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1963 CLC Convention Delegates

1963 CLC Convention Delegates

In October of 2020, the Lutheran Spokesman published on its cover a group photo of the pastors and delegates to the 1963 CLC Convention, held at Calvary Lutheran Church in Marquette, Michigan. There was much interest in this photo, and many emails were exchanged in the attempt to identify all the people in the photo. Professor Emeritus Paul Koch, who was himself present at that early convention, undertook to collate all these identifications into one master list. With thanks to Professor Koch we reprint the photo, with the list of names, for your encouragement during this month of our 35th Convention of the CLC.

Front row kneeling, left to right

1. Daniel DeRose

2. Daniel Hanel

3. Martin Bernthal

4. Don Skinner

5. unknown

6. J.B.Erhardt

7. Harold Duehlmeier

8. Gerhardt Blumhardt

9. Otto J. Eckert

10. Norbert Reim

11. Winfred Schaller Jr.

12. Egbert Schaller

13. C.M.Gullerud

14. Gerhard Pieper

15. unknown

16. Arvid Gullerud

17. unknown

18. Clarence Jordan

19. Richard Kuehne

20. Rollin Reim

Standing at ground level,

left to right (some behind others)

21. Bertram Naumann

22. Adalbert Geiger

23. Norman Gurath

24. unknown

25. unknown

26. Martin Garbrecht

27. Ralph Schaller

28. Martin Fuerstenau

29. Walter Romberg

30. unknown

31. Carl Romberg

32. Martin Galstad

33. Charles Sandeen

34. Ernest Williams

35. unknown

36. George Tiefel

37. Paul R. Koch

38. George Barthels

39. Waldemar Bernthal

40. Gerhardt Mueller

41. David Lau

42. Jonathan Schaller

43. Gordon Radtke

44. Edmund Reim

45. Waldemar Schuetze

46. Egbert Albrecht

47. Walter Schaller

48. P. G. Albrecht

49. Bert Doring

50. Norman Harms

51. Alvin Sieg

52. Robert Rehm

53. Ruben Ude

54. Ron Roehl

55. unknown

Standing on the entry steps, left to right

56. Herman Preus

57. P. F. Nolting

58. Leroy Greening

59. unknown

60. Christian Albrecht

61. Victor Tiefel

62. Keith Olmanson

Up another step, left to right

63. unknown

64. Harlan Reed

65. Helmuth Rutz

66. Karl Brandle

67. L. W. Schierenbeck

68. unknown

Back row, left to right

69. unknown

70. John Lau

71. Herbert Witt

72. Maynard Witt.

73. Gene Schreyer

74. Unknown

75. Fritz Peterson

76. unknown