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By Ann Ashmon Posted on 3/1/2017 - 1 minute read
CUI held an innovative, one-day giving campaign that combined social media, campus events and “ambassadors” inviting donations for their favorite campus causes and needs.
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By Ann Ashmon Posted on 11/1/2015 - 5 minute read
Ryan ’97 and Lyndsay (Kahler ’96) Ermeling met in the choir at Concordia University Irvine. Two years after graduating, they started the Ein Feste Burg Choral Scholarship to support the choral department and students with financial need. In the years following, Ryan’s start-up business moved from his garage to an office building in Phoenix where he now has 20 employees and a business that has enjoyed double-digit growth for the past 12 years.
Posted on 3/1/2015 - 3 minute read
When Donald Lahn was 16 years old, his father was hit by a truck and killed while crossing the street in a small Colorado town. The loss left Lahn without support at a critical time.
By Ann Ashmon Posted on 11/1/2014 - 5 minute read
In the 1970s, Kelly and Cheryl Keithly heard a pioneering educator named Charles Manske, Concordia’s founding president, speak at their church about the vision for a Lutheran university in Southern California. His presentation inspired the young couple.
Posted on 11/1/2014 - 5 minute read
Soon, CUI students will study the rings of Saturn and the craters of the moon at a permanent astronomical observatory on campus. The observatory is being built with help from a $250,000 grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, a major funder of scientific educational and research projects.
By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 3/1/2014 - 3 minute read
Edward Grafe, 94, survived the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After the war he built a successful insurance business in San Diego, retiring in the 1980s. From CUI’s founding as Christ College in the 1970s, Grafe has been a generous financial supporter and established a scholarship for students with plans to become pastors or teachers.
Posted on 11/1/2013 - 3 minute read
This fall Alfred Neukukatz, a World War ll veteran and retired aerospace electrical engineer, gave his 500th gift to Concordia University Irvine — and he says it won’t be his last.
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