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CAMPUS MINISTRY & UNIVERSITY TEACHING—1968-1977

1968-1977 were powerfully formative years for me. The situations into which I was placed and the challenges they provided set the tone for most of my life to follow.

After Seminary graduation I had expected to be assigned an initial pastoral call to some small congregation in the farm belt. Instead, the powers that be sent me to Ohio University to take charge of the campus ministry position and said to me, “Go get your PhD in Psychology and Counseling.” What an opportunity. I loved the stimulating environment and thrived in the mix of combining Campus Ministry and Graduate School work.

After three years at Ohio University, my first alma mater, Concordia College, Milwaukee, WI (now Concordia University, Mequon, WI) offered me the position of Vice President for Student Affairs, with teaching responsibility in Psychology and Education—again, an opportunity that challenged me to quickly expand my management and teaching skills.

Third, the WK Kellogg Foundation awarded a long-term grant to the University of Illinois Medical School to establish several Chicago area church-based, medical clinics designed to provide whole person care—for body, mind and spirit within one location. I joined Dr Granger Westberg in this Wholistic Health Centers project as director of clinic operations and pastoral counseling

These three opportunities helped to further develop my understanding of experiential learning processes, the interrelationship between the spiritual, physical, emotional and relational components of well-being and set me on the path toward an unexpected and unorthodox ministry of health to the whole person that would characterize and permeate my writing, speaking, consulting and publishing careers to follow.

Lutheran Campus Pastor at Ohio University (1968-1971)
Member of the Ohio University Residence Life Staff (1970-1971)

Created IMPACT /Freshman Orientation Program—providing students with friendship discussion groups throughout the fall semester—a program that during the 1970s was implemented by more than 400 colleges and universities across the country.
Founded the successful publishing company, Listening Group, which focused on developing empathy training and small group facilitation products and which paid the graduate school bills!
Established the Southeast Ohio State Hospital Student Visitation Program. See Community and Professional Service.

Vice-President for Student Affairs and Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology at Concordia University, Milwaukee, WI (1971-1973)

Established the Student Development Center utilizing the concept of “total health care.”
Created a series of weekend retreats that involved the entire student body, faculty and college staff in community building processes.

Executive Vice-President of Wholistic Health Centers, Hinsdale, IL (1973-1977) as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois Medical Center, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and as Minister of Health and the Whole Person, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hinsdale, IL

Responsible for the development and management of Dr. Granger Westberg’s church-based health centers across the country, supported by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg foundation
Principle Administrator of Illinois Regional Medical Program Board research grant studying the effectiveness of these centers.
Established the Society for Whole Person Health Care, the project’s educational conference and publishing arm.
Published the first four monographs on Whole Person Health Care.
Authored Wholistic Health: A Whole Person Approach to Primary Health Care (Human Sciences Press, New York,1977), which describes the history and philosophy of that project
Instrumental in the early conceptual development and formation of the national Parish Nurse Program.

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