Title: ELCA Seminaries Plan 2001 Commencement Exercises
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

April 11, 2001

ELCA SEMINARIES PLAN 2001 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The eight seminaries and one seminary program
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) plan to conduct
commencement exercises at the end of the 2000-2001 academic year.
The dates, speakers and locations are listed:

May 11
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C.
Chaplain R. Adm. (Ret.) A. Byron Holderby, Jr., former Chief of U.S.
Navy Chaplains
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Columbia

May 13
Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa
The Rev. Jonathan P. Strandjord, director for theological education,
ELCA Division for Ministry, Chicago
St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Dubuque

May 15
Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest (LSPS), Austin, Texas
The Rev. Raymond W. Pickett Jr., LSPS assistant professor of New
Testament
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Austin
          LSPS is an extension of Wartburg Theological Seminary and the
          Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and is located on the
          campus of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest
          (ETSS).  Commencement activities are conducted jointly with
          ETSS.

May 18
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa.
The Rev. Michael Cooper-White, president of the seminary
Seminary Chapel, Gettysburg

May 19
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS), Berkeley, Calif.
The Rev. Mark Ramseth, president, Trinity Lutheran Seminary,
Columbus, Ohio, former bishop of the ELCA Montana Synod and former
chair of the PLTS board
Chapel of the Cross on the PLTS campus

May 20
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
The Rev. Margaret Payne, bishop of the ELCA New England Synod,
Worcester, Mass.
First Presbyterian Church, Chestnut Hill, Pa.

May 27
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
The Rev. Mark Ramseth, president, Trinity Lutheran Seminary,
Columbus, Ohio, and former bishop of the ELCA Montana Synod
Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

June 3
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Lily R. Wu, author, editor, consultant, and a member of the ELCA
Church Council, Forest Hills, N.Y.
St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Chicago

June 9
Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio
The Rev. Larry A. Hoffsis, retired pastor, Epiphany Lutheran Church,
Dayton, Ohio
Mees Hall, Capital University, Columbus

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