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Title: ELCA College Names New President ELCA NEWS SERVICE - NEWSBRIEF April 24, 1996 BETHANY COLLEGE NAMES NEW PRESIDENT The Rev. Christopher M. Thomforde has been selected as the 11th president of Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan. He will assume office July 1. Thomforde has been chaplain to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., since 1986. Bethany and Susquehanna are two of the 28 colleges associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Thomforde received a history degree from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., in 1969. After two years of teaching at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, he returned to the United States and earned a master of divinity degree from Yale University, New Haven, Conn. He is a doctor of ministry program degree candidate at Princeton. Thomforde served as pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, New York, from 1978-1986. Thomforde said he hopes to serve Bethany College "in a way that the present community will be as active and creative as possible and so that those coming in the future will also come to love it as well." He is married to Christina Thomforde. They are the parents of four children. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Dir., ELCA News Service, (312) 380-2958; Frank Imhoff, Assoc. Dir., (312) 380-2955; Lia Christiansen, Asst. Dir., (312) 380-2956