# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S341
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK 341

and that local congregations will continue to increase their interest
in young people’s work through the establishment of capable con-
gregational youth committees and regular financial assistance.

Your Board and the Walther League

We wish to call the attention of the church to the excellent
working arrangement which your Board for Young People’s Work
has with the leaders and membership of the Walther League. The
Board’s responsibilities, as outlined in the synodical Handbook,
require close co-operation with the League. We are thankful that
this is the nature of the arrangement. The League, through its
full-time staff and volunteer executive board, has always worked
harmoniously and effectively with your Board.

Within the past months the Walther League staff, which has
its headquarters in the Lutheran Youth Building, 875 North Dear-
born Street, Chicago 10, IIL, reorganized itself to increase efficiency
in its operations. The present staff organizational structure will be
as follows, subject to the next Walther League convention:

Executive Director: Rev. Elmer N. Witt (program development,
leadership training, and staff supervision).

Executive Secretary: Rev. Alfred P. Klausler (communica-
tions).

Executive Secretary: W. F. Weiherman (membership services,
Camp Arcadia, travel bureau).

Executive Secretary: H. Dixon Hemma (business department,
Wheat Ridge promotion).

Executive Secretary: Christian growth (this position is at
present unfilled).

As the League plans, prepares, and promotes its program of
worship, education, fellowship, service, and recreation, your Board
has sought to make these objectives recognized and achieved in
larger segments of the church through its leadership-training pro-
gram, through helpfulness to young people’s groups not affiliated
with the Walther League, and through various stimuli to the
pastors, teachers, and laity of Synod. See section on “Teadership
Training.”

In this spirit, representatives of your Board regularly attend
all meetings of the Walther League executive board. At least one
representative of the League is in attendance at the regular meet-
ings of your Board. On January 28, 1956, the full executive staff
of the League met with your Board for a day-long planning and
discussion meeting. Much fruit is gained from this co-operation
and exchange of ideas and suggestions.