. Paul. He later studied archives administration at the U.S. National Archives and the University of Maryland's training programs. He has been an active member of the LHC since 1976, serving previously on the board from 1984-1990, including service as Secretary from 1986-1990. John is also active in local Lutheran historical organizations in the Northeast. He is also a member of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and the Society of American Archivists.

Robert E. Smith, is Electronic Resources Librarian at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana and also serves as archivist and historian for the Indiana District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. He received his BA from Valparaiso University and his Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Ordained by the LCMS, he has served St. Luke Lutheran Church, Winamac and Messiah Lutheran Church, Wolcottville, both in Indiana. He is a regular contributor to the Lutheran Witness, and has written on such topics as Indiana frontier spirituality, the life and philosophy of Friedrich Wyneken and the Fort Wayne Seminary. He also appeared in several historical videos and is coordinator of Project Wittenberg, an electronic text initiative dedicated to Lutheran historical sources available on the Internet. He has been part of the team that produces the LHC annual bibliography on Lutheranism and served as the 1992 biennial program committee chair and the 1996 local arrangements committee chair for those LHC meetings. He also has made presentations at LHC meetings and helped with the initial design of the LHC web page.

A. Gregg Roeber, is Dept. Head and Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He was educated at the Pontifical College Josephinum, the University of Denver and Brown University, and did post-doctoral work on a von Humbolt Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Tuebingen. His research interests lie in the area of 17th and 18th century church and legal history, especially pertaining to the Enlightenment and Pietism among German-speakers on both sides of the Atlantic. He is author of Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America; *Official and Non-Official Piety and Ritual in Early Lutheranism,* Concordia Theological Quarterly; *J.H.C.Helmuth, Evangelical Charity and The Public Sphere in Pennsylvania, 1793-1800,* Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, among others. He is currently writing two books: a comparative study of Lutheran and Roman Catholic charity in the late 18th century and another on the collapse of classical cosmology in the 17th century and implications for Lutheran notions of orders of creation and redemption.

Mary Todd, is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program, Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois. She received her Ph.D From the University of Illinois at Chicago, with degrees also from Roosevelt University (MGS) and Valparaiso University (BA). She has served as participant in the Rhodes Consultation of the Future of the Church-Related College and as consultant for the Task Force on Spirituality, International Women's Missionary League. She has been a member and made presentations at meetings of the Organization of American Historians, National Women's Studies Association and the LHC. She is author of *Thinking About History: The Missouri Compromise,* Lutheran Forum; *Musings on the Ministry of Women,* Lutheran Education; *Planning Ahead: Considering the Global/Cultural Context of the Near Future,* Currents in Theology and Mission; among others. Her forthcoming book in 1999, for Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing Company is, Authority Vested: Women, the Ministry and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

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From the Membership Secretary

MEMBERS: Please look for your name on the mailing label of this newsletter. To the right of your name is a two-digit number. If it is NOT '98, then you have not renewed your membership. In order to continue to receive LHC publications this year, you must be a member this year.

INSTITUTIONS (Libraries, Historical Societies, etc.): Next to the name of your institution on the mailing label, there is either a two-digit code or *COMP.* The two numbers note the year when your organization last paid its annual dues. *COMP* notes that your institution is receiving complimentary copies of this newsletter. In order to receive books published by the LHC this year, your institution must send payment for this year.

Membership in either of the above categories is $20 and checks should be made out to *LHC 1998 Membership.* Send payments or other membership inquiries to the Membership Secretary:

Ray F. Kibler, III
4249 La Junta Dr.
Claremont, CA 91711-2351
E-mail: RAY.KIBLER.III@ecunet.org

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Pope's Letter Donated

The original letter from Pope John Paul II, July 22, 1985 to Lutheran Church in America Bishop James R. Crumley, Jr., was recently donated to the Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, by Dr. Crumley. The historic exchange of letters between Dr. Crumley and Pope John Paul II, was commemorated at the time by the LCA with the publication of the letters. Other papers of his tenure as LCA Bishop are also located at the Chicago archives.

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Bachmann Papers Donated

The papers of the late E. Theodore Bachmann (1911-1995) have been donated to the Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago. Ted had been a founder and active member of the LHC and honored with the LHC Distinguished Service Award. He had served as professor of church history at three Lutheran seminaries, Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Luther Seminary and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary; served as deputy chief of religious affairs for the U.S. Office of Military Government and Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, 1948-1952; served as executive secretary for two boards, College Education and Church Vocations and Theological Education for the Lutheran Church in America, 1962-1972; and served as publications secretary, Lutheran World Federation, 1973-1978. He was the author and editor of several books and periodicals.

The papers were prepared for this donation according to Ted's wishes by Mrs. Mercia Brenne Bachmann, his wife and writing collaborator, along with assistance from the Rev. Wesley Smith, archivist at Princeton Seminary and recent recipient of a doctoral degree from that institution. A general box listing to the 67 cubic foot collection is available until complete processing of the records is completed. Ted's long association with Princeton Seminary led to his donation of his book collection to their library. In addition, materials have been donated to the Library and Archives at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, including papers of his father Ernst F. Bachmann, former director of the Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses (1906-1945).

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Knubel Grant Completed

The NHPRC-funded grant from the National Archives received by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives has been successfully completed. The 2-year project from July 1996 to July 1998 was to organize, process and catalog 650+ cubic feet of records from the Helen M. Knubel Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism. The collection was renamed in honor of Helen M. Knubel (1901-1992) the founder of the collection, who was a founder and active member of the Lutheran Historical Conference until her retirement.

The collections that have been organized under this project include all records from: The National Lutheran Commission for Soldiers' and Sailors' Welfare, 1917-1922; The National Lutheran Council, 1918-1966; Lutheran World Convention, American Section, 1923-1946; The U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation/Lutheran World Ministries, 1947-1987; and the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., 1967-1987. In-house finding aids for each records series of these collections are available, providing access to materials to the folder level. In addition, each series has a cataloging record that has been added to the OCLC national library/archives database. This data is also searchable on-line through the ELCA's on-line public access catalog, located on the ELCA World Wide Web page: http://www.elca.org

The topics and subjects covered in these collections are wide and varied and include activities funded and supported by all of the various ELCA predecessor church bodies as well as the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Subjects addressed include North American involvement in the Lutheran World Convention and Lutheran World Federation; international relief efforts; American mission and welfare; services to ethnic, refugee and other groups; theological dialogues and studies; government liaison activities; public relations and research activities; and service to military personnel and students. Within the next year, the ELCA Archives will embark on microfilming selected series from the collection, including materials of the U.S.A. National Committee of the LWF. Funding for this part of the work had been set aside at the time of the close-out of former parent agency, the LCUSA. Copies of these films will be shared with the Concordia Historical Institute and the Archives of the Lutheran World Federation. Copies of any of the microfilmed records will also be available for loan from the ELCA Archives and eventually will be available for purchase to other libraries or individuals. The entire staff of the ELCA Archives is to be commended for the success of the project, with a special note of praise and gratitude to the grant project staff members, Ellen D. Swain, project archivist and Annette Rasmussen, project secretary. Swain will be continuing her work with the ELCA Archives as Assistant Archivist.

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Project to Collect Memories of 1997 Floods

The floods that brought devastation to the Red River Valley of 1997 to the Dakotas and Minnesota were over 15 months ago. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Region 3 Archives is taking steps to ensure that the stories and memories they created don't themselves wash away. The archives is sponsoring the "One Year After the Floods of 1997 History Project," designed to record the stories of the floods from the vantage point of the church, its congregations, synod leadership and social service agencies.

ELCA Region 3 Archivist, Paul Daniels, has completed nearly all of the planned oral history interviews, which include clergy and lay leadership in the area. Daniels indicates that the information clearly focussed on matters of faith in the face of disaster rather than on the details of the effects and response to the flood that could be captured by a such a project sponsored through a secular agency.

The fifteen interviews that resulted from the project will be available for research both in the original audio as well as in transcript form by the Fall of 1998. For further information, contact Daniels at: ELCA Region 3 Archives, Como Ave. West, St. Paul, MN 55108-1445; 651-541-3205; or E-mail: pdaniels@luthersem.edu

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Local Historical Societies

The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University, will hold "Heemet Fescht," September 19-20, 1998. The event will include juried designer craftsmen, historical reenactments, Pennsylvania German foods, agricultural demonstrations, music, lectures, storytelling and Revolutionary War living history. A traditional church service in the Pennsylvania German dialect and a demonstration by the Conrad Weiser Battalion, are two festival events of note. For further information, contact: PGCHC, Kutztown University, Wiesenberger Alumni Center. P.O. Box 306, Kutztown, PA 19530; 610-683-1330 or 638-4113.

The Lutheran Historical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania's Fall Pilgrimage takes place October 3, 1998, at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Germantown (Philadelphia). The annual meeting begins at 9:30 with an account of the history of the congregation, followed in the afternoon by a trip to Clivden to watch a reenactment of the Battle of Germantown. The LHSEP also held their Spring event at St. John, Towamensing, May 30, 1998, to hear a program by Prof. Otto Dreydoppel, Jr. and Dr. Walter H. Wagner, entitled "Resuming the Relationship: Lutheran and Moravians, Act 2." Their Summer event was August 8, 1998, at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, to hear a special Muhlenberg program in conjunction with the Mission Resource Institute's Muhlenberg Tradition Series Symposium. For further information, contact: The Rev. Carl E. Shankweiler, P.O. Box 744, Valley View, PA 17983-0477.

The New England Lutheran Historical Society will hold its 17th Annual Meeting, October 24, 1998 at The Lutheran Home Southbury, 990 Main St. North, Southbury, Connecticut. The feature presentation is, "A History of the Lutheran Home Southbury at its 80th Anniversary." Also, the Society's Journal Volume 14, Spring 1998, features, "Built on a Rock, A History of the New England District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod on the Occasion of Their 25th Anniversary," by Thomas Beinke. For information on The Journal, membership and the annual meeting, contact Norma Sandberg, Membership Secretary, NELHS, c/o 24 Paxton Rd., West Hartford, CT 06107

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Oldest Altar Restored

On April 19, 1998, St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Hanover, Pennsylvania, celebrated the restoration of their altar table, which dates back to the time of the congregation's second building, first used in 1756. The altar table was likely made by a local woodworker and is very likely the oldest existing altar from any Lutheran congregation in the United States. The celebratory service in April utilized the historic Muhlenberg liturgy, with LHC member, Frederick Weiser, guest preaching.

St. Matthew's origins date back to 1735 and the Conewago settlement, when Pastor John Casper Stoever arrived to baptize and marry, although a congregation was not formed until 1743 by David Candler, whose parish extended from York, Pennsylvania to Frederick, Maryland. Information on the first building which also served as home to Candler and as a schoolhouse is more obscure. However, it is clear that the structure completed and dedicated Palm Sunday, April 11, 1756 was a large, two story building of log construction.

It was in this building that the table for the Lord's Supper stood. Made of bold turnings typical of the finest Germanic tables of its day, the table stood taller than those of today, since it was to be stood at, not sat at. The legs are braced with a "stretcher" between the four legs and the top is fastened into the base with wooden pins and boards held together by battens on the underside. Wood used was local black walnut.

The altar continued to be used even though new buildings were constructed for the congregation. No records exist that describe what may have been placed on the altar, such as an altar cloth or paten, chalice or flagon. Lacking such information, an altar cloth with embroidered cross-stitch decorations was made in 1998, using designs made by Pennsylvania German women. A young Amish woman took 75 hours to complete it. The embroidery includes inscriptions in German and historic dates related to the congregation's history. For the service in April, a set of 18th century pewter communion vessels, was borrowed from Zion Lutheran Church, Hummelstown.

The restoration of the table by Arthur Robert Voorhees of New Oxford, Pennsylvania was donated by Barbara and Fred Schultz and a commemorative folder, written by Frederick Weiser, was donated by Henrietta Houck Cline and Mary Houck. For further information, contact: St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 30 W. Chestnut St., Hanover, PA, 17331; 717-637-7101.

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DuBois County Church Marks 150th Year

The 150th anniversary of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Haysville, Indiana, will be celebrated October 24-25, 1998, following a year of commemorative events. Founded when the population of Haysville was 188, in 1848, the congregation has been served by 21 different pastors. Worship services were in German only until English also began to be used in 1942. English is now the exclusive language. St. Paul's has occupied several buildings, including two that were destroyed by tornado and fire, respectively. The current structure was dedicated in 1949, just as St. Paul's celebrated it's centennial. At the 125th anniversary in 1973, the congregation was visited by Governor Otis R. Bowen, marking the first time a governor had visited Haysville.

The 1998 observances include monthly events held the second Sunday of every month. In January, these events began with a congregational hymn sing, followed by a Youth Service, with photographs from confirmation classes dating from 1887 on display. Among other events planned were a cantata by the junior choir and special confirmand groups honored along with 96 year old member Walter Seitz. The October celebration is designated as a Reformation observance and it is hoped that the newly elected Bishop of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will be able to attend and preach at the service. Eileen Z. Schaber of the anniversary committee reports that the congregation will also publish the third history of St. Paul's.

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New Resources

The perhaps forgotten contribution of the Hermannsburg Mission, Germany in forming Lutheran congregations and synods in North America, is uncovered in the book, Die Vergessenen Sohne Hermannsbrugs in Nordamerika, vom Dienst Hermannsburger Pastoren und ihrer Frauen an Deutschen Auswanderen in Nordamerika 1864-1912 (The Forgotten Sons of Hermannsburg in North America) by Reinhart Muller, the former director of the Hermannsburg Mission. Published by the Hermannsburg Mission, in German only, the book utilizes sources from Louis and Theodor Harms, directors of Hermannsburg, the Hermannsburger Missionsblatt, as well as sources in several North American Lutheran archives. Biographical information on 172 pastors who were trained at the mission and served in North America are included. This latter research was completed by Hartwig Harms. The book is one in a series that commemorates the 150th anniversary of the mission in 1999. For further information, contact: Dr. Muller, Hermannsburg Mission, Turnerstrasse 26, D-29320 Hermannsburg, Germany.

The Odyssey of Escapes from Russia, The Saga of Anna K, by Wilmer A. Harms, M.D., documents 18 escapes among 1500 Lutherans and Mennonites who fled Russia in the early 1930s, by way of Harbin, China. Of interest to Lutherans is the aid provided to the refugees through the Lutheran World Convention, especially with help of its president, American John A. Morehead and the work of Pastor Henry Kastler, German Lutheran Mission, Harbin. The story of Anna K is told in detail in the second half of the book which includes her own reminiscence of the events that she had personally experienced. Notable items also in the book are two lists of Lutherans (526) and Mennonites (649) who were helped in finding new homes in the U.S., Canada and South America. The book is available for $20 from: Dr. Harms, 2904-B Ivy Dr., North Newton, KS 67117.

Beside the Still Waters, The Story of German Settlements and the Lutheran Church in Wytheville County, Virginia, 2 volumes, has recently been published privately by the author, Roger S. Kluttz, Blacksburg, Virginia. The price of this work is unknown, but you may contact the author for further information: The Rev. Roger S. Kluttz, 865 N. 18th St., Wytheville, VA 24382.

Just published is The Promise of Lutheran Ethics, edited by Karen L. Bloomquist and John R. Stumme, Director and Associate Director (respectively) for Studies in the Division for Church in Society of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The work includes articles by ten Lutheran theologians and includes writings that span from the origins of the Lutheran ethics tradition through the most recent ethics concerns. The historical bibliography by John Stumme at the end of the book covers the same time frame, but is weighted to the recent times, especially after 1975. There is an on-line version of the bibliography, which will continue to be updated on the ELCA Web page: http://www.elca.org/dcs/studies/ The book is $18 from Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1-800-328-4648.

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NAHA Scholarship Initiated

The Norwegian American Historical Association has recently announced the first recipient of the Einar and Eva Lund Haugen Memorial Scholarship. The $3,000 annual award went to Clarence B. Sheffield, Jr., doctoral student in the field of Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College, for work on his dissertation, "The Myth of the Peasant in Norwegian Painting (1880-1920) from Naturalism to Modernist Expression."

The Haugen scholarship funds will likely allow for a $6,000 award in the future. For further information on the scholarship, contact the Awards Committee Chair: Odd Lovoll, NAHA, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057; 507/646-3221; or E-mail: naha@stolaf.edu

New Address for SAA

The Society of American Archivists recently moved to a new location in Chicago. The phone number, FAX and e-mail and Web addresses do not change, however:

Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
312-922-0140
FAX:312-347-1452
E-mail: info@archivists.org
http://www.archivists.org

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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 use this page (or as many additional ones as needed) to 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

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