FACU LT Y & S TA FF
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Bethel Balge
Jonathan Loging
Ann Fredrickson
Laura Matzke
Benjamin Inniger
Kurt Paulsen
Julie Kjeer
Amanda Quist
Renee Tatge
Celebrating Faculty and Staff Anniversaries The Bethany Lutheran College Regents visit the campus every year in February for a quarterly meeting. It's during this Regents meeting that a special service is held in Trinity Chapel to recognize faculty and staff who are celebrating anniversaries of their employment at Bethany. The ongoing pandemic caused the Regents to hold their February 2021 meeting virtually, and for this reason the annual employee anniversary service was postponed. The honorees for 2021 will be recognized during the 2021-22 academic year when it is safe to do so.
Fifteen Years of Service
Ten Years of Service
Thirty Years of Service
Benjamin Inniger – Associate Professor, Theatre Amanda Quist – Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Renee Tatge – Director, Residential Life, Student Activities, Intramurals
Bethel Balge – Lessons Instructor, Music Kurt Paulsen – Associate Professor, Communication
Twenty Years of Service Julie Kjeer – Dean of Faculty; Professor, Mathematics Jonathan Loging – Associate Professor, Communication
Twenty-five Years of Service Ann Fredrickson – Adjunct Faculty, Music Laura Matzke – Music Instruction: Organ, Piano, Voice
Moldstad awarded commendation Rev. Don Moldstad, Bethany's Campus Spiritual Life Director, recently received the 2020 Award of Commendation from the Concordia Historical Society (CHS) for a paper he wrote about the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), entitled, "Born Amid War, Born of War." CHS is operated by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The paper traces the early beginnings of the Norwegian Synod (1853), now ELS, and its relationship with other Confessional Lutheran church bodies. The primary focus 6
was on the historic decisions which took place in 1917, with the merging of various church bodies that deviated from the truths of Scripture. This caused a small group of pastors and congregations to leave the group and re-establish themselves upon the original teachings from Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions, which the Norwegian Synod had always confessed and taught. The final struggles took place in the shadow of WW1, thus the title. The award was accompanied by a bronze medallion.
