Special 140th
Year Tribute to Lutheran Social Service Auxiliaries
From the very beginning of
what is now LSS, women have played a critical role - as professionals on
the staff as well as highly-skilled volunteers and advocates.
As LSS approached its 140th
Anniversary, leadership of the Lutheran Social Service Auxiliary (LSSA)
decided to look through the records and publish a retrospective account of
certain women and their contributions to LSS over the years. This book,
The First to Serve: Women of Lutheran Social Service, is that result of
that decision.
The publication is a
collection of memoirs and tributes to some of the stalwart supporters who
raised money and enhanced volunteers to help LSS missions over the years.
It tells the stories of "Well-Baby Clinics" and of the "Lots of Savings"
and "Repeatables" shops that raised millions for LSS by selling donated,
used clothing and house wares at bargain prices.
Connie Beck, LSSA volunteer
and member of Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Roseville, served as
editor.
Copies of this publication
will be available at the LSSA Spring Luncheon, to be held at Mount Olivet
Lutheran Church in Minneapolis on April 18, 2005. For information, call
Dorothy McQueen at 952-472-1248.
