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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

April 30, 2002

ELCA SEMINARIES PLAN 2002 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
02-105-FI

     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 2001-2002 academic year.
The dates, speakers and locations are listed:

May 10
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C.
Dr. Marva Dawn, musician, ethicist and theologian, Vancouver, Wash.
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Columbia

May 10
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa.
The Rev. Michael Cooper-White, president of the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg
Abiding Presence Chapel, Seminary Ridge (seminary campus), Gettysburg

May 12
Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa
Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, OSB, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Milwaukee
St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Dubuque

May 18
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif.
The Rev. Roland D. Martinson, professor of pastoral care, Carrie
Olson Baalson Chair in Children, Youth and Family Ministry, Luther
Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Chapel of the Cross (seminary campus), Berkeley

May 19
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
The Rev. H. George Anderson, former presiding bishop of the ELCA,
Prospect Heights, Ill.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lansdale, Pa.

May 21
Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest, Austin, Texas
The Rev. Roger A. Paynter, First Baptist Church, Austin, and adjunct
professor of pastoral ministry, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the
Southwest (ETSS), Austin
St. Matthew's 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 ETSS.  Commencement
     activities are conducted jointly with ETSS.

May 26
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Father John E. Forliti, St. Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis
Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

June 2
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
The Rev. Peter Rogness, bishop of the ELCA Greater Milwaukee Synod
and bishop-elect of the ELCA Saint Paul (Minn.) Area Synod
Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago

June 8
Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio
Dr. Mark U. Edwards Jr., president emeritus, St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minn.
Mees Hall, Capital University, Columbus

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