History
In 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, a letter appeared in the July edition of the North Carolina Lutheran written by Pastor H. A. McCullough, outlining a critical financial situation that existed at Southern Seminary. McCullough's call awakened an impassioned response from Mary McClanahan Holland, widow of the Rev. Robert C. Holland, long time supporter of missions in the southern Lutheran church. It took another six years for a formal organization to be effected, but on May 20, 1940, "a large group of women, brought together by Mrs. E.C. Cooper, wife of the president of the Seminary at that time, met in the Seminary Reception Room and organized an auxiliary to be known as THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF THE LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SOUTHERN SEMINARY."
(From: Female Society: Women and the Life of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, 1830 2006, a Lecture for the 175th Anniversary of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, March 2, 2006, by Dr. Susan W. McArver, Associate Professor of Educational Ministry and Church History, Southern Seminary.)
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Ron Walrath
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