ELCA Seminaries Plan 2004 Commencements

Chicago (ELCA)-FI — The seminaries and extension centers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) prepare candidates for lay and ordained ministry in the church. Commencement exercises close their 2003-2004 academic year. The date, school, keynote speaker and site of the exercises are given:

May 14 Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (LSTG), Pa.
The Rev. Michael Cooper-White, LSTG president
Church of the Abiding Presence (LTSG Chapel)

May 14 Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS), Columbia, S.C.
The Rev. H. George Anderson, former presiding bishop of the ELCA, former president of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, and former president of LTSS , now visiting professor, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn.
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Columbia

May 15 Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS), Berkeley, Calif.
Dr. Martha Ellen Stortz, professor of historical theology and ethics, PLTS
Chapel of the Cross (PLTS Chapel)

May 16 Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
The Rev. Marsha Foster Boyd, director for accreditation and leadership education, The Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh
Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago

May 16 Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa
Dr. Marva J. Dawn, theologian, Christians Equipped for Ministry of Vancouver, Wash., and teaching fellow in spiritual theology, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Dubuque

May 18 Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest (LSPS), Austin, Texas
The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, New York
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 Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (ETSS). Commencement activities are conducted jointly with ETSS.

May 23 Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Bradbury H. (Brad) Anderson, chief executive officer, Best Buy Co., Inc., Richfield, Minn.
Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

May 23 Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the ELCA, Chicago
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lansdale, Pa.

June 5 Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio
The Rev. James K. Echols, president, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Mees Hall, Capital University, Columbus

Lutheran Theological Center in Atlanta (LTCA)
LTCA, located on the campus of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), is an extension of theological education programs of the eight seminaries of the ELCA. LTCA students graduate from the seminaries.