Alumni Relations Director Mancini Announces Retirement
The Rev. Ernie Mancini, executive director of Alumni Relations, will retire at the end of the calendar year, after 28 years of distinguished service to the college and Moorhead community.
Mancini was campus pastor and counselor at Concordia from 1975 to 1983, and has been director of Alumni Relations since 1986. For countless numbers of alumni and friends of the college, Mancini has been the face, voice and personality of Concordia.
In 2005, he received the Ole and Lucy Flaat Distinguished Service Award. At that time, President Pamela Jolicoeur praised Mancini for touching the lives of thousands as a pastor, counselor, mentor and friend.
"Students revere him as a fountain of ideas, and for his spontaneous, humorous, dramatic and always heartfelt demonstrations of Cobber spirit," she said. "Alumni are drawn to him as a bridge to their beloved days at the college, and the community recognizes him as a face and a heart that represents the very soul of Concordia College. Alumni, parents and friends a like are all part of our Concordia family and Ernie makes sure they are welcomed with open arms."
He and his wife, Diane, are currently leading an alumni tour of Ireland and England.
"Ernie is a man of ideas," says Linda Brown, Vice President for Development.
"Nobody does Homecoming or Family Weekend like Concordia, and that's because of Ernie," says Brown. "He is responsible for building these traditions on our campus, and for involving students in the planning and execution of these important events. Connecting the college with alumni has always been his passion."
An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Mancini served as associate pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Moorhead from 1972 to 1975 and at Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church in Benson, Minn., from 1969 to 1972. While there, he founded and directed an ecumenical singing group that gave numerous concerts throughout the United States, including a tour of Japan in 1972. He is a 1969 graduate of Luther Seminary.
Before returning to Concordia in 1986, Mancini served as pastor, vice president of home and community ministries and president of the Eventide Foundation at Eventide Lutheran Home in Moorhead. Mancini is a popular speaker for youth groups, church organizations, business groups, high school events and community celebrations. He has also served prominent roles in the Moorhead community, including the Moorhead Housing and Urban Development Commission, United Way and the Moorhead Police chaplaincy.
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