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Schnackenberg’s correspondence during his years at PLU. File includes correspondence with friends, acquaintances, organizations, the Department of Stewardship of the ELCA, and university officials. Subjects covered within the correspondence include assorted research opportunities, speaking engagements, contracts, Schnackenberg’s personal business, his article on China and communism, Father’s Day materials, his pamphlet “Now or Never,” and materials related to his Father’s Death.

A copy of a criticism of Now or Never.

Faculty edition of the report that covers the financial outlook, expansion program, university morale, pensions, salaries, insurance, faculty changes, sabbaticals, student scholarships, and the student congregation.

Paper copy of a monograph by Dr. Schnackenberg on the meaning of time and faith. Small corrections are written on the text.

Materials regarding the National Defense Education Act (1958) which encouraged the creation and expansion facilities of graduate study. Dr. Schnackenberg served as the chair of the resultant committee. File includes Higher Education and National Affairs bulletins, agendas for a regional conference on the National Defense Education Act, preliminary committee reports, applications for graduate fellowships, descriptive statement of the program proposal, correspondence regarding the legislation, proposals for grant money, and letters documenting the rejection of some of PLU’s proposals by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Schnackenberg’s correspondence during his years at PLU. File includes correspondence with friends, acquaintance, organizations, the National Lutheran Council, etc. Subjects covered within the file include the development fund, Schnackenberg’s personal business, letters of reference requests, the Ashram conference, various contracts, church-related business, Schnackenberg’s inheritance, and assorted speaking engagements.

Materials documenting PLC’s search for a new seal and new “nickname” upon reorganization into a university. File includes sketchings of potential seal designs, lists of possible nicknames, unrelated correspondence on the Lutheran Encyclopedia, correspondence with designers regarding the seal (1959), informational sheets on the company designing the seal, and a booklet entitled “Foundation for Reformation Research”.

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.

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).

Materials regarding Dr. Schnackenberg’s participation in the University Names Committee. File includes notes on the reasons for adopting the term “university,” clippings, the Articles of Incorporation of Pacific Lutheran University, correspondence regarding the name change.