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CLASS NOTES 2009 Timothy Brown (M.Div.) was ordained on October 17, 2009, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago. Bishop Wayne Miller of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod presided. Pastor Brown is serving Luther Memorial Church in Chicago. Luke Smetters (M.Div.) was ordained on January 23 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Chicago. Pastor Smetters has been called to serve at Wiota Lutheran Church in South Wayne, Wis. Alumni take note! Excellent resource available to you through JKM Library Back when you were in seminary, you had access to one of the best theological libraries in North America – the JKM Library. One of the things that made JKM so good was its extensive periodical collection. In the last few years many of the journals became available online, so you could find, obtain and print out full-text articles from your home or office. The premier database for full-text online articles in religion is called ATLASerials or ATLAS. This database contains full articles from 140 major religion and theological journals, including Christianity Today, Christian Century, Interpretation, Worship, and Zygon. JKM subscribes to ATLAS and so you have access to them all if you are a currently enrolled student. When you graduate, licensing law prohibits JKM from granting ATLAS access to you. Until now! JKM Library through The American Theological Library Association and Lilly Endowment, Inc., offers YOU, the alumni of LSTC, free access to ATLAS and all of its wonderful full-text articles from this and the next two academic years! It’s one of the benefits of being our alum! How can you participate? It’s simple: phone or email Chris Wenderoth, director of the JKM Library, at 773-256-0735 or cwenderoth@jkmlibrary.org, for the username and password of ATLAS. Then, log on… and read. IN MEMORIAM Joseph Dahlquist 1917 – 2009 Augustana Class of 1945 Pastor Dahlquist died on September 12, 2009, in Duluth, Minn. He was ordained in 1945 and served churches in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. He served on the boards for Lakeshore Lutheran Home and Bethesda Hospital (Minneapolis), and chaired the board on Social Ministry for the LCA. He was a member of the Senior Olympics as a golfer and bowler. He also sang in the Duluth Symphony Chorus and Duluth Opera. He was preceded in death by his wife, Janice. He is survived by two sons. A funeral service was held September 21, 2009, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Duluth, Minn. Kenwood K. Engel 1931 – 2009 Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, Ill. Class of 1955 Pastor Kenwood Engel was ordained in 1955 and served congregations in Wisconsin and Illinois. From 1963 until his retirement in 2001, Pastor Engel served at Christ Lutheran Church in Clarendon Hills, Ill. He died on October 31, 2009. A memorial service will be held at a later date. J. Dean Gevik 1931 – 2009 Augustana Class of 1957 The Rev. Dr. J. Dean Gevik was the author of five books, including Confessions of a Parish Pastor and Paradigms of Ministry, and a contributor to a number of periodicals and publications. He served as pastor of congregations in Michigan and Minnesota, and as chaplain of Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley and Halstad, Minn., and at Woodland Good Samaritan Center in Brainerd, Minn. He died on June 6, 2009. Funeral services were held June 20, 2009, at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Baxter, Minn. He is survived by his wife, Melba, three children, and one grandchild. Arvid T. Swanson Jr. 1925 – 2009 Augustana Class of 1954 Arvid “Ted” Swanson received his honorable discharge from the Army and his call to ministry in 1946. He was ordained in 1954 and served congregations in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania. After earning a master’s degree in social work from Rutgers University, he became assistant director and later director of the Lutheran Children’s Home, now called Glade Run Lutheran Services. In 1978, he accepted a call to serve St. John’s Stone Church in Prospect, Pa. Pastor Swanson died September 10, 2009. A memorial service was held September 15 at Hope Lutheran Church, Cranberry Township, Pa. 47
TRANSITIONS Board notes The Rev. Dr. Harvard Stephens Jr., college pastor and Dean of Siebert Chapel, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis., represented LSTC at the funeral of Benjamin Larson held at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, on January 22. Ben Larson, a student at Wartburg Seminary, was killed in the January 12, 2010, earthquake that struck Haiti. He had been on a teaching and research trip to the country. Pastor Stephens represents the Greater Milwaukee Synod on LSTC’s board of directors. The Rev. Dr. Jean Ziettlow, pastor of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tulsa, Okla., represented LSTC at the inauguration of Dr. Gary Emil Peluso-Verdend as president of Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa. Pastor Ziettlow is the Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod representative on LSTC’s board of directors. Staff notes Anthony Elia, associate librarian for reference and instruction, JKM Library Staff, published “An Historical Assessment of the Narrative Uses of the Words ‘Kabbalah,’ ‘Cabala,’ and ‘Qabala/h’: Discerning the Differences Jane Gegel for Theological Libraries,” in Theological Librarianship Vol.2, no.2, 2009. Introducing Jane Gegel has been receiving visitors and helping the LSTC community with room reservations and work orders since late spring 2009. As the morning person at the front desk, Jane is the first person to greet you when you come through the door. Jane is involved in the International Women’s Bible Study Group on campus. In the last year, she was able to travel to Spain with her daughter. Her spouse, Brian, is a middler M.Div. student who works part time in the office of Vocation, Admissions, and Financial Aid. Jane and Brian are from Indianapolis and are enjoying what the Windy City has to offer them while Brian is in seminary. Be sure to greet Jane when you visit LSTC. Her phone number is 773-256-0700. Kristin Johnson Kristin Johnson, program coordinator for Youth in Mission, has significant experience working with youth and families through case management and program coordination for faith-based non-profit organizations. She participated in the 2009 Serving Christ in the World trip to Mexico and has done mission travel to Guatemala. She holds a human services degree and has extensive administrative office experience. Kristin is coordinating both the YIM programs, Serving Christ in the World and Beyond Belief, and also the annual Youth Ministry Conference at LSTC coming up in April. To learn more about YIM, visit www.lstc. edu/yim/ or call the YIM office at 773-256-0754. Kristin understands LSTC first-hand as a student spouse. Her husband, Zachary, is a middler M.Div. student. Seminex reunion addendum Pastor Rick Mueller, Lutheran Church of the Atonement, Florissant, Mo, wrote: “I was pleased to see the picture of the Roschkes and Larry Neeb as part of your coverage of the Seminex reunion. “You might be interested to know that in addition to being ‘a long-time Seminex supporter,’ Larry Neeb was also Vice President for Seminary Relations, a member of the Seminex faculty, and the executive editor of Missouri in Perspective, the newspaper which generated so much of the support for Seminex around the LCMS. For two years, Dave Roschke was managing editor of Perspective. “I had the privilege of being a colleague of both of these Christian gentlemen and know first-hand their invaluable contributions to the support and survival of Seminex.” Vitor Westhelle publishes two new books After Heresy: Colonial Practices and Post-Colonial Theologies (2010, Cascade Books) and The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant (2009, Fortress Press), are the two newest books from Professor of Systematic Theology Vitor Westhelle. He has published five books in the last three and half years. In The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant, Westhelle states “The living church is to its forms of self-representation what a parasite is to its host. The orchid that blossoms will not have a ‘presence’ but for the tree that hosts it, yet it does not blossom because of the tree.” The church is an event that takes place and where church happens is inseparable from when it happens. How can we detect the signs of the living church and where does it take place? Westhelle’s book throws light on these questions and opens up others to ponder. After Heresy: Colonial Practices and Post-Colonial Theologies is a book in three parts. It begins with an examination for colonial missionary practices then moves to interpretations of the crisis of Western modernity. Finally, it analyses some post-colonial practices that at theologically grounded even when used in discourses that are not religious. Some of the questions this work takes up are: Is there a post-colonial understanding of sin and evil? How can we understand eschatology in post-colonial terms? What does it mean to be the church in a post-colonial framework? For more information about the books or to purchase them, visit the publishers’ web sites: www.augsburgfortress. org/store/ and www.wipfandstock.com/cascade_books. 48
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