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- Title
- Negro attorney named to LCA Executive Council.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31262 NEGRO ATTORNEY NAMED TO LCA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PITTSBURGH -- William S. Ellis, a New York attorney (left), became the first Negro to be elected to the Executive Council of the Lutheran Church in America. He is congratulated here during the LCA’s second biennial convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., by Dr. Theodore E. Matson, president of the denomination’s Wisconsin-Upper Michigan Synod. Mr. Ellis, in an address to the convention, made a plea to Lutherans to “present their bodies for the picket line” in support of the new civil rights bill.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-Pit-7B-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, July 6, 1964, July 6, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Ellis, William S., Matson, Theodore E., 1906-1987.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., African American lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Lawyers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Geographic subjects
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31262; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-31262
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350248
- Title
- Playing a waiting game.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31263 PLAYING A WAITING GAME PITTSBURGH -- Grandfather had just been elected to the Executive Council and Dad was engaged in the weighty debaters of the Lutheran Church in America’s biennial convention, but these unofficial delegates took it easy in a room just off the convention. Mark Hurty, 7, and brother John, 5, play checkers as they wait for their grandfather (Dr. Carl W. Segerhammar, president of the Pacific Southwest Synod and newly-elected member of the Executive Council) and father (the Rev. David L. Hurty, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, Santa Barbara, Cal.). Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-PTS-7B-64-W)
- Creator Name(s)
- Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, circa July 6, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Hurty, Mark., Hurty, John.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Children of clergy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Geographic subjects
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31263; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-31263
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350249
- Title
- Pectoral cross given to LCA president.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31261 PECTORAL CROSS GIVEN TO LCA PRESIDENT PITTSBURGH -- Dr. Franklin Clark Fry (center), president of the Lutheran Church in America, receives a gold pectoral cross donated by St. Luke’s Lutheran church, Silver Spring, Md., during the denomination's second biennial convention at Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Raymond E. Shahee (right), pastor of the donor congregation, presented the cross to Dr. Malvin H. Lundeen, LCA secretary, who placed it around the neck of Dr. Fry. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BS-Pit-7B-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Lutheran Church in America. (publisher), Brady Stewart Studio, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964, July 2, 1964, July 2, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Lutheran Church in America., Lutheran Church in America--Congresses., Shahee, Raymond E., Lundeen, Malvin H.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Congresses and conventions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy conferences--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Clergy--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh., Pectoral cross.
- Geographic subjects
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31261; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-31261
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350247
