{"id":6386,"date":"2020-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2021-05-25T18:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:56:41","slug":"alumni-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2020\/11\/23\/alumni-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni news"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1940s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Lowell Larson \u201948 M.Div<\/strong>. died May 10.<\/p>\n<h2>1950s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Oliver Carlson \u201951 M.Div.<\/strong> died July 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arland Fiske \u201952 M.A.<\/strong> died June 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luther Larson \u201956 M.Div.<\/strong> died July 6.<\/p>\n<h2>1960s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Myron Fodge \u201961 M.A. <\/strong>died August 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn Hetland \u201961 M.Div.<\/strong> died July 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gene Peisker \u201962 M.Div. <\/strong>died September 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norman Nelson \u201964 M.Div. <\/strong>died September 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrill Ronning \u201969 M.Div. <\/strong>died August 10.<\/p>\n<h2>1970s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Gene Anderson \u201972 M.Div.<\/strong> died March 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henry Thorberg \u201973 M.Div.<\/strong> died June 6.<\/p>\n<h2>1980s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Glenn Berg-Moberg \u201985 M.Div.<\/strong> retired from St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, in May.<\/p>\n<h2>1990s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Edward Foster \u201990 M.A. <\/strong>accepted a call to serve Kent Memorial Lutheran Church in Sunrise Beach, Missouri, in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonnie Wilcox \u201997 M.Div.<\/strong>, Luther Seminary Alumni Council president, appeared on Twin Cities Public Television\u2019s \u201cCoronavirus: An Almanac Special\u201d in the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpt.org\/coronavirus-an-almanac-special\/video\/a-church-finds-renewed-purpose-37859\/\">\u201cA Church Finds Renewed Purpose.\u201d<\/a> See how her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2020\/11\/23\/necessary-conversations-on-race-and-racism\/\">church found new ways<\/a> to support and connect with its community.<\/p>\n<h2>2000s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Capt. Christopher Fiske \u201904 M.Div.<\/strong>, a chaplain in the Iowa Army National Guard, recently launched an online suicide prevention program called Beyond Awareness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee Ann M. Pomrenke \u201905 M.Div.<\/strong> published \u201cEmbodied: Clergy Women and the Solidarity of a Mothering God\u201d in September.<\/p>\n<h2>2010s<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Terry Frankenstein \u201916 M.Div.<\/strong> accepted a call to serve at Bethany Lutheran Church in Escanaba, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slewion Lewis \u201916 M.A.<\/strong> was appointed dean for the undergraduate program of Cuttington University\u2019s College of Theology in Suakoko, Liberia, and director for theological education for the Episcopal Church of Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>In December <strong>Ryan Panzer \u201919 M.A.<\/strong> is releasing his book, \u201cGrace and Gigabytes: Being Church in a Tech-Shaped Culture,\u201d which explores what it means to do effective ministry in this digital age. <a href=\"https:\/\/faithlead.luthersem.edu\/resources\/ebooks\/grace-and-gigabytes\/\">Read an excerpt<\/a> in Faith+Lead&#8217;s resources.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The listings in this publication include notifications received by September 16.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from graduates of Luther Seminary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"issue-fall-2020","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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