# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S350
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

350 YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORK

to alert parents and other members of congregations to the needs
and opportunities of the youth program for the growing youth
population. Many parents are deeply concerned. We believe that
more material on youth and the youth program would add reader
interest. Adding additional pages costs money. Your Board asks
Synod to recommend to the Fiscal Conference to look with favor
for necessary funds to include more about youth and the youth
program in the Lutheran Witness.

A Brief Glance at the Youth Survey Report
In 1952 the Walther League executive board set up a com-

mittee to survey the Walther League. While this committee was

in the process of organization, the Board of Directors of Synod
resolved to survey the entire youth situation in Synod. This led
to a discussion of having one committee acceptable to the executive
board of the Walther League and the Board of Directors of Synod.
Such a committee was appointed and met for organization in April
1953. The eventual members of this committee were the following:
Professor Walter W. Stuenkel, president of Concordia College,
Milwaukee, Wis., chairman; Rev. W. J. Stelling, Trinity Lutheran
Church, Freistatt, Mo., secretary; Dr. Paul W. Lange, principal of
Lutheran High School, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. Arthur C. Repp, ac-
ademic dean of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.; Prof. Lorman
M. Peterson, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.; Prof. W. F. Kruse,
Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Ill.; Rev. Herbert E.
Plehn, St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Rochester, N. Y.; Mr. Paul
W. Jabker, principal of Holy Cross Lutheran School, St. Louis, Mo.;
Mr. Harold Dunkelman, president of Gomco Surgical Manufac-
turing Corporation, Buffalo, N.Y.

This committee has worked on the survey for about three years.
Its report was completed the early part of 1956. Hence only a brief
summary and an initial report can be made on it at this time.

Your Board believes that the Walther League and the Board
for Young People’s Work should continue to study findings of the
survey committee in order to gain the fullest possible benefit from
the survey.

The following are some of the major points emphasized in the
report:

I. Commendation

The survey report indicates approval of the present arrange-
ment for youth work in Synod. The working arrangement between
the Board for Young People’s Work and the Walther League was
found to be effective. There was approval of the co-operation of
the Walther League with other synodical boards and agencies
(examples: The New Guinea mission builders, audio-visual aids,

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