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Our Beginnings: A Short History

On a cold, early winter evening in 1973, a group of six or seven people
went to the "Iron Horse" restaurant, Bluemound and Highway 100 in
Milwaukee, for refreshments. It was at this informal get-together that the
idea developed to establish the organization later named the Lutheran
Science Institute.

At a meeting called for the purpose, the Institute was established on
November 23, 1973. Committees were appointed for writing a constitution
and filing papers for incorporation. Paul Unke prepared and filed the
papers, and a short time later LSI became incorporated on January 7,
1974. At this time membership totaled 17.

The first officers elected were Dave Golisch, president, and Gerald
Mallmann, secretary; and Board members elected were Bob Adickes and
Harvey Romberg. Vice-president, treasurer, and three board members
were added later.

The Beginnings of the LSI Journal

In 1987 Warren Krug responded to a request for a volunteer to
take over editing the LSI Newsletter. The LSI Board of Directors
appointed him as editor and agreed to his suggestion that the
publication be renamed the LSI Journal. A magazine format was
chosen to replace the newsletter format, and the first issue of
the LSI Journal, edited on a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A home
computer, was printed on a copier in September or October of
1987.

In late 1991 the Institute purchased a Magnavox computer and
Packard Bell laser printer for giving the magazine a more
professional look. The dot matrix printer look was out, and
sharper printing and more graphics were in.

Currently we are on our fourth and fifth printers, the latest, a
Samsung color printer, purchased last year and used for
printing the cover of the magazine in color. Warren Krug
continues to serve as editor.