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Noland Accepts Call as Director of Concordia Historical Institute



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JAN. 7, 2002


THE REV. DR. MARTIN R. NOLAND ACCEPTS CALL AS DIRECTOR 
OF CONCORDIA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE

        (St. Louis)-The Rev. Dr. Martin R. Noland, Oak Park, Illinois,
has accepted a call from the Board of Governors of Concordia Historical
Institute to be the director of the Institute beginning in early
February.  He will formally be installed into office on February 18,
2002 at 7:50 a.m. in the chapel at the International Center of The
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in Kirkwood, Missouri.  The Institute
which has been incorporated since 1927, is the Department of Archives
and History of the Synod.  
        Dr. Noland has most recently been the pastor of Christ Lutheran
Church, Oak Park, Illinois, having been a pastor for a total of 17
years.  He received a B.A. in 1979 from Concordia Teacher's College,
River Forest, Illinois, and the M. Div. (1983) and S.T.M. (1986) degrees
from the Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Noland
received the Ph.D. degree in 1996 from Union Theological Seminary, New
York, New York.  His doctoral work was in the field of Church History
with a concentration in Reformation and Nineteenth Century Church
History, and his dissertation was on the German church historian Adolf
von Harnack and the tradition of German historical scholarship which
Harnack epitomized.  
        Noland is an associate editor of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran
Theology and the vice-president of the Luther Academy, which sponsors
conferences and publishes theological books for the Lutheran church.
His interest in the history of the Missouri Synod began in high school,
when he prepared a family history for a sociology class.  In the
research for that report, he discovered that his great-great-grandfather
was Heinrich Hoelter, principal and cantor at Holy Cross Lutheran
School, St. Louis, Missouri, from 1884 to 1915.  Dr. Noland also found
that through the Hoelter clan he had many church-workers and relatives
in the Missouri Synod.  This sparked an ongoing interest in Lutheran
church history, family history, and genealogy.
        Dr. Noland was born in San Francisco, and raised in San Jose,
California.  His wife is Karla Noland nee Kuhlman and they have three
daughters under the age of six.  
     
Concordia Historical Institute is the Department of Archives and History
of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. 
The Institute preserves and exhibits artifacts and documents relating to
the history of Lutheranism in America.

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January 7, 2002

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Marvin A. Huggins
Associate Director
Concordia Historical Institute
801 DeMun Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63105
314-505-7921
email: mhuggins@chi.lcms.org
web: http://chi.lcms.org/

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