Title: ELCA College President to Retire ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF March 12, 1997 AUGSBURG PRESIDENT TO RETIRE The Rev. Charles S. Anderson, 67, will retire this summer as president of Augsburg College, Minneapolis. Anderson cited personal and professional reasons for his early retirement. He has undergone surgery and chemotherapy for intestinal cancer. "My progress with the treatment has been good," said Anderson. "But while I am grateful to have served at Augsburg for so many years, I am also aware that time is a great and valuable gift, and I wish to spend more of it with my wife, our children and four grandsons. I believe the college will benefit at this time from new, aggressive leadership," he said. Anderson's third six-year term as president would have ended in July 1998. He came to Augsburg in 1976 as academic dean after 15 years as a faculty member at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. "During Anderson's 17 years as president, Augsburg has grown and progressed on many fronts," said Barbara Gage, chairperson for the Augsburg Board of Regents. Augsburg's total enrollment grew from 1,470 students in the fall of 1980 to 2,862 for 1996, and the college's endowment fund grew from $1.1 million in 1980 to over $15 million today. The Board of Regents has begun the search for a successor to Anderson and hopes to name a new president by June, said Gage. Augsburg is one of 28 colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask] http://www.elca.org/co/news/current.html