In the words of Andrew Schulze: “A number of people within the Lutheran Church, who were concerned with the problem of human relations as it affects the Church, began to come together to discuss this problem. One of the results was a national institute on human relations which was held in St. Louis in 1946. A similar institute was conducted in the same city in 1947. In the two succeeding years the institute was held in Chicago. In 1950 it was transferred to Valparaiso, Indiana, where it has been conducted on the campus of Valparaiso University each summer since then and is now known as the Valparaiso University Institute on Human Relations. At the 1953 Institute those present organized the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America.”
O.P. Kretzmann asked Andrew Schulze to accept a joint assignment. He devoted part of this time teaching for and being paid by VU, part serving as Director of the VU Institute on Human Relations, and the rest acting as head of the LHRAA. Upon Schulze’s resignation from the LHRAA leadership, Karl Lutze took on that position. In 1981 the LHRAA office was moved to Milwaukee.
