FRAME NAMED PRESIDENT FOR AUGSBURG COLLEGE
Dr. William V. Frame, 56, will become the 10th president of Augsburg College, Minneapolis, on
Aug. 1. He succeeds the Rev. Charles S. Anderson, 67, who will retire Sept. 1. Anderson
served as the college's president for 17 years. Frame is currently the vice president for finance
and operations at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash. Augsburg and Pacific Lutheran
University are two of 28 colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America. Frame earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University
of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1962 and 1964, and a doctorate in the same subject from the University
of Washington, Seattle, in 1969. He taught political science at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio,
from 1967 to 1982 and was a senior corporate banker at the First National Bank of Chicago
from 1981 to 1989. "The remarkable tradition of Lutheran higher education," said Frame, "is
founded on the ideas of vocation instead of career, of service instead of success, of a concept
of nature and history. These ideas provide the critical elements of a preparation the world
needs and for which it is beginning to ask." Frame is a member of Trinity Lutheran Church,
Tacoma Wash.
For information contact:
Ann Hafften, Director (773) 380-2958 or NEWS@ELCA.ORG
http://www.elca.org/co/news/current.html
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About the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:
The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with 2.8 million members in more than 8,500 worshiping communities across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region. Known as the church of "God's work. Our hands.," the ELCA emphasizes the saving grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unity among Christians and service in the world. The ELCA's roots are in the writings of the German church reformer Martin Luther.
For information contact:
Candice Hill Buchbinder
Public Relations Manager
Candice.HillBuchbinder@ELCA.org
