Materials related to Dr. Schnackenberg’s involvement in the Lutheran Student Association. File includes: various newsletters, program suggestions, preliminary preparations for ASHRAM—the annual meeting, officers roster, materials for installing officers, committee and officer reports to the LSAA, questionnaires, copies of SCOOP—a newsletter for LSAA officers and staff, various educational materials, memos on upcoming meetings and workshops, meeting agendas, minutes from meetings, a handbook for personnel of the 1957 Lutheran World Federation Assembly, etc.
File includes: lists of Officers of Organizations, a schedule for the freshman and new student orientation program, a Proposed Code of Contact, a list of student post boxes, and lists of faculty and staff.
Materials from the Pacific District Pastoral Conference at Camp Menucha for which Dr. Schnackenberg was the guest lecturer. File includes: schedule for the conference, a questionnaire for the pastors at the conference, and outline for lectures given at the conference by Dr. Schnackenberg. Some of the themes in these lectures were time, the relationship between primitive and modern thought, the demands of evangelism in the Space Age, secularization, etc.
Miscellaneous materials relating to Schnackenberg’s history of PLU. File includes: footnotes, bibliography, final notes for preparation of the manuscript, faculty rosters, appendices, historical sketch of PLU, and the prototype for the cover.
Prospective lists of names for buildings at PLU. Mentions history, merits, and drawbacks of the potential names.
Articles and pamphlets on the study of foreign languages collected by Dr. Schnackenberg under the heading “National Defense of Education Act”. File includes: a pamphlet entitled “The Role of Modern Languages in Our Schools” (1956), pamphlet “Factors Involved in Good Modern Language Teaching” (1958), pamphlet “Grammar--Beware!” (1957), news releases on actions taken under the National Defense Act for the creation of foreign language institutes, and a copy of The Modern Language Journal (1959).
File contains materials regarding Dr. Schnackenberg’s service in the United States Navy including correspondence about his recruitment and discharge from the Navy. Also includes correspondence about his service on USS Oakland.
File contains materials regarding Dr. Schnackenberg’s service in the United States Navy including entrance picture negatives, a physical training manual of the United States Army from 1914, Navy registration forms and travel documents, a certificate of completion for Officer Indoctrination (1944), a humorous certificate of initiation into the "Solemn Mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep" (1944), and an affidavit acknowledging his call for active duty (1945), a letter of gratitude upon his release, a certificate of gratitude from Harry Truman (1945), forms related to his status as a member of the inactive reserve (1952-1953).