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Fresh out of Augustana College, the small, determined 20-year-old felt a bit nervous when she first arrived at the Kennedy School of Government two years ago. The first chapters of "The Education of Lori A. Forman," had been set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and she was intimidated by the prospect of moving to Harvard...
Sampson, a native of Wilmington, Del., earned his B.A. at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., in 1970, and concentrated in Church (now known as Applied Theology) in the Masters of Theological Studies program at the Divinity school. "He was very politically active all the way through," one of Sampson's friends at the Div School, who asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday...
...break became final when four new bishops were consecrated in Denver's Augustana Lutheran Church on Jan. 28 to lead the self-styled "Anglican Church of North America." Staying in the Episcopal Church, said one of the four later, "is like giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse." The fiery consecration sermon by the Rev. George Rutler of Rosemont, Pa., compared the new bishops to Moses for leading their people out of the Episcopal Egypt. After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared...
...daresay it would be both presumptuous and callous of, say, Protestants at Notre Dame University, Methodists at Augustana College (Lutheran), Mormons at Furman University (Baptist), Gentiles at Brandeis University (Jewish), or Jews at Harvard to insist that securing these groups' presence in universities of different cultural origins and distinctiveness required the latter's extinction. Thus, in the model of American pluralism, as Notre Dame adjusted over time to this model its Catholic leadership is required only to surrender its nativist phobia--its fear that having Protestants, Jews, Muslims, etc. among us will destroy us, deny our cultural distinctiveness...
...went to Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. For two years before transferring to the University of Illinois. After a year at Harvard Law School, St. Clair joined the Navy. He spent the war in San Pedro, Calif., training crews in the use of PC77 patrol crafts. In California he met Billie Nestle, the daughter of a Bank of America vice president, married her, and returned to Cambridge in November...