Scope and Contents Box 1 contains file folders 1-30.

File folders 1-14 are from Series 1: Documents regarding the MLPS Board of Control.

File folders 15-22 are from Series 2: Documents Regarding the MLPS Campus.

File folder 23 is from Series 3: Documents regarding MLPS Campus Worship.

File folders 24-29 are from Series 4: Documents regarding the MLPS Faculty.

File folder 30 is from Series 5: Documents regarding the MLPS Ladies Auxilary.

Scope and Contents Box 2 contains records from:

Series 6: MLPS publications

Series 7: Documents Regarding MLPS Recruitment

Series 8: Newspaper Clippings

Series 9: Documents Regarding Student Life

Series 10: Documents Regarding Synodical School Structure

Series 11: The Rambler

Scope and Contents This series consists of correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports and other documents created by or for the MLPS Board of Control. This series includes documents from the 1978-1979 MLPS Interim Committee that was in charge of the transition from Martin Luther Acadamy/Northwestern Lutheran Acadamy to MLPS. This series includes all of the president’s reports to the Board of Control, as well as the Board’s reports to the synod at-large. This series also includes documents regarding on-campus...

Scope and Contents This series consists of documents regarding the campus of Martin Luther Preparatory School and the staff that maintained that campus. This series includes photographs, postcards, booklets and documents regarding the original owner of the campus – Campion Jesuit High School. It is believed these documents were used in the decision for purchasing the campus from the Jesuits, since they come from the files of Board of Control chairman, Rev. Edmund Schulz. This series includes photographs from the...

Scope and Contents This series consists of brochures, calendars, catalogs, correspondence and other documents used to promote Martin Luther Preparatory School to the youth of the synod and to recruit them for enrollment. This series also includes two recruitment visual aids – the 1983 “A Step to Service” filmstrip with accompanying cassette tape and the 1988 “A Place to Grow” video. This series also includes a cassette tape with recordings from past MLPS Christmas concerts mailed to congregations across the...

Scope and Contents This series contains documents relating the study of prep schools in the Synod, especially as it related to the Northwestern Campus. Included are reports, statistics, and correspondence related to the Prep School Study Committee, Northwestern Lutheran Academy in Mobridge, SD, and Martin Luther Preparatory School in Prairie du Chien, WI. The series also contains documents relating to amalgamation and the eventual closing of the college and move to Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN.

Scope and Contents This series consists of correspondence, reports and other documents regarding the synodical school structure issue that surfaced in the mid-1980s until its conclusion with the amalgamation decision of the 1995 WELS Convention. Included in this series are MLPS self-study reports from the mid-1980s, reports from the 1989-1990 Prep School Study Committee, responses from the faculties of all schools involved, responses and correspondence from concerned individuals and groups in the synod and other...