Alumni News
1969 DAVID ELLINGSON
has published the book Biblical Wisdom for a Digital Age. For the book, he selected 50 biblical “sound bites” (passages) with key Christian themes, wrote short reflections, and developed learning activities for families, teens, and adults. He says the book is useful for personal/family devotions, classes, small groups, and retreats.
Md. As the college’s first tenured African American professor, he was an expert in political theory, American political behavior, and the judicial process. He advised students who participated in the Model UN program held at Harvard and served as the pre-law adviser. Neal was an officer on the board of the National Pre-Law Association, and his close work with students enabled alumni acceptance into the top law schools in the country. He intends to move to Jacksonville, Fla., and develop a Constitution law textbook with friends who are also retired professors. STAN NELSON of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, retired from Royal Bank of Canada.
CHARLES NEAL received emeritus status after retiring from his 35-year position as political science and international studies professor for McDaniel College in Westminster,
MARIE (HAGENE) QUANBECK retired from Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Newton, Iowa.
Lee ’87 and Hubbard ’68 publishing new computer science texts Kent Lee ’87, Luther professor of computer science, recently completed a textbook, Foundations of Programming Languages, which will be published by Springer early this year. The textbook employs a newly created framework for teaching programming languages (an area of computer science). Lee will also present a paper at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education on this same framework. The paper is titled “A Framework for Teaching Programming Languages.” Lee also recently published a second edition of his textbook Python Programming Fundamentals, published by Springer. The second edition will be available early this year. Steve Hubbard ’68, Luther professor of mathematics, and Lee recently completed a text, Data Structures and Algorithms with Python, which will be also published early this year. The textbook includes material taught in both the introductory level and advanced data structures and algorithms courses and is the culmination of a three-year collaboration between Hubbard and Lee.
Jeanie Lovell with Bob and Becky (Linnevold) Shaw ’71.
EVAN SOWDER ’15
Shaws, Lovell recognized for volunteerism and their work with charitable giving Becky (Linnevold) ’71 and Bob Shaw received the 2014 Outstanding Volunteer Fundraisers Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Central Iowa Chapter, in November. Jeanie Lovell, Luther director of corporate and foundation relations and campaign codirector, received the Outstanding Professional Fundraiser Award from AFP’s Upper Mississippi Valley Chapter. The Shaws were recognized for their work with Children and Families of Iowa, Des Moines Area Religious Council, Des Moines Symphony, Family Promise of Greater Des Moines, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, and Luther College. At Luther, the couple has served in volunteer leadership roles such as Becky’s tenure on the Board of Regents and her service on the Outreach and Gifts Committee, their work on the Higher Calling Campaign and the Sesquicentennial Fund Campaign, and their participation in Presidentsråd. The couple also led the Des Moines Symphony’s 75th` Anniversary Campaign cabinet—for which Becky also helped recruit members—and have each served on the Symphony Association Board of Trustees. Currently, they are on the Campaign Steering Committee for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Always Being Made New, a $188 million five-year campaign to celebrate the ELCA’s 25-year anniversary. Serving in Luther’s Development Office for 22 years, Lovell has worked on more than 500 grant proposals generating more than $23 million. She was instrumental in helping secure some of the largest grants in Luther history, including awards from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lilly Endowment, and the F.W. Olin Foundation. As campaign codirector, Lovell helps to lead Luther’s comprehensive campaign efforts, from planning and strategy through implementation and evaluation. In 2004, she founded the Women, Faith, and Finance initiative at Luther, a collaborative women’s philanthropy program.
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