Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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and the dream continues Richard Green Dean of the College My first few months as Dean at Augsburg have been very eventful and most rewarding. In my address to the faculty at the 1980 Fall Workshop. I indicated that I was eager to start my new position at the college and that I felt that I did not have time to be new. I have found the situation to be exciting and the plans for the future of the Augsburg aca- demic program to be very encouraging. I am committed to the kind of educational program offered at Augsburg. I think that students are best educated in a setting where the liberal arts, academic excellence and the Christian faith are accepted as the foundations for learn- ing. Augsburg College, in addition to offering students a quality education in a Christian and caring community, makes a special effort to take advantage of its unique urban setting. I will make a special effort to help our stu- dents reap the benefits of this learning environment and hopefully, they will learn to live a full life while preparing for a calling as contributing members of society. — Richard Green Vice President for Academic Affairs Dean of the College 14 INTRODUCTION

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Augsburg College Presidents Leif S. Harbo Oscar A. Anderson 1962-1963 1963-1980 INTRODUCTION 13

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It is an honor to be invited to share a few impressions with you in this edition of the Augsburgian. This year has been one of unusual challenge and opportu- nity for me. It is challenging to step into an office filled so long and with such grace by Oscar Anderson, to be faced with the needs of our college, the church and to try to focus our resources and abilities to meet these needs. The opportunities of this ministry are awesome; Together we have a chance to actually change lives and values, to call each other to service and leadership, to make some mark, each of us, so that the new generation will have some clues that we walked this way before them. I have never had such a demanding and rewarding task, I am grateful to God and to all others who have led me to this place. Augsburg is an interesting mixture of tradition and innova- tion, of old and new. Good students appear each year and struggle, along with parents and friends to pay the bills, as well as learn; faculty and staff provide another year of com- mitted service; we enjoy excellent programs, winning teams, and the marvelous resource of the city around us; above all, there is the continuing conviction that the world does indeed belong to God. and we are the objects of immeasurable love. We are also enriched by the new. New students continue to join us. along with faculty and staff. Our context in society and the church presses in upon us with demands for new forms of service and opportunities for learning. New and renovated buildings are in service and further work is on the drawing boards. Three thousand persons gathered for the Augsburg Advent Vespers service, an event that will certainly become a tradition. And the mercy of God is, as the Scriptures put it, “New every morning.'' (Lamentations 3:23) This has been a year of challenge and opportunity, of tradi- tion and newness. I hope that each of you who read these words will join me in loving, correcting, improving and sup- porting Augsburg. Thank you for a marvelous first year. — Charles S. Anderson President INTRODUCTION 15