Walter L. Pelz

American composer, arranger, educator, and choir director. born in Chicago, Illinois in 1926. He studied at Concordia Teacher's College, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota. He taught music in public schools for a number of years and also taught music and ministered at Christ Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also on the music faculty at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas where he directed choirs and conducted the Bethany Oratorio Society.