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Class of 1968 Prepares for Reunion
In anticipation of our "Class of '68" reunion in 2008 we have established a "members only" blog as a place for the LSTC Class of 1968 (and our friends from Seminex) to share memories from their seminary days and stories of their experiences since.
Here is an excerpt from the first entry, from Gordon Roesch, member of the LSTC Alumni/ae board:
With heart-felt greetings to the Class of 1968, known for a lot of things such as:
- getting started a month late because the building wasn’t ready for us,
- getting the first experience of “urban immersion education,”
- the class that refused to establish a governing organization,
- that wondered if we would ever get our credits sorted out,
- that waded into the “contextual education” of the new curriculum,
- that pulled together during the riots after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s’ death.
- that shut the seminary down for a twelve hour “teach in” to address racism,
- took a stand together as a class and organized other seminarians against racism,
- some more recent members of our class were a part of the exodus and perilous wandering in St. Louis until they too settled in Chicago as Seminex,
- and the first class to graduate from the southside campus of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
That means a year from now, 2008, we will be celebrating our 40th anniversary as graduates.
My guess is that you have many memories of those days and can add to the list above. But more important, I know you have many stories of ministry. Over this coming year I’d like to hear many of those memories and stories, so that when we get together for our 40th, we will have many specific moments to celebrate. I will start these stories of our class. But, most of all, I am looking forward to your memories of our first year on the southside and to your stories of ministry.
In the coming days we will be contacting members of the Class of '68 via email, inviting them to "join" our blog so they too can share in the memories and experiences in ministry in the intervening 40 years.
In case we don't have your email address, if you are a member of the Class of '68 please email your name and email address to jnipp@lstc.edu so we can officially "invite" you to join the Blog where you can read the stories and share one of your own at "First Class Stories."
Read the Epistle, from Winter 1967-1968 (PDF)
Read the Epistle, from Spring 1968 (PDF)
Read the Epistle, from Summer 1968 (PDF)
Read the Fall 2007 feature about the 40th Anniversary of the Building
This webpage was last updated May 8, 2008.
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