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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.

Materials regarding a seminar, “Contemporary Christian Thought,” led by Schnackenberg for Lutheran Pastors between September 1958 and February 1959. File includes seminar lecture notes, handwritten notes, and selected readings or handouts.

Class schedules. File includes: university wide class schedules (1954-1956), the history department offerings (1952-1953, 1960), a tentative university event calendars (1959-1960), and a list of study tours.

Materials regarding the dedication of the Administration Building and the adoption of the university title. File includes tentative programs for the 1960-1961 University Year and lists of suggestions for the Dedication Program

Clippings, articles, speeches, and pamphlets related to Dr. Schnackenberg’s work as a faculty member or personal interest. File includes: “The College and University President at Work” (1960-1961), “Academic Proliferation Doesn’t Pay For the Professor, or the College” (1963), a copy of Augustana Today (Summer 1963), “The Theory and Practice of College Teaching”, “The Christian Teacher: Channel of Excellence (1959), “Is the Lutheran Church Giving Adequate Attention to Ethics?”, “Observations of the Reproductive Cycles and Ecology of the Common Brachyura and Crablike Anomura of Puget Sound, Washington”, “The Significance of Universals, Particulars, And Value Commitment in the Process of Socialization”, “The Foundation and Freedoms: An inquiry into the origins of the Fund for the Republic”, “Minutes of Liberal Arts Seminar with History Teachers of the Community Colleges”

Materials regarding Dr. Schnackenberg’s activities as a faculty member. File includes letters from the American Association of University Professors concerning the drafting a constitution, notification of faculty committees, report to the Board of Trustees, minutes of the Alumni Association meetings, copies of presidential correspondence with Lutheran pastors and laity, 1960 Faculty Handbook, speech by Dr. Knorr at Faculty Retreat, memo on the Academic Self-Study (1961), Committee Draft Statement of Principles (1961), and assorted memos.

Written by Dr. Schnackenberg during the 1960-1962 to clarify the purpose and the method of the self-study.