ELCA NEWS SERVICE

June 9, 2008  

Rossing Fund Awards To Nine Students From ELCA Colleges
08-081-LT*

      CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Nine students attending colleges
and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA) will receive scholarships in the amounts
of $10,000, $5,000 or $3,000 for the 2008-09 school year
from the ELCA Foundation through the Rossing Fund for
Physics Education Endowment.
      The endowment was set up by Thomas D. Rossing,
professor emeritus, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
Ill., who is currently a guest professor of music, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, Calif.  Rossing established the
fund in 2005.
      The endowment provides scholarships to students
studying physics.  The selection committee chose three
students for $10,000 scholarships -- Dirk Lorenz, a senior
at Texas Lutheran University, Seguin; Christene Lynch, a
senior at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa.; and Daniel
Endean, a senior at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
Endean received the distinction last year, and his scholarship
will be renewed for the upcoming school year.
      Four runners-up were chosen to receive $5,000
scholarships -- Barry Constanzi and Charles McEachern, both
seniors at St. Olaf; Andrea Schiefelbein, a senior at Luther
College, Decorah, Iowa; and Katelyn White, a senior at
California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks.  Schiefelbein
received a $3,000 scholarship in 2007 from the endowment.
      The committee chose two alternates to receive $3,000
scholarships -- Alison Harmelink, a junior at Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn., and Tim Uher, a junior at Wittenberg
University, Springfield, Ohio.
      The ELCA Foundation assists congregations and individuals
in gift planning that supports ministries of the ELCA.
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     More information about the Foundation of the ELCA is at
http://www.ELCA.org/fo on the Web.

*Luke Tatge is a senior journalism major at Augustana College,
Sioux Falls, S.D.  This summer he is an intern with the ELCA
News Service.

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