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Luther College Alumni & Friends Magazine LUTHERL COLLEGEu ALUMNIth er & FRIENDS MAGAZINE FALL 2016 / WINTER 2017 STORY 1992 2016 REGINA CANADA LUTHER LS STORY message from the president activities was an important Century Liberal Arts College.” I hope you are encouraged by theme as it encompasses much Four easily identifiable areas the fact that your Luther College of our students’ education. include academic programming, will be here, as you know it, yet The long-term viability of our where efforts to ensure the easy also prepared for the future, as a College required us to consider transition of our students from result of these strategic plans. enrollment and financial high school to university will foundations, the third theme. Our probably result in a foundation faculty understandably pressed year for students where the for professional development, basics of critical thinking Bryan Hillis (U’78), Ph.D. while the development of new and communication will be President, Luther College facilities and refurbishing of emphasized and enhanced. crumbling infrastructure was Student programming is another This past weekend, Mike Fritzler the final theme. There was critical area, where responses (HS’88), the Chair of our Board great progress in all of these to the Truth and Reconciliation of Regents, and I attended a areas with the most obvious Commission will be considered, meeting of a national school being the construction of new as will enhanced efforts to ensure organization that asked for ideas facilities and the less obvious that our campus is welcoming that would contribute to that the comprehensive plans of our to students of all religions, organization’s strategic three- faculty for their professional cultures, and sexual orientations. year plan. This reminded me that development to ensure the Recruiting and marketing is an the strategic plans of both our continuing high level of area of emphasis that has already campuses significantly inform the academics for which the campus borne fruit, with our enrollments future direction of our College. is so well known. up 18 percent over last year. While strategic plans can be Finally, we are halfway through considered boring, I thought, Some of these themes carry over a $5.1M renovation of our forty- even hoped, that those reading into the High School’s new plan five-year-old residence that will this Luther Story might want to for 2016-2019; new themes also provide greater comfort and know how the College of their emerge, including supports for security for our students. past is working towards a future the academic and mental well- for tomorrow’s students. being of our students, ensuring One can argue these are boring, that our student body is diverse even tedious, topics, and perhaps The 2011-2016 strategic plan and inclusive, and enabling our for a President’s column they are. for our High School campus faculty to make greater use of IT However, I think it’s important was divided into five themes. in the same pursuit of academic for our readers to know that Academic programming is at excellence that has driven the in addition to all the teaching, the very heart of our school’s campus for 103 years. research, and student support existence, and topics in this that occurs daily at both of our theme ranged from how much At the University campus, we are campuses, our Board, faculty, IB should inform our curriculum approximately halfway through and staff are also working towards to how long our class periods our 2014-2019 plan entitled the future viability and vitality of should be. Co-curricular “Meeting the Challenges of a 21st our College. Front cover photo caption: The Luther Story If you have a question or story idea to share, please contact us at: The Luther Story Left - Back page of the 1992-1993 is the magazine c/o Luther College at the University of Regina Luther College Residence yearbook; of the alumni and friends 3737 Wascana Parkway Right - Alumni from the 1990’s who attended a mini-residence reunion at Luther College at the ofREGINA Luther College. CANADARegina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2 Canada [email protected] University of Regina on August 13, 2016. LUTHER STORY LS message from the table of pulpit contents Our current understanding of godly life – no matter how hard 2 Alumni Profiles human nature is very muddled. we try. We sentimentally consider 6 Saying Goodbye ourselves a good people without It is imperative that as Christians 8 Donation Announcements any serious examination of that we work towards a more honest A Family Legacy assumption. Who are we really? understanding of human nature. 9 Are we really all that good? Our society is in great danger 10 Kramer Family Scholarship & LIT of people who believe they are 11 Jeniffer Faro Scholarship In his disturbing book, People good people (even presidential of the Lie, Dr. Scott Peck states candidates!) yet are unobservant 12 New Manager of Dining Services that the most dangerous form of their own moral actions. Rabbi and Upcoming Alumni Events of evil is when we learn to hide Burton Visotzky observes that the 13 Peer Chaplains Here in Saskatchewan we have a the truth from ourselves. Evil Genesis stories portray human pro team that wins the cup – well, becomes most insidious when we nature in all its painful honesty; 14 On Campus on occasion – but where I come learn to buy into a falsehood and perhaps homiletics would do well 18 Class Notes & Notices from, that has yet to happen, at then come to believe it, forgetting to address these stories more. least for the Vancouver Canucks. completely the truth: the truth 24 The Luther College They have thrice made it to the is hidden even from ourselves. It is understandable why many Story Continues Stanley Cup finals, and there George Orwell called it “double reject any suggestion that they 25 Notices & Events have been riots that last two times think.” are anything less than “good upon elimination. people.” Too often the Church’s With our culture’s tendency to message is that humanity is The Cup riots were disturbing and discard Christian scholarship simply corrupt, and only tolerated caused a lot of soul-searching. as antiquated, we have lost a by God’s grace. The truth is that They shook the foundations of tool for precisely understanding we are God’s children, capable our self-image and generated human nature. We are moral of good and bad, and called and, there, find the words: ‘For much introspection. Together, the beings spanning a spectrum of constantly into wholeness and my sake was the world created.’ riots caused 6.7 million dollars behaviours. We are saints to holiness. But when feeling high and mighty, in damage. One memorable Cup sociopaths but mostly somewhere one should reach into the left comment was from a Vancouver in-between, black and white and Martin Buber refers to Rabbi pocket and find the words: ‘I am woman: “This isn’t who we are as many shades of grey. Luther’s Simcha Bunim’s teaching that but dust and ashes.’ ” a people. We’re a good people. view was that human nature offers an important corrective We’re not like this.” was originally created by God as to our distorted view of human Who are we? If we can hold on to good and worthy, but it has been nature: “Everyone must have the Rabbi’s teaching we can be This statement rang false for me. corrupted by sin and is incapable two pockets, with a note in each honest: we are dust and ashes… In my view, the riots spoke a lot of sound moral judgement. While pocket, so that he or she can and much, much more. about who we are. It was a vivid many may deny the generational reach into the one or the other, example of the violence that we transmission of original sin, no depending on the need. When as people are capable of, and her one would deny that human feeling lowly and depressed, statement seemed a denial of nature inevitably and frequently discouraged or disconsolate, one Pastor David Peterson human evil. falls short of the target of living a should reach into the right pocket Chaplain, Luther College High School Senior Editor: Editorial Board: Design: The Luther Story is distributed by Michelle Clark (U’04) Amber Peters (U’06), Bradbury Branding & Design Canada Post under publication Editorial Advisor: Donna Grant (U’93), www.bradburydesign.com mail agreement number Angela Bethune Hilary Schroeder 40065736. FILES O R Alumni P CHRIS DIXON (HS’86, U’91) As Design Director of Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, working with countless York based Chris Dixon (HS’86, U’91) inspiring photographers, journalists, and aptly describes his work as “the visual side editors to produce a creative, design-driven of journalism. You get to tell important magazine, he eagerly took on the challenge stories,” he says, “and work with of re-inventing an iconic brand at Vanity contemporary and conceptual photography Fair. “With a design-savvy editor in Graydon and design. The cycle of reading, Carter, we designed a new logo, developed interpreting, and designing is endlessly new layouts in the magazine, section-by- creative––every project is engaging.” section––drawing out the aesthetic appeal and sophistication of the Vanity Fair brand.” Dixon’s description of his work is saturated with the passion he has for balancing Vanity Fair, founded in 1913, covers topics and blending journalism and artistry – a as wide-ranging as business, media, fashion, passion he says developed while he was Hollywood, technology, art, architecture, completing his high school and post- and culture. In his day-to-day role as Design secondary education.
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