Hundreds gather in California to honor late Concordia College President Pamela Jolicoeur

About 350 people gathered here today for a memorial service for Concordia College President Pam Jolicoeur, who died June 9 at age 65.

Read the full story: www.inforum.com/event/article/id/283130/group/homepage/

Talk about it: topics.areavoices.com/2010/06/26/hundreds-gather-in-ca-to-honor-jolicoeur/

ELCA press release on Jolicoeur memorial service

"Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., spoke at a June 14 memorial service of the gifts and accomplishments of Dr. Pamela M. Jolicoeur, the college’s president, who died last week after suffering a stroke," an ELCA press release stated.

Read the full release here:www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx

Additional information on the death of Concordia College President Jolicoeur

Read today’s Forum story on the death of Concordia College President Pamela Jolicoeur here: www.inforum.com/event/article/id/281298/

View a slideshow of Jolicoeur photos here: www.inforum.com/event/photogallery/id/1701/

Read an updated press release from the ELCA here: www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx

Concordia president dies after suffering stroke this morning

Concordia College President Pamela Jolicoeur died today after suffering a stroke this morning, according to an email from the chair of the college’s board of regents

Read The Forum story at: www.inforum.com/event/article/id/281229/

Read the ELCA press release at: www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx

Former Moorhead pastor steps down as president of Texas Lutheran University

Rev. Ann M. Svennungsen,  a former senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead, has resigned as president of Texas Lutheran University (TLU) in Seguin, a May 25 news TLU press release says.

The former senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran in Moorhead cited "personal and professional" factors in the decision to resign. Svennungsen’s resignation is effective May 31.

Her resignation follows news that four former TLU players were indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon resulting in bodily injury. The indictment was "in connection with an incident in which they allegedly beat and stomped a University of the Incarnate Word football player outside a party," a May 16 Gazette-Enterprise article says.

TLU is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Svennungsen graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, where she was elected the school’s first female student body president.

Read the TLU release here.

Read an ELCA release here.

Read the Gazette-Enterprise piece here.