Concordia College

Planning Committee

Jane Ahlin
Ahlin teaches in the English department at Minnesota State University Moorhead and is a regular contributor to The Forum newspaper.

Sr. Andrea Arendt
Arendt is director of the Presentation Prayer Center, Fargo, where she works as
a spiritual director and retreat facilitator.

Ron Ellingson
Ellingson has a bachelor’s degree from Valley City State University in history, English, French and political science and also has graduate hours from NDSU in computer science and statistics. He is currently working in research and development and system architecture for Agri ImaGIS TEchnologies, Inc., which provides remote-sensed imagery, and software for the analysis of that imagery for farm management.

Jan Flack
Flack is director of Continuing Studies, Customized Education and Training at Minnesota State University Moorhead. She has a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf and a Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota. Flack also helped start the program College for Kids and continues to organize that event each year.
 
Sheldon Green
Green is a senior writer and photographer in the Office of Communications and Marketing at Concordia College. He has been the editor of the Hazen (N.D.) Star weekly newspaper and North Dakota Horizons magazine and helped edit, design and photograph the five-volume North Dakota Centennial Book series. Green is a graduate of the University of North Dakota. He was a collaborator on the award-winning book “Magnificent Churches on the Prairie,” published by the Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU.

Dr. John Helgeland
Helgeland is a professor of history at North Dakota State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. Helgeland currently serves on the NDSU Bush Ethics Committee. He also has received the Blue Key Distinguished Educator award.

Dr. Theodore Kleiman
Kleiman is a physician at Innovis Health in Fargo. He participates in numerous community committees.

Dr. David Myers
Myers taught courses in the philosophy of religion and world religions at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He is working on a book on religious diversity. Also, Myers is involved in promoting interfaith dialogue and inter-religious education in the Fargo-Moorhead community.

Bonnie Peters
Peters is Resident and Public Relations director at Riverview Place, a retirement center in Fargo, where F/M Communiversity sponsors many courses during the academic year. 
   
Helen Rudie
Rudie is a librarian emeritus from the Concordia College library. She holds two master’s degrees, one in education from Minnesota State University Moorhead and one in instructional media from Minnesota State University-Mankato. 

Dr. Dennis Staton
Staton has practiced and taught psychiatry in Fargo-Moorhead since 1978. He was a professor of psychiatry at University of North Dakota for nearly 20 years and has authored or co-authored approximately 45 published articles, including two related to healthcare economics.